VN - Ren'Py - Huntress Trainer [v0.17] [HunterHeadquartersTycoon]

I tried this game for the first time yesterday as of writing this review, and after approximately three hours of playing, I've seen all there is to see.
I can't help but feel like there's a genuinely great concept for a game here that's just lacking some polish and direction.
I feel the description of this game is a little misleading- there's no real corruption or even training being done here beyond the character just asking the girls to do lewd things and them obliging.
Next, this game seems a little confused of what it wants to be- is it trying to be a resource management game where you need to balance suspicion, money, and love/lust? Is it trying to be a visual novel about a student/teacher relationship? Is it trying to be a collect-a-thon with figures and bonus images? I think it's trying to be all of that without knowing why. I can't help but feel the developer is trying to do too much too quickly. You want to have extra girls beyond the base four and bonus stuff to collect? Sure! But it's sort of a cock tease when you add Pyrrah to the game but you haven't even finished Ruby's route.
I really enjoy the concept of this game and want to see this succeed, but finish what you started here first (the main girls and their routes), *then* move onto other random junk like the figurine scenes and extra doo-dads.
Oh, and get an editor, maybe? When 90% of the game is dialogue and much of the dialogue is misspelled, it's not a great look.
Overall, there needs to be more cohesion in this project to make the whole thing click. There needs to be some way to intersect money, suspicion, and relationship stuff. If I were developing this game, I would make it so that you have a base need to fulfill your sexual desires, and the way you accomplish that is through these sessions with the girls. This gives players and incentive to actually do these things. Like many games, have a lust meter that builds up over time. You can reduce it by doing naughty things or jerking off or something, but if you let the bar max out, you risk raising more suspicion and possibly getting fired. Additionally, you should get financial incentives for maxing out a path with a girl or something. This can be purely a game mechanic (so many sessions = 1000 gold) or it can be a story detail, like Weiss can give you a bunch of money since her family is loaded.

Polish is lacking, which most people would probably notice immediately upon realizing there is no sound whatsoever in the game. But I could live with that.

You may also notice upon playing that the 'training' is less corruption and more politely asking until they give in. But I could live with that.

Then after playing a while you start to notice that the resource management aspects are terrible, take way too long, and just aren't fun due to a lack of interesting ways to deal with it. But I could live with that, I mean there's an easy mode in the game for a reason.

Then you realize that the game is paced weird, is bad at emulating any of the RWBY characters it attempts to, and just really isn't that great. Bummer.

I won't pretend like there aren't a few good scenes in there, and I enjoyed some of the ideas. Conceptually the approaches to each of the 4 RWBY teammates is cool. Stripping Ruby of her innocence, removing control from the ice queen, perving out with Blake, and dealing with Yang trying to protect the team by sealing off your options to hold sessions with them are cool ideas. But the Ruby one is kinda lacking flavor, and the Yang concept of making deals with you for days you can't touch the other students is dropped practically immediately.

If it somehow went back and made everything more believable, added better characterization, and found some balance between easy and normal difficulty this might be a good game. Currently it isn't, and I hope that changes.

It's the dev's first game so I'll cut some slack. My largest issue with the game is the UI elements. You call a girl in for a session and have to blindly move your cursor to find out things (it's typically lips, tits, and occasionally other parts). Content is okay and the grind is pretty bad unless you edit the variables.

I'd reccomend the dev maybe look at a few other games to draw insperation from and do more to highlightoptions when you cursor over them. The game play loop is a classic but the game needs to "feel" better, a cleaner UI, slightly more rewards and something to make it stand out in a way other "Trainer" style games have done in the past.

Version Reviewed: 0.9

The game is pretty good, the content is somewhat limited.
The way progression is set up, you should play on 'easy'. There's no real difficulty, it's just a choice of how much you want to grind.

I like the setup for a lot of the girls, they all feel relatively unique.
The game has some bugs and typos that are glaringly obvious and annoying. The introduction of new characters happens relatively rapidly, a bit faster than I was ready for.

As for the scenes: Each one seems to only have one version, which is a big loss. In some trainers you can revisit scenes with new levels of intimacy, but not here. This also leads to weird interactions as 'flirt' dialogue is added, but not updated. Ruby can tell you she forgot her panties and give you 'niiice' for asking to look, and the next line if you say she's got a nice ass/tits (idr), she gets a negative reaction.

In addition, the 'touch' system that is proposed at the start of the game is pretty abandoned by the end, in favor of big 'next' arrows.

There is huge room for improvement, but little indication that things will improve. The developer has stated that they don't intend to go back and fix things (which is probably why in your first interview with Ruby if you click her tits it says 'in development').

It's a pretty decent, probably 3.5 stars, but the lack of polish (or any intention of ever adding polish) makes it hard to put to a 4.

