Chapter 1
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Translator: Ebonarch
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Prologue
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["Is 'Academy Tamer' even meant to be beaten? Slammed my head into it for a week and I'm barely at the start of Chapter 2 lololol"]
"I beat Diablo in 13 hours, and there's a game where I can't even capture one heroine after a whole week?!"
Yeah... that's normal. Still, hitting Chapter 2 in a week is pretty far. I've been playing since launch and I'm still stuck there.
Random pop-in but is harem route even possible in this game? Try to two-time and you get insta-killed by an event or stabbed by a heroine?
Dumbass lol no one's even captured a single heroine yet and you're dreaming of harem route lol give up.
No, the taming is one thing, but the combat difficulty is insane. Don't level and you get wrecked, level too much and waste time so taming % doesn't go up and you end with nothing. Total trash game.
Fr lol it's a game you play just hoping the heroines get you horny. Bang 100 hours into an eroge and no CGs? Might as well delete before your head explodes and go look at heroine hentai~ GTG
Why you only? Where's the hentai! If you're leaving, at least drop some boob pics!
Countless posts flooding the community boards.
Over 99% were rants and curses about the game's difficulty.
Yeah. This game deserved every bit of the hate.
It had been a full month since release.
Look at that—no one in a single-player game a month old had captured even one main heroine.
That alone tells you how brutal the difficulty is.
And yet, this trash game still sold like hotcakes because...
-NPCs with interactions so lifelike it felt like real people were stuffed into the game.
-Unlimited heroines you could pursue, from the fruit vendor lady to her daughter (though you couldn't clear the game with them).
-Graphics so overwhelming they mirrored reality perfectly.
-Perfect optimization with zero lag despite all that, and more.
"Still a luck-based trash game, though."
I smirked again as I scrolled through the posts.
The current community record was barely the late Chapter 2—and even that was achieved by ditching main heroine taming from the start and going all-in on story via pure leveling.
I'd tried that myself once, so I knew the ending already.
Total waste of time.
Skip main heroine taming and you won't even see the Chapter 2 boss's face before it ends.
But worse—the bed ending credits force-overwrite your save right before they roll, sending you back to square one.
I pictured the guy raging in fury and grinned as I typed my post.
["Academy's Tamer - Lucia Ursula Route Taming 100% Achieved.JPG"]
"[Lucia Ursula Route] 100% Taming Route <☆☆★★★>
Hotness factor ain't bad.
Especially once taming hits 95%+, Luciella basically becomes the protag's living onahole.
Absolute obedience to nearly every command, even hands over info and items needed to tame other heroines.
The conquest thrill compared to her initial haughty attitude more than makes up for the frustration during taming. Though there are tons of bullshit events like 'die if you don't know'...
TL;DR: Academy's Tamer is recommended for folks who just want the girls horny and nothing else, but absolutely not for anyone wanting serious RPG in their eroge."
-Lucia first outdoor exposure.jpg
-Lucia naked dogeza.jpg
-Lucia ahegao double peace.jpg
-Lucia taming 100% achievement proof.jpg
While others struggled mid-Chapter 2, here I was with a full heroine capture and screenshots.
The smug superiority of eating the first heroine? That's why I can't quit eroge.
Hit post, wet my lips with some coffee, and notifications exploded as expected.
I chuckled, checking the replies.
Whoa... how'd you clear it?
Fake. I tried almost exactly that and couldn't do it.
Dumbass. It's 'TTQ123'. If it's this guy, it's legit.
Oh lol TTQ123 is legit. Never seen anyone better at eroge than this dude.
Nah nah, didn't you say you were off to see hentai?
TTQ123 is he a god?! TTQ123 is he a god?! TTQ123 is he a god?! TTQ123 is he a god!
Skeptics at first turned to believers the moment they saw my name.
But the praise soon shifted elsewhere.
So when's the guide for putting that 'bratty bitch' in her place? She's so goddamn rude I don't even wanna bother.
Tch tch that's the appeal and you're clueless. Eh, TTQ123 will probably drop it next week.
Idiots still don't get TTQ123's tastes. Next week it's definitely the witch.
My laughing face froze solid.
As comments pivoted from praise to speculating my next main heroine target, I couldn't take it anymore and slammed the community window shut.
"Haa... how the hell do I clear the second playthrough?"
My head was already throbbing. Truth be told, even capturing Lucia was a near-miracle.
Launch day, six games per monitor.
Total of 18 running simultaneously.
Nearly 20 hours a day outside eating, sleeping, and shitting—blasting through events until one perfect 100% taming route emerged.
Even then, it took over a month.
Run just one like everyone else? A year at least.
"Honestly... gotta count it as a win that I cleared it at all."
And that was only possible thanks to miraculously favorable random events. No confidence I could repeat it.
I sighed and fired up Academy's Tamer again.
The loading screen alone nearly made me puke, but I couldn't stop.
Now folks would call it a fluke if I didn't snag the next heroine soon.
That'd be game over for me.
Ad revenue from game streams was my entire livelihood. Lose the Eroge Master rep, and this life's done.
【Day 1 of Playthrough 2】
→ Continue
"Fucking devs, you serious? Who puts combat this hard in an eroge...?"
My finger trembled over Continue—right before clicking, I snapped and emailed the devs.
Started polite, ended loaded with curses.
Too filthy to repeat verbatim, but gist: quit the god-game syndrome, patch the difficulty down, fix the ending.
"Bit harsh, but they'll get it..."
Ding-
Reply almost instant. Never expected a response to my curse-fest, so I was stunned.
[We've noted your feedback. Lots of curses, but we get the concern for the world. Difficulty patch is tough, though. This is already max help within the world's causality limits.]
What bullshit was this? Causality? Sounded like balance, but users scream it's broken and they ramble on.
[Fuck you, why make it an eroge if you're gonna do this? Just make a straight RPG.]
[...Any issues? Sims said eroge release maximizes world salvation odds... uh... since... transcending human lust limits is best...]
[Holy shit you're delusional. Research before making an eroge. No eroge protag talks like that—pure brick wall. Give him some hyped lines befitting a protag. Most are just 'Got it.' 'Will do.' 'Roger.'~]
[...But sims said those were most-picked options.]
[Yeah, sims are wrong. And the ending sucks. Without that it'd be average, but god-game fever ruined it. Director a retard? Game's retarded too~ lol Just die together holding hands.]
My rage-filled email halted the instant replies.
Started regretting going too far—then:
[...My fault the world ended up like this?]
Guilt melted into glee. Knew it—this was the director. How pissed must he be to drop polite speech for casual after all that?
[You the director lol? Yup~ Bad directing fucked the game. All your fault~]
[Why me? I gave it my all. Poured everything to save the world.]
[Yup, director difference GTG~ Never direct eroge again. Guaranteed trash every time. For real, even I'd do better than you directing with my dick ㅇㅇ...]
[...Fine? Prove it,]
That instant, blinding white light erupted from the monitor, searing my eyes.
"Wh-what the fuck?!"
Light engulfed me—I knew something was wrong. When it faded, my empty room's screen held one line.