VN - Ren'Py - How I Became a Hero [S2 Ch.15] [Naughty tales studios]

Review for game till ch 7
The game writing is like a dnd campaign which is good, the bad part is there are virtually no choices, and while I can look past static and sometime subpar sex scenes, writing is a part I will not agree on. As it is like reading a kinedic novel masqureding as point and click. I mean Bing a dik does dnd much better than his. And that is why I am disappointed .
not recommend it for anything , as aside from scope there is nothing much which this game does exceptionally.

This is a thoroughly average game with a good amount of content. The translation to English is not great, but even if it were properly translated it doesnt seem like the writing would be anything special.

Zero player choice in game other than if you want to see content or not. Every female character in the story falls in love with the MC immediately. World setting is refreshing and decently done.

Overall I would give it a 3*, I wouldnt go out of my way to play it but you could do far worse

I’ll cut the yap, this game is a solid 5/5 for me.

I usually don’t enjoy VNs, but this one is an exception. The story is interesting even though it’s pretty linear and doesn’t offer many choices, still it’s well done overall, I especially like the pacing it feels just right, the renders aren’t the best but they’re good enough (maybe I give it 4/5), can’t wait for the next update.

Great game, 5/5.

A cohesive, engaging narrative with a clear overarching arc and interlinked subplots. It's a linear story. The player character is likeable. My only criticism is that the models’ facial features appear stylistically uniform, but they remain distinguishable through other artistic cues. I was also surprise at the diversity of the bodies, from slender to thicker models. There are plenty of titillating images; even during "downtime." I'd highly recommend this game and supporting the author on Patreon.

Its. Fine. Nothing ground breaking. Writing is.. ok. Characters tend to melt into the same profile, even if they start different. LOTS of facial jewelry. I guess the developer has a fetish. Not for me, but to each their own..

A little bit different, enough to be fresh but not so much that it's weird. If you are into harem power fantasy stories I very highly recommend it. It gets a bit wordy and repetitive at times but there is a lot of content and the MC is respectful and caring and someone who doesn't make you feel ashamed or dirty.

The story is interesting but unfortunately the execution is bad, starting with the fact there are no story choices at all, this game is a kinetic novel not a VN and because of the lack of choices the game hinges on you the player liking Miriel, if you don't like her it gets super hard to continue playing as the MC pines for her over and over, next is the horrible pacing that speeds up at the important parts and slows during the boring stuff, what the game focuses on is also bad, there is a bigger focus on cooking a snake than any detail of the main story and finally there is the layout that has the MC going from a normal day to being trapped in another world facing an immortal to next learning how to take modeling pictures or chopping wood.

The MC is one of the biggest problems as he has a strange almost alien response/reaction to just about everything(too calm, too happy, goes along with everything, questions nothing, trusts everyone, never tries to escape, sleeps in a room with a woman who wanted him executed, believes every story told to him, his personality makes wild changes for no reason, nice guy, coward, simp, moron, asshole, playboy, crybaby, etc..., he is a scammers wet dream falling for every trick in the book, basically he's just a prop.

I have to wonder what exactly the writer thought the players reaction to the elves leaving the MC to rot in a cell with barely any food or water for three weeks and then destroying his possessions would be?, because for me i now hate them and want nothing to do with them, of course the MC is for some strange reason grateful after this and then the game forces him to simp to them.

No choices that change the MC's attitude in anyway, that let you reject any of the main women or that direct the story at all, there are few see extra sex scene or not "choices" but none of the primary sex scenes cant be avoided(they are 100% forced on you).

The human characters are one dimensional and basically identical, they all throw themselves at the MC like he is made of solid gold, the elf's i didn't like as the worse they treat the MC the more he seems to like them which gives him and the whole game a masochistic vibe.

Once again basic male biology takes a leap out the window with the MC having erections for hours that can only be calmed down with cumming.

The art is great but as scenes are forced on you it makes it less enjoyable, same with the adult scenes.

Story 1/5 (badly done)
Sex 2/5 (visually good but not with characters you hate)
Characters 2/5 (bad MC and 1d women)
Art 4/5 (great)
Choices 1/5 (no proper choices, kinetic novel)
Kinks 1/5 (couple of light ones)

So far, I'm really enjoying this game, and the story is captivating. At first, I didn't think the dynamic of switching between the fantasy world and the real world would work, but it seems to have worked in the end because it offers the versatility to show characters with different styles, like those we usually see in our world, and others that are more "medieval," as well as mythical beings like elves, etc.

