VN - Ren'Py - Elmwood University [Ep.2] [WickedWare]

Elmwood U. is giving off a good vibe for me - had a grin on my face the entire time I played Episode 1. Episode 2 was shorter, and didn't quite have the same level of satisfaction, but it upheld the game's goals in the end.

For now, against better judgement due to it's short length, I'm giving it a 4.5 rating rounded up. It has huge promise.

+ Pretty good renders throughout, with good scene locations and additional characters
++ Love interests are all good looking, don't have oversized attributes, and are different enough from each other to be realistic (same goes for their personalities)
++ Good animations for scenes (not top-notch, but good nevertheless)
++ Sex scenes offered both different camera angles, and different speeds
+ A fun and lighthearted story simply sets the location and mood - nothing deep
+ Good music almost everywhere, and all is instrumental so no voices messing with reading. Sounds during sex scenes were few, but appreciated.
++ Skills system seems like it has a lot of promise for future releases

-- Game through Episode 2 is very short. Finished all of it in 4.5 hours (Ep2 was <2 of those hours).
-- Skills weren't utilized enough for the amount of content currently playable
- Skill points were few and far between, only granted occasionally.
-- Not a lot of progress with either the plot, or the love interests across just two episodes. Some go all the way with the MC (which is very appreciated so there's no slow burn everywhere), but it didn't take much to get them there.

The game has a TON of promise with great LIs, great renders, good animations/options there, and a fun looking skillset.

Where it currently falls down is the overall playtime and content - 4.5 hours is basically a short story or teaser. I know from reading that 21 episodes are planned, but it could take many years before they're all said and done.

Best of luck to the developer - I hope they can keep the ball rolling on this one and stick to an aggressive schedule. The game is good enough and deserves to be finished.

Great game, 5/5 already, keep up the quality and the vibe and the game has more than earned it.

Beautiful, sexy girls! An interesting cast of characters with meaningfully different personalities!

An interesting skill system that lets you gear your experience towards your preferences!

What's not to like?

Great Models, lots of love that went into the charachter design of so many characters. Truly a joy toplay with lots of different elements. Definetely not your average VN. I love having a skilltree and that one can collect achievements.

I love this game so much, feels like a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the bs on this site, its still the second ep but world building and character introduction has been done so well, writing and renders are also pretty good, really excited to see where this one goes.

TLDR - All the girls will sleep with you if you tell them they are beautiful.

This game is literally just about spamming the same line over and over again; "You are beautiful". It's the kind of dialog you thought would work when you were in elementary school, but instead of elementary school you are in college with a baseball bat in your pants.

Just to give a rough comparison to similarly themed games. It's not horrible like WVM. But it's no where near the quality of being a dik. I'd say it's closer to Intertwined, but intertwined has better story and dialog.

I genuinely think a 3/5 is a fair rating in comparison to similar games.

Great game especially considering the skill progression system and the diverse cast of characters and their starting points of association with the MC. Although there are a few points of unrealism like how people in the same hot tub cannot feel people fucking, and the mystery of how the start point comes about, the situation progression kept me hooked and hopefully the story threads are also taken care of properly.

This is an interesting AVN. The dev is clearly talented as the production is well done, and the LIs are all hot, but that's about where it ends.

Your MC finds himself in yet another college setting and is surrounded by women who seem to have no problem hanging out with a dude in his underwear. Of course he has a horse cock and of course most of the women are throwing themselves at him.

In two chapters, there is not another dude in sight, just Mr. Horsecock, and so far, I count at least 10 LIs. The most I have ever seen in a game is 31 and this one is a third of the way there after two short chapters. Admittedly, I am not a fan of harem games, but if you are going to do it, you should limit the number of LIs to a handful, otherwise it's just too much.

This just seems to me to be another AVN, filled with cliched LIs, with a Mr. Horsecock who doesn't really have to work too hard to have women throwing themselves at him.

I will admitt to liking the traits tree. There is another AVN out there that does the same thing and it does add some flavor to the MC. Still, IMO, there are a lot of problems to overcome before we get can say this is an above average AVN.

