VN - Ren'Py - Wild Cats [v0.1.1] [LopaPhi]

This is genuinely such a good start. The girls are all stunningly pretty, the story is engaging, and I'm looking forward to more. It's always impressive to me when an author manages to make a sports story interesting to me and they've certainly done it here. I really like the prospect of coaching and "Managing" a team of girls. Love every one of the heroine designs. Author also managed to write in a believable and well executed sex scene in the first chapter which is a huge mark of care and attention. Seriously so excited for more, this is one of my new top favorites.

Review of 0.1.

Introduction

Lords, ladies, geniuses who have realized this is probably the best 5-star review you’ll ever read. I quite literally have nothing bad to tell you about this game. It is revolutionary, earth-shattering, and quite possibly the best v0.1 I’ve ever played in my life. In fact, it was so amazing that I think my stomach sank to my cock when I hit the “Chapter 1 ended” screen.

Thank god it was still erect.

Because I wasn’t done with this game yet! The first chapter, and it’s blown everything else I’ve ever read out of the water. Let me tell you, as the highly esteem and illustrious reviewer I am, I never — NEVER — write reviews for “first chapters”. That would be an insult to all those hard-working devs that dumped YEARS into their projects before being blessed by my captivating editorial presence.

But this story was just that good.

Now please stay with me while I gush about all the things that make this the next #1 AVN on this site.

This AVN succeeds where others fail

No “Wandering Protagonists”

We all know the Wandering Protagonist. The Wandering Protagonist is the protagonist that doesn’t seem to have any sort of job, commitment, or responsibility in their life other than chasing tail. Of course, we never get a reason as to why this is; instead, our writer usually give some sort of half-assed excuse like “They’re rich. They don’t need to work!” or “They just moved. Moving is stressful. They’ll work as soon as they get de-stressed”, and so our protagonist proceeds to jerk-off for the rest of the novel until the author belated writes in a job for them because “I forgot they needed to be a functioning member of society, my bad”.

On the other hand, our protagonist here is something of a “Hunting Protagonist”: it’s literally his job to hunt these girls down and make them into the high-performing volleyball team he needs for this narrative to work. There’s no bullshit about “being rich” or “just having fun” because the dude has actual stakes and responsibilities — and a job!

Sure, he could just goof off with the girls for the entirety of the plot, but then he’d lose his scholarship, his home, and any hopes of ever fixing all these crazy mental and emotional problems he’s going through. He’d be fucked. He has to “hunt”.

And yet even this MC still finds time to go to class sometimes!!!

Ridiculous really, how hard it is to find a functioning member of society in AVNs.

Did I mention the MC was handsome?

It’s the little things, really. Even just the absence of a “Wandering Protagonist” tells me the author has a decent chance of writing a good story.

That and the MC being handsome. I like handsome characters.

A “Slut Character” I like

We also all know about “the Slut Character”. The purpose of the Slut Character is to give those impatient, horny bastards that whine and whine and whine about “my porn game not having porn” something to jerk off to while creator goes to work on actually important things — like story, characters, and more sex; just higher quality sex than you get from that rushed, slut character sex job made for impatient bastards… like the dude’s who’ve already stopped reading this to go jerk-off.

Real-men jerk off to literature. In visual form. Like this AVN’s slut character.

But no, seriously, creators write these characters in to show off those sex characters and stave off impatient people, so what better way than to write a character that’s so incredibly easy to have sex with no one questions her sleeping with any random guy she meets? I usually hate these characters. These sluts.

But this character is so awesome.

Not only does she live up to the stereotype of wearing overly revealing clothing and leading with overly flirtatious advances that every horny AVN player loves to see, she’s also not just some dumb blond bimbo that doesn’t understand fun>sex.

And it’s the lack of dumb that makes her scene of bouncing off our straight-laced MC so hilarious.

“But reviewer, that still sounds like you’re describing a normal slut character to me? What makes that a normal slut character?”

