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

I recently played through this a second time, after v.9.9 came out, and thought it time to drop a brief review.

Despite some minor spelling and grammar issues, the text is remarkably witty, and a joy to read. The machiavellian MC is a refreshing change from the typical white-knight sort. The LIs are hot, diverse, and insanely numerous. The story is interesting, and there is a lot of it: but it suffers from too large a scope. Settling all the extant plot elements in a satisfying fashion would require an enormous amount of additional material, and it has taken years to get this far: so you won’t want to hold your breath.

If you don’t mind the idea of reading the first book of a really good trilogy: knowing that you are unlikely to ever see the remaining volumes; then I recommend this.

Hi first of all your game is great and how many updates are remaining hopefully a lot more because I can't get enough of it and what about impregnation option and solo endings for most characters like tomoe the mother of mc, the principal, the neighbour and her daughter hope to see it all and one more thing I haven't played a well written well story telling game better than this keep going on buddy hope to see your game grow keep it up on what you are doing

I am only rating the game, not the developer. The game is really great as it is and you can thoroughly enjoy it. Already there are several hours of game play and several really hot scenes I greatly recommend it. Although don’t hold your breath for updates.

Wow! I've been enjoying these games for a year now and I wish I had played it sooner. There's great quality renders in this game, lots of beautiful women. It is quite funny at times and it's over all just a fun game to play!

I like the animations although some of them are kinda awkward at times and not quite the quality I'd expect considering the rest of the game. The game-overs are kinda annoying which makes the walkthrough necessary for me, at least.

There's a few spelling errors but nothing too detracting from the overall experience. This can't be taken for granted, unfortunately. It is very nice and good writing.

I hope mc can progress with Tomeo more I was very teased by the neighbor when she joked about being pregnant. I'd love to see some knocking up happen to the harem.

One of my favorites visual novels: a bit complicated, but good story with often funny points, but mainly nice girls, that's what is going on here. Most of them are truly the goddess. I can't wait to see what happens next. Thanks a lot @Irphaeus

Clearly a great game to play.
Girls are beautiful and diverse enough in characters, traits, speech etc. so that you don't feel they are a copy-paste of each other.
Music& sound are interesting from the moment they started to appear.

The story is interesting (even if at times, it speak too much) and the comedy/humour is right on spot, well timed and really fun, which is quite unusual in games.

The only reasons in fact I did only give 4 stars are:
- a bit because of some sex scenes animation (or animation in general) which have some weird vibe compared to the magnificient static scenes. I hope those scenes will be reworked but it's not a given at all since I assume they take a lot of production time for a minimal time of appearance in the whole game.
- the quality of the beginning, which is clearly less than after, and the difference of quality is clearly felt when you start from scratch up to what I played (that is v0.9.9). I assume this flaw can be reworked when the game is polished at the end.

Put a lot of thought into making this review as short and concise as possible but failed miserably as theres way too much to unpack.

4 years following this VN. So many times i have given the developers slack on update schedules because they all have their own circumstances IRL, but damn 4 YEARS in production and we are lucky if we get 2 updates a year. That is my first and biggest disappoint with this VN.

I have loved this game since i first played it and for that I am even still giving it 3 stars, although it could fairly be rated lower. The good things about this game are the renders and animations. The characters and character models are really well done for HS and the scenes are really hot.

My beef is with the writing and the MC himself. In the beginning the whole "revenge" thing was ok because it was limited to the people that had hurt him. However, the MC is worse than all those people put together. He is such an asshole that he would willingly ruin innocent people to get revenge on the guilty ones. Which.. tbh is just evil. Also the choices between Love/Revenge paths dont always have much seperation, the only difference between them is if you are the one in the sex/molestation scenes or if other men get involved. One could argue the "sharing" tag should be included. In several cases the girls form a deep emotional attachment to the MC, yet his internal dialogue is still debating on pimping them out to get access to people he wants revenge on.

Too many women for the mc to devote much time to them all. It seems centered more around his family and close neighbors (Shiela, mom, Catherine) And random events in school and train. Sometimes we finally get with a new girl and we will have a few scenes with them over an arc and then they are forgotten for years, never to have another scene. Theres even a few girls that have a scene and are forgotten right away as if they never existed.

interesting good game, but the gallery part and the scene replay part of the game, is uncomplete or buggy. Yoko nishimoto in game water pic is not unlockable at all in the gallery even if you finish the game. And in the scene replay most scene with her are missing.

the same goes with Jira Baagha'l her motobike pics are not unlockable.
this is very frustrating to finish a game with these bugs.

i don't even know where to start with this one. i've been following this game for about 4 years now and the progression it's had so far isn't looking very promising

updates are way too slow, to the point if you get 2 updates a YEAR you are a very lucky individual. also from what i've seen, the writing keeps getting worse and lazy, filled with typos and unnecessarily long dialogues. i'm not the type to just blatantly skip through texts but at some point i end up doing just that

karma system is an absolute mess. i have no doubt in my mind it's not going to be implemented properly anytime soon, if ever

the story seemed interesting at first, as you progress though you can easily tell that the developer doesn't have the slightest idea what to do with it

and the most frustrating thing, we still can't run through kayane. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO. DAMN. LONG.

besides everything; the humour, fun references and characters aren't too bad. in fact, they're the only thing that keeps you playing. that and the sex scenes, because gahdamn.

i am very much ashamed to say that this game is my guilty pleasure. don't get me wrong though, the developer is a lazy scamming douchehat that'll most likely milk this game for as looong as he can and never deliver the full product. cheers

Actually made me laugh a couple times out loud, great animation/ character design, really good story. To put it short, this is the game that got me hooked on the genre. I can't wait for the full release.

