VN - Ren'Py - Law School [S2 Ep.4 v1] [MisterMaya]

Really enjoyed the first season of this game. The story so far isn't too complex, but the characters are well-written, well-designed, and interesting, and the renders are fantastic. Overall this is now one of my favorite games here.

It's long... if you like long games yeah give it a go. The renders are nice and it gives you feeling you are genuinely playing the story your way. There are choices but if you use the mod you notice its more of a kinetic novel. The choices only really affect which girl you sleep with and don't change the main story at all, you will always follow the same path regardless. There is a path system in place but i guess its not very well implemented. For example being too selfish restricts you to certain LI same as neutral or the altruistic path yet i was still able to bang the LI from the altruistic path even though i was neutral. All the girls seem to want you as their bf but don't want to commit to anything so you're free to bang multiple women without any of them caring.

This is an example of a stifling visual novel. It was difficult for me to play it to the end. The models and the scenes are mediocre at best. There is too much story and text, and too little content of value. The characters do not look interesting or attractive. The in-game interface is poor. That Facegram pink color gave me a headache. You are forced to respond to every Facegram message you receive with one of two options that essentially have the same meaning.

On top of that, there are multiple-choice quiz mini-games that serve no purpose other than to waste time or require a walkthrough.

It feels like endless filler and is only worth playing if you are a fan of this particular setting or genre. It reminds me of the DICK game, an overrated and boring visual novel.

I also have to note that something is seriously wrong with the art in the first half of the game. The lighting appears overburnt with excessive light overexposure.

Its been a while since I made a review in a game, I played this game because a friend of mind highly recommend it and boy it did not disappoint. First of the character design are great they are not overly sexualized unlike in other games i've played. Story is good there is enough drama, laughter and a little bit of action that makes it entertaining. Mini games can be skipped but truth be told I love playing it because all the the question in the game are base on real law. Lastly the only thing I can say that is bad on this game is the FPS dropping in some of the animation. I'm not sure if i'm the only one that experience this but when it happens it kinda loose the immersion. By the way I'm not using the latest hardware in my P.C. but it is a capable setup that can play the latest AAA games without any issue.

F.Y.I

My favorite main love interest are Elsa, Taylor and Miranda. If Danielle gets enough attention she can enter my top 3. Also I only played the 1st season at the time of this post so I don't know what to expect in episode 4.

Overall star rating: 4.5⭐ out of 5

I just want to add that I love the interaction of mc and Valentine in the hospital especially if you watch that episode of friends

Really good,good models good story good environments, it seems to be going in the right direction, but the characters are what most impresses me, needs more story but that will come, put faith on the dev to make it shine

Well what can I say about this amazing game. I'll start with the fact that I am a lawyer and so when I first saw this game I was curious if it would be even a fraction of how it was for me during law school.

I have to say I have been impressed. It may not show everything, or how strenuous the academic nature of law school truly is, but the diverse group of people with different feelings on law are spot on. It is also on par with how competitive law students are with each other, and how quickly you form groups with others. Kind of that sink or swim mentality. I met my wife in law school and for a country boy going to the big city and meeting this beautiful Indian woman who was so different from me it was absolutely a culture shock. I think that is what drove us to want to know more about one another and ended up in a beautiful relationship, marriage, children, the works. I get that feeling with some of the interactions between the main character and some of the LIs, and even with the student with generations of lawyers in his family. I wanted to be the best and strived to prove myself as the person coming from humble roots and competing against these Ivy league prodigies (ended up number 2 in my class to my wife lol).

Having said that I completely relate to the MC in this game as someone who has lived law school, the competition, the relationships, the stress, and the achievements. I love this game for bringing back fond memories from when I went through law school now 8 years ago. What a ride!

I love this game. I really do. The characters are fkeshed out, the girls are pretty diverse though some kinda mix together util you see which friends they hang out with, the story is solid and doesn't pull random shit out to keep things interesting, AND the sec scenes are pretty good. This has a lot of good secondary characters too.

Lets just be honest too, the dev like ass. There is not a single girl so far that doesn't have and impeccable ass. and all that ass is as varied as the women themselves are.

The renders are good as is the music. There seems to be a lot of criss cross in things happening and all the choices seem to matter. Also I'll give this VN something other VNs haven't done....in the entire first season Rose, the best friend from back home, doesn't even hint at a romance. They act for a long time like they are just best friends. You believe these two have been basically in a sibling style best friend relationship and the dev resisted on pulling the trigger until season 2 and not even fully. She didn't have some secret crush or unrequited feelings, it just never hit them that they were attracted to each other AND this is the same level of detail given to all the characters. They all have their depth and quirks and they fit like great puzzles pieces in this story.

tldr If you have nothing else to do, it works. It's not bad, but it's not good or memorable either. Expect your suspension of disbelief to work in overdrive.

