Others - High School Master [v0.372] [Pervy Bunny Games]

I really want to like this game based on the images and theme. Many of the characters are up my alley in terms of looks. And who wouldn't like perving and corrupting young school girls.

But the game system is just bad. Should have just used ren'py as the base system. The going to different locations to find "scenes" is annoy in its design. If there was a constant ability to see who has a scene in a room at a given time on the "map" it would be much better. The only way to know what needs to be done is only at night in your bedroom you can access a "mission" menu of sorts. Why isn't this always available to view.

Have you ever wondered why people hate sandbox that much?

Well - THIS crap is the best example why they do.

Sensless skipping around just to search for the next trigger hidden at a specific location and specific time.
One of the very worst games (gameplay wise) i have ever encountered.

The missing story plot is on top of that.

I thought it could not be that worse as reviews told me, and against my inner feelings, i wanted to give it a try .......

... BOY WAS I WRONG ........ (what a waste of time) .....

I like sandbox games. This isn't one. This is the classic attempt at sandbox which end up being clicking aimlessly unsure of any progress being made. This is the often seen "slow burn" by which they mean slowly guess the correct permutation of time and location to raise a single flag.

I don't know the fuck i have to do. Render are good looking ut that's all.. Premium stuff won't bbother me if there wa a clue of what to do or more story than only the intro. I will follow this game because it can be promising but not in its actual state Sorry.

This is not a game... it's click stuff and hope things happen. Some people play games for the story, some people play games for the "content." This, as far as I can tell, has neither, and makes some of the worst game design choices I have ever seen. The models are great, but it needs some serious tweaks to make this anything other than a gallery with some really bad RNG sprinkled in.

The MC design is basically a Genesis 8, I mean zero effort at all, the writing, the renderings, all the technical section of this VN are at the same level of mediocrity, as if all this were not enough, it is a badly made sandbox, already the ones that are well made are horrible, imagine this one, don't waste your time.

I enjoy quite a few sandbox games here, but this game is a perfect example of why so many people hate them.

Blindly clicking through different locations hoping you find someone there, and if you do find someone... hoping you can actually interact with them.

Normally I'll take the time to comment on the graphics (they're fine) or the story (there's not really one) but honestly the location grinding was enough of a deal breaker for me to stop playing .

I don't like leaving poor review scores because I know devs put in a lot of effort into these games, but this one needs some serious fixing to make it enjoyable. Showing who is currently at a location before you select it would go a long way to making this a better game. There's other issues as well like the sound, but others below have already covered those.

Not much that can be called a game here and even if it is buried somewhere, you won't like it.

There's no guidance of what to do in it, so you're forced to click around on a dozen available locations and endure slow transitions and renders with zombie-like faces until you finally randomly click into something that moves time forward... so you can do it ALL OVER AGAIN for the second time period.

Except you can find out what to do, if you endure to nighttime and click the tasks icon - which for some stupid, ill conceived reason, is only available then. Good luck remembering what you have to do and when for all the two dozen zombies involved.

Don't even get me started on the rest of the issues with this attempt to make a game, which are numerous and all equally terrible.

Just extract the images and save yourself the frustration.

I would not recommend this game. I've played 20 minutes out of v0.133. It frustrated me for multiple reasons. First this game needs an NSFW tag. Second there are no controls for volume so imagine my wife's surprise when the MC came and Grunted so loud it woke her up. The game is entire CLICK progressed, instead of SPACE BAR. There's no rollback. The animation is decent, not the best though, and the translation to English isn't bad, but it could definitely use a second translators run through.

Playing v0.130 I note that everyone asks for the password - this is because the game feels overly grindy because of terrible UI/UX.

You can't tell what you should or shouldn't click, the font is huge and slow and ugly. The transitions are slow which really grates on you as you have to wait for a transition back to the detention room after visiting any location.

There's a bunch of icons that seem to do NOTHING including a leg of ham at lunch time that forces you (slowly) into a single ill-conceived render where you can do nothing except wait to click and slowly transition back again.

Is there a game buried in there somewhere?

The MC is an identical copy of a molestor called kristian from my old job which makes it harder yet to enjoy the game since youre faced with his face and glasses every moment.