Well you’re right, I haven’t been very convincing, but one big difference I can tell you about her versus other slut characters is that we actually know something about her and her accomplishments beforehand — she’s a volleyball player, a good one, and it begs the question, what is she doing slutting it up in a club all the time then? To be the slut character?

NO! SHE ACTUALLY GIVES US A DECENT ANSWER THAT SHE’S THOUGHT ABOUT FOR A WHILE — INTELLIGENTLY — AND MY RESPECT FOR HER GOES UP TEN THOUSAND PERCENT BECAUSE OF IT! HER RESPONSES, MY FRIEND, SHE PROVES TO ME SHE’S’ NOT JUST A DUMB SLUT FROM HER RESPONSES TO GENUINE QUESTIONS.

And THEN she fucks you. Not before, but after showing you that she’s a respectable human being with thoughts, feelings, and plans for her future.

Shit man, usually you have to wait the entire goddamned AVN for the Slut Character to show a modicum of intelligence or thought. At least until after the sex! This kind of writing is genre-shattering!(and I really wish it weren’t).

Goddamned, it was such a hot scene.

(Anyways, I just can’t think of a single slut character I remember by name over this girl, so if anyone can name anyone better, please, name them. She absolutely steals the show in the first chapter, and it’s absurd.)

The Creator actually directs scenes

How do I say this?

This story has such good directing that I was orgasming harder from scene-work than the sex scenes. You had that heart-to-heart with the girl on the court; you had that way that girl looked back at you, right after that teasing. Her smile was gorgeous. Those angles! That head tilt!

Then you have that way that little asian girl repeatedly blows you away with her athleticism on the streets before threatening to repeatedly crush your dick with her thighs while slowly blowing you to climax.

Okay, real talk, I got a little excited, I made that last part up.

But GOSH DARN, creator, those scenes made me so erect, and they weren’t even sexual.

But what do I mean by “actually directs scenes”, you ask? I mean that the characters consistently have facial expressions and movements that make me think they’re actually human beings and not robots trying to read off words they don’t even understand. Examples.

I lied again. My first example is a counter-example.

Fiona is probably the biggest problem among the female leads: she’s a bad girl; she takes no shit; and 90% of her scenes are just her being emotionless and bitchy. How do you do facial expression and movements with this character?

You don’t. Instead, you have her talk shit and throw hits. That’s right, this bitch doesn’t just talk, she HITS — audibly — so we don’t really need facial expressions to guess her mood.

Beauty of it is that the girl straight-up physically assaults our MC on multiple occasions, and I just found myself saying “Deserved” and “damn, she’s hot” and “Was that sound effect for that hit? Goddamn, I think I felt that!”.

Then you got slut girl. Slut girl gets naked — Spoilers!

More spoilers. Slut girl gets naked in front of the MC, but when it happens, it’s at ALL the right angles.

Imagine you’re watching the MC sit on a couch. He’s depressed, disappointed, and hanging his head because he’s realized his best chance at winning this thing is the slut girl, the girl who’s openly declared she’d rather do other things. Like slutting it up.

Great. Expected, but not what our MC wanted.

Then you see THAT ASS enter the frame. Then you see that SHIRT drop to the floor. Then you’re flipping back to the MC’s first person perspective, and you’re just thinking “Hotdamn, I don’t care anymore — JUST BRING ON THE SEX SCENE!”

I really liked that scene, and I really like slut girl.

But don’t forget tease girl. She’s also great and gets expression, but even when she doesn’t, she’s still great.

Take her one “serious” scene for example. The entire scene is her being serious and trying to show as little expression as possible to the MC, but you know how the creator decides to spice it up? Emojis. Dumbass emojis sitting in the top left corner changing to match her inner feelings in real-time.

It was so dumb. It shouldn’t work. I shouldn’t have liked it.

