Even in some cases, a student can trash talk you, and treat you like garbage in their first interaction, which increases the difficulty of making friends.

Sometimes, it is very hard to befriend with other students, since some of them can show no interest in chatting with you.

Also, when you lose a fight, you lie on the floor doing nothing until 15 seconds has passed.

Also, fighting another student is a rather risk decision, not only because it will increase the chance of that student begin to hate you, but there is also a chance of you losing the fight, with the student trash talking and humiliating you for losing.

Speaking of the interaction choices, there are choices to fight and insult someone, which are very mean-spirited things to do, and they contribute nothing for the game, unless you really want to make enemies in your gameplay.

Sure, ducklings follow their mother wherever they go, but the drawing itself can be very confusing for some first-time players. Like the 'Ask to follow' choice, which is just a duck drawing.

Also, some drawings don't make any sense.

If you choose a wrong choice, it will end up making you look like an idiot, a bully or even a pervert to the student you want to befriend.

When you interact with a student, you will recieve a choice of 24 actions to select, but the problem is that these choices are just buttons with drawings with no explanation of what you character will say to the student.

Speaking of which, the concept of a high-school simulation, when you have to control a certain student to befriend with other students, start to date other girls/boys and have sex with them is very generic and an overused trope in erotic anime and games, if the game was placed in another location instead of a high school, the story and mechanics would remain the same.

Even School Mate, which is a game that is set on a high-school like Artificial Academy, has at least a story and characters besides the eroge gameplay.

There is no plot or challenges to do, you just have to interact with other students to befriend and that's it, making the game even more boring to play.

Speaking of which, the game doesn't tell where the students are nor what they are doing, so if you find and interact with the student you want to chat, there is a chance of you interruping a conversation between that student, or worse, encountering him/her in the restroom (if it is a opposite gender student).

Other example is if you want to go to another place, you have to click on a green button with school building and compass, and choose which location you want to go.

If he/she is not, then you have to click on a green button with a book to find the specific student you want to chat.

For example, if you want to interact with a student, you have to click on the character, but only if he/she is the same place as you are.

The gameplay is very tedious, since you have to control your character by clicking on some area of the game, and some of the mechanics of this game are very frustrating:.

To put more salt in the wound, Real Kanojo a game also released by Illusion has better and far more realistic graphics than Artificial Academy, and it came 1 year earlier before this game, and most of the assets used in Real Kanojo are original.

Speaking of the background graphics, the locations in this game like the classroom, consists of a static image of the location without emotion or interactivity, this wouldn't be a big problem, but this makes it look like the game had a very lazy development.

The background graphics of the students are the worst offender in this case, mostly because of how bland the character models are, especially their faces that barely has details in them, only having eyes and nothing more.

This is because Illusion reused several assets from their previous games like RapeLay, School Mate and Battle Raper, which are already completely terrible games. The graphics are very ugly and outdated, that it looks more like an earlier PlayStation 2 game, despite being made in 2011.

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