I adore this game; there are far too many games set up like this one in schools, but this one unexpectedly offers some fresh ideas. I enjoy the MC trait system because it makes it simple to identify the kind of content we want to see when we "build" MC around that trait.
This game has incredible potential, and I hope the developers all the best—you guys are headed in the right direction.

Great game. The game knows exactly what it wants to be and there is no pretentiousness about it. No fake complex plots in histrionic attempts to be deep. Its a slice of life dating sim with many gorgeous girls and hot scenes.

The MC is good, there is a trait system that changes the way the MC can approach thing and there is a reputation system as well that could have choice repercussions down the line. Girls have different traits that you can read about and adjust your strategy accordingly. No love interest is forced. Overall 5/5.

Review for Episode 1
Well, this game was just simply very strange to me. U wake up in some sort of frat house full of woman in you underwear for no reason. Only in the first scene there is some thought given to the fact of how weird the situation is.

But after that all charachters just simply accept this odd reality and just go with it lol. On the first day this vague MC who just spawned in their frat house has the possibility to romance all the girls and get laid with them. All this while still being in his underwear, because why would you or anyone be bothered by you being in underwear. The reason why they are interested.. , come on who wouldnt want to jump on a stranger who randomly spawned in your house lol.

Troughout the game the MC also doesnt bother to find out why he stranded in his underwear with strangers. The plot of the game also is kinda non-existent, there is no development of story or charachters. The only positives are the appearance of the love interests and the animated sex scenes. Basically the typical eye-candy game with now depth or well-developed story. 2 stars is the max I can give.

Review for Ep. 1 Slim

This is like one of the most stereotypical porn games I've ever played I think. It's a college based fuckfest and truthfully just not really for me at the end of the day. Kind of a more opinionated review honestly, but I think people who value writing a lot will find some resonance with this.

What gets me really into AVNs is both the writing and characters. You can throw a bunch of hot sex scenes at me, but at the end of the day if I'm not invested it just doesn't hit. That is my problem with Elmwood University. In essence, I find it very bland.

The university student setting is nothing new to anyone in the world of lewd games, but at least this game tries to start it off with a little twist. The game begins with us being awoken by an attractive woman. Apparently we somehow made it into her house and passed out in her bed, but of course we have amnesia with no idea how we got here. It's a good thing this lady randomly has a good feeling about the near naked stranger passed out in her home though, as her and her friend decide they are going to allow us to attend the 'feminist party" downstairs because we must be a good guy. This is where the game then kind of throws you into it.

Biggest issue is again the writing. You almost always have to have some suspension of belief with these games, but here I'm mostly thinking "man people do not talk to each other like this." It's not egregiously awful for sure, but it's flat maybe is the word. The MC, in the bit I played, is a complete prop. Seriously he does not have a personality whatsoever. You're often given dialogue choices that are A) Respond nicely/normally, B) Respond in the most neutral way possible, or C) Be a complete degen weirdo. When you're not choosing what to say the MC typically talks like he's simple-minded.

The girls actually aren't nearly as bad, but because the MC is so incredibly bland he just has no good dialogue/banter that plays into them. Now keep in mind this is a porn game right, so every single girl must unnaturally be all over you for doing absolutely nothing. Within the span of about five minutes, I watched the MC be repeatedly dragged into the bathroom by three different women to give him a blowjob after the simplest conversations played out before hand with them.

To segway from that, lewd scenes suffer from the same problem. Are the girls attractive? Sure. Are the animations good? Yeah not bad actually. Is there a lot of sex happening? Definitely seems like it. But none of them felt intimate. You get put into a sex scene and the game says "here is a bunch of animations to cycle through just click the cum option when you want to stop." Almost no dialogue, no real build up, nothing. It feels too systematic.

It's not like the game is horrible in quality or anything either. And I actually think that talent tree thing might be interesting, but I didn't play enough to really explore it. Everything looks and plays fine, but there's no real substance to it for me. If you like more mindless games focused on sex I'd see why you'd be into his, but Elmwood University didn't capture me in the time I spent playing it.

Extremely strong start, as good of a chapter 1 you can hope for in a visual novel. The setting obviously is intended to make you fuck as much as you can and you get lots of opportunities for sexual escapades already.

