Ren'Py - School of Love: Clubs! [v1.8.9] [NijuKozo]

In all honesty I really enjoyed the game

PROS
- beautiful characters renders and scenes
- nice animations
- good story for the girls

CONS
- the main story about mc's powers was too rushed imo
- too much grinding required
- the need to press places 5 times for secret images

SUGGESTION
- remove the ridiculously large areas in places that aren't needed (like the 15 or something unnecessary places like coyote's entrance or hawk entrance, etc)

Overall a game I can suggest others to play if they can bear with the grind they have to put up with it

the only problem was I felt that by telling mc's powers so fast the devs undermined the story of the teacher who was trying to figure out what was happening (tho I guess she catching up to the final story will work.....but still felt a bit meh after the power of mc was explained)

Also the people telling everyone how everyone just falls for mc, the mc genuinely feels like a good guy and his actions makes the girls fall for him....yes the other boys are a bit unrealistic but what? you guys wanted to share the girls with the other dudes or something?

To start off, this game feels like it was made to stroke the player's(or the creator's) ego. The only two other male characters are cowardly, unrealistic and pathetic dirtbags, all the girls I've seen fall for the MC within two lines of dialogue, and the MC is a generic nice guy with a huge dick who everyone loves. The animations seem good, but you might feel second hand embarrassment just from playing this.

Good Points
+ Drawing/Render quality looks decent.
+ We have animations, their physics are good and not just for sex scenes non sexsual scenes have animations aswell. For example while talking with a someone they move little bit and blink, or there is animation for them while doing their daily activities like Mia's dance etc. While its pretty little detail its still someting makes things immersive.
+ MC being absolute CHAD is big good point, espacily pervert beta school boys scaring to death whenever see him is damn amazing LOL. And aside from that he is cool guy, playing as a him quite enjoyable i say.

Bad Points
- While every character art style looks little bit odd espacily Katie is one of big let downs. She is one of main girls and she is super, uber, duper obssed with MC, if she had any dominant physical appearance it could be more tolerable but with her current look she looks pretty plain and even un-attaractive i say... With her current place in story she having plain look makes her path/scenes pretty much meh and even annoying...
- Like i told some characters can use some chance: firstly Katie definetaly need change, her body and espacily face need a lot of improve. Secondly Irina could have use same change about her main hairstyle, when she let down her hair it covers her big forehead and makes her more attaractive but her base/main hair is looks terrible, changing her hair and making like her first sex scene (masturbation) could be good change.
- Lumin's story is kind of disappointed... I mean she should have at least hide her face, her path feels like little bit to extreme for normal auidience and people dont like kind of content is gonna lose her contet... Well at least we have option to avoid her, still its kind of annoying...
- Even after 1 year of development time some characters still have zero content... Like Moon or Cindy or Rosetta, i can even understand Moon but why the hell Rosetta dont have any content at all? There is only two teacher at school and she is hottest one, that just doesn't makes any sense at all... Heck even Katie have 9 different event?! Seriously?! 9 even for plain girl like Katie and zero event for Moon, Cindy and Rosetta?! Thats just wow...
- You need grind for getting scenes with girls and grind could have been less boring if you didn't need to do same things again and again. DEV could have at least change grind scenes little bit after you progress with girls and level up your relationship, i mean seriously why im doing same things over and over again even i already level up with them? That just dont makes sense at all and like i told its boring ASF aswell. Oh BTW i do suggest you craft Talisman for making less grind, its helping quite lot but first you gotta grind things you need for crafting...
- Quick Navigation should have always open when you go somewhere instead of you need click everytime, thats just waste of time.

For The End
This is pretty much waste of potencial... When i first start the game i was thinking it could be 5 star rate game but with that all bad points DEV literaly waste his game potencial. Pretty much best thing about this game is MC's itself, he is cool, funny, powerfull and pretty enjoyable MC to play and sadly he is MC of this game... This quality level of MC deserves better game... Anyways this game is still young and maybe after 1 more year game will be in better state? I hope it will...

I will give this maximum stars. The story is interesting, they could do better in the future. Girls are damn cute and nice character development. The animation is too good that I rarely meet in any other games.
Uhm but about the MC, sometime I dont know why he can make the progress that fast, like, you meet a girl, save her from her evil friend, then she immediatelly crazy about you? How that fast? Or about Mia, I don't know why she crazy about MC that much, hmm maybe because this is a lewd game I think, but I must say Mia is damn cute UwU
The last thing is lack of things to do. But I hope they will add more activities in the future

I had not played this before and was really looking forward to picking it up. I was not disappointed, this game has such scope, such choice and as such great consequences i have high hopes for that game.Great Game 10/10

I like the way of unlocking events and I find the game very cool !
The fact that you have to earn points of interest by helping the characters makes the game stand out, all in a style of play that I particularly like! (It's like Lessons in loves and Trouble in paradise)
I follow your game and i encourage you !