I'm giving this a 5 star rating for right now (just because I like the bellabooty)
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as well to it being too early to call this a wash. The text I hope is not in the smallest font in the next update. I hope for more under desk content as well. But overall keep it up! I'm enjoying it so far.

I like the direction most of the routes seem to be heading. Sadly, only one of the routes is even partially completed at the moment, but it was enjoyable. Some crashing bugs exist, but seem easily fixable (just reloading the game made it work). The characters are mostly on-model and in-character, though obviously with more focus on T&A than the original creators of RWBY would ever have dared. Play this game if you want to see Ruby's panties! I was briefly intimidated by the point-and click segments, but there aren't actually that many places to click, and when there are more than one or two, they're labeled as you mouse over them. Just keep clicking the character's mouth to keep the dialog flowing, and click her boobs for potential fun surprises. My only real gripe is the ALL CAPS font, and it didn't prevent me from playing all of the current content.

TL;DR If you don't like RWBY, you won't like this.

Huntress Trainer is a solid, if noticably flawed trainer game which ticks a lot of good boxes in terms of design, but struggles on the technical side. Specifically, the girls are fun enough to be amusing in new content, and manage to strike a good balance between being accurate to the show and different enough that their pornification doesn't feel completely bipolar. The models are pretty good for koikatsu - not sure if they're original or created by another porn artist, but I've definitely seen worse 3D models of RWBY. The girls are also trained in different ways, at least in terms of writing, which makes them feel unique. The dialogue also improves a lot after the intro, which gives me hope that the writer got a spell checker or something similar, but the intro could use a quick once over.

On the tech side, things are... not great. Lots of shots are too close or too far, so animations of fondling are covered by text boxes and too short for the time it takes to hide them. The UI is pretty default, but struggles in a lot of situations. The bonus images menu springs to mind, along with the initial menu after calling a girl. Even basic steps like distinct colouring for action groups would be nice. The lack of sound is also pretty noticable for actions like the spanking or orgasming on Ruby. A previous review suggested AI voices and whilst I'm not sure about it, just adding some basic sound bites for spanking and cumming would go a long way. Oh, and the lack of basic animation looping is really noticable when your animations are this short.

Overall though, I think a lot of this is just gonna be experience stuff. For now it's only of value to RWBY fans, but give it a year and this could very well be one of the best trainers out there. Plenty of possible girls, if nothing else.

It might have potential but it is a strange game.

My first complaint: Everything is all caps. Everyone is yelling all the time. It's cancer, please don't.

The black arrow to end dialogue is in a part of the screen that, at least on my end, tends to be pretty dark. And it has no outline... So it's not obvious that it's there. Actually, it *adds* the black shadow on the left that makes it harder to see when it pops up.

Also, it often feels clunky to talk to people by clicking on their mouths... Especially when you could just interject when how they're looking at you changes, instead of having me click their eyes.

Also the outfits don't currently change when you enter that clicking places minigame...So they suddenly change clothes and you gotta click their mouth to talk.

Normally I like trainers, but I feel like this is lacking some of the elements I'd need.

I like this game and I'm gonna give it 4 stars, but I'm not quite sure its there yet. It's pretty early in development, but I think this game could become something really cool if it plays its cards right.

So the game isn't perfect, but most of the problems are minor. Things like text boxes, QoL features, and content. The content problem will most likely fix its self as more and more updates come out.

As for text boxes, and this could just be me though, the box is to big and the font is to small. On top of that, the box background is white, making everything harder to read. Which sucks, because most of the dialog and writing is pretty good. This is an easy fix though, just add in some options to change up the text box ourselves.

Now on to QoL features, and I'm sure most of these will get added in some form or another, but just in case let's go over a few this game needs. Rapid fire; hints for what you can click on, having money and other info visitable at all times, gauges or trackers for love and lust, quest/character tracking, and a End of Current Build message would be nice. I would add more QoL features besides those, but that's a good start.

More of a nitpick, but I also wouldn't lock cheats behind a paywall. If people wanna support, then they'll support and cheats or not are not gonna change their minds. Same goes for people who don't wanna support, bribing them with cheats isn't gonna change their minds with save editors being a thing. So what you're left with is less features overall for your game, which sucks and is unnecessary.

And now just for an idea of mind, and a long shot, but I think this game would do AMAZING with some AI voice over. AI voices are on the up and up and with the popularity of the RWBY VAs, a AI voice over feature with the AI voices mapped from the OG VAs from the show would be an amazing feature. That's just my personally dream feature for this game though.

Okay, so here's some quick pros and cons.

Pros:
-RWBY
-Good writing
-Cool idea where you abuse your power of being a teacher
-Nice animations

Cons:
-Text box
-Very little content currently
-Very few QoL features
-Paywalled content (just cheats for now)

Overall, I'd definitely recommend checking this game out, maybe wait a few updates, but definably check it out.