VN - Ren'Py - Innocent Witches [v0.12.1 A Fix1] [Sad Crab]

I’ve been playing Innocent Witches for years, since the days of the old plot, and it is understandable why so many people are dissatisfied with the long degradation that has led to its current state and bleak future. Innocent Witches v0.12.1 is a point-and-click adventure game with minigames, visual novel elements, and an immense amount of bloated dialogue, created by Sad Crab, a company that unfortunately did not plan the game’s structure well enough to use its limited resources efficiently. This resulted in one of the messiest developments in adult gaming history. The first and foremost aspect of the game, the main hook for any new player, is the stellar art by Valerii Siserg, possibly the best illustrator in the genre. Siserg does the heavy lifting throughout the toil that is navigating the unbearably slow gameplay of Innocent Witches, offering relief with his comic style filled with bright colors and beautiful details that few can compare to. The story is composed of large acts and smaller chapters in which you take the role of Marcus Redblack, a dumb new medicus (healer) at Hogwarts who is pushed left and right into a wild and wacky tale of mysteries. These mysteries become increasingly convoluted with each update, all while Marcus deals with the whims of the female prefects (students with additional authority) from the four houses. These feisty girls are also the main romance options for the player, but the developers decided to commit what is close to a crime in adult gaming by forcing the player to select only one of them early on, effectively removing a significant portion of content tied to the others. That being said, in act two, interactions with them are greatly reduced as the game decides to attend to other matters, seemingly deluding itself into believing that the audience would care about grannies, annoying ghosts, disgusting elves, and shoehorned aurors, despite the existence of four perfect romance options. The game’s initial concept is a very interesting satire of the Harry Potter series, with plenty of references and analogies. Many of these are made up, but they are still crafted with enough care to blend into the unstable world Rowling created. Unfortunately, it feels as though the developers are allergic to focus, wildly flailing between storylines that do not connect, or even outright changing characters’ personalities in order to cut and recut plotlines. It is shocking how much the developers forced a ragged Minerva on the player, even dressing her as a nauseating grandma cat in an attempt to entice interest, a failed effort, judging by audience backlash. Worse still is the repeated pushing of a revolting-looking elf into the player’s face, even during holiday events, wasting God knows how much time and money on useless panels, animations, and dialogue. You have four beautiful girls with very distinct personalities that every player will undeniably fall in love with. Logic dictates that all resources should be directed toward developing these relationships, without even conceiving the idea of limiting the player to only one of them. Instead, their differences should have been used to create varied quests and minigames, allowing Marcus to slowly grow closer to all of them at a pace matching their uniqueness. This would have fit his portrayal as a perverted scoundrel far better than forcing him to act like a mopey, lovestruck teenager with only one true love in his head. If the developers wanted to provide additional variety, there were plenty of less important students suitable for smaller quests and rewards, such as the short stories involving Gina or Parvati. Just don’t hurt the player’s eyesight in the process. The story is very long, and you feel every minute of it. For every small step in a quest, you are forced to slog through a hundred lines of heavily comedy-inclined dialogue, plagued with incessant interruptions and boring quips from professors or portraits. Rarely does a line actually land well. Most of the time, the writing kills the intended mood of the scene, until the fast forward button becomes irresistible. The changes in writing style become increasingly noticeable as the chapters progress and the old plot mingles with the new, highlighting severe cuts and rewrites that even affect certain characters’ personalities. In conclusion, Innocent Witches stands as the biggest waste of potential in the genre. The original concept was perfectly on point: you would play a blockheaded new headmaster, very slowly finding your footing, improving your status and relationships, perving on the prefects, lowering their inhibitions, completing personal quests tailored to their personalities, and solving one or two major mysteries behind the scenes to save Hogwarts and become an unexpected hero. Somewhere along the way, however, the developers decided to burn the writing and instead drive players insane with an endless barrage of dead ends. Slow-paced games are not the problem. Everyone can enjoy a slow-burn story that grows progressively more radical until a volcanic climax, but when you have ten years of development and so little progress with the main cast, while slapping your audience in the face with rewards no one wanted or even understood the purpose of, your product becomes a source of mockery. This is a unique case of a project losing its way during development while ignoring thousands of warning signals from a very vocal audience, resulting in an absolute mess. It saddens me greatly to say that even years later, Innocent Witches is still far from being a good adult game.

If you're looking for a visual novel with a lot of reading and minimal adult content (as of now), then this VN is for you. The art style is captivating, the storyline is interesting, and there’s much more besides that to look forward to.

I've never felt more blue balled by a game before.

Starting with positives, the art and animations are amongst the best that I've seen in a porn game. Animations are smooth and the scenes are lengthy. Unfortunately, that's where the positives end for me.

