Ren'Py Abandoned What a Legend! [v0.6.02] [MagicNuts]

[whichone]

Friendly reminder to NOT include Medusa in this list of fuckable monster women. Despite modern depiction of Medusa (and the other Gorgons), the original was Fugly. It wasn't her gaze that turned you into stone, she was so ugly you turned to stone the moment you saw her. If anything Perseus did her a favour by putting her out of her misery.

Homer's Iliad is one of the oldest known works of Western literature & was written between 1260 - 1180 BC.
There was only Medusa, in The Iliad.
It wasn't until 700 BC that the more modern depiction of there being 3 gorgon sisters, Stheno, Eurylae & Medusa.
Her two sisters are immortal, Medusa is the only mortal of the 3 Gorgon sisters.
At this point they also changed to be sea monsters, the off-spring of sea deities, Keto & Phorcys.
Up to this point, they had boar tusks, wings, scaled skin and huge claws. They had also been depicted as lionesses & sphinx.
It wasn't until the Roman retelling of the stories, by Ovid, around 8 AD that they got snakes for hair.

As you say, lots of changes made over time!!

If you want to get it on, with a Gorgon, then Sorcerer is your game!

I'd have to agree with you on that.
The 1st one is the interpretation that I'd go for, at least for an erotic game like this.
The 2nd interpretation you showed of a Dragon-Woman I prefer to keep to D&D games.

Personally, I also really liked the Dragon-Woman from Monster Girl Island.
Her name is Eydís Níðhöggr, in the game she is the Dragon Queen (since she's a Níðhöggr, she's basically a Serpentine Dragon with wings).
Now, I know she might not be exactly what one imagines when one thinks of a Dragon-Woman, but since I love all manner of snake-like women in fantasy it was a Win-Win for me, and I instantly took a liking to this interpretation of a Dragon-Woman:

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There's, sadly, a bit of an obvious problem with this girl, which kinda conflicts with most of our pervy intentions.
I can go with wings, horns, purple skin, any of that.
But how do you fuck a girl who's a snake from the waist down?

It's like the old thing with mermaids & which half should be fish!

 

[Dragon59]

Friendly reminder to NOT include Medusa in this list of fuckable monster women. Despite modern depiction of Medusa (and the other Gorgons), the original was Fugly. It wasn't her gaze that turned you into stone, she was so ugly you turned to stone the moment you saw her. If anything Perseus did her a favour by putting her out of her misery.

And he was driven out of town for disrupting the supply chain of Gorgonzola cheese.

 

[Viressa]

Fun fact: Medusa was the youngest of three Gorgon sisters and the whole "turns anyone who sees her face to stone" thing was actually a curse. The elder two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, could use this power or not at will, so Perseus's "trick her into looking at her own reflection" trick wouldn't have worked. (The two elder sisters were also immortal and couldn't be killed no matter what, also.)

 

[zeromike]

What a fun game. I guess the question is would you fool around with Celestina with the glasses on? I guess the MC was saved by her back going out mid kiss, lol. This game is 10/10.

 

[whichone]

Fun fact: Medusa was the youngest of three Gorgon sisters and the whole "turns anyone who sees her face to stone" thing was actually a curse. The elder two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, could use this power or not at will, so Perseus's "trick her into looking at her own reflection" trick wouldn't have worked. (The two elder sisters were also immortal and couldn't be killed no matter what, also.)

As I wrote above, not until 700BC, when Hesiod wrote the other 2 in.

There was only Medusa, in The Iliad.
It wasn't until 700 BC that the more modern depiction of there being 3 gorgon sisters, Stheno, Eurylae & Medusa.
Her two sisters are immortal, Medusa is the only mortal of the 3 Gorgon sisters.
At this point they also changed to be sea monsters, the off-spring of sea deities, Keto & Phorcys.
Up to this point, they had boar tusks, wings, scaled skin and huge claws. They had also been depicted as lionesses & sphinx.
It wasn't until the Roman retelling of the stories, by Ovid, around 8 AD that they got snakes for hair.

Medusa was the only one in The Iliad, 4-550 years earlier.
It was Ovid's retelling where she was turned into a Gorgon after Poseidon fucked/raped her in Minerva (Athena)'s temple.
The Goddess cursed her & turned her hair to snakes (she never had these before Ovid) & neither of her sisters had snakes for hair.
Only Medusa was cursed & the curse was not about making them turn people to stone, it was just her hair being turned to snakes.
Specifically because her blonde hair is what made Poseidon want her, so that's how Athena punished her, by turning it to snakes.
She was pregnant by Poseidon at the time of Perseus beheading her.
When he did, Pegasus & Chrysaor were born from her body.

