VN - Ren'Py - Waifu Academy [v0.11.0] [Irphaeus]

(Sorry for the long essay, but I felt I needed to justify my low score as a counterpoint to all the other glowing reviews.)

A game with astonishing presentation, varied and unique characters, and truly top-tier dialogue (for this site) that is let down by a deeply infuriating script, unsatisfying sex scenes, and intentionally frustrating gameplay.

I mainly stuck with the game because the premise is so uniquely engaging. Unlike most corruption/domination games, where you just decide to ruin a bunch of girls' lives for the inexcusable crime of being attractive and/or being related to you, you actually have a solid justification for your actions (in a fictional porn universe, of course) and to top it off, 95% of the girls in the game are massive cunts so no empathy required. The first hour or so of the game is honestly amazing, with all of these set ups, introducing dozens of clearly defined characters, and non-stop, genuinely funny and entertaining interactions and scenarios.


Then it all starts to fall apart.

The first thing you'll notice is that there is absolutely no variable tracking in the game. I have no problem with meaningless choices in VNs- in fact, the more the merrier! I play a VN to interact with the characters, and that means I like small, pointless dialogue interactions or variations. But the issue with this game is that it has lots and lots of seemingly MASSIVELY IMPORTANT choices. This isn't as simple as "snarky dialogue" or "polite dialogue", this is full on, "RAPE A GIRL'S VIRGINITY AND SANITY AWAY" or "do not do that" and the game will just pretend you raped her whether you did or not.

Every single choice in the game is like that. You can even choose to avoid entire subplots, and later on the game will just pick up in the middle of that subplot, even though you never started it in the first place, leaving you bewildered.

On top of that, the dev seems to be intentionally trolling with it. Many choices will give you "+50 KARMA", when there is no karma system or "+30 MONEY", when there is no currency system. Half of the choices in the game lead to a GAME OVER or a "This will be added in the next update!" (and then 3 years pass.) Constant references are made to repeatable events that "you have unlocked for free-roam on weekends!" but there's nooo fuccckiinngg freee roooaaamm


Next, the plot. You basically spend hours and hours getting humiliated, dominated, raped, assaulted, STABBED, FRAMED, BEAT INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS, BLACKMAILED, etc. by every single character in the game. MC then spends a few hours saying "ho ho hooo but when i get my revenge it will be sooooo sweeeeeet ohhohohoho" and building up hype for when you turn the tables on these girls, and every single time, it is soul-crushingly unsatisfying.

Some obvious whore baits you into the bathroom and then and the next time you see her MC just decides he's horny for her so water under the bridge (even if you choose not to forgive her, that choice doesnt get saved, obviously)

Spend a dozen hours getting tased, humilated, raped, degraded and abused by some tiny blonde giga-cunt for the entire goddamn game? You finally, FINALLY, get the upper hand... and MC
WHAT THE FUCK??

The sex scenes themselves are just completely basic Honey select animations that you could get in hundreds of other games on this site. Again, with a premise like this, and all that humiliation, you would expect some SOLID domination content, but it's just all totally basic vanilla, two-way reciprocal sex. What's the point?

So TL;DR:

we have a genuinely fantastic presentation, with great music, sound effects, and hilarious and engaging moment-to-moment dialogue, and an interesting over-arching mystery (even if it's ridiculously easy to solve and you just have to wait for MC to figure it out himself one day). Three stars for that.

But behind it, we have unsatisfying sex, infuriating character dynamics and plot, and insultingly deceptive gameplay. It's a shame because there's clearly a lot of skill here, but the decision making process behind this game is just flawed, and it needs a total overhaul of what it wants to be about. Or the dev just needs to start fresh with a concept more suited to their talents.

Just finished all Content of v0.9.0a and writing my Review.

Overall, I REALLY liked this game. The humor is good, and it is unexpected, like, I really had to laugh out loud when the MC just sit in the air after Yoko pulled his chair.

In general, the Sex scenes are really good and the girls are gorgeous! They are also likeable Characters (for the most part) with their own personality.

My favorites would be Kayane and especially Takamura. Kayane is the definition of "Looks can be deceiving", she looks like a total slut who might be a pain in the ass, in the end, she seems to be one of the most reasonable Persons you meet.
But I really love Takamura, her personality, being the cute girl who does not think/know that she is cute while being "best friend"-material in a relationship is really great.

I might choose her instead of a Harem, not gonna lie.

The story itself is interesting and while not being one of the best I have ever read here, still more than capable to turn this game away from a pure sex simulation while still keeping it interesting.