Can't wait for the next version to come out !

As of my review, this game is fairly new, and lacks content, which I won't hold against it. Although, there are several reasons as to why I have given it 4 stars instead of 5. The first problem is apparent when starting a new game. The introduction to the characters is very confusing, and it's unclear what their relationship is with the MC. Talking about the MC, his character intro is the worst by far. For whatever reason, everyone seams to idolize him, and it isn't explained why. Personally, I like MCs who are "perfect", but there is no explanation as to WHY everyone loves him so much. It felt as if I was thrown into the middle of a story rather than the beginning. My second gripe is more personal. I am a big fan of linear type games, and rather dislike free roam VNs. The problem with free roam is that it creates a fragmented story, and it is often unclear as to what you need to do next. This is especially apparent in this game, as the hints don't really help too much, and the character interactions are quite shallow. While playing this game I spent more time navigating around the school and the MC's home than actually interacting with characters. Also, there are many times while playing where you can't advance time by interacting with characters and must nap to pass the time. This is frustrating because you have to "navigate" around the MC's home to his bedroom in order to nap, and it's a chore. Also, only a set number of characters actually have in-game story development, but you can still interact with most if not all characters. As I mentioned earlier, the interactions are rather shallow, and leave me unsatisfied. If this game is going to stick to the "sandbox" type gameplay, it ought to be easier to navigate, and have more reward for character interactions. I will be patiently waiting to see how this game will develop, and hope to see more content soon. I see a lot of potential in the game, even if I am not particularly a fan of the play style.

*** This is a preliminary review/rating. I will revisit this game at a later date to update. ***

This rating is being done with the initial release, 0.1 Beta. It is very much so a beta, and it shows. To be fair, it does appear that the Dev is new to this stuff, as he is quite new to F95, but I cannot be completely sure. If he is, he's actually off to a decent start. Hopefully, he or she or they are willing to take feedback. That being said, here's the review:

Graphics/Art: This is another Honey Select style game, as you can plainly see from the preview images. Dev has made some efforts to make the models more unique, at least. The images are crisp and clean, environments are exceptionally colorful. If you've played Harem Heroes Guild, you'll recognize the scenes immediately, as they are an exact duplicate with little to no customization to the base art.

Audio: There is background music, as well has a handful of sound effects. The music does not, in any way, match the scenes. It seems like its there just to be there. It is not jarring, or offputting, it just....doesn't belong. You won't miss anything by having other music playing, as it does not add any kind of benefit to the game.

Story: The story.... Well, keep in mind, this is a first release. You're thrown into a game that is talking about "clubs", and some kind of competition in these clubs, but absolutely no information about what these clubs are. Why they exist. What is the purpose? The function? Why are they so important? Why does there only seem to be two clubs inside of an entire school?

Gameplay: You start out in standard VN style, which I think is meant to be part of an introduction or prologue, but neither of these things actually happen. There is no intro to the game. No prologue introducing you to the characters. No information whatsoever. And then randomly, after the first day, you just wake up in Sandbox mode. No guiding information, no purpose. The Sandbox itself, needs work. Navigation through both the house, and the school, is exceptionally tedious. I appreciate what the dev was going for with it, but it just isn't executed very well. In addition, early on, you're going to find yourself sleeping away half the day. There needs to be a skip time option throughout the map, not just at home/in your room.

Content: Its very early. Only 3 or 4 of the girls have even the most basic content.

Final thoughts:

1) It is obvious that the Dev is trying to skirt Patreons rules on incest with a Landlady/Roommate type scenario. If you're going to do this, you need to either step up and do provide a patch, or do a better job of explaining the living situation. Because right now, it doesn't work out.

2) If you're going to do music, make the music match the scene. Audio should add to the story, not just exist.

3) Transitions can be exceptionally jarring. The player should understand that a game transition has occurred. Right now, in several places, the game seemingly, at random, zips off to a point of view or scene in which the MC is not actually a part of. It doesn't make much sense.

4) The English is pretty good. I'm fairly certain that its not the Devs native language, which is fine. There are really only a decent handful of glaring problems with the text. Nothing that really detracts overall. I would recommend getting a native proofreader though. Also, for some reason, the MC starts calling his not-sister "kitty" instead of "Katie" about 10 minutes into the game. Its fairly random, and isn't explained, so I'm not sure if its meant to be a pet name (no pun intended), or if the Dev missed something?

Hopefully this helps. Dev, if you see this, I don't intend for you to take it negatively at all. Its purely feedback and a review of your initial release. Keep it up, and good luck to you I'll be back to update!