 

[dkatryl]

Is there an insect patch out yet? This game needs more insects...this game would benefit soo much from it!

I am definitely looking forward to seeing what is under the carapace of Rose's thorax in the next update!

 

[456645465]

This game is absolutely fantastic and this update has been no exception, but God damnit I wanna see some buttholes. That's my only complaint. Not enough buttholes. And I'm not talking about anal scenes, just the visible presence of a woman's asshole.
It's a complaint I have for a lot of games. It's like game devs avoid it for some reason. Maybe because it's just easier to animate sex from the side? Or maybe it's hard to draw buttholes or something? Maybe they consider them too extreme somehow? I dunno, but it's weirdly important to me. Love this game though.

I didn't notice this until you pointed it out, but there aren't a lot of buttholes in the game. Maybe the artist doesn't like drawing them. Anyway great game and update, maybe the best game in development right now.

 

[Ranma]

Homer's Iliad is one of the oldest known works of Western literature & was written between 1260 - 1180 BC.
There was only Medusa, in The Iliad.
It wasn't until 700 BC that the more modern depiction of there being 3 gorgon sisters, Stheno, Eurylae & Medusa.
Her two sisters are immortal, Medusa is the only mortal of the 3 Gorgon sisters.
At this point they also changed to be sea monsters, the off-spring of sea deities, Keto & Phorcys.
Up to this point, they had boar tusks, wings, scaled skin and huge claws. They had also been depicted as lionesses & sphinx.
It wasn't until the Roman retelling of the stories, by Ovid, around 8 AD that they got snakes for hair.

As you say, lots of changes made over time!!

If you want to get it on, with a Gorgon, then Sorcerer is your game!

There's, sadly, a bit of an obvious problem with this girl, which kinda conflicts with most of our pervy intentions.
I can go with wings, horns, purple skin, any of that.
But how do you fuck a girl who's a snake from the waist down?

It's like the old thing with mermaids & which half should be fish!

Oh, friend. But that was never an issue for me.
Like I said, I'm attracted to Snake-Women, NOT Women-Snakes.
I'd take the upper-half human female + bottom-half mythological creature any day, every day!

And while I see the point of your conundrum, to me it's all very simple.
Let me put it this way:

I can easily feel attracted to this

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But definitely NOT this

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To me, the same logic applies to Snake-Women and all other monster-girls out there.

So, tell me whichone you prefer?

 

[Dragon59]

Fun fact: Medusa was the youngest of three Gorgon sisters and the whole "turns anyone who sees her face to stone" thing was actually a curse. The elder two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, could use this power or not at will, so Perseus's "trick her into looking at her own reflection" trick wouldn't have worked. (The two elder sisters were also immortal and couldn't be killed no matter what, also.)

The way I remember it is the Perseus used the reflection in his shield to see her and guide his sword. It was her direct gaze that would have turned him into stone. After all, if her reflected gaze turned her into stone, it would have been rather difficult to behead her with a sword. A chisel would have been more useful.

 

[Viressa]

Not kinkshaming here, whatever floats your boat. There's a certain threshold where you stop fucking a human with monstrous features and start fucking an animal that has some humanoid features. That line is subjective, but for me? Horns? Great. Tails? Nice. Animal ears? Adorable. Fangs? I dig it. Claws? I can work with it, especially if they're retractable. But when you get to the territory of a full-on canine head, or boobs with fur or scales on them, or multiple teats, or a full-on animal lower half with an animal vagina to match, that's when I've gotta nope out.

That said, as for snake-hair:

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The way I remember it is the Perseus used the reflection in his shield to see her and guide his sword. It was her direct gaze that would have turned him into stone. After all, if her reflected gaze turned her into stone, it would have been rather difficult to behead her with a sword. A chisel would have been more useful.

There's multiple versions of the story and that's one version, yes.

What a fun game. I guess the question is would you fool around with Celestina with the glasses on? I guess the MC was saved by her back going out mid kiss, lol. This game is 10/10.

Go back to her house after that scene, you can absolutely fuck her with the glasses on in this version of the game. Personally I don't think I'd do it in real life but in a porn game? Sure. (Real Celestina's age is less of a problem to me than her horrible personality.) Dear Celestina is the best girl in this game in pure terms of appearance.

 

[SuddenReal]

It was her direct gaze that would have turned him into stone.

Again, not her gaze, but looking at her turned people into stone. She could look all she wanted. That's why the shield worked, because it was a bad mirror. He could see a reflection, but not a sharp one.

 

[hentai charley]

As I wrote above, not until 700BC, when Hesiod wrote the other 2 in.

