*Rating Pending For Newer Version*
Story: 2/5
Man, I wish I could love the story, it has all of these tiny touching moments with bits of revelation for the main character. He actually tries improving himself, but one character arc does not a game make.
The problem is that these scenes and arcs are far too few in between. What we have is potential, nothing more. If there was more interactions between the students and a bit more openness to the story and how we interact with the students and school, this could easily be higher.
Gameplay: 2/5
It's a weird cross between older Sierra point-and-click games and a visual novel. Guess what? It completely works and I have no issues with things being convoluted or unique. In fact, I started playing just to see what else the game had in store for me... Unfortunately, much like a girlfriend/wife ruining your orgasm, the anticipation was far better than the actual anticipated moment.
Rather than actually corrupting the girls in stages, you're constantly locked into these unfun sidequests that really don't make a lot of sense. Let us actually control our agency a bit here! Even having similar scenes with some different interacting dialogue would help.
Art: 2/5
Honestly? The art is fantastic, hands down. This looks like a major AAA studio worked on the art direction. Too bad there's a distinct lack of girls being fucked over the headmaster's desk or violated in the dorms or anything really. So you essentially have an amazing setpiece, with tons of detail you would miss on your first playthrough, but no actual girls to fill in those set pieces.
Conclusion: 2/5
This game is such a goddamn tease and actually pisses me off to no end. Like, this could easily be one of the defining examples of a visual novel done by a small creative studio, but everything is done so damn wrong.
You wanna know what it is guys? It's a smut game with no smut that's trying to be something else it doesn't need to be while creating challenges that have really no rewards to them except for you to be wowed by the 2D small animations and set pieces. You know it's bad when Ms. Spanks has more than a few sentences to say about it.
Ms. Spanks: 1/5
So we're in this weird predicament... Mr. Spanks usually gives a lower score than me... Not this time. I'm gonna be actually typing a bit better than I usually do at Mr. Spank's request.
........ I do NOT understand why this game has to be so disappointing. This is one of my hottest fantasies (a perverted Hogwarts, sign me up!!!) and somehow it was made boring by weird writing and gameplay.
I loooove the art and seriously, Hermione is beyond a doubt the hottest shes ever been in any game I've seen her. But it is soooooo frustrating to see a game of this caliber be so tone deaf to the community and what they want. Obviously its their game and they can do what they want... But they really should be listening to what the community wants... Which is witches being dominated by their hottie headmaster and having to do lewd things in school all the while almost being caught. All the while using magic for inappropriate things and... *clears throat*
It's hard to put into words what I want from this game, I think Mr. Spanks summarizes it up nicely, but I'm just especially sour because this hits all my buttons and then just leaves me sitting there trying to sort through swimsuits? What? What? Why am I feeding panties to the stupid sorting hat!?
*calms down*
1/5 don't bother girls, it starts off with such a hot premise but fizzles out quickly. Go read a fanfiction instead to get yourself into that mood.
EDIT: Fixed Conclusion score rating