I LOVED IT SO MUCH. THE CHANGING EMOJI! WATCHING HER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS CATCH UP TO IT IN REAL-TIME? PRICELESS! I LOVE IT!

Yeah, great scene. I call that a director’s touch.

Anyways, I’m spoiling all the good scenes at this point, so I’m going to stop, but come on, this creator really gets the little things right, those little things that really make or break the scene with as little as one extra render.

Did I mention they actually change the camera angles too? Really, you gotta mess with the camera angles, guys. It matters so much.

He’s Handsome

The MC. He’s handsome. Not the Creator. Or maybe he is, idk. Don’t ask me. I didn’t mean it like that.

I like the renders, okay. They make the MC look handsome(I’m not GAY, just confused).

Successfully Executed “Depressed MC”

This is probably the moment where I thought this AVN actually had real potential: when the MC hit his lowest point, when the author had to get him out of it in the least cringe way possible.

I think the author succeeded. I felt there was proper build-up and everything. It was even kind of realistic! I liked it.


That’s insane. I don’t like things, I fap to them.

I just wish more writers could find that excellent balance of depression and action in an MC that this story’s writer can. In this story, at least the game gives you the option to either quit or tell the MC to stop whining when you get a choice. Whenever I choose the stop whining choice, the MC immediately stopped whining and went to work.

That’s great! More games need these kind of satisfying choices!

I’m taking my frustration out on a button, and it’s working!

Anyways, this story gave me exactly what I like to see: enough self-loathing to remind us why the MC’s situation sucks but not enough to dampen the good ol’ “porn vibes” and mess with my “mojo”.

Finally, the big “reversal” our MC has after sinking as low as possible actually makes sense due to circumstance and the amount of times I had to listen to him whine and click “not give up”. Again, I don’t want to spoil, but it was really refreshing.

You’ll love the character who pulls him out of it. She’s perfect, and I love her! 10/10. Marry me.

BANGER Music

You need some sort of music, guys. Half of my rating comes with whether or not you’ve got an absolute BANGER soundtrack playing during your sex sex scenes.

Trust me, no sex scene is good without a BANGER song. No banger, no bang. You bang me? This music BANGS, and it’ll really take you for a banger.

Get it? BANGer? In a sex scene? Get it? Please? (Tell me I’m funny, or I’ll cry).

I am serious about the music though. I liked it, and like any good soundtrack, I only really noticed it when it ratcheted up for the sex scene, lmao.

Conclusion

So in conclusion… Sike! Why the hell would I write a conclusion to a porn game review? Just play the damn game already!

Jerk-offs.

TLDR. If you can’t read my whole review, then I bet you can’t even read chapter 1 of this AVN, poopyhead.

(haha, gottem).

Review for v0.1
Well this dev turned his love for volleyball chicks into quite a compelling and unique story. I honestly do not recall playing a similar game like this one, so good job on that! I felt very engaged to the story straight of the bat.

Im guessing this feeling of engagement is not only coming from the unique and interesting story, but also the characters in the game. This game has also just laid the foundation for excellent charachter developments. We get the MC and the love interests introduced to us as flawed human beings. They are not perfect and they all seem to have issues preventing them from playing volleyball. This is all just well thought out and it makes me very excited about where this story is going.

The graphics and animatiosn are really good though and the girls are smoking hot as well. There is honestly nothing I can complain about really. So give this game a try already, u wont regret it!