I think the main problem is, it seems to be inspired by BaDIK, which is outdated in terms of writing and invented most of the bad design decisions present here. Also, drama for the sake of drama.

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The bad
A lot of pointless writing/conversations/drama
Pointless back and forth conversations that give you a lot of details but ultimately don't lead anywhere. Same with conflicts.
Pointless writing would be constant "Ahaha", "You're my best friend"(Multiple variations), repeating of what the other character said without adding anything else of value, inner thoughts, whatever bullshit MC passes as "Charisma" that works because it needs to work.


Too many LI's/LI's aren't developed enough to hold on their own
Harem stories have multiple LI's because with only one LI it would be obvious that their writing is shallow. Harem tag is absent, this problem is present.


Morale system designed to waste your time/Create illusion of choice
So, there are 9 LI's, 3 universal and 2 for each of the routes, when the choice is made, we either flip a boolean/switch, or get +1/-1 to altruistic/selfish, which determines the route.
+1/-1 are here to flip altruistic/selfish switch, but otherwise do not do anything, switches are the only important thing in this system, as it's how the game remembers the choices made.
There is also affection +1/-1, but I've seen only one check of that (S1. S2 is a different story).
Every other game works like this, so where is the problem.

Most of the switches are not triggered. So a choice changes some lines of dialogue in current conversation, then the game will remember the choice made, but this choice won't ever come up again in most cases.

Then there are routes. The story is linear, despite there being routes. You can trigger all conversations with all of the LI's, no matter which route you take. The game will simply check if you're on a route for current girl, then, if you're not, skip their scene. It doesn't check the choices you've made, it only checks your route.

That being said, some choices do make a difference, but they are in overwhelming minority and most of them change only a few lines of dialogue.


The phone mechanic/minigame
Invention of this mechanic should be considered a crime against humanity at this point.


Law is the core plot-point, yet it's not explored
Laws in the Ace Attorney series were simplified for the sake of the story, it wasn't a copy-paste of Wikipedia just for the sake of it. Where is the story, and why are those segments skippable?
Why was this setting used at all, if there is nothing to tell.

The main point of having setting in college/university as first-year is, in the first year there is mostly general education, and not specifics of wanted degree, so you can avoid writing about it.


World-building is crumbling with every chapter
We're in USA, but it's USA only in name, as there are a lot of missing plot-points(Religion, Racism, Right to keep/bear arms, History of the country in general) which make it a fantasy-world. I'll mention only the most jarring problem, but there are a lot of others.

USA, school/college/whatever grounds, protagonist is attacked by a man in balaclava, suffers heavy injuries. We're at the point, where use of deadly force is allowed in self-defense. So, how is this conflict resolved.

The school makes a "Court" game, where their employees decide who was in the right (Educational Institution has no authority to do any of that), the attacker was found guilty of aggravated assault, and with words "Bad boy" was left scot-free. Aggravated assault is a felony and can lead to imprisonment.
I guess police simply doesn't exist in this world.

Also, America and "This institution has never seen such violence", good joke.

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The good
Character writing
Diverse and well-written motivations/thought processes, but they're crippled by the fact, that most of the text here is to serve as padding, and not to explore/develop them further.


Renders/Visuals
Self-explanatory

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I believe that pointless padding removed and character writing more developed would rise it to 4/5 on its own, but it's too late for that, and as it is, too many negatives weigh it down.

Considering that S2 doesn't fix the mistakes of S1, I don't expect it to get any better.

Version - S2 Ep.4 v1

Long overdue rating here, since I picked up Season 1 on Steam a while ago.
I enjoyed first episode of Season 2 quite a bit. As usual, the visuals are outstanding, the characters are pretty great, for the most part. Separate shout out to MisterMaya for relatively consistent and quick update schedule, very impressive considering the quality, and the fact we're four episodes deep already in two years.
On a more subjective note, pretty happy to see my girl Samara featured more in episode 4, she definitely steals the show. Feels like she was finally given equal screen time with other LIs, which is appreciated. Her route scenes at the airport, and at the apartment have just the right amount of flirting and angst to have me excited to see more. Good stuff, keep it up!

