VN - Ren'Py - Innocent Witches [v0.11 Alpha] [Sad Crab]

I like that its not immediately super degenerate, instead you get to slowly but surely reveal more of the witches. The art style is great and the story is pretty good too. The only thing I didnt like too much was that some problems seemed a bit ambiguous and i didnt know what to do and that certain tasks were a bit repetitive. Otherwise great

OH MY GOD

If you are reading this DON'T play this game, save your time and health(your balls)

Story : 6/10
Originality : 8/10
Renders/Art : 8/10
Playability : 1/10
Sound : 7/10
Animations : 6.5/10
Blue-Balls : 100/100 INSANE

Game has it's own exciting moments/scenes, but they are never good enough, so believe me you little friend won't be happy.

This game might be the most disappointing one I've seen on F95. Not because it's the worst, quite the opposite, there's a lot of potential here between an interesting premise and beautiful artwork. The idea of becoming a headmaster and slowly corrupting the girls and the promise of lewd shenanigans leading up to the sex all sound interesting in a genre that's often rushing to the fucking and giving little else. The idea of there being a story, and context leading up to the scenes is something I rather like. Sex out of context bores me after a while. In a way it sort of made me think of Missy, but in a fantasy setting, but with really nice art. What could possibly go wrong?

The game starts out interesting. Your character is in prison for crimes currently not clear. You try to escape by distracting the guard and pulling down her top, and while you're subdued, it sets a nice precedent for a playful, story driven lewd misadventure between you and the various girls at Hogwarts.

Unfortunately that's where this game struggles the most: the writing. When making a visual novel based off an existing IP, I feel it's really important to understand how the characters in that universe act. I fully understand some artistic license to allow for these characters to end up in lewd situations, but some of the deviations from the characters crosses into bad porno territory. Hagrid and Mcgonagall are the worst offenders for as far as I got, but everyone feels like a caricature at best and that's really disappointing.

The other problem is the pacing. And I don't mean just the wait to get to the sexy stuff--that's a problem, too, but if the story and worldbuilding was interesting maybe I could give it a pass, but the story gets really dull once you become the headmaster. The first real scene after that is, I shit you not, a long exposition dialog with a talking portrait you make of yourself, while you drink and feel sorry for yourself because you're confined to the headmaster's chambers with no power and no influence. And even with the option to skip dialog, there's still. So. Much. Of. It. Little tip for the developer, when people play a game like this and they do give a rat's ass about the story, they want to see more of the world and the girls they're trying to get in bed with, or maybe the person who's getting in their way. What they don't care about is a random self insert OC's backstory going on for god knows how long, portrayed in the most pathetic, pitiful way possible. The next scene that jumps to mind for me there is when you the headmaster are expected to address the students. Finally! A chance to get into some of the shenanigans that the game promised! Only...all you really do is insult the girls like a pretentious douchebag. You try to punish them by subtracting points from their house, only to be overruled at every turn by Mcgonagall. Nothing else happens in that scene, and certainly none of the tantalizing fun that feels like ages ago in the first chapter.

A lot of people complain about how the main girls aren't the focus at all compared to side characters and OCs, but shit, I would even take that over the slog of the MC's constant pity parties. He is constantly shoved down my throat, and I'm not interested. He's not *likeable*, and that's a problem as well when you're trying to portray a prominent character for a story.

I appreciate a game's efforts to not get into the sex right away. I appreciate a buildup. But the dev needs to focus on the characters people will actually give a shit about, and it wouldn't hurt to tease now and then leading up to the bigger moments. Those little nuggets can keep engagement as you lay down the story, and that might even be some people's jam.

Maybe I'm missing something, and maybe it picks up later, but I feel there are better ways to be spending your time than trying to get some enjoyment out of this one without a massive overhaul on the entire narrative. And it's a shame.

There's a ton of potential in this game to be great, but updating issues aside, it's not focusing on the things it needs to focus on.

I would consider this a staple everyone should try. You might not love how long it takes to unlock a lot of the content, but the art and graphics are top notch, but that also sort of explains why updates are so slow.

