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

This is the worst kind of game.

Ver 0.9 Beta
NOTHING in this game makes it worth playing, aside from the art. That's the catch, the art is gorgeous, beautifully done, it's one of the best in the 2D adult genre, it gets me hard at a blink, 10 out of 10 without a doubt, if someone in this project deserves praise, it's the artist(s). To them I'm really grateful and hope they're getting paid high.

But everything else in the game is garbage. The plot is stupid, the dialogs are bad, the characters are uninteresting, the gameplay is chore-driven. It feels like I'm torturing myself, and for what? to see some tits after 8 hours of mindless grind. Not to mention the game NEVER goes forward. Since I played it for the first time THREE YEARS ago (half the development time til now), the game has been going in circles, always rewriting chapters, as if someone cared about the dull plot. Each release adds little to no content (regarding the main 4 girls) and takes months to be released. I've played many bad games since I've been in this forum, but this one is for sure the worst. This game makes me hate myself

V0.9Beta Review

The artwork is pretty decent, however, the game is quite grindy, and it's not very clear on what you need to do half the time. It does take quite a while to get to any sex scenes with the characters in the story which kinda takes the fun out of playing it.

The game had great promise, but the Devs seem to be unable to focus on adding new content and instead mess around with shitty minigames and multiple storypaths (Even tough they cannot even produce enough content for a single heroine).

The game has such unique and amazing art. Even though some might say it's grindy, it's just makes the buildup better in my opinion. The game is really hot and you should definitely try it out (you won't be disappointed). There is a lot of content and hot scenes.

Characters - 5/5
Animations -5/5
Renders - 5/5

The biggest waste of potential I've ever seen in a H-game. Such a shame.

★ ART
The art is beyond incredible, but that's the only good point I would give this game

☆ STORY
UGH. Bloated, overly-long dialogues without enough kink to justify their existence. It's like the writers forgot they were making a porn game half-way through writing their game and they just got high on their own Harry Potter fanfic universe instead.

☆ GAMEPLAY
Broken. Some neat puzzles, but most are either too complicated for nothing of value to gain. Other than that, progression is sloooooow, and leads nowhere in terms of porn scenes. I unlocked the gallery was left baffled at how little content there is when it comes to sex.

☆ H-CONTENT
What H-Content ? The game is too caught up in its own narrative to settle down and deliver good porn.
Take Witch Trainer, remove the funny/dirty MC and replace him by some sort of edgy kid with a superiority complex but who's too much of a whimp to do anything innapropriate too fast.
Witch Trainer is a slow game, but it knows how to tease and make it so its MC can be a total asshole and be rewarded for it with the corruption on the girls.
Not in this game. This game bored me to death with how it handles sex-progression and dialogue.

This game takes itself too seriously for the quality of the writing it's providing. I don't mind serious stories, but that's very hard to pull off in a porn game. And this one fails.

☆ ENJOYMENT
Some of the sex scenes were neat to fap to in the gallery. And that's it. I was amazed at how much of my time was being wasted while I was testing this game.


FINAL VERDICT
★☆☆☆☆
Run.
This game feels like a game by people that didn't want to be making a porn game but were forced to because that's easy money.
Go play Witch Trainer Silver instead. It doesn't have the art quality of Innocent Witches, but it's a far superior game in every aspect.

*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

Inspite of having one of the best 2D arts on this site & a diverse set of characters, this game is heavily weighed down with some serious negatives:

• After all this time, there are very few sex scenes to show for it.
• Every update, the devs seem to focus on fixing issues that almost nobody complains about while ignoring the fundamental problem of lack of content.
• This is not the grindiest game I have played but the rewards at the end feel insufficient.
• I don't know why the devs keep rewriting instead of adding more story. Is the artist too slow to add content? Is the team too small? I don't know.
• Saves don't carry over. The updates are not substantial enough to replay though I'd mention devs do allow starting later chapter as saving grace.
• Current content: Few voyeur scenes, 2 BJs, 3 sex scenes (2 of them are with McGonagall & a female house elf), 2 HJs, 1 sex toy play.

I want this game to be good but every update I just feel disappointed. I hope the content is just around the corner but I expect they'll rewrite a few times more before every doing that. Maybe 2025?