The game is very boring, more like a sitcom series, not to mention its poor sense of humor.
The girls are average—neither beautiful nor ugly.
The story is average, boring, and not motivating to continue.
Even the sexual scenes are very few, you can count them on one hand. I mean, some games make up for a boring story with the beauty of the girls in them—this one doesn’t.
Not to mention the long dialogue style that goes into the smallest details, which can keep you busy for two hours and you’re still just at the university gate.
I won’t rate it one star because that would be unfair, but it also doesn’t deserve 5 or 4 stars.
It’s a mediocre game, and 3 stars are enough for it.

I don't quite understand why people glaze this game so much. The renders are nice enough, the characters are unique ( if not a bit cliche ), and the premise is interesting...but it's just so boring. I feel like I've already played this a dozen times.

And, to be blunt, it's corny as hell. A prestigious law school would not have a stoner or a bunch of mean-girl rejects, and the latter was pretty much what took me out of it entirely. They 'blackmail' the MC with some flimsy bullshit and, despite him being some big-shot future lawyer he just...goes along with it?

Sorry, gonna have to pass. I can only suspend my disbelief so much.

Wow, I am 30 minutes in the game and decided to come here

Positives-

- Impressive Renders
-Good animations (If compared to games like BAD)

-The first character, the BFF of MC, Rose, isn't really good looking but the dialogues fit with the appearances and personality(even for a BFF)
I didn't like her model but The dialogues making me care for her, Wow.


Don't know anything Bad about this game yet
Except for 3 things -

Negatives-
- The same music with the spamming tone is not so refreshing, had to reduce volume to 30% (My usual is 70%)

-The twins characters are 100.0000% copy pastes, I mean, cmon

- No incest for such a hottie mom (Not biological)

I've had the pleasure of the game. Great renders, girls, story, and I wish the story continued for many more seasons. Bought it on Steam and can recommend Law School to anyone looking for an excellent, slow-paced tale set in a college setting.

Superb game. Good cast of characters, story is light-hearted with a good sense of comedy, but still with a good share of emotional scenes that are well placed as to not feel out of place.

Now if we could just get Vicky as a romance option I'll raise this review to 6 stars

Excellent game.
Captivating story, lovely characters, good animations. Makes you think carefully each choice you make. Each "love interest" of the main character is equally appealing.

Would also love to see other students get tangled into relationships.

Very nice law mini-games. Looks like the creator really put in the work.

One of the best I have played so far.
It's actually good.
People have layers, the story has depth, behaviour is quite rational, renders look very good, multiple choices and just an overall fun experience.
10/10 recommend.

Thanks dev (and team)

TL;DR: oh hell nahhh
But seriously, i don't understand how this is rated 4.6 avg. The plot? Might as well be about a bunch of girls only, MC has no agenda besides becoming the best lawyer, which he can't stop telling everyone about. Aside from the fact that i'm not into law practice, at all, there's little of anything else. Classes, lame party, bar, MC goes around doing a bunch of BS for women. But MC himself isn't the biggest issue, he's actually alr when he's not being a fucking simp.
Long winded dialogues, detailed explanation of internals of law, haven't noticed any romance whatsoever despite the tag suggesting otherwise. I wouldn't have rated it so low if relationships with girls were consistently gradual (with some exceptions), but this isn't the case. Take Miranda as an example, one of the few i actually kind of liked, but the rel progression goes from being recently acquainted straight to her getting off of MC in a shower (after their, de facto, first time together one-on-one in a gym). Others aren't any better, they're all over MC for no reason but him being a white knight, a nice guy and handsome. The latter i don't really get, he just looks slightly better than avg, but i'm straight as an arrow male, so beats me.

The only redeeming quality is the graphics, which are nice, but even this is spoiled by terrible work with perspective. There are occasional renders from different angles, but in majority of scenes it's just two talking heads. Static, boring, basic, and imo bad. Sexual content is, well, it's there, but from what i saw it's okay. Not terrible, not great, just okay.
I regret spending half a day trying to read it, and after some point i started skipping. Should've stopped after that tbh, but i tried to find something worthwhile, but failed. Perfect for law nerds, i suppose, wouldn't recommend it for anyone else. A lot of content, not a lot of anything interesting in it. A lot of dialogues, but most of it is about the law, way too much so. A lot of women, not a lot of sense in relationships progression. This isn't the only AVN about law i tried, but the other one i liked a whole lot more, to the point of it becoming one of my top rated AVNs overall.

Edit: i just remembered why i decided to try this AVN. I've played The Entrepreneur, the previous AVN from this dev, which was quite decent. I can't recall all the details but i at least remember that it was good enough for me not to hold skip button, and finish it. Oh well.