I consider it great, but a lot of the complaint reviews you see aren't all totally wrong.

Really good game, one of the best there.

There is hot stuff and regular gameplay like in old point and click games

Also there is variety of kinks. Some regular stuff and sub/dom scenes

Only problem is this game takes ages to get any updates

if your horney do NOT play this game you will have lost your erection long before you find anything saucy even in max skip ez mode tell me where to click until jk lol now you have to read the book instead

The art is top notch. The setting is obviously fascinating. The music is pleasant too. After watching the trailers I was mesmerized... unfortunately the gameplay is not really that interesting. For a game that has been out for so long now (and with an impressive backing) I expected a lot more

Story : 6/10
Originality : 8/10
Renders/Art : 7/10
Playability : 2.5/10
Performance : 7/10
Sound : 7/10
Bugs : Bug free.
Animations : 7/10 - live2d

Blue-Balls : 10000000/10 INSANE

>The game is 8 years old.
->0 sex scene with one of the main girl.

Don't waste your time on this crap. It takes literally hours to get a single sex scene.

Gud. The art in "Innocent Witches" is one of its strongest points. The character designs are detailed and vibrant, with each character having a distinct and memorable appearance. The backgrounds and environments are well-drawn, immersing players in the magical world. The animations, although limited, are smooth and add to the overall visual appeal.

Story : 5/10
Originality : 10/10
Renders/Art : 7.5/10 - reminds me of Akabur.
Sound : 8/10
Playability : 3.5/10
Performance : 8/10
Bugs : Bug free.
Animations : 8/10 - live2d
Voice Acting : none.
Grammar : none.
Amount of content : For a game that has been in the work for 8 years and some... it's barebones.

Gameplay is insanely boring and infuriating, just use the notepad cheat to unlock the gallery to view the scenes and then uninstall it.

Story is kinda ok but its very very drawn out, as for sex scenes they are very rare and barely ever with any a main girls, first one is some weird vampire that looks more like a harpy? its really not worth playing this one if you want an adult game.
I mean at one point you see a cat girl...you would think oh cute right....fuck no its more like a freaking granny?......and just one of the teachers dressing up....

Game is also a sandbox with quite a bit of grinds which is boring, quests are also tied together so you cant progress with the ones you want untill you progress all.

That also means its a mindless fuckfest where your forced to fuck everyone even if you hate them in one way or the other and that is a huge turn-off, theres no choices at all so cant say no to fucking an ugly granny which im sure isent in good taste for alot of players.

Never really understod why so many sandbox games force shit like LIs and fetishes onto the players, why not just add a simple no choice for sex scenes it dosent really matter storywise if you fuck em or not anyway which makes it even more idiotic that you cant say no.

Animations are really good and custom which makes it even more annoying game is a kinetic novel hidden behind a sandbox.

Music is pretty decent as well and suits the game.

So yeah game did have alot of good things going for it, but it just gets ruined by the lack of choices, forced LIs and fetishes and a very very drawn out game on top of it all, not a single sex scene with any of the 4 main girls you start with which is kinda crazy for a 3+ years old game.

I would have given this one star but added one for the animations since they are really nice.

Don't waste your time on this crap. It takes literally hours to get a single sex scene. It wouldn't be a problem if gameplay wise it wasn't the most boring point&click shit in existence, where you need to do the same thing over and over again just to get a simple nipple peek. The only good thing about this game is its art but you wouldn't be able to see most of it if you're not crazy

Besides the relatively slow updates this game is great. If you're looking for a parody game about the HP universe you aren't gonna find much better then this game. The characters are well made and really resemble the characters from the movies.

I'll chime in on all the other 1 star reviews as of late because I've always despised this game's treacherous grindfest and finally getting disappointed by intentionally mediocre h-scenes that range from ok but boring to straight up blue balling. Not fucking cool. Also, LET ME BANG SUSAN ALREADY

Begin with a great scene, but the follow-up content is just an endless tedious operations with too little reward, and this is kind of suffering. A great game for torturing.

