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

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.

The writing is one of the best ive seen. It is friggin interesting as hell, funny to boot and damn characters are practically alive. I love it! The engine is old, but scenes are nevertheless hot as fuck. Give this game a shot - its totally worth it.

Note: I am being somewhat generous because this is an amateur game like most games on the site. If you compare this with a professional game, it's good but not the best.

One of the best games I've seen on this site! Well-written plot that is both engaging and also sometimes humorous. There are a lot of great pop culture references. Also, I personally like the monologues, but if you don't like things like that, I suggest not playing the game. There is a lot of good character development in this game, which is something I find a lot of games here lack. (There are however a number of stock characters types, but he pulls it off well.) Although I do think the story with his mother could do with a lot more sex scenes and a lot less general story, I'll give Irphaeus the benefit of the doubt in that regard because I may end up liking it when I play the finished product. The art is pretty good and the animated sex scenes are simply amazing and well-implemented. The animations are so engaging and organic. Irphaeus also seems to have a knack for adding the right music at the right times and ensuring that that music doesn't go over its thematic time. The interface is easy to interact with, though the karma system has only recently been implemented. I would definitely say this is more of a visual novel simply because of that. Although the dev takes a long time to update, the updates are often long and well thought out. A lot of devs here seem to let their random fleeting whims and their loudest fans dictate how the plot of the game goes, resulting in a very sporadic, unedited mess when you see the game in its entirety instead of just the updates. However, I feel like Irphaeus really takes the time to plan out exactly how the game will go way ahead of time and then rely on polls and other such feedback to adjust accordingly; he also seems to always hold continuity in mind.

[v0.8.0b]

I know it's marked as a VN, but why the illusion of choice?
Spent a while with the "game" and realized most of my choices of don't matter- they end up being obviously wrong, lead to a game over or end up at some other "choice" that was shown.

The plot is also convoluted and going by itself, making the whole "interactive" element feel even less valuable.

Would be 5/5 if not for yearly updates. Pretty good amount of content with lots of different good girls to choose from. Pretty linear path but quite a few options to go through. Wish the updates were quicker but what can you do.

Excellent game. Good job dev! Hope there will be more gangbang scene/routes in the upcoming updates. I love the story so far.. it feels like watching anime and while going on an adventure. Hope the updates will be coming soon.. i cant wait really anymore. Like really cant.

The renders and character designs are decent, nothing to rave about, but the animations are possibly the best on this site. It's not just the typical thrusting and bouncing either, it's full blown motion, there is an entire dance routine animation scene that impressed my socks off.

The game is also funny as fuck, plenty of pop culture references , probably the funniest game I've played so far. The only criticism I have is that there are times where you have to click to do an action that is completely unnecessary, stuff like that can be streamlined to a single movement.

There are strengths and weaknesses in this game, that unfortunately finish with this game being average on this site.

Pros:
Graphics/Characters - Nicely modded Honeyselect, looks better than a majority of others.
Character Design -Characters look unique and most of them fit a stereotypical character type, which in a School games is pretty good.
Content - Has an ok amount of content. Some nice sex scenes (But a lack of mother scenes, which should've had priority imho)


Cons:
Updates - The most major one is that the dev is fleecing its fans lying about why he delays the updates, and milking this game for all he can. For the last year, there has been 1-2 mediocre updates, updates that were supposed to take 2-3 months, but took 8 months instead.
Story - It started off strong, but at some point it just becomes an inconsistent mess. From what seemed to be an interesting conspiracy sort of story, became a "fantasy" story instead (Supernatural stuff going on, supernatural powers, etc). The last bit of story progression (which suspiciously seems to be linked to the updates being delayed) has gone down hill in both quality and direction.


Without the cons it would be a 8/10 game, but the cons take at least 3 points away from this game, maybe even 4, so for me it's a 4/10 or 5/10 (So it does inch out an "average" for me). Don't be too hopeful of the future updates tho, you will be disappointed.

Pros: Girls looks
Length of the game till now

Cons: You don't really have one LI it is just a bunch of sluts gathered in a school
Have more or atlest the same amount of scenes with the sluts(girls/LI?) fucking/blowing others than mc fucking/getting blowed.
To much monologues.
Story gets boring
Some renders are really weak and weird for example mc dick detached from his body and floating, the girls cumming its a contínuos spray.

Could be a good game with a nice story but the too much monologues a writing that gets boring , to much attempt fails of making jokes, you cant really connect with some suppose li or girl don't even know how to call them, dont really have good build up of them and they are basically sluts, atlest half of them is show blowing or fucking another guy or doing some really sluty choices, till update 0.8 I think only tomoko is really the one that escape the rule and can be a li but interaction with her isn't very developed yet and probably following the rule they will think in something to make her not worthy anymore.

So if you come here looking for a nice history, well developed with interesting LI you will not find it in this game so I can't recommend it.

