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

So, after playing the last versions after the overhaul to completion, I waited a little to reflect on my experience and came to the conclusion that anything above a 1 star rating would be denial and/or straight out lying.

It seems really, really hard to mess up a game that has great art and clearly a talented coder so completely as this dev has managed.

For a visual novel, what this game is at its core, writing is obviously important. And this is where everything falls utterly apart. The writing is extremely drawn out and most of all, just very poorly done. Both the language used and the actual content is trash-tier. The game design is just as bad.

To top it off the game has a very appealing "cover" art (the picture used in the banner, and on the main menu), but does not deliver on what that picture implies - at all. At this point no one can definitely say if there will ever be actual porn in this game.

While this is not part of the actual game, and not part of this review, the development speed is extremely slow. That only adds to the frustration.

The poor concept and writing makes this terrible as a harry potter fanfiction, and an insult to everyone baited into actually playing it as an erotic game. Or just as a game, period.

EDIT: After a check-in on the current version, all of the above still applies. Well, we know now that there will probably be actual porn at some point, but what is currently included is more trolling the people who expected porn to come than actually delivering on that expectation. 1/10

ll has been said before.
The art is great. The concept to expand upon Akaburs Witch Trainer, by adding 3 more complete girls and way more interaction options with Snape McGonaghal and others is great, sadly what they make of it sucks.

They've been working on this for eons and it's hours long, but not hours of Akaburs funny texts and tons of sexy pics, no, just senseless walls of text with hundreds of jokes that simply are not firing.

The whole game is nothing but a promise of things that didn't come. A dud.

The two stars are one for the concept and one for the great art. None for story or plot or implementation.

Just an Intro to the actual game which may be released in 10000000000 words and 20 years if updates go on like this.
Intro and Character are pretty well introduced. When Witch trainer feeled a bit rushed, Innocent witches is a lot more "complex". Anothergood point is the Artstyle which is fantastix.

My god, this program is awful. I can't even call it a game, there is literally no choice in it whatsoever, all you do is mindlessly click forward over and over again.

As of 0.0.4a there is essentially no nudity in the game and certainly no sex.

The entire game is someone's terrible, terrible fanfiction of Harry Potter. Screens upon endless screens about how their fantasy character is super special and yet still such a downtrodden soul.

And perhaps the worst insult of all is that all of this was written in another language and then translated by someone who knows how to speak English but has no idea how to translate a joke or alter a colloquialism to make sense.

There is no erotic here, there is nothing engaging here, there is nothing funny here. Though , to be fair, the art is acceptable, even decent. We'll say the art is what earned it the single star I'm rating it. If it wasn't for that I'd desperately be screaming that we need a 0 star rating.