Academy Love Saga: Tennis Angels

Review of v1.1.0 - 18 1600 + DLC Playtime: 5 hours or so This game is a true GAME, if you come only to fap, you can still play it, just be sure to set difficulty to Story Mode, otherwise get ready to grind. Animations are well done, there's a bunch of different characters, and it's very well voice acted. I wish they explored a bit more the relantioships between the MC and the girls but it's not that type of game. I give it 3 instead of 4 stars because to play it normally you have to go through insane amounts of grind for little reward.

Honestly, where do the 4- and 5-star reviews come from? The only good things about the game are the art and maybe the voice acting. Did we even play the same game? The gameplay is so badly designed that even on story mode, it’s a chore to win consistently.

(idk if i mixed up terminologies in this review but i dont really care) Before I dog on this game, I wanna go over the good parts of it first The art is amazing; it's so good that it's literally the type of stuff AI Models train on (i dont advocate AI), the writing is humorous and the UI and stuff is just so pretty! Live2D is welcome in any game in my books, and the H-scenes look great! Also you know I'm on board with any game thats got upgrades! And that what makes me even madder about the gameplay God it feels like nothing I do on the actual tennis court does anything! This ain't a gacha game but for fucks sakes I feel like I'm gambling! Getting a Bad Shot (being too far from the ball or timing wrong) increases your odd of rolling the ball going to a bad position (its not something you control it's luck based!) Meanwhile, I've only ever gotten a Perfect Shot a handful of times, even with max Technique! Seriously it's like it doesnt exist half the time! I think it increases the chances of my opponent messing up their shot?? Point is, no matter what I'm doing, it's all luck based, especially since the AI can basically catch any ball I throw at it ever, ESPECIALLY EARLY GAME! God early game is such a drag you just hit the ball back and forth over and over again, cranking the gambling machine until either of you "messes up" (chance), because Special Shots mean jack early on, and it's BORING! I HAD TO CHEAT ENGINE THIS TO GET ANY SEMBLANCE OF JOY Every equipment, maxed out Agility, and I'm still gambling, except with higher odds and feeling better because I could actually move! God I wish I didn't feel like an odd man at a casino because I'm just cranking the lever over and over again until I hit the jackpot of the opponent AI suddenly messing up. Let me give you a run down of all the factors that could possibly affect gameplay: Power: Each gambling pull has higher chance to make opponent mess up, makes stuns more likely I think, which takes you to a special gambling machine where the opponent has to hit the ball back to you fast enough so you can hit it to the other side of the court Agility: Someone finally greased the gambling lever so it feels better pulling the slots and don't accidentally break the lever, and also using your Quick skills takes you to another special slot machine that almost guarentees a win as long as agilities high enough and your opponent AI feels like not reacting in time Technique: You're rolling another slot machine at the same time (Perfect Shots) and ANOTHER slot machine (Tricks) that's three slot machines in a row! Endurance: Um I don't have a lot to say about this one Counter: Slow down time / decrease opponents odds of x effect, pretty nifty I'll give them that TL;DR Good art and scenes, bad luck-based tennis gameplay

Story is funny, lighthearted, and short. The h-scenes w/ heroines are amazing, dialogue is good too, The gameplay got me hook line and sinker, it's great, and fun. What the gameplay is not however, is strategic because of one big problem: This game is the difficulty curve is wack. The game truly shines around lv10 to 30 of your characters. Anything before that is a miserable back and forth of two wet rags with no stamina or specials, bonking back and forth, where you pray the AI messes up. Anything after lv40 is a free win for the player if you bring in Kate. 75% starting ability is not balanced. I beat the game up to the last fight in the story without any of the tournies, and it was exhilarating and I got invested, to the point where I actually got mad. Wouldn't recommend it however, as the entire fight took 30 min, my right hand started hurting from mashing j,k, and l, and having 10 deuces per set, eventually leading up to my 5/7 pt tiebreaker loss was not worth it. With just one upgrade of equipment, Rachel was able to powerbomb Kate. Tip I have is to hold space and your power keys, as your character will autoaim and be extremely optimal about it Treat this game like it's a fun tennis game, do a beginner/intermediate tourney after every heroine unlock, and you'll be out in 1-1 1/2 hours tops with a smile on your face, and good h-scenes. Treat this game like Omega Strikers, and you'll be disappointed and frustated.

