There is only hurt here.

This is a story about the cycle of grooming. It's about a very broken person trying to cope with what's been done to him by both others and life itself (and possibly the gods), while "acting" as a highschool teacher. Needless to say, it's a very dark story and it reads like an addict trying to get better only to fall even deeper time and time again as you uncover more of his tragic past with his own groomer.

It also has the best writing i have ever seen in a game, in fact, if this was a book it would be one my favorites of all time. The downside, and very sizeable downside, is that some aspects of the game itself are ridiculous. The triggers for the events are done in a sort of "try the same thing 20 times at random until it triggers", and the puzzles (2 times per chapter more or less) are even worse. However, there is a mod that fixes the events by giving you specific instructions on how to trigger them ingame. As for the puzzles, they are all either "write down the answer" or "click x options on a specific order" and you'll have to get their answers online and suffer through them unfortunately.

The writing is so spetacular however that even that is worth it. As of March/2024, the game has over 300 events (it's in chapter 4 out of 6 planned ones), and i have either ugly cried from both sadness and happiness, or stared into nothingness by being overwhelmed by what had happened in at the very least a third of them.

I will finish by saying that the music is also good, and that you'll have over 20 characters with compelling and believable stories to be happy and despair with. Seriously, this is a masterpiece of writing for the genre.

After being practically begged to play this shitstorm of a game a million times, and being completely unimpressed and upset about the huge amount of time, I spent on this dumpsterfire, I decided to write down a review on "Lessons in Love".

Keep in mind that this review was written at the time of Version 0.23.0, and since then, I've chosen to ditch this "game" for good. It's funny because I'm all for western creators getting more recognition in the visual novel world and making their own piece that eschews the annoying, unfunny, and offensive portrayal of sexual victims in media (something VNs are notorious for), but after "Lessons in Love," and its catastrophic writing to such an alarming degree. I reckon we're all better off adhering to the VNs we're used to, haha.

Simply put, Lessons in Love tries so hard to pander to the reader and make them fall for its cryporn narrative that the readers get trapped in it and utterly disregard how the drama is not genuine or how phony it is. It includes a big cast of morally dubious, unattractive, overweight, idiotic, depressed, and generally characters who fall further into "loser" category in some fashion. So, when the readers (most likely belonging into one of these classifications) fall into any of these eligibility requirements, they feel as if they are looking in the mirror at themselves (ironically, true). Essentially, it lacks any kind of writing potential and relies on making the reader stroke and lament about their miserable existence, which is the result of their own actions landed on them. This is best exemplified by the story's protagonist, "Sensei," another amnesiac (most nauseatingly convenient cliché) who discovers himself in this even more convenient environment with no men and a community of girls with psychiatric conditions in some form. Yes, I believe both you and I have predicted how they would exploit this system, don't you? That's precisely what it does LMFAO! The hitch is that it also fails spectacularly at it. This protagonist, who exhibits ALLL of these negative traits, grooms and seduces his way to manipulating all of his students with mental illnesses, and that is, Ladies and Gentlemen, how Lessons in Love incorporates its cheap setup with the most generic clichés and convenient characters to characterise and complement its cast. cast. Sensei is supposed to date each one of these young females, make some decisions and fall in their pants, and probe into their psyche and issues, which leads to the game's worst portion, incredibly cheesy and tryhard conversations that keep popping up when you search something like "depressing stories" on Google. Lessons in Love is a Wattpad tale created by a 14-year-old who believes they are suffering from identity and sexual identity issues and need a medium to express themselves in the form of a poorly worded lesbian smut. I despise how this text is written and how it fails to do what it sets out to do. I'm delighted people find some consolation in this art and reflect positively in their life by becoming even more afraid of confronting their problems and living in a shell after being consoled by a badly drawn porn story.

The writer should be ashamed of how incompetent, unoriginal, and just horrible their entire production is, and they should promptly reimburse all of their Patreon backers. Extending the narrative to make it longer than the fucking Bible is nonsensical if their work is superficial and a fucking 3D cryporn game at that. This is an outstanding demonstration of "all bark and no bite."

Tl;dr This game is a disaster and certainly one of the worst works of literature I've ever read. I've squandered important time by not doing anything constructive and instead reading this fanfic. If you're searching for an emotional Visual Novel, do yourself a favor and google Umineko no Naku Koro Ni by 07th Expansion... Alternatively, if you want a sexually abusive protagonist, read Lolita. Humbert is much superior than anything Lessons in Love writer could hope to create in their lifetime.

Sorry if I came across as hostile. I just can't be mad in front of the individual who suggested it to me, and I don't have anywhere to vent my rage due of the malignant followers worshipping this title on Twitter and the creator's Discord Server. Worst experience I've ever had in my entire fucking life.