By "great scene" I mean the old versoin, the new one is just an torment.

This is game is utterly frustrating, because the art is great and the game mechanics work very well (not the gameplay mechanics, I mean UI system etc.). There was clearly a lot of commendable effort put into this. But the writing, oh boy, the writing...

There are 2 main problems here:
1. there are walls of text that are entirely boring and non-sexy. At first I tried to read them but at one point I just started skipping through all of the monologues and Sally and Snape stuff, which was the worst.
2. my biggest complaint is the MC - I hardly ever encountered such a badly written MC in a VN. One moment he seems like he's interested in some sexy time, but in the next it seems as if he's allergic to sex/girls and avoids contact at all cost. And he complains about his situation all the time like a little b*tch. Oh yeah, being a headmaster, getting paid for doing minimal work and oogling sexy witches all day, what a terrible job, I feel so sorry for him.

Many complain about the slow grind, which is another problem, but to me it would be less of an issue if there would be teasing and stuff like that happening before the "real" action starts, but instead we get this dreadful writing (see point 1 and 2).

Ironically, there are some Larry references - the complete opposite of this game's MC, Laffer is an actual horndog with clear motivations...

If it wasn't for the good art, I would give 1 star.

The art is good, way above average and so are animations. Moreover, there were no technical issues on android version of the name. Overall it is a solid base for a game. However, the game lacks content hard. There are barely any erotic or sex scenes in this supposedly erotic game. I played for hours and only encountered one.

Damn I want to love this game. The art is amazing and I enjoy the story and setting. The only problem is the grind. You have to replay the same events until your eyes bleed and pray that you get a slightly longer version of it each time. The time between updates is a little crazy too IMO.

Pros:
+ Beautiful art
+ Fun setting
+ Nice world building

Cons:
- Mindboggling grind fest

Holy shit, what a mess.
I have been following the game for a while - hardly a surprise, considerting it is over six years old. How does the game development normally go? You get a chunk of the story, wait for the next update, and the story continues from the same point. Rewrites, if any, are minimal. Well, not here.
The game fucking starts from offering you to choose which version of the plot you want to play. Who does that? Why should I know the difference between the plots and why should I care? If you for some reason are unhappy with how the game turns out, rewrite a story and delete the old material. That's it.
The amount of content that's getting deleted and moved is shocking. I've taken a good year from the game, return to it - and I don't recognise the fucking project. Instead of moving forward, the story stands on the place, with chunks of a plot being forcefully put together. Full chapters are outright skipped - you finish the third chapter, and then you go right to the fifth, and a little warning window pops up, telling you that the forth chapter will be added later and explains what will happen there. Complete interesing minigames are for some reasons deleted. The sex scenes that the developer says actually will belong to much later in the game are put in. Then why the hell would you write them now in the first place? It is not a game - it is a six years old alpha, which showcases main mechanics and general idea of the plot, instead of giving a pleasurable gaming experience.
The rest of the game is questionable as well. Art is great - yet for some reason, not sexy at all. Characters look a bit wooden, sex scenes are very plastic like and not exciting. Characters are a bit tropey and flat with any characterisation ruined, again, by a completely broken structure.
If this game ever gets finished, I will play it again and my opinion will probabily change. But by now it is a mess that the devs should aim to salvage as quickly as possible. Take time off, write the fucking story as you should have done from the beginning, delete all the old plotlines and the game can become good, because the production power(i.e. sweet Patreon money) is obviously there.
Oh, almost forgot, there are like five different sex scenes - one for each character. Six years of development everybody. Instead you have two plotlines. Smh

In short: too many words and not enough action.
The art is beautiful and the story is kinda interesting at the start but it gets more and more bloated.
I wanna read the stories but the dialogs in this game are unnecessarily long. On top of that you have to click too much. You want money? Click click click and wait. Want skill points? Click click click. You wanna progress the story? Click again and again. All of these are absolutely unnecessary.