For a game that seems to be in development since 2016, it's baffling how little actual content there is in this game. There are games here that have more content while only being in development for 2 years.

The amount of sex scenes is extremely low for how long you need to play the game for, and it's mostly for side characters. All you get for the main LIs are strip scenes, a single footjob and a handjob scene. After reaching the end of the current version, the MC has vaginal sex with 2 side characters and there's a hand full of blowjob scenes with other side characters. Don't let that GIF on the front page for the game fool you, that sex scene is literally not in the game. For a porn game, theres really not much emphasis on the porn here.

The vast majority of your time playing this game will be clicking through text boxes for hours and figuring out which location you need to go to in the sandbox at what time. Your payoff for these hours of clicking through text boxes are rarely ever worth it either. I tried to follow along but eventually I was so tired of the amount of text that I just skipped everything. The story isn't complex enough that you need to read through conversation. Most of talking is irrelevant banter or characters throwing meaningless insults at each other that add nothing to the story.

The MC is probably the most unlikable MC I've ever seen in a game. He does nothing but complain and insult the people around him. He starts really bad and becomes a little more tolerable in later chapters, but that same shitty personality stays throughout and really soured my ability to enjoy the game.

In terms of gameplay, it's basically non-existant. You get thrown into the sandbox where you need to move to different locations at specific times to trigger events. It's nothing special and becomes extremely tedious fast. There's a few minigames sprinkled in but I found them to be boring, trivial in difficulty and just a waste of time. There's nothing fun about drawing a circle with your mouse for the minigame.

I got lured in by the art and animation, but came out feeling like I just wasted my time. Maybe I'll give this game another shot when it's completed. Though, that might take 15 years at the current pace the dev is going at.

The clown fiesta to end all clown fiestas. What a waste of phenomenal art. Development hell does not even begin to describe what this game has experienced since I started playing it years ago. It's been probably 6+ years since I played this game for the first time, and and since then there's been maybe an hour or two of interesting content added.

The game has been worked out to the smallest detail to convey the whole atmosphere. Also, the drawings and gameplay are just wonderful.

Those who love the theme of magic and wizardry will definitely appreciate it!

TLDR: Weird game to rank. The art of the girls / setting is amazing, but it is such a wildly blue-balling experience it frustrated me more than anything else. The MC is paradoxically both a pervert AND constantly pushing sexual content away- its almost like he is a purely voyeuristic man-child. The plot is all over the place, but does have some strong writing in places. I presume it is due to piece-meal writing.

+ The art of the girls. WOW!
+ Animations were passable.
+ The statue mini-game was fun
+ The conversations with Snape /His painting self tended to be rather amusing.
+ The talking paintings are cool / fun.
+ The ghosts sex was kinda fun.

- I HATE the MC. Bro is tiny, annoying, and weak. The girls deserve better and he kind ruins the sexual content by being so pathetic. I don't wanna watch some skinny nerd fuck anything. Not, hot. To top it all off he just masturbates onto shit instead of fucking anyone. Grows a plant girl. Maturates in front of it. Catches some sexy fairy girls. Does he fuck 'em? No sirs, just watches em bang each-other and questions if he should find some men for them to fuck. Gets a dirty mag- whacks to the pics. Gets some pics of the girls, wanks to the pics. Sexy older teacher comes onto him, NOPE, not today lady, I'm busy and shit. When he finally does fuck Minerva he looks like either a 14 y/o kid or a man 1000 calories short of death by starvation humping away .
- Okay the MC is a weak POS and his sex content is not fun b/c he is so wimpy- it could certainly be fixed with magic right? It is the fucking setting! NOPE. Craziest magical thing that happens is tentacle rape- yippie (facepalm).
-The games pacing and drip feed of sexual content is horrible. The crazy lack of sexual content at the start of the game was particularity hard to slog through. (Was like a 4 / 5 hour slog.)
- The game-play is not fun- just stacked fetch quests and calling people to your room. I wouldn't mind talking to the characters if they had more than like 5-20 lines of text every time you summoned them. So much wasted time on extra clicks.

refreshing, its a story rich game and i dont mind that it takes some time to show nsfw scenes, it just makes it even more interesting if you just wanna fap to some 2d drawing just watch hentai, it got actual good story and plot with so many various nsfw scenes, it may be somewhat grindy but its cool, the content is worth it.

There's little content but a lot of text, the minigames are time-consuming and there aren't many H scenes.

I finished the game and came to one conclusion about it "Very Time Consuming, Very Surprised & Disappointed". I will unfollow this thread.

This game is really frustrating.
The only good thing is the art. The gameplay cant be called gameplay. There are very few sexual scenes. The story is incoherent, the writing behind the manipulation and corruption is weak so overall its fairly disappointing.
I believe the lack of content was largely due to the dev's pulling the classic "oh, we decided to stop halfway through development and start over." This means that while there is some content, a large portion of it is hidden in the old story and the new story is only now starting to catch up. As for the quality and content of the sex scenes, despite the game's banner the vast majority are very soft core.