game is ok for a start,.. not much to see than a couple of normal renders for hs game.
the mc look good till he toke his dick out,...after that not so much,..sorry but if this is harem game or have a pth to that why a girl will be with a smal dick guy?
sorry but this is how i see harem games,...just a point of view,.
the thing with the choices is complicated in this one there is some who straight up send you to a game over ,...and those wich gives more point swith the girls are submissive,...i dont even go for the real reason this guy is even tryng to recruit this girls...
so pros; mc looks andhe isnt a spinlees but seem to be a bad point for the game ,..
girls models are fine nothing out of the normal for hs models ,...
story plot is good till now but with some strange point of view...
cons; well alot ,...again not the best hs models bit the worst i see but again is 2024 hs2 have more than a hadfull models that will be amazing in this set up none of those are here,..
mc beahaviour, and before doing shit a bout his life ask for a psycologist to the dean mc have lot of personal problem that you cant just take him seriously,.he tend to overdo it and when he see this fault tend to being a submisive mc,...bad move ..from the asshole one to the not worthy ,...
and no you cant be in the middle,...
the plot needs more deep story before coming to the college and put you out there tryng to manage a volevall team,...miss alot of background on the mc and on the girls,...
so a nice start but my rate is about personal taste ,....choices are the wrong ones,...models are weakto fair..plot is still weak ...
bcs that is only a 2 star from me

That was an awesome Introductory chapter, I got in because of the cute girls but dang it!! Now I'm fully in for the story.

The MC's backstory and current state of mind makes things interesting because it leaves a lot of room for character development and as the story goes on. Honestly he has shown so much growth already despite the challenges he faced whilst combating his character flaws. The fact the he is a clueless handsome lad with little to no experience makes for some funny moments with the girls. All in all I love the MC.

THE GIRLS - Eve is hands down best girl and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. She was originally my third pick because aesthetically speaking Fiona and Lexi are my favourites but dang it!! She is a sweetheart that has bite to her, and that is a winning combination. Fiona (I like me a cold mysterious woman , sue me) and Lexi (a Firecracker through and through, almost ate our boy for breakfast, lunch and dinner. ) make my top 3. Desiree is even sweeter than Eve but I need a little more before I settle on my final judgment. Zoe (the and princess) and Saki (the cutie with a foul mouth) have yet to be fully expanded upon so we wait. But all in all the girls are written well and I'm really looking forward to seeing them fleshed out more.

I love Haikyuu and this setting is giving me those vibes, since I love Sports anime this is right up my field. I hope more side characters will be introduced in the story to flesh out the cast and breathe some more life into the setting. This is especially true when the rival teams start popping up.

Eternum, Once in a Lifetime, City Devil Restart, Unraveling August, Between Humanity, Dream Link, Novak, Ripples, Pale Carnations, Phoenixes, Deviant Anomalies, Sicae, Striving Forward and now Wildcats... My Must-Have List games with an anime design keeps growing and I love it!

In all that exists, but none has your beauty…
Now, as a former senior high player and fan of Atakku No. 1 I may be pretty biased here, but this is incredible! It's a gripping tale of a phoenix' struggle – of high school trouble.

The story adds nicely to the rather sparsely populated genre of sports-themed AVNs. And while most of the choices seem rather straight-forward, having to actually put in some effort is greatly appreciated. Especially as the social cluelessness of the main character leads to some pretty funny moments (and the whole joint goes 'Ooohhh'). The characters feel natural, have their own sets of problems, and are interesting to deal with.

The overall render quality is great, especially the scene at the night club. Sadly the engine has certain limitations (DOF, hair) that could be worked around a bit better, but this doesn't take away from the story one bit. In fact, most of the characters look so damn gorgeous, I'd rather the dev don't change a thing. In the words of the MC, touch her and I'll kill you.

I feel the game has gotten off to a great start, and I for one am eager for more.
Review based on v0.1 (initial release).

VERY PROMISING!!

I recently played and finished this game and I'm excited to see the progression of this story. But tbh with all of us the MC is a dick that can't process his memories but yeah overall I like this game and I'll give it a 8.46/10. I highly recommend all of you to play it!!!

Can't wait for chapter 2!

The plot is great, and so is the writing. There's BGM and SFX included, and the renders aren't bad at all. All in all, the game is still rough around the edges but I think that it has big big potential.

Really good start, a render may look a bit glaring but I am enjoying the first chapter. I am craving for sport theme AVN and this fix my need.