As for the sexual content, so far it's worked well with the harem genre, which is my favorite genre, but there seem to be signs that they're starting to expand to include lesbian content. I don't think this is a bad thing, as such content can be avoided, and I appreciate it. However, I sincerely believe that, being a harem game, the sexual and romantic elements should generally focus on the main protagonist or MC. I don't think resources should be wasted on that kind of content, because if it continues like this, it would stop being a harem game and become a polyamory game, and the MC would be more like a walking dildo in the middle of a large group of lesbians, and it would be horrible if that happened.

For now, it's an amazing game, and I want it to continue that way. I just hope it doesn't go down the wrong path from now on.

The one-stars are unfair and honestly ridiculous...

this is a great AVN, and it delivers in every way IMO. So many trash avns out here that actually deserve a 1 star, and this is not one of them.

Either way, if you like a good story, incest and are into or open to fantasy(eleves, giants and whatnot) this is a great AVN and you should give it a try. its in my top 5 without a doubt.

pros
-many

cons
-its not complete yet XD

5/5 stars and keep up the good work devs!

+ music
+ gallery
+ lovey-dovey stuff is nicely done
+ fantasy universe, many different girls - goblin, elves etc
+ story is ok
+ optional sharing/cuckolding. Yes, MC is one of these who like to "watch"

- no choices, girls are forced. I don't want anything to do with lesbian characters and their lesbo tendencies
- another pseudo harem game
- first time with Chanel is poorly done
- wimpy unassertive MC. Many times he doesn't know what to do with naked girl standing before him, need some manual instruction?
- let's talk about some very bad thing dev did in this update. Players who turned off lesbo content in options are punished with no 3some scene! Probably because he is not capable of creating MFF without lesbianism or just too lazy for alternative variant. Middle finger for all these players, and in the future things like that will be normal? No group scenes for us? What a brilliant move

After that low-blow move, game in my books doesn't deserve more than 1 star. I have never seen something like this in this genre

PROS
+ Sex scenes are animated.

CONS
- The whole ''Oh look honey, that's a baby in trash! How cruel someone to do this a baby! Let's not take the baby to a hospital or police, instead 'adopt' him right on the spot!'' is nonsense, and dumb AF, what kind of people are these? What kind of laws exist in this world? And more importantly, what kind of terrible writing is this? Other parts of story is not really that great either, like the whole he is being blind thing, which he doesn't look like at all, MC can follow objects with his pupils, holds eye contact with people he's talking to and easily performs actions that would be difficult for someone blind. And after he got isekaid he doesn't even suffer like someone blind before, and got his eyesight back, it's like he never was blind at all. Not to forget how he got isekaid is nonsense AF as well, like why random old woman sells Witcher medallion, and wearing that medallion teleports MC into a fantasy world? And what's worse, why he even later goes back to his world thanks a talking cat?! This is seriously very very messy, and nonsense story with almost every part.
- The whole MC's, and love interests romance development is terribly-written, for no reason almost every girl fells in love with the MC in short amount of times.
- MC doesn't have likeable personality at all.
- Visual quality, style, facial expressions, and features looks bad, and with small changes on facial features, or body proportions, etc, it could look good, but current style is bad. And it's quite surprising considering developers game before this one had way better visual quality, and style, like... How is it even possible for you to do worse job than your older game?
- Gallery design is quite weird, it's full of scenes should have nothing to do with being in the gallery, like content with nothing lewd/sexual at all, just a normal scene from the game, etc.
- Choices doesn't matter in most cases, or even it shown like matter they actually don't change anything important, along with this most stuff, kinks, etc, are not avoidable.

VERDICT
Not worth reading especially how bad, and messy the story is, but if you like the visual style, then maybe it could be worth letting out some steam with skipping dialogue or watching the gallery, otherwise avoiding might be good idea.

[Season 1]

⠀⠀⠀Author didn't even try to properly represent a blind person. If it wasn't mentioned in the narrative and we weren't shown the walking cane, we wouldn't even know that he's blind. He follows objects with his pupils, holds eye contact with people he's talking to and easily performs actions that would be difficult for someone with his disability. And after he got isekai'd, he doesn't have to transition as if he was sighted his whole life, his past blindness was only ever used as an excuse for others to pity him, and was otherwise pretty irrelevant. And of course he can't even pretend to be blind after returning home. Good thing other characters are too stupid to catch on.