This may be my first time reviewing one of these games that wasn't either an RPG or a VN. Unfortunately playing this game only made me understand more why these are few and far between. This game has better production value and polish than every single game I've ever played on this site. In spite of that, neither the H-scenes or the actually gameplay are good enough to actually make this anything other than a rare novelty. The gameplay seems quite interesting and deep at first glance, but the CPU is abusable enough even on the highest difficulty that you'll never need to make use of the dozens upon dozens of options the game gives you. Good thing to, because if you did the game would be grindy as fuck . I literally gave up on completing all the content in this short ass game because it all felt the same and I didn't wanna grind 15 more sets against CPU's I knew I would eventually beat for a trophy I didn't care for. Not to mention that to get half of the H-content in the game you need to get each heroine to level 50, which trust me is absurd . The scenes looked great, and were animated pretty well, but fuck if I'm gonna waste my time like that. The story also basically exists as nothing more than faux revenge porn that's just as toothless as it looks on first glance. The best way I could describe it is what someone thinks Rance would be like without playing it, in that the main character is an asshole who rapes all the girls but also they kind of like it and deserve it(??) It's basically just memes and excuses to rape girls, which is fine if that's your thing. It's a game that's incredibly easy to be lukewarm on, is the best way I could describe it. If you're hankering for some porn while playing a short tennis game, then hey there's nothing else like it. But expect to put it down shortly and move on with your life just as quick as you picked it up. Probably worth about 5$?

Really good gameplay, good enough H scenes. 100% the game just because of how fun it was, I wasn't even watching the scenes, that's just how fun it was, really surprising to find this type of gameplay in a H game. It's also a good level of challenge, doesn't patronize you but also doesn't make it impossible. Not grindy unless you are like me and want to 100% (especially getting the minor character's CGs in the tournament since sometimes you are only missing one and have to be lucky to match against her) but it does take a while to unlock the scenes, but I bet you can complete everything in 1-2h if you skip dialogue. My hint: Speed is key, and always rip clothing, even if you are getting destroyed you can atleast make a comeback on the other sets by decreasing the enemy's stats

While I personally don't like ugly-bastard MC stories, the live2d cutscenes and gameplay are definitely worth a try. It took me a while to realize you can just press jkl to do the normal swing, since pressing those buttons while holding the space bar can activate the skills. I think the gameplay itself is worth you trying it out, and the other parts are like the toppings that make a full package. The story can be pretty funny at times, while the deep lore that originally the MC (most likely) isn't an ugly-bastard is kind of a neat revelation.

Actual game with fun gameplay and very hot and well animated scenes. The tennis gameplay is simple and intuitive. There is plenty of cheesy ways to trivialize it but it's still addictive. Runs smooth as butter on a 10 years old laptop. The artstyle is spectacular, the animated scenes (there are 10) are fantastic. Even the single pictures that you get from defeating random opponents in tournaments are really good. Try it out, change the controls if the defaults feel ass and have fun.

It is an excellent sports game with H aspects. This game isnt a quick fap, you have to play a decent chunk of the game before the H secenes roll in. But what is this is an interesting take on sports H game. - Its well polished ground breaking bugs etc. - The writing is well above the slop we are served with nowadays - The gameplay is fun for mutliple hours with increased difficulty.

