Ren'Py - Witch Hunter [v0.24] [Lazy tarts]

I saw this when it started, and let it be for a long while just so I have more to play and whooooooooooo boy~! A lot sure has changed! Some for the better, some for the absolute worst.

The bad:
Unavoidable NTR
I'd usually only take two stars from that, but being a fan of the source material means the disappointment is greater. Three stars off.

And anyone saying otherwise is delusional; Alchemy is the player's, and you have to give her to someone else. No onscreen penetration, but you have to let her "train" in a brothel. Fuck that shit.

Elyon and Will, the first two girls, hasn't had squat for four years. A beej and thigh action respectively, and that's it. Another star off.

The good:
Everyone else of the main cast and more has had a lot of progression; I'd give a star for that, but I'm a Will fan so that kinda just drives the 2nd negative harder. Still, that's good for fans of other characters and those without preferences.

There are a lot of other minor good things, like mechanical improvements and some gameplay animations -- but the rating system doesn't allow me a concrete way to represent that, and the bad are bad enough to eclipse the good.

If your a fan of the W.I.T.C.H cartoon/comic then this is a must play. The game has VERY nice artwork and the character writing is funny but also feels true to the W.I.T.C.H brand. The mini games are pretty standard but fun in there own right. Nothing ground breaking if you've already played similar games. The game has a weird thing were music will just NOT play in moments I feel it should and the writing is a little wonky with grammar mistakes but nothing game breaking. The only real problem that I saw from others is apparently the game takes a while to get new content added. I played the most recent version [v0.12.0.4] so not only did I have all the content thus far but I also don't have any experience with the pre reworked Elyon (yes it's Elyon not Elion like the game spells it) content as this game was soft rebooted. I know some liked that content but I never played those versions so I have nothing to say on which is better or worse.

FINAL THOUGHTS: If you like W.I.T.C.H play this game. If you have no experience with the franchise then this game isn't gonna blow you're mind but is still solid. As I am now up tp date I hope the games updates don't come as few and far between as others have said but for this version I give it a 4/5.

Perhaps one of the best games there is. Some dialogues are worth something! I am delighted!
Drawing is very pleasing, just high-quality drawing, which is pleasing to the eye.
Beautiful, busty girls for every taste and color. It definitely feels like the creators have taste and intelligence. Respect


Of course, of the shortcomings (for a comment to the game administrators), the following can be distinguished:
1. No breastfeeding. It is very sad. Highly.
2. Few perverted poses.
3. I would like to be able to fully do the whole spectrum with each heroine: blowjob, sex with breasts, anal and vaginal sex.

A solidly decent game. The art style is good and consistent and the scenes are entertaining. For the most part, the narrative is pretty good too.

I'm docking it 1 star for two main reasons:
1. Slow updates/progress on the game.
2. Lack of options/scenes with certain characters.

Edit: 8/30/2022

Lots of work done since then, loads of fixes and the combat is much smoother. Art is always 10/10. Few hours of content.

The reviews initially were bad because of how early it was I guess, but personally this is 5 stars. Don't let the average 3/5 stars fool you.

Great story. Exceptional art style and pacing. There is no need for walkthrough or mods. Good UI without bugs etc. Big content updates. Definitely recommend to play even if you tried it before, since game improved a lot!

Haha, very funny, there is no time limit indication on one specific dialogue choices, and the game kills you if you don't read fast enough.
the artwork is decent enough, that's the only good thing I can say about this one.

I liked the W.I.T.C.H. cartoon show when I was a kid and seeing that there's a porn game about it really made me very interested in it, but seeing 3 years of literally no progression is just infuriating. There's no excuse but the total lack of talent and passion of the author (as a porn game producer)


Well, will start from the positive - it has a very good art style. From background to characters, everything looks very close to the original and makes sense as the porn game. The only reason you actually should try this game is the gallery, even if most of the scenes are not animated.