I do want to say I audibly laughed at how detailed the talent tree was in a porn game, I don't want to name-drop another game in a review, but it reminded me of another top-tier game, and my dexterity talent and creampie talent I chose came into play! It was awesome, I hope it keeps up and there are plenty of story routes for everyone's different "builds"

Play the game! It's fun.

Probably the best harem game I have ever played.
The premise is the usual one, young freshman is the eyecandy of all the girls at school. But this feels natural for once? It doesn't even seem porn (even though there is plenty, with characters and the renders being top notch too).

There's no mind control, there's no superpowers (well, kinda), and you don't even get that silly feeling to be in an utopian alternate reality where sex and sexuality have always been the most casual things for society all along history.
Instead, everything just starts at a laid back party of a feminist association, where thankfully in «current year» women can proudly enjoy being slutty (even with a guy in his underpants nearby) without fearing for their safety or honor. Also be bisexual.
You aren't even entitled to them yourself, because if you are a dick you get booted out.

The real fetish here is the dream we could be living in this world.
Also featuring a lesbian couple that 200% returns the wholesome vibes of the ones you can meet irl, and also a very stereotypical but very real body-insecure nerd.

What else? The only way this could get even more awesome is if the roaster included at least a token bi/gay dude, or a trans girl (alas I don't think futas would fit well the down-to-earth setting).
Hopefully this is part of a new generation of "comprehensive complex feelings" games, like You Throw Like a Girl.

Great amount of choices, decent renders and also decent dialogue, however some of the interactions feel not very human-like. Also not a fan of the virgin MC trope, much more so when the girls come here doing pirouettes and other wild sexual positions. It's such a wild contrast with the MC that they feel like huge sluts, considering they're not that old either. They're also always talking about who they want to fuck and immediately putting the moves on the MC, so it's hard not to judge in this particular case.

You could argue this is the spirit of college games, but even in that one famous college game, it was done in a very natural way, even with the girls that actually get around.

That aside, some of the girls are really cute and there are a lot of choices, plus the dialogue is not boring for a slice of life so there's potential. I think if, in the coming episodes (after episode 1), you get to have relationships where it doesn't feel like the MC is being groomed or trained, then it could be a really fun game.

Pretty good so far. The amount of content for a first release was pretty good and if updates like this keep coming, I think I will subscribe to support the creator.

I like pretty much all girls/characters so far, the renders are pretty good with some occasional highlights due to subtle, but good animations. Plenty of lewd content in the first episode, without building it up. I'm fine with that, as long as there will be a decent or good story down the line and character progression. I just don't want to be or become something that only skips from lewd scene to lewd scene.

The dev might want to reconsider the amount of girls though (18 are promised), because I fear it will be very hard to create enough content for them all in a timely fashion. Quality over quantity, especially considering all the girls in episode 1 are pretty darn good looking and have their own personalities. The very detailed bio on all the characters really fleshes them out aswell, it's actually something more avn's should do to fleshen characters out. So good job on that ,dev.

Lastly, the stat and skill tree can fun. I'm curious to see how this develops.

So yeah, I added this to my watch list and though the dev is too new to me to sub yet, I think it's a pretty solid start.

5 stars so far, considering the groundwork and length of episode 1. Hope the dev can keep this up.

I was nudged, persistently, to check this out. Though it is just the 1st episode, the game stands out amongst its peers and I have no regrets.

The game system is well made and everything is well written. If it keeps updating consistently with the same level of quality, it's looking like it will have a very promising future.

Also, all of the characters are so hot! This definitely deserves more attention and support.

Elmwood University [Ep. 1 Slim]

Pros:
+ Amazing character models and animations
+ Impressive game system and user interface
+ Character interactions are well done and meaningful
+ Conversations are well written and fun
+ Character reactions to events are well done and well thought out
+ Talent tree allows for unique playthroughs
+ Unique character personalities
+ Humorous dialogue choices
+ Choices feel impactful and affect relationships or events
+ High production value

Cons:
- None really except that there isn't much content yet


Is this your typical university-themed visual novel where the main character would hump even a tree? Well, honestly I don't know. If the tree had a pair of knockers, he probably would wood it down, but who knows? That would depend how on you choose to develop him.