It's a fine game in terms of its visuals and narrative, though main Tennis gameplay feels too random, clunky and exhausting. Filled with weird unclear ruleset accompanied by unresponsive controls. I know there is an encyclopedia in main menu, but it does not fixes the issues :9

This is a game before being a porn game, hadn't played tennis games for more than a decade and spent a good 2 hours having fun and enjoying the porn bits as a side thing. Don't download it if you just want a quick fap. 10/10

I have a lot to say about this game because there are a couple parts of the experience to focus on. This game mainly consists of three things, managing characters stats, tennis tournaments, and of course the H-Scenes. The short phrase I can use to describe this game is, "polished, yet underdeveloped" . What I mean by this is that the H-Scenes are really well done, and the gameplay itself that leads you to these experiences is also great. But I just don't like how little content there really is, more so that the H-scenes are purposefully stretched thin by arbitrarily locking them behind level requirements. There are like 2 long H-Scenes per a character, one unlocked after defeating them in a tournament, and the other after reaching a certain level of experience with them. The problem with this mechanic is that if you were to play this game legitimately without tampering with it and cheating it would take you an unreasonable amount of time to unlock these scenes. The previews for other H-Scenes are also locked behind completing tournaments. But these scenes aren't fully animated, only about 12 are. The rest are just still images with quips and phrases that the girls say after defeat, which are cute but I would've preferred for the experience that the developer worked towards making more of these scenes or at least made the work to getting to these scenes proportional to the amount of content in the game. This last thing is more of a personal issue with these types of games, but I just don't really dig the narrative of using a gross, ugly looking man as the protagonist of the game. It would be nice if you could pick a gender and the game was more vague about who the player character is rather than developing this story around him. Obviously I have no problem with the narrative and what the game is trying to set up, but I personally just prefer for the player character to be more vague or at least palatable . I still want to give this game a good rating because at least there is the accessibility of being able to unlock all of the H-Scenes with the click of one button rather than inserting a save file or updating a config file. But, between how little H-Scenes you get, and the way that this game stretches the scenes I just can't give it any higher of a rating. The grind would be a great experience if there were more scenes included in the game. I beg that the developer also reworks the game to remove the ugly protagonist and patch in a better storyline. If you were to make the main character somewhat neutral and then have a decently attractive side character rape them or something that's fine.

A great game. The H-scenes are fine and all, but the real fun is actually in the tennis. Allthough I have to admit being rewarded with a nice image, or scene in the campaign, is a nice bonus after a win.

Gameplay: Playing tennis in this game is surprisingly fun and elaborate. Even once you get pretty good at it, it can still surprise you with a challenge. This is due to opponents having different skill sets, which forces you to adapt and change your tactics accordingly. It can be challenging at first but feels incredibly rewarding to figure out and get better. I would never expect something like this in a porn game. Awesome. The optimization of this part of the game blows though. For some reason, when the ball hits the net, the game suddenly starts lagging a lot. Story: Not a fan of "ugly bastard" type of characters and rape'y stuff, so I didn't enjoy it that much. Moreover, the story mode is unfortunately very short, and if your goal is to unlock the whole gallery, then you will spend most of your time on tournament grinding. Art and animation: This, along with the gameplay, is the strongest point of the game. The animations are awesome. Although, I would prefer if the H-scenes had more variety with different positions and stuff in a single scene as opposed to them fucking in the same pose for the whole scene. Also, at times, during sex scenes the dialogue doesn't align with what you see on the screen. Not bad overall; I would rate it 6/10 . If there's ever a sequel of some kind it would be awesome if it had: - the same tennis system - more varied sex scenes (for example, as someone in the comments pointed out: there is not a single animated blowjob scene in the whole game) - longer story - No rape'y ugly bastard bullshit

PROS: * Nice tennis game * Nice interface and sound * Five girls Cons: * Basic design of girls * Hentai animations are weak and nothing special in terms of fantasy * Drawing quality of girls mid at best * Straightforward idiocy of girls as the only way to make hentai scenes possible * Just another ugly bastard as MC

