Unity - Magic Academy [v0.4.0.5] [WildPear Games]

I am torn between 2 and 4 stars, so have settled on 3. If this game was marked as 'complete' I would rate it as 2 stars, but I think it could grow into a 4 star rating.

My main criticism with the game as it is that it's either too much game and not enough porn, and too much porn and not enough game. I think that the game needs to head more strongly in one direction or another, because I have seen few examples of games managing to achieve both.

The sex scenes aren't repetitive, as they are with many visual novels that include a game loop, but they are incredibly scarce and while the artwork is fantastic, I personally felt that the sex scenes were unimaginative and minimally interactive.

On the game side:
- Matching puzzles are only fun and interesting a couple of times. I am not all the way finished with the current version, but some of the first ways to spend materials should be into the mining and forestry areas so that they produce income on a daily basis to make playing the game repeatedly unnecessary. (This could also be tied in with other characters as the game progresses to improve efficiency or whatnot, but you can't wait hours into gameplay to allow players to bypass repetitive content. I am not all the way finished with the current version so it's possible that at some point you can send students to do this, but it really can't wait for that if so.)

- The other worlds CCG stuff is cool, but needs a lot more development and testing to maximize fun if you go with the game route. If you go with the porn route, I don't know, I have rarely seen combat be integrated into a sex game and have the game survive as a sex game. This is true in this, as well, a sex scene at the end of spending an hour playing cards is fine if you want to make a game that has sex in it, but it's not a sex game anymore.

Anyhow, really cool concepts and I hope this develops in one direction or another into its full potential. For what little it is worth: my personal recommendation is to remove all the porn, and scale it back to PG13 sexy, and then focus on story/gameplay and I think that it works as a slightly lewd Harry Potter parody game. I think that's the easier sacrifice to make given that the gameorn ratio currently significantly favors the game side.

This review is for the 0.3.5 release.
I wanted to give it 3.5 stars but because there is no in-between I gave it a 4 for the potential I see in it.

From a porn perspective, I would give it a 2.5 maybe. It has amazing art but the content is limited.
The story idea is nice but I found the dialogue boring after a while and found myself skipping most of it.
It is linear in the sense there are quests for you to do, you do them and you progress. There are some choices when you speak people and it says they will remember what you chose but it's unclear what effect if any that has.
What I liked about this game though is one of the mini-games.
It has 3 at the moment of writing. A connect stuff to make it disappear. A sort of very basic candy crush without powerups and a dungeon battler with spells. The dungeon battler I found to be fun, the spells are pretty varied and so are the enemies. It gets easy very fast at the moment but I imagine it will get more balanced over time. If that was a full game made on steam I would play it.

So: for who wants some hot Harry Potter themed content this isn't really it, at least not for now. But who wants to play some mini-games and see some nice images/animations from time to time, give it a go and see if it fits you.

P.S.
How the game starts, I was hoping for a sort of Headmaster starts corrupting students and it has nothing to do with that as at the time of writing you can't even open the school yet.

what can i say, wonderful art, alright writing *didnt hook me though*, and varied characters, and an interesting world.

however, as much as i began enjoying the mini games and such, i got to a point where i had to collect nearly 100 fairy dust or whatever its called, and that portion is insanely grindy. the thing that sucks the most, is theres alot of effort that goes into the grind, and i cant even revisit scenes through gameplay.

has great potential, but with a lack of repeatable scenes, and abit too much on the tedious tasks being abit grindy. ill await for further updates to hopefully rectify this

I think it's well made and has a lot of potential. The plot is interesting for a h-game and the path system could turn out great. The drawings are high quality as well, very pleasing to look at. More audrey please!

Hell yeah, can't believe it took me this long to give a review but here we go.
Game is very pretty with the ladies having a nice variety in body shape
Dialogue is pretty solid and nothing breaks the harry potter world setting to my eye
The portal/dungeon crawling bit is great, looking forward to some harder content though, I especially like getting to rail the bosses of each area, thats pretty nice
Also the dev is here and actually helped with a bug so that itself would earn another star from me, really looking forward to more

This is just a VN with extra steps! If they wanted to they could have made an actual game about building and managing a magical academy, but this is just read some text, do a small insignificant minigame, click here and there. I gave it 30 minutes, then I was done with it.

The extra star is because the art is somewhat nice at least!

It is a game I do see the potential of being one of my favorites if they keep up with the momentum. I love the art-style and this "softcore" parody we have with Harry Potter.

I do think it needs more scenes already. I don't know why or what makes them go for this explore dungeon storyline already since we haven't even developed much with our current set of character

Whenever there's an update that would corrupt the previous save and makes me have to start the game from the start again pisses me off. At this point, I would just observe what's going on and decide not to play the game any more since my save would be useless with the next update anyway.

This game has great prospects for the future, it has wonderful CG scenes and a steady pacing. The concept behind the game is also a great bonus as it does not intend to follow the crowd but instead strike out a new path. I'm looking forward to the future of the game.

If you set aside the ghost with big booba and look past the art... This is a Harry Potter fanfiction without any of the stock HP characters, made into a linear VN with unskippable match3 minigames. Ugh.