⠀⠀⠀To say that this novel has an 'Oblivion NPC'-tier dialogues would be an insult to Oblivion. The writing is dreadful. People do not talk like sentient living creatures, it's not even on the level of Zuckerberg human imitation, but much worse. Not only does everyone talk like robots, but also do so in broken English, so translation's not good.

⠀⠀⠀Why is a witcher medallion, sold by some random woman on the street, teleporting our protagonist to a fantasy world? Why does he summarize in all the detail what literally just happened? Gets thrown in jail for three weeks because "we don't trust you" and "want to study the medallion". Oops sorry we destroyed your medallion, but we'll surely figure out how to return you to your world, because we've got nothing better to do. Until then, you're free to go wherever and do whatever because what could go wrong, right? We also burned your clothes, btw, AND you have to pay for new ones, so I guess you're now our bitch and have to pay the debts. MC be like: "sounds perfectly reasonable, have a nice day". He later need to get into the tower, but it's guarded, and by chance he learns that the guardian is afraid of animals. So he brought a pig with him and she LITERALLY drops unconscious like a sack of potatoes. A goblin holds a cat hostage and is willing to trade it for an extremely rare fish. So instead of asking villagers to help kick his ass, our MC goes fishing and actually catches the fish, because it's super rare, so it makes sense, right? Why is everyone going out of their way to help the MC? He's done nothing of equal value for them and is a literal stranger, so this kind of compassion and comradery is unwarranted. The reason behind MC pretending to still be blind in his original world is so retarded: "you wouldn't be able to explain", well how about he DOESN'T HAVE TO?? He could say that it just happened and he's no idea why, and nobody would be any wiser, or are you trying to tell me that they would eventually suspect parallel worlds and inter-dimensional travel, because some blind boy could finally see? There are also loads of porn logic like brewing a semen potion with penis flower to restore magical abilities.

⠀⠀⠀MC is an autistic wimp. If you're blind, that doesn't mean that you also have to be sobby, socially awkward imbecile with no backbone and no self-respect. Yet for some reason everybody's crazy in love with him. Like at first he's a "filthy human scum", 5 minutes later he's already "kinda cute doe", 2 days later he's "the love of my life, I can't live without him". Making puppy eyes, telling his sob story or simply showing his dick is usually more than enough to conquer any wench for this protagonist. He says a couple of compliments and already gets a status of best guy in the world, this level of affection is simply not deserved.

⠀⠀⠀Sex scenes: a decent animation shown from 3-4 angles over a dozen of times. Naughty talk is bland and awkward, sometimes there is NO sex dialogue at all, not even onomatopoeia, just humping in complete silence. There is music with vocals that doesn't really fit the mood, no sfx, no clapping, no moans. Almost no teasing or build up either, sex just kinda happens. Most girls are very attractive, tho there are a couple of freaky-looking sidekicks.


Conclusion: definitely a bad read. Maybe a decent porn, if you skip a lot of text?

TL;DR
Yet another VN trying to be story-focused and failing miserably.

Okayish:

• Animations and renders are technically above average, but they are bland and boring; a lot of overused assets.

Cons:

• Writing: First few chapters it is literally "Oblivion NPC dialogs." Everything feels like some kind of bad parody of a typical fantasy game.
• Story: Boring, jumps from one scene to another and it's compounded by bad writing. What's the point of the MC's blindness? It's mentioned only when another LI needs to pity MC, and has zero impact on the plot.
• MC: Is a constant white knight. In the beginning, he is an omega virgin who doesn't know how to interact with girls; a few days later, he is a gigachad seducer. That's not how character development works.
• H-scenes: Are awful. Up to chapter 8, there is no build-up, no dirty talk, no narration, just animations. Later there are 2 not-bad scenes, but it's too little, too late.
• Harem: Everyone is in LoOooVe with the MC for no reason and okay with sharing. New LIs are constantly popping up to have 1-2 scenes and be forgotten.
• Strange facial expressions.
• Strange game design: Gallery full of scenes without sex content. In 1st season all variables are persistent.

Great art, and the story really grows into something good, even if the start is a bit stupid. Good enough for me to give a review, wich is rare, really hope the autor can keep developing this story well.

This game took me by surprise, I started it out of curiosity and got surprised by the depth of the main characters back story and the progression of events in the main story. The story itself is quite interesting and well written, but what amazed me the most is the evolution of the main character and his relationships with all the other characters he interacts with during the plot(and I mean all, not only the love interests). The graphics are also incredible and beautiful and they enrich the story within the game without overshadowing it, as it should be in my personal opinion. I would recommend trying it to everyone who likes fantasy games.