Gameplay aspects though are not that good. Actually, they're far from it.
The only word I can describe it with is "boredom": we're just clicking stuff, seeing dumb dialogues which have no meaning behind them, sometimes play mini-games, or even participating in battles - but nothing of it is actually entertaining. Quite instead, I wish I could skip them all and get done with the game as soon as possible.
The writing of this game is maybe even worse than its gameplay. "Killing" Elyon's parents, giving the grow-up elixir to the little girl to have sex with her, Nigel's suicide - they all aren't justified at all, even if the point of the game is to give the experience of playing the badass villain. Nothing badass in it and nothings that people admire in villains.

And the most annoying thing for me is - that's all. That's everything I can say about the game which was 3 years in development. Seriously? And for these three years, there's no indication of it getting any better. This is terrible. Some authors for 3 years can make a game with way more content, a lot more comprehensible writing, and more interesting gameplay.
1/5 - Terrible.

nice art, development kinda slow, hope for improvement, i didnt watch this cartoon so im not a fan in that regard but found story somewhat enjoyable, dev bet highly on blackmail, the way of getting money is kinda atrocious - looking for books on shelves and memorising where is every book every title so u can say customers of there is or is not book they are looking for, other than that i look forward to development

The game itself is nice, but authors are slow as fuck. There was something like 15-17 unique scenes during the cource of of last two years, and half of it was just a simple non-hentai slice of life.
Also, too much time was simply wasted on rewriting Ellion's plot. The original where Cedric causes her foster parents to get in a car crash was okay as it was. Sadly, due to revrite few of her original sex scenes were deleted and can only be found in galleries on of the hentai sites where they post game rips. Ellion was also aged up in new sex scenes to the point of looking older than some of the milfs of the series. She used to look like an actual 18 y.o. teen back than.
There is also a HUGE problem with save compatability between versions.
You dont want to grind for 3-5 hours (even with cheats) just to unlock the new stuff every time it comes out, and due to picture. And if you just unlock gallety by mocking about with game code using Notepad++ you get no context for scenes, and fapping to them loses half the charm.
If it wasn't for the last problem, I would debate between good and exelent despite slow speed and content cuts, but as it is now - average.
Edit:19.03.2021
Last update didn't have save problems, so uprading mark to good. Still needs way more content trough. And again, all new characters in sex scenes looks way aged. That filler character - yeah, she has a body of milf or at least late college student in that drawing style, despite being "18+ schoolgirl". I get that pathreon is a censor happy shit, but you can at least make her look smaller than Cerdic. Also, abduction option would have been nice.
Edit: 30.06.2023
Nope, the trend of making main cast closer and closer to gilfs continues, and tonns of time is being spend just to change old characters to age the up in any way possible, even if most of them are now looking older than main hero. The speed of updates became laughable, the progression of story that by all intends and purposes is about an evil villain molesting school girls(even if aged up) slowed down to snails pace, and now you have to share some of your slaves with your boss, so basically - an NTR element that wasnt in tags. Im downgrading this to two and most likely dropping the project, at least until its finished. Replaying the entire game each time author decides to put a new wrincle on Will or remove anything controvertial, or make minor changes to the interface just isnt worth it.

The art is VERY GOOD...but sadly, after a major change this is not a trainer anymore...i know it happened a few updates back, but now Elyon is just like all the other characters. You're not "slowly corrupting" her anymore, it's just BOOM let me fuck you. The idea behind corruption is the slowly (or fast, depends on game) PROGRESSION from kinda prude to slutty/eager, achieved in multiple step. The first versions of the game got it right, she gets convinced to show boobs to you for more money, then strips more...and so on. Kinda like Akabur's witch trainer Hermione, a progressive "do ut des". This was the case back then...now, Elyon is just like all the other characters: no step-to-step corruption, just plain coercion into instant blowjob/fuck or istant "you gave me a place to stay, thank you let me blow you".
It's a pity cause the art is one of the best this site has to offer...but the "gameplay" (if you can call it that) is just a number of clicks and grind needed to get the "leverage" used to coerce the girl to do you.
Not my genre, sorry, i preferred the earlier version. This could just be a comic/manga/doujin, there's not really gameplay aside from the grind.
Still giving 2 star because the art is amazing.

TL,DR : This is COERCION, NOT CORRUPTION (somebody else pointed that out too), there's NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and the gameplay is quite linear.
The Art is amazing but isn't enough to call this a game.