But, there are also some things I dislike:

Mainly the lack of choice in some parts. Sometimes the MC decides things on his own, which I would have liked to decide. Then, there are times where you get a few options and all of them are a Game Over except for one option. The thing is, why bother adding options anyway? Sure, if someone wants to see everything, they will most likely check each option anyway to make sure they dont miss a scene, however, giving a choice of 3 possible solutions and only making one solution the one you can take to progress the game does not feel right.

Then, my biggest point:
There is one Choice where you have to choose between Kayane, Rikuna and Motoko. I decided beforehand (for Kayane) and watched all 3 of them, I dont like that you can miss scenes because of this. Mainly not the scene in question (as I said, players can save and watch all of them before deciding), but I really hope that you do not get blocked out of paths in the future (e.g. choosing Kayane and missing out on a Rikuna-Path).
The Rikuna-scene (the Spoiler) was very hot tho! Looking forward to the Karma-System!

But, completely opposite to it and probably the moment which really grinds my gears - the Yoko-Situation in the Pool. The MC is a smart and proactive person, planning 3 steps ahead and laying out plans (doing his "Homework"; even tho this got less the more the game proceeds). And you even get the Choice to not fall for Yokos Trick by not trusting her and STILL you end up being tricked by her. Like, it is really unlikely that he will fall for it and even if you decide, he is still falling for it.
Why even bother with a choice at this point, when both lead to the same outcome? This was really frustrating and I really hope that Yoko gets what she deserves in a future Update.

Last but not least, the content during the Takamura-Shooting felt rushed. I would have preferred to have this separated, the part with the added knowledge about the white-haired woman (Shiroshime I think) and the other part about Kenichi attacking the MC, being defended by Takamura and the part with the Blood Ring. It just felt so much at once that it felt like "Oh shit, we need to add some Content to the Main Story!". Like, the content was not bad (even tho, I hate seeing the MC getting beaten by Kenichi, however, Takamuras treatment made up for that one ), but it felt a little bit rushed.

Overall, those points did not stop me from giving 5 stars. I was considering removing 1 star because of the Yoko-Incident (really, this was something that really pissed me off), however, I have faith in the Dev that she will get what she deserves and overall, very enjoyable hours with this game!

One of the best sex games i've played from the site!
i highly recommend if you're into some kinky stuff and your not the hardcore bdsm guy, and, if u dont mind groping a girl at the train lmao. The only downside is: there aren't exactly a lot of sex scenes yet, not with most of the girls etc.

One of the most ambitious projects on this site that I have come over. The amount of content in this game is crazy, large enough that I honestly doubt they will be able to tie it all together. But based on what is available right now, it's one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had here. Truly a masterpiece that I dearly hope that the devs will find in their heart to finish.

This started out as a good game but it's getting worse update by update.
Pictures/scenes 4/5.
Music 3/5 (the music is annoying at times)
Characters? Plot? That's the problem. The characters are dummy and empty inside. The jokes are very silly, the karma system is still not implemented, even after all these years. The secret ending is also a crap joke, the branch when not implemented, also ends with a crap joke.
In the end this game is a joke and you shouldn't waste your time with it

Good game, good story, beautiful girls, mc is an alpha chad. The twist at the late story is exciting. It's linear so there's no branch story but that's good enough since every girl included in the story

This started out as a good game, writing is good, there is a plot, graphics are nice enough. But lately the quality really plummet. Given the ever growing wait time between episodes one would expect that there was more care put into it, but it's hardly the case, the music is all over the place and there is NO SINGLE DIALOGUE line from the MC which doesn't end with an attempted pun. Really, maybe my memory is fuzzy, but at the beginning the writing wasn't bad at all, in the last update the MC dialogue seems like a self parody, extremely annoying. I'm afraid it's time to move on.

This game used to be decent and had a plan, but it seems it's off the rails at this point and only being 'updated' in order to receive more donations elsewhere.

It's basically a scam at this point and I don't see this game being finished. One half of an update in a full year is where it's at now.

The humor is well-done. A protagonist that is worth rooting for, even when he's doing unsavory things. There's a good mystery and all of the girls are individual and attractive. I thoroughly enjoy it and look forward to every update.

waiting for more!!
story: 9/10
chart: 10/9
gameplay: 8/10
characters: 10/10
plot: 9/10
I really enjoyed playing, I spent long hours saving and giving ''game over'' but I managed to get to the end, now wait for more.

10/10. Cannot recommend this game enough! Amazing writing, well designed believable characters, engrossing story (both main campaign and side stories), great sense of humour, funny easter eggs in both the writing and the sound effects, and the most rare of all... actually difficult choices that impact both story and gameplay (sorta... there are some important choices to be made but the karma system isn't online yet). Even the 'game over' screens in this VN are absolutely worth experiencing!

It's still incomplete in both story and certain mechanics (like the phone feature), but the dev is working on it and every single update is a leap in the right direction. It might not get the most consistent updates, but I’d rather be forced to wait a long time before experiencing a masterpiece than getting able to click through garbage on a weekly basis.