I only played the first season and its really good so far. The game takes place in two different worlds, each with its own characters., but the magical world is by far the most interesting one, and has the most interesting characters. The moment the mc gets back to his original world the story became quite boring for me and can get quite melodramatic at times. Not a fan of Misty.
The renders look really good and so do the animations. I also love how some of the characters have different body types. Bibi, Erdie, Daka are some of my favorite characters, but unfortunately as the game progresses the less and less you see them. Also the body type variety kinda goes out of the window in the human world.
Overall, it is a strong recommend, i will try the second season as well at some point, and hope to see more with the more unusual characters.

Review for season 2 Chapter 11. Not sure why I passed this by before this, but gave it a go and was very, very impressed.

A very interesting story that drew me in and I found it interesting, very different and enjoyable. Graphics are top notch, animations are great.

Now this was a great experience for me, but like everything it may not be for everyone. First it is very much Kinetic, few choices and you cannot deviate from the path the Dev has you on. Second there are many LIs and although you can choose to not engage with some of them it all seems like that is the path it wants you to be on.

The LIs are various and extremely diverse, and I really like that, but some of them may not be everyone's cup of java, so keep that in mind.

The MC is a good young guy, like - super nice. The girls all like him and are basically in love with the dude, and he is like freakishly nice.

The writing was the real gem, it starts out slow and I didn't even realize it had been such a very long time in playtime and he had only gotten a handjob. It was such a good story. When I realized that fact, I was a little miffed and about that time he started to get some.

Wholesome, fun, adventure, fantasy, elf girls and milfs, cow girl (that one was built a little weird) goblin girls, giant lady, a bunch of girls in his normal world and so on.

Enjoyable, easily one of the better VNs I have seen.

Ok wow this was an amazing journey that roped me in from the beginning. This is now one of my favorite games and it came from playing from chapter one all the way through 11 and for the first time in awhile I actually was mad when I saw that it ended for now.

Everything about this game is amazing from the story, the relationships, and all the unique characters in this game. The writing is done superbly and I read every line and had no intention of skipping. It is also very fun to see how the creator has changed and developed the game overtime for more emersion and choices. Also for a game with a harem tag the romance is top notch and you really do feel a connection with the characters, obviously some more than others. I am also with no spoilers very curious to see how a relationship may form with a rather unique character given the size difference.

This game has something for everyone to be honest. If your looking for a great story. You won't find one much better than this.

If your are looking for great renders this one also fills that box. The scenes are also very well done and not the same copy and pasted scenes repeated over and over again as in some games.

Different body types is a big one in this game is you have short, tall, bigger, muscular, skinny, and all in between. Most of all you get the choice to an extent at who you engage with and the type of content you want to see that may be gross to some and a turn on for others.

A fantastic game and journey that I cannot wait for more content to come as with as much content as there already is it really feels like its just beginning to take shape and could go for a long time before it concludes. I cannot wait to see where it goes.

As of Chapter 10:

Okay, so I am actually surprised this game is from the same dev as Max's Life. Don't get me wrong; Max's Life was good. But the animation and story are so good and so much more different. But then perhaps it's a larger or different team since the listed dev is different. ANYWAYS! I disgress.

Artwork/Animations - 7/5

I absolutely love the models in this game. And the dev went out of their way to provide options (like dwarf women? This game is for you!). And the animations are so clean. And yes, there's plenty of hot stuff!

Storyline/Dialogue - 4/5

So the story isn't bad. It's actually pretty good. And again, the dialogue is a huge improvement over Max's Life. But again, I digress. The story is developing nicely; just not sure how I feel on how it started. I don't want to give any spoilers. And (I can't believe I'm saying this), but I feel like some of the romances developed a little too quickly. Again, my opinion. But the story is captivating, and I look forward to following it.

Gameplay/UI - 4/5

So this one is a little weird. The game is basically a VN. There are a few options that will dictate content moving through the story, but it's very few and far between. The reason I am giving it 4 stars is because I kinda feel like there are too many clickable choice options during the H scenes. I get why they're there; I think it would be better to advance through the scenes and then provide the repeatable options, instead of providing them throughout the scene. I hope this makes sense!

Overall, this is a really good game. I have some personal nit-picks about the story and the UI, but the artwork and animation easily make up for it. 5/5 all day long. Great work!

Cheers!

Radical Dreamer

The relationships are foced... Makes you feel like choises don't matter.
Too bad the renders and the story are good!
I liked most of the characters.
Lesbian vibes even when you say you don't like it.
I Really don't like the sister, feels like a used slut.