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

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.

Let's get the easiest out of the way: the art and the animations are amazing. Each one of the female characters look gorgeous in their own right and their personalities are quite well-rounded. The same goes for the environments. It's clear there's a lot of effort in making every visual aspect of this game shine and I say kudos to that.

However, the rest of the game is rather lackluster. There's an unnecessary amount of grinding that mostly goes nowhere and any puzzle I've found was more annoying than entertaining. The two plots are both boring and cliché, and I really don't understand if there's much difference between them apart from a few simple aspects that aren't that important in the end. The new plot, however, is kind of more streamlined and less filled with clutter, which is appreciated.

But the worst thing in this game for me are both the MC and the dialogues. Seriously, I haven't hated a protagonist as much as this one in a long while. His attitude is childish and pathetic at best. I get that he's supposed to be cocky and hot-headed, but both things are taken to such an extent that it's simply absurd. The way he treats others is beyond awful and still manages to get away with most of it, but the worst thing is that his lines aren't even that funny or smart to begin with. I could get behind him being an asshole if at least he were more charismatic, but all of his insults revolve around "I'm horny, you're stupid, suck my dick", which honestly gets really tiring really fast.

It's biggest issues could be solved pretty easily with a smarter and more complex plot & dialogue rewrite. As it is right now, the art, as amazing as it is (and it really is one of the best I've seen) cannot stop the god-awful MC and needless grind.

This is a typical sandbox game that is parodying a popular novel and grinding horrible. It contains stylish 2D arts and models. Story is about corrupting 4 female students in the same magic school setting. But dev made it uninteresting somehow.

I like slow-burn but I am not sure that this dev even knows how to tease people sexually. All sexual activities felt generic and childish. Its strange story progression and organization made me uninterested and bored quickly. The game has two plots (old and new) but their stories are basically the same boring ones. Not sure why dev needed to create two similar ones. The game is unnecessarily click-hogging and in-game hint system didn't help much so I had to read the walkthrough guide for every single task. And I have to question dev's planning skills because game saves don't work even among the same versions (e.g., v0.8 alpha and v0.8 beta).

Another grinding game with unworthy rewards.

Art is great but I do not understand their decision to create new plot instead of expanding the old one - waste of time for both dev team and players as new and old plots exist at the same time and none of them contains full content of the game. Old plot seems also well thought out in comparison to the new one too.

Pick it up in a few years when it's actually stable.


The game's pretty good and I actually like the slow boil/teasing content. But saves don't transfer over between updates, and the Dev keeps changing older content which means that keeping up involves replaying the same shit over and over again.

The dev needs to set up a better checkpoint system, and make it so you can skip text even without having read what you're skipping. Then maybe it'll be worth picking up before the game is totally done.

Long time no see such a shitty game. Hints which say you nothing, unwinable minigames. Bugs and crushes. Story which often makes no sense. Overall frustrating and annoying. Most of it can be fixed, but as can be seen from comments there is no signs of improvement for ages.

Grind type of game. There are 2 sex scenes for an entire game. Animations are good, but creators are not interested in sexual content, so it's a more erotic type of game. Every scene opens in a kind of grind way.

Amazing art, lots of cool details! Good quests! Funny! Cool minigames! A bit grindy making the progress slow (which is good, rewards taste better)! But overall a really nice game!

Already played it a few times and plan to keep doing it

Pretty dope.
Played the latest public version as of 23/09/2021 (non US-date) and the latest additions (2d animations) make the game feel more alive and give a somewhat uncanny yet pleasent feel to whats happening. The drawings themselves are cool, with a nice stylistic feeling to them.
The version that is currently available on Patreon seems to connect the chapters even more, which is nice, as I feel there is a certain lack of continuity between parts. Can't wait for the full release

Excellent art and animation. Intriguing story with multiple concurrent lines. Looking forward to the future of this, although I think the animation they are making now is a negative direction of their artwork.

Inevitably, some of you may be asking why I am only giving this game 2 stars? Let's discuss pros first. The writing is pretty solid. I found myself engaged with the story and found it relatively compelling. Moreover, this game, hands down, has some of the best art in any pornographic game.

And that brings me to my main criticism. There is hardly any lewd content. Despite years of development, this game only has a handful of lewd scenes sparsely placed throughout a relatively long and grindy story. It isn't always intuitive what you need to do next (I initially played without a guide). Moreover, certain tasks that you need to complete feel tediously long in order to draw out the game play.

And it's really a damn shame. I remember how optimistic I was when this game was initially released years ago when I was still in college. It had so much promise, but it is such a grind to get to that good content, and even then, it is a short scene with few options.

To the creator of the game, if you read this, please know that I am not attacking you directly. There are plenty of other games that follow a similar format such as Bad Manners. What it is a reflection of is that I wouldn't recommend this game for someone unless they specifically asked for "a humorous and engaging story with good art without too much of a concern for pornographic content."

I certainly hope that these comments are taken to heart, but this game is already successful with it's established fan base so I know that is incredibly unlikely.

The game play just wastes too much time - the swimsuit task was just full of pointless clincking, then forced waiting, then clicking some more, then forced waiting again... and this pattern repeats it self. Even the sex scenes are just full of pointless time wasters. I know the creator probably wanted to make things 'real'. But I feel the dev didnt get the balance right - immersion is one thing, wasting time while not advancing plot or game experience is another.

The game is VERY slow filled with tens if not hundreds of tedious minigames, still there is something that draws you back again and again.

The artwork is fantastic, I just cant get enough of it. The story is pretty interesting, I find the jokes funny. I like the very slow burn of the story, you get closer and closer to the characters and get to know them. I think the characters other than the MC are very well written and as I said the main story is also pretty good.

I have two main problems with the game.
First are the minigames which are absolutely tedious and the game is filled with hundreds of rounds. Good luck playing them without any guides or walkthroughs.

Second is the MC. His personality is all over the place. No matter what route you choose it just feels strange. I chose the Light path and for some time it felt like he was actually a good guy he shared some moments with the waifu (Daphne best girl dont at me) then he just started talking like a literal psychopath about how the plan is all coming together. Then he switches back to the self redeeming good guy.

One thing to note is that the porn part of the game is almost non-existent so if you are looking for that, this might not be your game.

TL;DR
+Art
+Story
+Characters
+ Funny

-Grindy minigames
-MC's personality
(-Lack of porn content)

Overall if you like HP and you can get over the lack of porn content and the tedious minigames, the game can be pretty fun. I think the positives outweigh the negatives and the game is well above avarage. I hope the next update will bring some good content.