The game has really good art and sex scenes, but the rest of the game is convoluted and frustrating. It would be a lot more fun if the devs spent more time on making sex scenes than grind-y content. Some good and bad.

Dont get fooled like I did, you can see all cg scenes from this website already since there are only about 6, which come many hours of gameplay later.
The art is really beutifull
The gameplay is really fun
The story is funny and interesting
But this is still a porn game and a porngame need porn, not endless hours of undressing the same 4 girls and minigames.
I understand the devs wanting the main girls to require time and work to get into bed, so please add more characters that don't require the same amount of time fu finish theirs storylines.

The old plot was extremely grindy, the new plot is a lot better although still has some spots that are a bit problematic (such as the whole IMVOIS ordeal and dealing with the prefects early on). The issue is amplified by the fact that there are almost no lewd scenes until many hours deep into the plot. The only scenes early on (mermaid, vampire and minerva ) are more satirical/humorous than hot. While I enjoy the tease and process of corrupting the main girls there should've been some lewd content early on. As it is now it is a very long dry spell that can feel like a boring grind.

On the upside the art is extremely nice with very detailed backgrounds and especially later in the game some beautiful lewd scenes. This is by far the biggest selling point for this game.
I also find the general plot pretty enjoyable aside from the grindyness mentioned above.

Other issues are occasional bugs, some of which will force you to quit the game and start from your last save so some progress is lost. And the dialog occasionally has small mistakes with translation (I think the original game is in russian).

Overall the game seems to be going in a good direction.

Very good art style; girls are cool.

Too much grind, and useless actions to do.
Replayability is a must do but a real chore seen the required grind.

I think this game should really rework his scope because it feels like a moving chicken without a head and does nonsensical things.

Great art but otherwise empty content, i don't know what direction you guys want to take. The story don't make sense, and rather boring because it got nowhere. The main character isn't consistent, one time he's a pervert and when some bitches taunt him or make a move he suddenly turned to a saint.

The grind is very dry most of the time the player won't get any rewards from all of the shit they done and when they do, the scene, atmosphere and the dialogue it's very bland.

All and all I do hope this game turned to be a good final products but looking at it's history of the entire development and the progress I probably not wrong when I say that's not gonna happen which is a damn shame.

So,let's say some good things first. Art is great,models are attractive,animations are fine,the locations and hogwarts itself is quite beautiful,I enjoy how interactive the headmaster tower is with all the things you can do in there. Some of the characters are very good ,but mostly side characters,sadly.Sally (the portrait),Snape and maybe some other sides. The girls have their own personalities but they often behave out of character for unknown reasons. Having the advantage of already established world with lovable characters that for many of us were first celebrity crushes is a huge advantage that mostly was wasted. The story is all over the place,both old and new plot are unappealing to me,I don't really feel immersed.the grind is hard with few rewards,but more on that later. When i first saw the new bad guy who we play as i was intrigued,but when we meet his younger self he turns out to be disappointing. I have no idea how he is supposed to become the next voldemort,the person in azkaban and feared wizard. I get he's supposed to be pathetic, but he's on another level in terms of lacking charisma,skills,wisdom,intelligence or any other skills really. The mc is completely unlikable and quite bland. No wonder he has to grind hard to have a chance with the girls,I'm surprised he even has a chance with them. Not to mention that right now stealing someone's underwear seems to be his limit when it comes to being evil. Good luck explaining how he became the next dark lord. The final matter are lewds. Not enough of them,my friends. It is a porn parody and should be seen as such,because let's face it,the story is not strong enough to keep one engaged enough to overlook the lack of lewds. Even VN's that aim to be slowburn progress faster usually.The devs could also do what all of the other are doing. If you have multiple girls, make them different,and progress with them differently. You want slow burn? fine,Susan seems to be the perfect candidate for that role.
And of course you have to keep Hermione as a trophy,to make players play,because she's the most famous character. But both Luna and Daphne seems to have a different personality, yet we get maybe 2 or 3 scenes with them,in the same positions,same circumstances,very repeatable. Not to mention Ginny,who seemed to be more outgoing,only got a proper scene last update.
Overall,beautiful production,art and models,but bad mc,average story and unbalanced progression with a lot of grind really let the game down.