All vulgar jokes aside, the game starts out with a bang. And I don't mean the sexual kind. You start off just as clueless as the protagonist. A perfectly clean, blank slate. The game has a Talent Tree system where you can choose how your character develops and how it affects other characters' interactions or love and lust points. I found myself running through the game multiple times just to test out what kind of playstyle was most suitable for what I wanted to achieve and how get the highest amount of love points with the love interests that I was most interested in.

The effort put into the the game and the attention to detail are very noticeable and much appreciated. It does feel a little ambitious with 18 planned love interests, especially with how they all interact and affect each other. However, that just makes it all the more exciting and something to look forward to!

There are plenty of unique characters even from the very start, each with their own unique traits and perks. Your interaction with each of them affects factors with other characters in a way I haven't seen done before.

For example, one seemingly sex-crazed character, viewed negatively by some of the others, has a unique trait that affects everyone whenever you have sex with her by taking away their love points and absorbing them for herself. Another has a gossiper trait and anything she finds out or does with the protagonist will probably be known to everyone. A small interaction with her and everyone knew about the protagonist's size. And finally, there's another one that feels indebted to the protagonist so her own love points start boosted and decrease at half the rate of other characters from choices and interactions. There are so many more that you'll have to see for yourself!

Their biography pages are well done and detailed so you can find out all about them and how your interactions will affect them, directly or indirectly.

The game has one of the best user interfaces I've seen. Everything from the font to the dialogue choice boxes and the character bios are all very fitting and well done. The love interest page arts are very cute as an added bonus. Everything feels so clean and professional while being a good fit for the game's theme.

Give the game a try. Just do it.

Overall Rating: 10/10

Updated after E2 came out. The dev had a chance to really show off the perks system or get into the main plot of the story, but failed to. It was weaker than E1.

It's clear now there's way too many love interests and besides meeting some of them and fucking some, the episode went nowhere. There's no main story to speak of and the lewd scenes haven't improved at all.
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You’ve seen this before.

A school setting AVN I mean. This is like a frankenstein, taking the fun parts of college AVNs and assembling them into a solid package. It doesn’t do anything new, but it’s functional and is a good time if you’re just looking to unlock lewds.

Is there a lot of sexual content? Yes, loads.
Is the MC’s penis huge? He could play golf with it.
Is it worth trying out? Yes, especially if you just want lewds.

The first ep starts with a party, skipping the usual college setup context. Theres a bevy of ladies, from the slutty cheerleaders to lesbians. It’s illogical to some degree, but hey, how else are you going to have a feminist party hot tub session?

There’s a love/lust system of course, adding depth to the game. This seems to be the main focus of the game.

There’s also an interesting perks system and it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out as things like this can spiral out in complexity.

The sexy animations are ok and there are plenty. The renders are fine, the ladies look nice and there’s even a card game you can play/skip. The UI is good and there’s a gallery!

The writing is solid in terms of grammar and length. The MC gets his dick wet and goes home.

The perks system hints at magic and potential storylines and characters you’ll meet (MILFs!) but so far, the story is just the MC and his giant dick exploring wet caverns together.

Surely got potential. This was your usual teen MC going to university full of girls, but this one's lot better than recent released games with this same concept. School setting games are trend and we got many here. Only few of them are worth enjoying. Seems like this can be added to that list. Got good renders and decent writing. This episode's more like introduction MC attends a part and he meets various LIs. According to dev there will 18 LIs. Will wait and see how gonna manage this. Usually I don't like skill system in games but this one's nicely done. Harem wars card mini game is fun.

Overall I enjoyed this one waiting for next updates.

Great game already as per episode 1, it has huge potential similar to Being a Dik (as it is a school setting) It seems like all female characters have a signature erotic move, all female characters are very straightforward, confident and well designed. I loved the minigame of Harem Wars, shame that it ended so soon I think I would play it for hours. The achievements system indicates that the harem aspects is going to be really juicy once this is fully developed. No Milfs in episode 1 as of yet but the dialogues indicate that maybe some professors might be potential MILFs.