This game is awesome. It does something that many corruption games doenst do: It knows you are playing a bad guy, it knows there is no way a good guy in the standar idealization of the word would do, and it shows you the consequences of your actions. The game develop the story from the bad guy perspective even better than some Rpgs on steam, im not kidding. If you are just here for the tiddies, you will have your share, and the art is beatifull. But if you are here for the phantasy, for a really good and really fucked up phantasy, with blackmail, abuse, slavery (actual slavery, not just the ''oh yes master more!'' kind) , and literal teenagers drove to suicide soo you can bone some witch ass, then you too, my mood kindred, have found your share.

I've written a long review for this which turned to be a series of points punctuated with BUTs. And then it ended with a downside that's really really important and I want to talk about it in detail, so I've edited the whole BUT-rant to be quite a bit shorter.

This is a "r34 parody game" -BUT- the source material is not very well-known and I dare say is even obscure -BUT- it doesn't matter too much as the story and your character's place in it is obvious (perpetually failing underling of BBEG who's given last chance after last chance), and the overall story is simple yet somewhat engaging and even has some branching done right -BUT- it's written in most horrible Engrish I've seen in a while -BUT- it's understandable enough to get what you need to do and tolerable if you read it internally with the thickest russian accent you can muster -BUT- forget about decently written sex scenes with this level of language mastery (more like lack thereof) -BUT- at least CGs are pretty nice -BUT- it takes a lot of time to reach them -BUT- the game doesn't feel extremely grindy (although it does have grind)...

BUT. And this is the crucial negative aspect that I don't feel the game offsets with anything positive. When you do reach main adult content you immediately wish you hadn't done it so quickly.

You see, there's a difference between gating sex behind slaying wild boars, grinding money and being an errand boy, and gating it behind girl's psychological resistance.

Naturally we want less of the former and more of the latter! (To a reasonable degree, of course). As it stands, this game has a lot of boar slaying and basically NONE of the psych game. To give an example, you capture some guy, enslave him, and throw him into another dimension. For reasons. Whatever. But then his pretty sister comes looking for him and accidentally falls into another dimension and you have no other choice than to imprison her there too. For reasons, whatever. But then the main character comes into her cell and demands her to strip naked or else he maims or kills her brother. Bam, she's naked. Next day, you get a choice sex/bj/handjob under the same conditions, pleasure or else. Then you let your disgusting underling buttfuck her as a reward (and the imprisoned girl once again has to agree or the very same else). And that's it as far as her, um, character development goes. Her attitude doesn't change one bit after all of this. She keeps her defiant attitude, but ultimately always agrees to do whatever you demand because your threats are just thermonuclear.

That's not corruption. That's coercion. Learn the fucking difference.

What a lot of people want and what "trainer" sub-genre implicitly promises is the process of bending and twisting a girl from prude to total slut. How you initially hook the girl can vary, and yes, it can be through coercion, but one crucial ingredient is that the final step can't be reached through threats alone. Instead your trainee has to come to love being a slut. This is where this game really fails in my opinion. You're not training anyone, you're just subjugating them through brute force and call it a day.

Oh, yeah, and my playthrough of v.9 had a character literally kill himself as a plot point. That... was a bit unexpected, huh.

Also, some comments indicate that in earlier versions the main story line was much much darker, and that kinda makes sense. Right now Cedrick throws the main girl softball after softball, while everyone else gets really harsh treatment. If the main plot were to revert to the darker version... it could make the game work, but you'll have to throw darker sex scenes as well. Otherwise it's a wasted opportunity; your character clearly lacks any scruples, but when it comes to sex he's awfully vanilla. And the girls are awfully resilient. PTSD? No such thing! You made your MC a deplorable sadist, okay, legit choice, but then the girls have to break down.

(That said I prefer a lighter path if it actually had corruption going on)

TL;DR: good art, horrific Engrish, poor story, and horrible characterization for a trainer game.

So, the Witch Hunter is a game based on the animated television series W.I.T.C.H.