People are going crazy over how great the models looks, I mean it's AI Shoju studio or something like that with 4k textures, which is fine with me if the author does something with the program i'm too lazy too figure out. Like Skyrim porn.

That being said the scenes are pretty hot, the ones with Shelia go to the top of the list. People want to know about story, but these Ren'pys go on forever with dialogue and have porn plots, where nothing can really happen cause the dev has to keep adding porn. So stuff kinda happens, but doesn't mean anything. So i don't really read more than i need to here and there.

Lots of content, wish the models had vagina bones cause the thing just kinda goes into the thing like it's a flat texture, but the dev positions the models really well for lots of variety. Just be aware it's easy to get a game over from bad choices so save often.

My Honest opinion the art is good, character etc. but for Story is not my type. but on the side of the story there is something lacking like in the locker section with asuka whether there is no other choice and always leads to game over. After that the choice is peep hole, can't we skip that scene, I mean the game lacks branches and every time the Protagonist talks a little to women it immediately leads to sex or etc. the game lacks options for the Protagonist as we can choose between Love Route, Slave/Submission route or Dominant Route etc. so we just follow what story the developer has provided for us

Personally, I place it among top of the games (Ren'Py) I've played so far.

# The Pros:

1. It has an interesting story.

2. There are variety of characters with their own unique personality.

3. The MC is not dumb & has characteristics to grow stronger.

4. There are two routes the story can progress (Love & Revenge).

5. The animations make the game much better.

# The Cons:

1. It would be better if there were an option to do both routes together. [For example, If one is made slave, the love options disappears & vise versa. Well, it happened in a previous version of the game (sorry I don't remember the exact version as I played this v0.9.8 Pt. ONE almost after a year). Again, if the potion is used on "Keiko Sensei", using on "Yuko" for the negative karma one become invalid. So, to see what it would happen, there's no choice to go back & make the respective choices to unfold those scenes.]

2. I think, it would be better if there were voices in the h-scenes. [Some scenes do contain some voices though it's only for a little time after starting; not the whole scene. Anyway, it's not that big of a deal.]

3. There are some poses that doesn't go very well with the dialogue or conversations. [For example, "Okatu's" some poses with hands in the air & well, I don't really like that pose. ]

4. In this version (0.9.8 Pt. ONE), some dialogues are really shitty. [For example, the conversations with Cat & MC about the moons. Well, a single time is fine, twice is okay but more that that it becomes .]



Anyway, overall, it's an interesting game & I hope to play the later versions as soon as possible.

Hastily done, immoral dev, should have been better. Story is patchwork at best. Easily forgettable events, the first few updates were great, then it all went to shit. Hope somebody else reworks this project from the ground up

version v0.9.8

Very lovely characters. MC is cool. There are not so much important choises but main story is generally interesting and fascinating.
Also there are nice jokes and mentions of different anime or others stuff.
Waiting for full version

play v0.7.1a with french trad (which explains my poor written English, sorry)

story: 3/5 I'm not a fan of stories of revenge and drugged sex so I didn't enjoy it too much, but overall the story isn't bad to read

characters: 4/5 Lots of fairly successful and diverse female character, MC is quite hateful and not believable, he's often shown as "nice" when next to that, he's trash. His character is really badly written.

sex scene: 5/5 There are many, mostly very erotic and of decent length (my favorite is the one under the table with minami)

renders: 4/5 This kind of rendering is weird when you see them for the first time, but you get used to it quickly and you quickly become a fan

animation: 4/5 They could be perfect if it weren't for some (rare) fps issue and looping issue (often)

sound: there are, I appreciate it!

gameplay: 3/5 We are asked to make choices often, but which in reality have very little importance on the story (if any)

there are literally at least 12 fuckable girls i find attractive by design in this game. i have only been playing for an evening but the writing is well done from the get go, i love how edgy the mc is, and he's also a badass so far from what i've seen. the karma seems interesting if there will actually be branching paths and little hidden scenes for a particular set of choices that would be sweet as well. Looking forward to more, definitely looking like one of the best games i've decided to check out in a while.

I'm out of words to be able to describe how much I liked this game, mind blowing of how much work was done to develop a product that's clearly thought out to be able to deliver a game that's both entertaining and with a plot that will keep interested all the time, without the feeling that's it's just going downhill as it progress... I'm really excited to see what comes next, how the karma system will work and etc... I'll make sure to give my support on patreon, it's been such a long time since I played a game that I liked and reach the end of the udpade excited to what's come next instead of the feeling that the dev is completely lost.
Anyways the only downside about it is the no kissing policy in this game, it's the first time I've played a game with absolutely no kissing and I really don't understand why it can not be introduced in this game, in my opinion it would fit nicely.
Thanks for the dev team!!!What a game guys and girls!

I have tried to figure out why exactly I don't enjoy Waifu Academy as much as I should and what is bothering me all this time until it struck me. Author has this weird fascination with this old style porn writing:
"Mam, I'm your plumber and have come to CLEAN YOUR TUBES!" WINK WINK - and it's basicly more then half of the novel written this way! More flowery and with a lot more words and 4chan/pop culture references, but still. Also, almost everybody in this story is miserable, and gross, and dumb, and vile, and cynical, and depressive, and so on and so forth. And for all this giant wall's of text you get a lot of teasing and petting and stuff, and very little of actual sex. Can't really blame author for his stylistic choice, it's just not my style.

If all of this this isn't bothering you, go and play this VN, it's good, you gonna like it.

One of the best games around here. Nice Honey Select art and animations, story that balances fun but not dumb with seriousness and a MC that just loves to fuck bitches. Enough options to keep things interesting, but not such a tangled web that you feel overwhelmed or bored. Good pacing too for sex scenes. Just all around a real treat and very bonerific.