Looking forward to next episode. Wish you a good luck dev!

Outstanding concept, outstanding execution so far. Good models, and I can't wait to see more -- not only of the bodies but also of the characters.
Of course it's not very long yet, but it's more than substantial enough for a 0.1 release.
I suspect the developer put some thought into the setting and knows what they are doing. This game doesn't seem to be too closely inspired by anything else. But I wouldn't be surprised if we soon start seeing copies of this one.

So far this is a very promising game. The graphics are really good and distinct, plus the story is interesting and so are the characters.

Looking forward to more from the author, specially in regards to update speed and work ethic. Keep it up!

Maybe its just that I love the idea of an AVN with a volleyball focused setting(thank you Haikyuu) but I thought that was a really good start for a 0.1 with a new developer. Promising.

I like that you've been brave with a MC. Even if he will annoy some people early game his personality and motivations make sense and more importantly, he's interesting. Anti-social, depressed, anger issues but wanting to change. I dig it.

I dont really have a fave girl yet but I see potential in them. They're all attractive and the dialogue with them feels natural with believable motivations for the most part. I really liked that the girls recognized the fact that some of his cheesy lines aren't him being overly flirtatious or a weirdo, but just that he doesn't understand how he comes off sometimes. It's pretty relatable for any guy that also struggles a bit socially. I think Lexi, Eve and Desiree all left a really good impression for 0.1.

Some areas to work on: Visually I do think there is some work to be done. Although the only thing would say is a *major* issue is that texture for the MC's penis. It doesn't match the rest of his skin and looks pretty weird. The scene despite that was hot with Lexi being super hard to resist... but I'd want to fix that before there are any more lewds. Other than that, I think the hair textures look a little low res compared to the models sometimes and they often clip through their clothes/body. I like the sapia-bloom effect cause it gives a bit of an old school feel but the bloom is sometimes used too heavily imo. But I'm no HS2 expert so take these things with pinch of salt. I also noticed some grammatical errors, typos and some overly wordy sentences, but those things will improve with time.

In summation, its really promising and I'm looking forward to seeing how it evolves. I hope you nail it.

I like the game so far I love the premise of volleyball girls. Volleyball is definitely in my top 5 favorite sports. The girls each have their own goals and personalities even though I might not like some of them right now but I think in the future I will start to care for them. ( Best girl is Desiree ) The MC is all right. I hope in the later scenes when we are coaching in the tournament and the girls are playing volleyball against other teams it will have some good action like haikyuu or blue lock.

This game has everything I could have hoped for: a cool main character(but not too edgy), gorgeous and actually interesting love interests, a pretty good plot with just the right amount of stakes and drama.

I really like that the mc is both not a wimp and not a perfect chad. He has his flaws and worries, but gets shit done when he wants to.

The girls are absolutely great. They actually have their own personalities and don't just bend to the mc's will. I also really like that the girls are not some blushy-crushy virgins (or at least some of them). Lexi is probably my favourite girl at the moment. Not only does she look extremely sexy, but she also isn't a shy little girl and knows how to have her fun (not being a slut at the same time).

All in all, a fantastic start to a game. Best wishes to the developer. I will be watching this game with great interest.

Excellent Story, renders, and characters are hot. Very engaging dialogues. This game has potential to be one of the best in VN genre. Keep up the good work dev. All the best. Eve is my favorites of now.

Chapter 1 review:

For a first chapter the amount of content is amazing and definitely worth a download to try out. I will however give a brief summary of begin of the story and then give my no spoiler review.

Story:

The MC is antisocial dickhead because he comes from a broken home. His only escapism came from the form of playing and dedicating himself to volleyball which emotionally stunted him. However, after a permanent injure he decides it is for the best to quit all together. He becomes deeply depressed as he lost his only form of escapism and his home situation doesn't get better. However a year has passed and finally he wants to change himself by applying to a university on scholarship. As he can't compete anymore he now has to become a coach of an all female volleyball team to keep his scholarship.

