VN - Ren'Py - Waifu Academy [v0.12.5] [Irphaeus]

It's an ok game but the good and bad really seem to average out. Reviewed against version 0.9.4a but still waaaaaay early in the game so nowhere near far enough in to get to the newer content.

The visuals are good and varied, there's obviously effort put in. Even the MC looks "kinda" normal. I know the male characters in these games tend to get ignored so they end up looking like they've just came back from a few rounds of chemotherapy but he's looking passable.

The women are all different and are all filling a particular niche or trope which is fine. The fact so many are announced so early in the game is impressive as it would normally be easier on a dev to drip feed them in so that's a big plus.

The downside of the game is that, very early doors, the manner in which you progress through the game is trash.

There is also a small issue in that the MC is a bit of a dick and the whole plot feels like a massive question mark? All in all it's kinda weird trying to work out what his plan is. So the plot is MC goes to a school his dad used to run before being kicked out for fiddling with the pupils, or so the story goes. MC is mad and out for revenge. Which is fair enough but his outrage seems oddly directed. He wants revenge on the school (fair), his mum who abandoned him (fair) and her new husband (odd?) and your step sister (why?)

I get wanting to reclaim the school cause he believes it's his but any actor in the downfall of his dad (heh, it's a pun see cause he threw himself off a building) would be old now so why set out to manipulate all the kids at the school? they'd have been like 2 when it all happened. I'm assuming that whoever done his dad dirty will be a teacher at the school otherwise the plot really starts to have holes in it but still, it's a kinda weird mindset for the MC to be in. It's also not helped he's a bit of a plum. When he's reviewing his "case files" on the girls at the school he says his step sister "thinks she's smart but she's just a spoiled little girl" yet in the two interactions the MC and her had, she schooled him. So who's the idiot here?

It's also not helped that, early on, the game suffers from absolutely pointless choices and I don't know if that's a quirk of the dev but at a basic level it makes the game feel empty. The player will be given two or three options on what to do, but two will simply say "oh this room is empty" and there will be on for plot progression. If the two options are pointless why are there there? And it happens a lot. I think the first 5 or so "choices" the player has to make aren't choices at all. Needless padding. Maybe it's just the dev setting the groundwork for more content later on but certainly early doors it's like "here's a choice, but it's not a choice, do what I say".

Positives
Cast is varied
Models are solid

Cons
Plot is sus
Player given the impression of choices to progress, but really is heavily railroaded

The main thing i like about this game, the thing that make this game differ from all the other game is that, the MC of this game is amazing, he is smart, never thinks with his d*ck, master of comebacks, etc etc. This game has a good story, graphics, animation and writing. IMO the only negative of this game(which is a BIG one) is it takes forever for the creator to update the game.

It used to be a favorite of mine.
It had a decent story/ plot and looked like it was going to be a good harem build game. Art was ok. It fit together nicely.
Not sure why authors feel the need to go to the extremes and cater to the most fringe of individuals but not my taste.
Sorry, I'm a strait male. I'm not into MMF / sharing or NTR or stuff on that line.

Great game overall, excluding some of the recent updates which have had subpar writing and zoomed through content. Honestly used to be in my top 3 favorite games but the devs work ethic and scammy personality has dropped this game quite far down the list. Takes him about 8 months to pop out 20 mins of subpar rushed content recently.

Honestly, this update just sucks.
Keiko's scene is just stupid if you're honest. Bad writing and all. Because you basically still lie to her. About everything.

Yoko's scene is super unfulfilling because you sneak in as a pizza man, play off as being someone else for 75% of the time and it doesn't feel like revenge because she's drugged. At the end you get a little vindication but that's it.

There's missing parts of sentences even. The animation where you're mating press midair Yoko, your dick literally flies out of her every thrust, so that animation is just abominable to look at. Not to mention it's looped instead of properly animated. Signs of a rush job honestly.

Story: I give a 1/5
Animation: 1/5
Grammar: 1/5

Overall score: 1/5

Was it worth the 20 minutes I played? Not really. But it's up to you whether you think it was worth it. I can only give my unbiased opinion. The quality was there before the last 2 years. It's like he doesn't even wanna work on it now. Idk.

You be the judge. All I can say is, having backed him up to january last year, the content's just not worth backing anymore. If I felt like my money was going to what I thought it was, it wouldn't be such an issue. But the guy bought 2 3090s, and he still can't fully render an animated scene, and has to loop it? What the fuck were the 3090s even for then?

Anyway, god speed everyone. See you next christmas when 1.0's out.

Edit: I forgot I found like 3 crashes so far. So much for fixing the crashes and bugs. So much for those extra 24 hours spent.

Pretty much a 4/5 or 5/5 if its just for the game alone. But if you add in Irphaeus and all his bs, its a 1/5. This is a great example of a good developer who turned greedy. Willing to bet that this dude fucks around until 2weeks before the deadline then "tries his best" to meet it. If not, get ready for another IRL tragic. Btw are you and Icstor related?

The game is interesting for the variety of girls' character and game situations.
Here are tomboi, and modest, yandere, athletic, milfs and the like. The scenes are also pleasing - like in a classic toilet, at hot springs, in a locker and a chikan on a train.

Ok so my review as a player and former funder of the game.
The game is really good, it has great plots, conspiracies, interesting characters, many locations, great H scenes and quite a lot of comedy too. It honestly has everything you would want in a H visual novel, instead of just sex which can get really boring.


That being said, whilst the game is good, the dev behind the game is another story. This game has become a cash grabbing scheme, the developer behind the game pretty much stopped working on the updates and gives fake excuses after excuses for the ridiculously long delays for its updates and he has many people paying him to finish the game. And when you do get updates, the updates are so little in content that it was totally not worth the time and money spent behind them (30 minute worth of content for ONE YEAR and literally thousands of bucks spent behind it as well)

I used to fund this game myself but I simply cannot fund such scummy devs so I stopped my donations. (If you look at the latest pages of this game's discussion thread, you will see the drama surrounding this game)

In an ideal world, a competent developer would be developing this game and provide reasonable amount of updates without fake excuses, which will lead to the game's completion and fame. Unfortunately this game has the exact opposite of a competent developer.

If this scammy, terrible work ethic keeps up this game will be finished when all of us have grandchildren.

What is completed so far of the game is great, don't get me wrong.

That said, its a cash grab at this point. Irph and his white-knight fanboys are butthurt bitches over people getting upset that he (and his "team", if thats even a real thing) are dragging their feet while they simultaneously scam people out of their cash for both the game itself and even just the opportunity to speak to them (discord).

If you can stomach waiting until 2040 to play the finished game, this is the game for you. Just know that it may never actually happen. The dev will have scammed enough of your cash by that point that he can retire long before he ever finishes this game.

One of the better VNs I've played. The girls are cute and a little bit deeper than the typical one-dimensional offerings. The story is interesting, twisty and enjoyable. The main character is looking for more than a quick fuck. Finally, and I can't stress this enough, the writing is clever and funny.

I'm really looking forward to the final product on this game. There's a lot of mechanical loose ends dangling around throughout the story, whether systemic or story based. It might be the dev biting off more than he can chew, but the game has remained so good that I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Oh, right. The animations and models look great too. I should probably mention that.

Well, I'm not the one who is here since the beginning and I heard a lot of issue about delayed updated. since, I don't think of delayed much if it takes longer to make the game I wouldn't complained.

I want to give 5 stars solely on story. but update complaining makes me lowered to 4 stars. I like these kind of story if you wonder why

(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.