The graphical part of this game (the design of the characters, animations etc) is top notch. English is also good. So, why I give it just three stars?
Well, the writing is increadibly bland and boring. Lots of unnessesary text and conversations. In terms of lewd scenes it is also very vanilla.
Just another stereotype college game.

After Season 1:
This game is amazing, easily in my TOP 5. I understand some critisism about the authenticity of the setting, but I am European (Czech) and I don't really care about that.
The renders are grat, lewd scenes are also good and I really like the story.
And the girls? TBH I can't pick my favorite one. I freaking love Rose, Aurora, Elsa, Olive, Miri, Samara and Taylor. Even Sana grew on me. The dudes are well written too.
I simply love games that make me feel something and the emotions are definitelly there. I hope this game continues to deliver.

Man so tierd of devs making dream scenes that cant be skipped....game starts with one where you fuck a bimbo and to make it worse MC makes the tits even bigger then they started with due to it being a dream.....and 1 i couldent care less about dream scenes in a story, 2 i hate bimbo characters, 3 i hate MCs with a big tit fetish since its such a pain in the ass when you dont have it as the player.....extremly shitty start, if i just want to watch pointless animations with 0 story context, i would just go to a porn site....and yes theres multiple idiotic dream scenes.

Story starts with you going to law school and your supposed to live with your hot best friend, but dev fucked that up as well so you wont do that and instend you get a boring ass ugly bimbo room mate....great start right, so all the fun stuff that could have gone on between them is already be dropped and not talkng about sex, there could have been alot of normal fun between them and the worst part is the hottest girl aka MCs best friend feels more like a sidegirl then anything else, where to me she should be one of the main girls.

Next theres the fake choices which another thing i hate, why give you 2 choices if outcome is 100% the same, also the idiotic "maybe i should ask someone to hang out with" and you get 3 options for 3 people you couldent care less about....why no option to just say no if you arent on their route whats the point.

MC is also very very submissive, he allows girls to do whatever to him without ever saying anything....its boring as fuck playing a simp and he wants to be a lawyer lol there would be 0 chance of that with hes lack of backbone.
MC also flirts with everyone without any kind of player controle and you cant turn down dates and such, it gets annoying in the long run doing shit with people you couldent care less about.

MC is even nice to those he shouldent even like and those that pretty much hate him still wants to jump on hes dick...porn logic and not the good kind, they actually do jump on him and kiss him for 0 reasons, dosent matter how little interrest you have shown them, which really shows how little the choices means, its pretty much only yes/no to relationships nothing else.
And gotta it feels more like work when you arent a fuckfest type player, you constantly have to turn down girls left and right no matter how many freaking times you show 0 interrest or dont help them or dont compliment them and sometimes its hard due to the simp MC so both choices is shit like "i like you" or "i like what i see" when shes half nude...i mean which one is the no i want nothing to do with you choice......

In any case, i went purely for a faithfull run with MCs childhood friend and sinces shes pretty much just a side-girl, hmm not even sure you can call her that since theres 0 content with her besides a kiss, so close to 2 years in development without adult content is a bit to much of a slowburn, im sure theres plenty with the bimbos and whoever else, but its clearly made only for players that like mindless fuckfest games and not those into story and one girl run, so take that into consideration since it might be something you love but its not for all.

Kinda feel like its written by a 12 year old horney school girl, due to how MC acts and thinks and even how all the girls thought process is cringy and lusting for MC no matter how poorly you treat them..it just feels idiotic to me.

Cant rate animations since i dident really see any outside the random car driving and such, i know there was some dream shit and lesbian scene but i fast forward those since i dont care about them in any way.

Girls look nice and theres a bit of diversity in builds but still favors the big tit fetish, but there are a few for those that like the smaller sizes but not all have content as explained earliere.

Music is pretty good

Choices is pretty much a joke, granted you can turn down the girls but game dosent really accept it since you can pick the worst choice every single time wth a girl and she will still trow her self on MC wanting to be with him, like i said ealiere its more like work constantly trying to turn them down.

Renders are good quality.

I can really only give this 2 stars since there was very little i liked about this, story was to bland with no main plot outside going to school to become a lawyer and its not choice driven theres extremly few choices that effect anything outside of yes/no to relationships and i lost count on how many times i would have loved to just say no or fuck off, but you cant skip a girls story, MC is pretty much just a yes man that you follow along with as the player since theres 0 player input on what he does to effect anything.

And as for adult content its pretty poor as well, i belive there is a total of 18 scenes and it can be as little as just a BJ, its pretty poor considering the numbers of LIs, not to forget some has 0 scenes.