This is a review for Favorite Teacher v.029. Playtime was about 5-6 hours. Favorite Teacher is a game about being a perverted teacher in a female-only school. Each week day you go to work, select outcomes in events and try to raise the status / attributes of the school and seduce the teachers and students. The game is written in HTML/Javascript and it has a premise I like but I find the current implementation has a couple of problems:
1. The game feels very low on content. AS of version 0.29 there seems to be full progression for the teacher's roommate. Many more interesting events for both the school and the characters are needed before I would give this a higher score.
2. I frequently have no idea what to do, there is an in-game hint system but often it either doesn't offer enough information or is flat out wrong. For example, how am I supposed to know that the proper course of action is to buy a camcorder if the tip is telling me to have a talk with the character? I gave up on the game after being told to "rest" at home to continue the plot and nothing happened for a week of the teacher sitting at home doing freelance work / napping / meditating / etc. If I spend more time trying to find out what to do from external sources than playing this game, you've got improvements to make in dialogue and hints.
3. There are many bugs, for example the portrait of a teacher is presented as an unavailable image and I managed to sometimes hard-lock my progress when meditating or walking the park at night. I also changed my shirt and lost a stamina bonus permanently and without warning (See below on the stamina system). When I level up perversion it says exhibition instead.
4. It quickly becomes clear that English is not the developer's primary language. There are spelling mistakes and poor grammar aplenty. The developer needs to get in touch with someone that can help in this regard. I can forgive poor grammar, but spelling errors means that you couldn't even be bothered to check your game's text in a free online spell checker.
5. Grinding. You're doing monotonous tasks to raise the stats of the pupils (Mood, obedience, perversion, grades), the teacher (strength, intelligence, charisma and boldness), and the women you're trying to woo (appreciation, arousal). There's so much of it that the developer has made grind-reducing cheats available for his patrons. Try to improve the game mechanics and events instead so that the grind actually becomes fun, instead of making the game fun only by using cheats.
6. Stamina System. The teacher starts out with the stamina of a wet noodle. Stamina is a number of points you get every night that is used up by sometimes talking with women and working. When you start the game you have access to 3 points daily, but certain actions can temporarily increase this stamina, such as eating at a cafe, meditating, having a cup of coffee AND showering in the morning. It took me a long time to discover that by pursuing a certain teacher I would get access to the gym where I could increase my stamina over time. If you intent to play this game, I recommend instantly raising your maximum stamina by 10 using cheats!
7. The entire game is written in a single HTML / Javascript text file which sits at over 20k+ lines in v0.29. As a coder, that makes me really nervous for future expansions, improvements and bug fixes.
8. The game seems to be using stolen assets and a single cease-and-desist letter could spell its doom.
In conclusion: A grindy game with a promising premise and a lot of problems. I probably will not try it again.
1. The game feels very low on content. AS of version 0.29 there seems to be full progression for the teacher's roommate. Many more interesting events for both the school and the characters are needed before I would give this a higher score.
2. I frequently have no idea what to do, there is an in-game hint system but often it either doesn't offer enough information or is flat out wrong. For example, how am I supposed to know that the proper course of action is to buy a camcorder if the tip is telling me to have a talk with the character? I gave up on the game after being told to "rest" at home to continue the plot and nothing happened for a week of the teacher sitting at home doing freelance work / napping / meditating / etc. If I spend more time trying to find out what to do from external sources than playing this game, you've got improvements to make in dialogue and hints.
3. There are many bugs, for example the portrait of a teacher is presented as an unavailable image and I managed to sometimes hard-lock my progress when meditating or walking the park at night. I also changed my shirt and lost a stamina bonus permanently and without warning (See below on the stamina system). When I level up perversion it says exhibition instead.
4. It quickly becomes clear that English is not the developer's primary language. There are spelling mistakes and poor grammar aplenty. The developer needs to get in touch with someone that can help in this regard. I can forgive poor grammar, but spelling errors means that you couldn't even be bothered to check your game's text in a free online spell checker.
5. Grinding. You're doing monotonous tasks to raise the stats of the pupils (Mood, obedience, perversion, grades), the teacher (strength, intelligence, charisma and boldness), and the women you're trying to woo (appreciation, arousal). There's so much of it that the developer has made grind-reducing cheats available for his patrons. Try to improve the game mechanics and events instead so that the grind actually becomes fun, instead of making the game fun only by using cheats.
6. Stamina System. The teacher starts out with the stamina of a wet noodle. Stamina is a number of points you get every night that is used up by sometimes talking with women and working. When you start the game you have access to 3 points daily, but certain actions can temporarily increase this stamina, such as eating at a cafe, meditating, having a cup of coffee AND showering in the morning. It took me a long time to discover that by pursuing a certain teacher I would get access to the gym where I could increase my stamina over time. If you intent to play this game, I recommend instantly raising your maximum stamina by 10 using cheats!
7. The entire game is written in a single HTML / Javascript text file which sits at over 20k+ lines in v0.29. As a coder, that makes me really nervous for future expansions, improvements and bug fixes.
8. The game seems to be using stolen assets and a single cease-and-desist letter could spell its doom.
In conclusion: A grindy game with a promising premise and a lot of problems. I probably will not try it again.