Credit where credit is due, unlike some other HP "parody" game that must not be named, this one doesn't torture your balls with a firehose of bad writing. It doesn't mean writing is necessarily good, but its volume is definitely contained. The premise is fairly straightforward, even if the justification for it is definitely in the realm of dumb porn logic. Your character needs to create a teaching institution from the grounds up, and there's apparently no better place for it in the entire Britain than a small podunk town with a rundown mansion inhabited by big booba amnesiac ghost. Granted, she presents two big reasons to stick around... but still the grand plot is not standing up to scrutiny.

Then again, who cares, it's a russian-made HP pornfic. You can expect cute art and some animations, and some contrived shenanigans. Extremely contrived to the point of cringiness. In a sense, this game sets (low) expectations from the start. It's a story set in HP universe, but without any of the canon characters present. To me, that's an utterly baffling decision because canon characters are the entire point of a "parody" game or a fanfic. Not the trash tier lore.

The gameplay is also not stellar. This is one of those pesky VNs with bells and whistles attached. The sandbox tag is a lie, you have to go through all the major points of the plot, meandering from one girl's storyline to another's. The worst part: you need to grind some resources for your "quests", and you do that by playing two flavours of match3 mini-game. This part feels exactly like a steaming pile of trash mobile game, only without the gacha components. Small mercies, I suppose.

Overall, maybe not a waste of your time, but not really good either. Average, as averages go.

Really good game,
incredible art, enjoyable gameplay and great caracters !
perfectly match the type of gameplay I'm looking for a renpy game.
Hope the following updates will still be good looking and playing.
Only negative point would be the animations witch are a bit poor in frames but it still beter than none.

can't say many good things here. The story is rather boring, and really just boils down to a bunch of fetch quests. Not to mention the MC being yet another arrogant ass that thinks too highly of himself, hopefully he grows out of that. The "combat" they added in is insanely imbalanced, clunky, and is more like an inventory management simulator with a weak ass bitch adventurer who can die to even the lowest level monster. Your attacks are EXTREMELY limited and based on items you bring in your microscopic inventory. The lewd content is poor, basically just being 2 drawn positions alternating back and forth. the art is very rough and varies in quality from scene to scene. I gave this another try after some updates and was still disappointed.

The art is very lovely and the mature women have the right curves. They mostly look really sexy that im really digging it.

This game is.. something different. The material grinding is not too grindy, so you will be able to unlock stuff fast enough, that you wont get bored or annoyed (yet).
The quest walkthrough line felt a bit clunky. I had to click waaay too much for looking everything up IMO.

Some girls look really fine, while others look.. okaish to... "i dont care for your plot, im just finishing your quests for complete sake"

For now im giving it 5* to boost the game a bit, because im expecting a good development from the dev, so im quite positiv that this will become much better later on.

Good luck and much fun with this game dear Dev-nim!

TL/DR: Man a magical-manlett in yet another Harry Potter rip off by a set of Russian developers. Click through a series of fetch quests, while doing some simple keystroke and match 3 mini-games to gather resources. Art is amazing- and hands down the best part. Nothing else about the title had much appeal.

+ UI and art is very clean
+ Background and sprite art is exceptional.
+ The art in the story rebuilds the school as you do it in game.
+ Nicely designed game. Very polished.
+ Really pretty art.
+ Girls are hot

~ Mini game's aren't very interesting, but aren't horrible either. And they are quick.
~ Author is not a native speaker, but for a non native speaker the English is above par.
~ Story is a bit blah, blah, blah. But it works for the loop.

- MC looks like a bratty 14 year old.
- Very limited sexual content.
- Novel is kinetic with no meaningful choices.
- No narrative game-play elements.
- Too much clicking to ping pong around to talk to various characters in short conversations. With no real choices in the game- there is no reason the game cannot just do this for the player...
- Very limited non-voyeuristic sexual content.
- Very short scene content.
- Scene not very hot b/c protagonist is tiny.

Great start up, great idea, great demo. Im really pleased to see more games like this come out, i wish good luck to the dev. From the demo and the short story introduction i already see. What sets the game appart is the fresh prespective and twist of the already created Harry Potter games, but it looks unique like something really new and refreshing.

The art needs no comment 10/10 artist. Great job
I will anticipate what comes next.

Very nice for an initial release. The art looks good, and it's a fair attempt at a story with even a bit of intrigue. The English writing needs some work. There's leftovers of cyrillic script, and also some inconsistencies how things are named. Other than that I like the tongue in cheek writing style of pointing out some of the strange parts about the Wizarding World (this is set in the Harry Potter universe, but only loosely.)

not a lot so far, but the minigame is actually fun. it reminds me of the golden age where mobile games were actually kinda good. its also not super grindy which is really nice
art is REALLY good too. gonna keep my fingers crossed for sure

The art is nice and it presents well. I played through meeting the engineer and so far it's just a click through VN disguised as a sandbox. The writer seems to just want to explain so they can move to the next scene and if they don't care about the writing then I have a hard time buying in.