This is only the first 10 minutes of chapter 1, as the there is a lot more to it.

Characters:
The MC has his own distinct personality which is shaped by what he experienced in life but he genuinely wants to change. Everyone on the volleyball team has a personality, their own needs/wants that you have to understand if you want to coach them. In the end you are the person/MC that wants something from them not the other way around. The cast feels like real people with their own problems and struggles so as of chapter 1 I have no complaints about this section.

Dialogue:
Reads pretty well, nothing feels dragged out or engrish. I never felt like I had to skip a section due to information being irrelevant.

Choices:
There are a lot of choices that will impact your relationship with the girls making them love interests/friends/acquaintances. Outside of that you don't really influence the story that much as of 0.1. I do have to say I am not the biggest fan of dead ends if they don't add more to the story. Also there are no forced scenes.

Rest:
The models look good and varied.
There is also animation for the only NSFW scene and that wasn't too bad.
The music is amazing and really helps set the mood of each scene but, the vine boom SFX is a war crime.

Conclusion:

Either way I encourage you now to download this and play it as there is enough content to enjoy. Furthermore, this is probably hands down one of the best prologues/chapters 1 I have played on this website. I have high hopes that with more steady updates that this AVN will take its place as one of the greats on this website.

[Review for v0.1]

Genuinely quite impressive first release. I was brought into the game at first because of the renders and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they're not only really good, but not even close to being the best part of the game altogether.

The MC - is interesting and his dynamics with each of the LIs are solid. He's somewhat cheesy and I appreciate that this is pointed out and intentional, his lack of proper social interactions actually served to make his character a lot more interesting as well as unique and it paid off really well. I'll admit some of the scenes where he lost his control were genuinely hard to read and that on its own right is a positive point for the game, despite perhaps being a deal-breaker for some - of course, this type of thing impacts everyone in different ways and being honest it's rare for me to invest in a protagonist or a story enough so that seeing that sort of thing genuinely makes me genuinely feel anything, and that alone makes me think like there was a bunch of thought put into the writing and that there's a bunch of character development to come.

The Premise Itself - feels a little cliché. But not in a way that actually hinders how enjoyable it is in any way. It's reminiscent to what you'd expect from a lot of sports-related media but the execution is extremely well done, to the point where it's hard not to feel invested. It feels personal, everything is set up in a very neat way and everything feels at least in part intentional.

The Characters - are honestly very good in ways that compliment one another. Dialogue feels incredibly natural save for some of the more 'absurd' bits, but nothing close to being egregious to take the immersive value away from it. Each character has a unique personality that doesn't 1:1 line up with your typical character/love-interest archetypes and that's something that makes them feel more alive and 'individual' as well as make the interactions between them and the protagonist feel a bit more real.

The Writing - is far from bad, either. I couldn't even consider skipping any of the content or dialogue and even found myself rolling back to re-read something I thought I hadn't properly read yet. Good amount of content, too, and the set-up for the rest of the story and the game proper feels good. Character introductions were handled nicely and I feel that the protagonist showing genuine effort to overcome his shortcomings and better himself as a person was a very good mood to establish sympathy from the player's perspective. The warning beforehand was very welcome, too, and all that put together made the overall experience enjoyable. Nothing feels too forced or out of place and it just genuinely feels like the beginning of a nice story about self-improvement and just generally cool sports-related fun. Despite having only one NSFW scene so far - and them apparently not being the focus of the game (Fortunately) - I don't expect them to lack, either. Modelns are good, animations are good, writing is hot, overall good stuff.

TL;DR: This is an all-around very solid and promising first release. Excited to see what comes next

It's clear there was genuine effort put into the actual game as well as each individual character and the passion behind it shows. Very impressive in general, but even moreso for a first release. Wish all the best to the Dev.