Before I get into why I think it sucks as a fap game I'll acknowledge some good points. It's well made with good artwork. Not many bugs and there's a half-decent story. So as far as games go this would actually do well for an interactive novel.

The problem is that it's not just an interactive novel. It's a fap game, and those need something to fap to. The rest is just extra. Etra stuff that can make a fap game fun and enjoyable beyond just stroking your dick to. Except this game is all that extra stuff and non of the fap you actually expect from a smut game.

After years of development, the devs still haven't added any real sex scenes to the game. No anal gapes. Nothing. I give it 2 stars, and I'm being generous. Without nothing but softcore teasers, this is not something you'll be stroking. Instead, it will leave you blue-balled. Don't bother wasting your time on it.

This is a game with great art and some decent animations wrapped up in terrible writing and worse grammar. There are clearly two or more writers, all terrible in their own right. The story is convoluted regardless of which plot you play. The second plot is devoid of all humor. At least the old plot had some funny dialogue.

That being said, the old plot needs to be removed entirely from the game and anything that was in it that hasn't been used in the new plot as far as images/animations needs to be integrated into the new plot so that there is simply one streamlined game.

这是一个非常棒的游戏，虽然更新很慢，但质量非常好。
哈利波特我只看过电影和部分小说，我对于哈利波特这个IP的情怀实际上也并没有多少。所以我默认是当作一个优秀的痴女学院风格的avg游戏来玩的。
说出来可能有些奇怪，我居然是在用这样一个说俄语的人做的英语游戏去学英文。
我想提供一些帮助，但是中国大陆貌似没办法通过金钱来提供支持。。。
This is a great game. Although the update is very slow, the quality is very good.
I've only seen movies and some novels about Harry Potter. In fact, I don't have much feelings for the IP of Harry Potter. So I play it as a hentai college style AVG game by default.
It may be strange to say that I am actually learning English with an English game made by such a Russian speaker.
I want to offer some help, but Chinese mainland seems unable to provide support through money.

This game gets 4 stars for the art alone.

The art is beautiful, and the character design is fantastic.

The dialogue and story is generally entertaining, and it does lend to suspension of disbelief.

As far as the cons:

The animation during the h-scenes is a little lackluster... and speaking of h-scenes...

There are very few. At some points, I think that sad crab was not intending to make an adult game...

Can be a bit-click spammy at times, and some of the mini-games are dark souls level of unforgiving.

Still, the art, characters, and story have me waiting for updates so I can get deeper into the game. It's mainly the art, though.

4 stars for now, with hope of adding that 5th.

I Just wrote an incredible review with paeans to the beauty and majesty that is this game, and then I accidentally backed out of the text box and lost all of it. So TL;DR

This game is a horribly flawed grind-fest, especially at the beginning. BUT there is a good amount of quality smut in the end, and I thought it was worth the monumental effort it took to get it. Cause I'm a masochist, I guess? Can't wait to play the final product!

Sarah Bones best Waifu. Shy THICCy with a heart of gold.

10/10 art. Even the writing is excellent by h-game standards. However, every time the devs update this game they create more hoops for the player to jump through to get to even the basic content. Playing this game is an exercise in frustration. Save yourself the bother and just stick to regular porn.

I personally love the game. The artwork is beautiful, the characters have their own personalities, and the story has a bit of intrigue taking place. A few critiques from my part, though.

• Once the chapter the house elf shows up in is over, she becomes completely pointless because she doesn't show up again (unless it is further than where I am)
• McGonagall is attractive and the scene with her is great but it's a bit repetitive after having done it the first time, then it shows up again soon after but there are no differences from its initial appearance
• I've already had to restart 3 or 4 times due to the saves not carrying over between versions which cause the replayability of the multiple paths with the girls almost obsolete due to having seen it all each time you need to get back to where you were
• Loved the puzzle when you were first unlocking the stats but it was the only one thus far that I've come across (aside from the mini-games with the girls which I've been forced to restart over and over due to the saves) and the puzzle box doesn't seem to serve any purpose whatsoever other than reminding you to work on your stats

That's about all I have for now but just to reiterate, I love the game. I truly appreciate your work and have no issue with waiting for a game that catches my interests.