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Summary: An amusing, well-drawn, complex videogame that squeezes the most out of Ren'py, full of challenging puzzles that make the rewards so much sweeter. Even if it lacks in direct sexual content (yet it IS present!), the build-up for more of it in the future is worth the time.
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Review:
• Art-style: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Innocent Witches features its own elaborate, multi-layered art-style that is highly dynamic throughout the game, revolving around dozens of detailed scenarios, outfits, characters, rooms, environmental interactions and pop-culture references.
• Gameplay: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Complex but with a steep learning curve, your hand is not held as you come across puzzles that actually require your logical sense to work and your wits to be sharp. It also features A LOT of additional content - Codex, Sonya outfits which you can unlock with her own mini-game or game progression, photo gallery, memory gallery, and much more.
• Storyline: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Reminiscent of another older game with a very similar concept but further developed, it can get dull at some points with extensive dialogues (or the unfunny constant jabs between the main character and his portrait), but the producers added mechanics to easily skim through text. The concept isn't solid, but it's still fun to read and to learn how things progress, while avoiding the melodramatic depth of other H-games.
• Grammar: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Minimally flawed in some sentences, but you can tell there was proofreading and that effort was put into the lexical structuring by non-native speakers, which is respectable and commendable.
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So why the negative reviews?
Innocent Witches explores the most of what Ren'py has to offer, and is, in every sense of the word, a videogame. The crowd for H-games has grown used to linear, click-to-skip visual novels, that offer no resistance to your progress, and thus come to antagonize the challenges of IW out of frustration and fatigue. This is the main difference between IW and most games. Don't let the "lack of sexual content" argument get to you - you have dozens of VNs where the spiciest sex scene is a lesbian kiss or an handjob, and they're still rated 5/5 and have swollen Patreons. If you don't want to bother facing the challenges expected of a videogame, SadCrab's Innocent Witches is not for you - and that's fine, there are hundreds of other games and VNs for you to play. But if you like to get your gears running and get some sexy content in return, give it a try - it's fun!
Summary: An amusing, well-drawn, complex videogame that squeezes the most out of Ren'py, full of challenging puzzles that make the rewards so much sweeter. Even if it lacks in direct sexual content (yet it IS present!), the build-up for more of it in the future is worth the time.
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Review:
• Art-style: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Innocent Witches features its own elaborate, multi-layered art-style that is highly dynamic throughout the game, revolving around dozens of detailed scenarios, outfits, characters, rooms, environmental interactions and pop-culture references.
• Gameplay: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Complex but with a steep learning curve, your hand is not held as you come across puzzles that actually require your logical sense to work and your wits to be sharp. It also features A LOT of additional content - Codex, Sonya outfits which you can unlock with her own mini-game or game progression, photo gallery, memory gallery, and much more.
• Storyline: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Reminiscent of another older game with a very similar concept but further developed, it can get dull at some points with extensive dialogues (or the unfunny constant jabs between the main character and his portrait), but the producers added mechanics to easily skim through text. The concept isn't solid, but it's still fun to read and to learn how things progress, while avoiding the melodramatic depth of other H-games.
• Grammar: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Minimally flawed in some sentences, but you can tell there was proofreading and that effort was put into the lexical structuring by non-native speakers, which is respectable and commendable.
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So why the negative reviews?
Innocent Witches explores the most of what Ren'py has to offer, and is, in every sense of the word, a videogame. The crowd for H-games has grown used to linear, click-to-skip visual novels, that offer no resistance to your progress, and thus come to antagonize the challenges of IW out of frustration and fatigue. This is the main difference between IW and most games. Don't let the "lack of sexual content" argument get to you - you have dozens of VNs where the spiciest sex scene is a lesbian kiss or an handjob, and they're still rated 5/5 and have swollen Patreons. If you don't want to bother facing the challenges expected of a videogame, SadCrab's Innocent Witches is not for you - and that's fine, there are hundreds of other games and VNs for you to play. But if you like to get your gears running and get some sexy content in return, give it a try - it's fun!