It is obviously born from our everlasting, holy internet Rule# 34, it is a good take on? Respectful of the original material? (the animated series and the comics?) Is it even a good game worth playing?

Well before I give you my verdict, I must confess I am not a stranger to the W.I.T.C.H universe, in fact I LOVE THE COMICS and to me they are some of the best thing around, you should read them NOW!

But let’s not get off tracks, the art is not bad I even enjoy it at times (good job Lazy tarts Team!), the story seems to get its inspiration essentially from the tv show (I’ll get more to it later) and the gameplay or should I say the minigames… Well, I’m not going to spoil it but let’s say there is a way to make money by defending a store that to me fells very grindy and I am not really a fan of that. But I did enjoy the combat gameplay, also I which there would be more.



So, the story, we take on the mantle of Lord Cedrick a bad guy (there should be more games where we play the antagonist.) and unsurprisingly we are doing bad thing to the main characters. Why I am saying that? Because, if you watch the animated series it logical as he is portrayed only as a villain (which he is!). but for those who read the comics, Cedrick does show he is capable of redemption (somewhat.) and he is a little more than your typical predictable villain. On that aspect I was expecting some kind of moral choices; be able to act beyond our evil nature instead of simply go with the flow of evilness.

Well ladies and gentlemen, that choice simply does not exist! Instead we are going with the cliché of the villainous character. At times I really wish there was a choice, to illustrate my view, there is a girl that really seems to like Cedrick, why does he have to be such a big D to her? And why Can’t he not just pull the finger to Phobos? (with good reason if you read the game intro.)

I believe this game has a lot of non-explore potential, if it could simply propose a love route in parallel to a corruption route it would surely become one of the best games the is.

I would personally give it a 3 out of 5 for now, the story is more to its premise than anything and the team demonstrated they were ok to revamp, change some content. (the Elyon has been tone down to better suit its reader and I personally like this better like this!) I’ll wait and see what they are able to deliver.

I have my finger crossed for the future content. Come on Lazy tarts Team, give us a redemption/love route!!!!!

Version: v0.9

Review:
What draws the attention of this game is because of the arts that are good, but otherwise the game is terrible. Games like this you have to keep grinding or keep coming and going to do the tasks and receive the scenes. The sexual content is acceptable but with very little content and there are not many animations, there are some but nothing surprising.

So, why I did gave 1 star?
There is not much to say, this game would be more successful if the developer made a comic book instead of a game. But why do I say that? I may be wrong but during gameplay there are several places to go but half of those places are inactive or in development. The gameplay is a point-n-click that you have to come and go to do the tasks, in addition, there are mini-games that will not delay you much and it is necessary to at least use some money cheat because your time gameplay will increase if you don't. However it is quite annoying to play something for a few hours and see very little sexual content. So, anyway, I thought the gameplay bad, because of the grind and little content. To tell the truth, the game is not very interesting.

Please give me more.
This game is an absolute BOMB. Can't wait for further updates. The arts are sexy. Characters are hot. Porn is perfect. The story is simple and interesting at the same time. The gold farming process may sound a little tough, but it pays off anyway with a hot porn scene

Real nice art, pace not too grindy. But I really don't dig the writing which, in a corruption themed game, is kind of a major point. Idk Cedric is a smart dude in the show, and here he just sounds really dumb most of the time. Also a lot of typo errors, I guess english is not the creator main language. The fact that 90% of the dialogue on the sex scenes are just "..." is also a let down.

Edit: Ok, giving 2/5 because that blackmail with Hay Lin. She's sweet with the MC the whole time, felt like I NTR'd myself.

I like this game, art style is very beauty. Also thx for russian language. I would like to be able to repeat the passed h-scenes. I look forward to the next patches. Great game recommend to everyone <3

I was playing for about two hours and the game does not start badly but God bless him, how tedious it is, not that it is difficult since the rollback makes it easy but it is super tedious, the art is not bad, I think it is the positive point I see him, the story starts well but then it gets super boring

This game got a lot better with time and i really enjoy, i never watched the cartoon its based but the game get me interested in watch it.
The story was realy lack in first versions, but is really get a lot better lately. Really eager to see the next updates.