In fact most of the game is soft core, even in the writing. For example for the first 5 hours of the game there is a certain character who is practically begging for the MC to sleep with her, but for very silly reasons the MC always turns her down - he usually just says something like "Not right now" this is despite the fact that the main character's primary motivation in the game is to get laid.
On another note the pacing is terrible - it takes literally like 5-7 HOURS of game to even start seeing the softcore stuff, and for the longest time the only girl you can interact with is an elf - who once again you inexplicably dont try to sleep with, all you can do is request a HJ or BJ.
The game design also appears to be entirely dedicated to burning time. The game runs pretty slow, even when holding down the skip text button it takes a while to move between scenes. Additionally the game's primary game play consists of sending requests to various characters and then waiting for them to show up to talk to them. It feels like you have to do this something like 500 times, and each time you have to click the owl, click the recipient box, select the recipient, send the request, select the time you want them to show up, then either click the bedroom and select nap or click the clock and select the time you want to move to. Each of these clicks takes about 2-3 seconds since you have to wait for the game to make the buttons interactable, so each request takes almost 30 seconds, its not so bad at first but after my 3rd hour of the game it started to drive me a little mad. You also have to grind stats, which doesnt require any level of gameplay, you literally select a stat and move on, but you can only train 3 times a day and then have to move to the next day. Then there are the "minigames", which are yet another set of time wasters. These games include reading 4 messages copying down the 3 numbers in each message for a total of 12 and then enter all 12 numbers into a book you have to reopen evertime you want to enter number. Then a pipe game with no failure state, a shell game, a thing were you have to rip a page out of one book and put it in another 4 times... stuff like that. They arent games exactly - they dont test any logic or skills , they're just pointless tasks designed to waste time. The game does not respect your time at all.

One of the best games out there its visually stunning and the gameplay is amazing and the part is that its a harry potter parody of which theres only two and this is a masterpiece compared to the other one.

The gameplay is slow and the game needs more content to be fun. There are more characters, but the main ones get less content and fewer sex scenes than the side characters, which is frustrating. The characters are okay but not very memorable. Overall, it feels like a cashgrab rushed out for quick profit. It’s an average game that needs more work.

Respect to the artists for their work but the art style personally ain't for me. It feels like a toned down version of the street art artists do that exaggerate proportions. Mc and his portrait companion are really annoying and not likable. SOOOOO much filler content before actual scenes which themselves are a little lacking. It's a visual novel first, chore simulator second, and porn game third.

What caught my attention the most in this game was the good story and the characters. The world is also very cool. The ways in which it takes the girls to the "dark" side are very satisfying. But it lacks content in general.

Great as a normal game, but absolute terrible as a porn game. It takes age to get something, and the story almost never focus on the main girl. I question myself either the porn element are any necessary to the game, since it's almost non existed until a very long scene (and I'm talking hours of possibly attentive dialogue/interaction)

You need to go through a long plot to unlock a few CGS, and there are multiple options that will cause the game to fail. The most crucial point is that the plot is not smooth. You will find that when you play the first chapter and reach the second chapter, the plot is a bit off.

I'm going to keep this as short as possible.
The girls are barely in the game at all, you spend more time listening to the bitch of a main character whinging to Snape about how pathetic he is. You click and drag stuff to your desk, read tons and I mean tons of boring dialog for hours. It's not worth going through for the scenes and it sucks because the art is really good.
Good
-art
Bad
everything else

As many have mentioned before, the issue with this game is that it blue balls you to hell. The sexy stuff is in between a TON of literature. This is low key a book. It's unfortunate, because otherwise it is really good, but as you can see if you unlock all the content, the sexy stuff is, well, not so much. So, is it a game: I guess. Is it a book: yes. Does it have great drawings/art? Yes. Is it sexy? mmm, sort of.

I guess you should know that it is not a trainer, really. It's more like a fan fiction piece.

well, let's start with the good thing that the gameplay is pretty good, the art is very good, as well as the characters, I also really liked the plot, but there is very little content, but I liked the gameplay, I look forward to the development of this game very much, because the game is still good, but I expect more content from the developer

Peak, Hermione Granger Supremacy, she's so queen it's insane. Art is super nice, I rlly like how cute Hermione is in this artstyle. It makes me go awooga, hummina hummina, didn't really pay attention to the main character he's kinda boring but eh who's here for him

shitty story with an insufferable main character (not that the rest of them are any better), ive been playing for hours and there hasn't been a single sex scene and the story keeps getting worst the more it goes on, would've been better off as a picture gallery than games