Edit: I dropped my rating down to 4/5 because it seems like the dev has been half-neglecting the project. Releases and new information is spotty at best, and the last release was below the high standard that the VN set itself. I really hope to see the dev get back to working on, finishing, fixing, and polishing this VN because it has very high potential.

Edit 2.0: Dropping review down to 3/5. This VN had a lot of potential, but the dev has all but abandoned it. Updates take super long to arrive, the content is minimal, previously promised features have never been implemented, and the overall quality has deteriorated. Truly a shame, and a waste of what could have been a great VN.

I tested all possible choices before doing the reviews. (game version 0.9)

So I liked this game, but it has a problem, much of the moral choices are useless, since there is no variation of consequences in the story, not to mention that the developer repeatedly kidnaps your choice, putting 3 choices for the player to make, 2 two of them make you get to the "game over" and only 1 makes you advance in history , this is very annoying and unnecessary, the animations are good, mainly the movement of the characters pleased me, the graphics are not even the best, but it is not a problem, the game does not contain bugs and the protagonist is interesting, the story is basically revenge, only changes the reason for the protagonist to use or take revenge on each character. I do not intend to enter the part of the points system by "Karma" that the game has, it was totally useless during version 0.9 all of this game not impacting anything on the story or events.

Below I will give my grades for each category, where 10 is the maximum grade:

Graphics: 8;
Animation: 9.5;
Character development: 9;
History: 8

Verdict: even though I liked the game, I was as sincere as possible in the review, I recommend the game to you, but be aware of the problems already mentioned.

note: I don't speak English fluently, so the text may have connotation errors.

Unavoidable NTR at several points. Not just unwatchable/etc, no you will see it no matter what. For whatever reason, likely the popularity of the game, there's no NTR tag, but there is a lot of it. Not much choice in progression if any at all and being a karmically good person does absolutely nothing(You're forced into a gangrape/gameover if you don't let it progress to pre-insertion as one example). Oh and you constantly get beaten unconscious with no way to prevent it or avenge it. Terrible lie of a game, heavily dissappointed as the setting had such promise

Edit: Worth noting the amount of vitriol I've received from this community from simply requesting there be an NTR tag so others can avoid what I went through.

this game is really engaging ,story is interesting, characters seem to have some motivation and it feels like it's flowing pretty naturally it's great. i can feel like this is pretty well made.

minor typos aside and the blasphemy of that one scene of Mokoto putting the chopsticks sticking out of the rice bowl (Very very big cultural problem that clashes with Mokoto's general character but it's fine not expecting to have deep cultural understanding ).

Ima rate it 10 out of the 10 faps id had playing it, captivating story with a bunch of funny lines and puns. A really well made VN both rich in characters and well made scenes, trully a masterpiece worth playing.

I need to write a little criticism, cause things that frustrate me prevent me from enjoying the game further.


All the otaku wannabe slang makes me cringe more than anything, some stuff i dont know the fucking meaning.
The Mature nurse says "Fufufu" like a highschooler? She is very mature i guess... Get your characters straight, if i want a mature woman i want a mature woman. Having big tits its not enough to make a woman mature.

This Mc that lived with his grandmother and knows exactly the cup of every girl?.

Raping someone in their sleep and not cleaning? Im not taking bruises and skin issues into account.

The rest is good, i have played it once already, and it has a better second playthrough than others.

It's a great game, with good writing and hot scenes. It's just a shame that the creator is not releasing a new update. He keeps making excuses for why he isn't releasing it but I think he's just being lazy. The Patreon money comes in every money whether or not he releases it.

i like linear games, when u dont have to repeat it over and over to get some hentai scenes and u dont miss out anything enjoying artist work to the fullest, this is one of such games but with slight control over decision and karma (good and evil) from what it looks like there can be 3 routes good bad and neutral but they arent implemented yet, animations are great, characters have their own problems and personalities, latest story with Maki Takamura really groped my feels

This one has good gameplay, a wide variety of girls and scenes with great art and animations, this game is really something and I'm looking forward for its next releases. I honestly don't think I'd change much here, perhaps just add some more kinks to it.

This visual novel is average at best in terms of story, characters and sex scenes.

It starts off great with a clear objective in the story but devolves into a huge distraction of pointless subplots that will take the majority of your time and boring side characters that exist for the sole purpose to insert a specific fetish with no development.

This also gets minus points just for the fact that it uses basic HS models along with its assorted animations its not new or appealing when its just a copy paste.

Worst of all though is the time it takes to develop, there is no exucse for a single 20 minute update every year for such a simple Visual Novel using HS models, truly a prime example of why nobody takes porn game development seriously.