There's no settings - even to stop the annoying audio. Overall it was a very sad experience which was a shame because the premise was really good and the renders are good. The same thing but in renpy, might have been a success.

You have to try really hard to call this "a game". It is even hard to explain what you "do" in there.. It takes crazy many clicks to completely mindlessly "visit" i think 16 one-shot areas, 95% of the time empty. Don't even want to start with the so called "zoom/cheat" system crap.. This is probably the worst experience I've had with "a game" by far.

Reviewing v0.119:

Nice idea, frustrating execution.

Basically, you're supposed to click around the rooms in the school. Mostly these rooms are empty, but every one and then there will be someone in a room. If that happens, normally you can't talk to them, but rarely, there is an interaction, which can be as little as meeting your sister and her saying "Hi Big Brother! HiHiHiHiHi!"

If you get certain combinations of events, these enable other events.

That seems to be it. I was hoping for our science nerd protagonist to get his science on and start seducing the ladies at the school ... and maybe that does happen later on, but I'm not sure if I have the patience to find out.

The problem is made worse because the transition between rooms is slow. I mean we're talking about maybe a seconds fade between scenes, but that's a long time when you're clicky-click-clicking between empty rooms hoping to find one that will do something.

There's also a zoom system where you can click on a body part and zoom in on the pervy bits for several images. So if you click on lil Sis' boobs, you get the front of her top, the side view, the side view again but with nipples tenting the cloth, a view down the top, a second view down the top so you can just see the nipples, a side boob shot where the nipple is clearly visible, and one from the front where it becomes apparent that her top has slipped down exposing one boob in its entirely.

All of which is perfectly charming, except that there's the same slow dissolve between shots, and a minimum time before you can click for the next pic. And some of the school scenes, judging from the in-game walk-through, need you to have clicked on the right zoom as well as having lucked into the right events.

I feel kind of bad, really, giving it such a low rating. The models are nice, and there's a lot of work gone into this project. The devs clearly have a vision for the game, and maybe it'll all make sense when they get that far. And if it had a bit more zip to the UI and if I had a bit more idea what I was supposed to do, then I could see myself enjoying this quite a lot. Right now though, I'm finding it pretty much unplayable.

You need some type of options for sound and fullscreen . A better font or font option because letters are not very obvious. I can deal with the engrish. But others might find it annoying. Will add more later.

Well it's been several updates and no real improvement. I can see no reason to even check more than months apart. Likely see Summertime Saga finish before this has any real playability.

The soundz, man, the soundz! Only at first 69, and it sounds like an out of synch samurai-movie.
Not a plus in my book, but YMMV

Also, not a complaint, I am just curious, which part of the world spells "HIHI" "IH IH!!!"

And now, for proper critique: There is little or no feedback to everything you do? Is the purpose of the game to randomly select locations so girls talk to you? Is there another thing to do? 3 days into the game, and I have no idea whatsoever what this game considers good or bad... The only actions in the school giving feedback is buy something to lose money and increase energy, and advance time. At home one can at least massage the girlfriend, and if not too tired (ie, having wasted lots of money on coffee and stuff) share the exact same 69 as earlier.
And secondly, there are certain things that are "quality of life" improvements for the players. Hiding them behind a paywall SCREAMS moneygrub. Now I understand that a development team must make a living. But making a game almost unplayable unless you pay extra is not the way to do it. You make a good game, that people are interested in playing and ask for money to continue making the game. Or you add microtransactions, such as ability to buy limited use x-ray specs or something.

Also, word of advice! Read the plot aloud. Does it sound sane? Realistic? What does the characters actions say about their personality? If the personality answer is "An excuse to show rendered porn to fap to" then ... Make the game fap-worthy.

Now there will be no pro's and cons in this review and no summary leading to an explanation of the number of stars, as there are lots of good things in the game, but none of them are really showcased, and everything is put together in a way that makes me believe there was no forethought (bad) and no afterthought (Much, much worse!) when it was put together. So my rating of two stars is a purely subjective thing, and the only thing that saves this from a loney one-star is that the renders are passably nice.