The game looks amazing but the gameplay isn't great and the h isn't good either. Story 3/10 An academy with a great tennis team has a coach who goes to the hospital. So they call you in, a known pervert. But a pervert who's really great at coaching tennis. There's some story with bullying or something but it's not that deep. You beat the tennis team members one at a time. And that's it. The girls each have their own kind of mini-story series, but it's also not that deep. Really, this is a slice-of-life style game, but it doesn't do that very well imo. Gameplay 4/10 So. The tennis playing. It's.... okay. The core gameplay is fun-ish. But it's long. Tournaments take too long to beat and I'm not here to play some knock-off wii-sports. There's some mechanic of breaking your opponent's clothes, but there's no crowd. You play in an empty tennis field and it's all just kind of barren. Whenever your opponent loses a point, they spin in a circle. When you lose a point you spin in a circle. In other words there's a distinct lack of polish. Art 5/10 The art looks really nice but there's just not a lot of it. Each of the 5 main heroines have 2 h-scenes and a couple of non-h CGIs. The vast majority of other scenes are just art with 1 line of text. It's just lacking all around. Overall 4/10 The art looks great, the gameplay starts kind of fun, but there's just not enough content. The gameplay gets old an repetitive without involving much h at all, while the story's also lackluster. There's potential for a great game but this game was sent out the door as a proof-of-concept product.

Once again, I wish we could do half-stars. If you're looking for a deep and amazing story line - this is not the game you're looking for. With that being said, there is a lot to like about this game. First, it IS a game with difficulty that scales reasonably well with some RPG type elements such as levelling and equipment. The tennis is actually pretty fun with slightly different play styles with the different characters and a fairly steep learning curve. The art is good and the sex scenes are pretty good too as long as you're comfortable with some borderline CNC; definitely not a love story. I didn't finish every ending for every characters - who has the time - it definitely gets a little grindy once you're through the main storyline (which doesn't take all that long). I will say, the scenes for the npc women are a nice break in the tournament matches - which are also blessedly abbreviated. tl;dr it's a fun way to kill a few hours.

The game is very grindy. You HAVE to grind. You HAVE to grind stats. You HAVE to grind items. You HAVE to grind skills. Until you grind some ZERO variation gameplay for an hour, the game is NOT skill based. And the grind experience is bad. Say you decide to grind a tourney game. Vs the last player in the tourney, you know the huge stat disadvantage you face through the set that you just lost. And after losing that set, it's a waste of time to play it out. Can you concede and move on and finally equip skills? No! If you do, you lose the progress of the WHOLE tourney. When serving, there is an annoying sound effect that is supposed to warn against afk. Well, you know what, adjusting the serve position with active keyboard input is not AFK. It's just annoying. The score screen is too long for something this repetitive. etc If the game wants to be grindy, at least make it smooth. The voice acting is really bad. The art is decent.

Full disclosure: I cheated the shit out of this. That said it is actually a somewhat polished tennis game. Nothing profound, bad also not anything bad. You'll fight play tennis with increasingly difficult opponents who you can add to your roster after you beat and fuck them senseless. Sometimes you have to prepare some kind of counter to some girls, for example the final boss has a weird super fast serve technique, if you use the first ability you unlock you can block this easily after which the speed is so high she almost never hits it back anymore. You can do tournaments too get more money for better gear and gaining exp, in my experience this is only useful to progress from level 20 to level 50 to get the final scene for the girls (When I beat the game my highest level was <20). This seemed to me like it would take an absurd amount of time to do this per character so I just gave myself a bunch of money and bought the levels directly. TBH I'm not really patient with sport games though. There are 10 h-scenes total, 2 for each girl. Also there are single frame stills for the generic girls you beat in the tournament. There is an unlock all scenes button but it doesn't seem to work. TLDR; Fast food game, nothing special but quick and fun.

The gameplay is really fun with a good sense of progression, the scenes were surprisingly good, the characters are lowkey freaky as hell, and the story is okay but actually funny at times. It does it's job perfectly, no complaints