[As of v0.8.0b]


The Good:
- Amazing Girls Waifus
- Amazing Animations
- Amazing Lewd Scenes, some of them are def. worth revisiting.
- Refreshing Art Style
- Great Storyline with potential numerous endings.
- Hilarious dialogues (dev's a memer)
- Cool sound effects (pls add more moans and some "watery" sound to match the lewd scenes)

The Bad:
- Not a fan of how MC looks and so Beta during a fight.
- Since there are so many Girls Waifus, some of the Girls Waifus, did not get much love later in the story. (Should add booty call function at school's WC, else what is the purpose of having a phone!?).
- No clear indication of current Karma points.
- Some typos.
- Slow ass updates.


Conclusion:
idk if I shud put this game top 3 or top 5 in the market.. FK!!

Excellent animation, excellent character design, great sex scenes, tons of content, not really much more I could ask for. I've been playing for several hours per day and still haven't finished it after about nearly a week of playing.

EDIT : I originally gave the game a 5 star, which I still think it deserves. But my experience since the 9.0 update was terrible, the biggest issue being the save incompatibility and having to use somebody elses save with different name and choices.

You can't do this with such a big and long release, I'm not replaying two weeks worth of content just because you made one small update and btw the updates being small and few between is another reason why I'm docking a star.

Until those issues get fixed, I'm not playing the game and I'm rescinding my five star review.

Edit 2 : I've basically given up on this game, the issues have gotten worse and the dev is focusing on non-issues rather than giving us more content, the updates are still slow, the characters didn't need redesigns and he split the update into TWO parts despite already having the assets since he mentions in the changelog what's coming in Part 2.

Reduced my rating to a 3 star, if this game still sucks so much by Summer 2023, I'm changing my rating to a 1 star.

Edit 3 : Matter of fact, I saw what he did to one of the best girls in the game Elizabeth, that's worthy of removing another star. I stick by changing it to a one star review in Summer 2023 if this shit doesn't improve.

I sincerely laughed at several moments (because memes and 4ch), the HS provides great picture quality and smotth animations. Unfortunatly waiting to continue and the author seems to be famous for delays
Also waiting for KARMA system this should provide more replayability

This game has great models, and the humor is top notch. I've laughed more than once while playing this. He also has a lot of great references, just in general the writing is tongue-in-cheek but also quite funny. It's not complete yet but it's certainly worth your time.

Great game! Characters design one of the best. They not just look good and different, their character matches their appearance. We obviously have stereotypical twintails tsundere Asuka, but most of other are pretty unique in my opinion, especially Takamura (also, why she is not on game poster, she has more screentime than most of girls on it?).
A lot of memes and anime references, so man of culture should be glad as well.
First hentai scenes wasn't pretty good 3/5, but over the past two years of developments author became much better, and last scene (Takamura in hot spring) was awesome 5/5.

Finally some good game!!! The animations are really smooth i like the breast physics they bounce very realisticly.The story is good and the characters damn they are soo good.We need more from this type of games its really worth a download.Everybody need to try it.

interesting story and good character make. The story is even more attractive than the sexual content. Also it combines many real world related jokes. However I wonder if the author can make the sotry full. It looks like the story get more and more complicated and some traces may be lost, for the main story line of some chatacters doesn't show up for a long time

Hilarious story elements intertwined with enough H-Scenes that make it worth it. Dynamics between characters, while exaggerated, work well within the story. Also the characters, renders, and animations are top quality.

Art is mediocre among a sea of overused styles

Characters are generic and annoying

Main Chara is trash and a coward and spends half the time monologuing to himself like the smooth brain he is

The attempt at forcing comedy with memes is cringe worthy and falls flat

The story feels like it was written by a 12 year old that just discovered boobs for the first time. The premise and dialogue are immature

Sex comes too easy and has no impact

The game gives you a sense of 'choice' but it is really an illusion, you are railroaded through one garbage plot line whether you like it or not. The initial scene with the loud music being blasted by your sis is a good example, no matter what choices you make it ends with you getting trapped by the sis, it's stupid.

A mediocre game even among a sea of mediocre games. Idk how this is so highly rated

Review as of version 0.8

Waifu Academy is harem game revolved around revenge. What's great is that there are a wide variety of girls to fit most people's needs. What I love most about this game is that the protagonist isn't always successful. He's not some bad ass that is absolutely perfect at everything. In the story, the protagonist will succeed and will have to achieve his goals even if going through some set backs. It puts a nice bit of tension into the game. For the most part, the choices in this game are either not super impactful or are there as obstacles to avoiding game overs. Most of the time, you're given enough clues/context to make an educated guess on avoiding game overs.

Overall, an extremely interesting story and loads of great sexual content. My biggest gripe is that the "H" function to hide the text box stops working after awhile.

Great models. Excellent and gripping story. I really hope they play on the karma routes more but it's still in development.

Honestly, this game is a blast in terms of humor. Every 4 seconds you can expect a meme of sorts or a witty reference.