Medusa was the only one in The Iliad, 4-550 years earlier.
It was Ovid's retelling where she was turned into a Gorgon after Poseidon fucked/raped her in Minerva (Athena)'s temple.
The Goddess cursed her & turned her hair to snakes (she never had these before Ovid) & neither of her sisters had snakes for hair.
Only Medusa was cursed & the curse was not about making them turn people to stone, it was just her hair being turned to snakes.
Specifically because her blonde hair is what made Poseidon want her, so that's how Athena punished her, by turning it to snakes.
She was pregnant by Poseidon at the time of Perseus beheading her.
When he did, Pegasus & Chrysaor were born from her body.

Are you familiar with the theory that the Gorgon (here I mean what we would call the meme of the snake-haired head) originated as octopuses used as tribal totems? The give-away clue is that in Classical images, besides the snake-hair (tentacles), the tongue is always sticking out. Why? Well, it's actually the animals siphon.

Also, the much later "Gookie Face" (puffed-out cheeks with tongue sticking out- Harpo Marx is probably most noted for it) evolved from the Gorgon.

 

[whichone]

Are you familiar with the theory that the Gorgon (here I mean what we would call the meme of the snake-haired head) originated as octopuses used as tribal totems? The give-away clue is that in Classical images, besides the snake-hair (tentacles), the tongue is always sticking out. Why? Well, it's actually the animals siphon.

Also, the much later "Gookie Face" (puffed out cheeks with tongue sticking out) evolved from the Gorgon.

Yeah, as I said, her being portrayed as a sea monster didn't happen until around Hesiod's time. She was written as the daughter of Ceto/Keto & Phorcys (sister & brother for some sea-god incest!).
The three old women who share one eye & one tooth between them (Perseus stole the eye and forced them to give him the location of the items needed to kill Medusa), the Graeae, are also daughters of Ceto & Phorcys & sisters to the Gorgons.

Her 2 Gorgon sisters did not appear until Hesiod's Theogony (700BC) retelling, 400+ years after Homer wrote The Iliad. Neither of her sisters had snakes for hair.
Only Medusa had snakes for hair & this did not happen until Ovid's Metamorphoses retelling, around 7AD. Over 1,100 years later than Homer.
She was the only one cursed by Athena (or Minerva, as Ovid was Roman).
The curse was her hair being turned from beautiful, flowing locks of blonde, to snakes. This was done as punishment for Poseidon fucking/raping Medusa in one of Athena's temples. Because her hair is what most attracted him.

Ovid's version is one of the first where Medusa was originally a beautiful woman, instead of a monster.
Other writers had begun describing her as beautiful (as well as monstrous!) from around 500BC. Pindar described her as "fair-cheeked".
Up to this point, they'd had boar tusks, wings, scaled skin and huge claws. They had also been depicted as lionesses & sphinx, as well as being sea monsters, as you rightly say.

Again, not her gaze, but looking at her turned people into stone. She could look all she wanted. That's why the shield worked, because it was a bad mirror. He could see a reflection, but not a sharp one.

Yup, precisely.
She didn't turn people to stone by looking at them.
If you looked into her eyes/met her gaze, then you would be turned.
Which is why the shield works, because Perseus never looked INTO her eyes.
He only looked AT a reflection of them.

So, tell me whichone you prefer?

lol that's kinda why I posted the Ricky Gervais clip.
The question is not "which one do I prefer?", it's "which one can I fuck?".
I can see the argument for human bottom half, but who wants to look at a fish face while you're fucking mer-pussy?
There are other things you can do, if the top half is human...

"She's half fish! Don't get me wrong, of all the fishy things in the sea, she's the best. The breasts alone take her ahead of the turbot, the mackerel, but I'm not just gonna shag her for the halibut!"
I'll get my coat...

If you want to get it on with a Gorgon, then Sorcerer is your game!

 

[dkatryl]

All this talk of gorgons and medusas...

...you know magicnuts might just run with it and put in something that stares at MC's dick and turns it to stone!

 

[PePeTheCoCk]

Just finished playing through What a Legend... in one sitting. People talked about it so much, I thought it was more finished. The art and humor is so good I'm looking forward to more, but as wegs go it'll probably stretch on for years and never finish, especially with this much polish

 

[kratoscar2008]

Just finished playing through What a Legend... in one sitting. People talked about it so much, I thought it was more finished. The art and humor is so good I'm looking forward to more, but as wegs go it'll probably stretch on for years and never finish, especially with this much polish

Man almost all your posts are about update frequency or pessimism about a game, your avatar its probably an spitting image of your expression.
Maybe should play japanese games, this amount of depression cant be healthy.

 

[PePeTheCoCk]

Your avatar its probably an spitting image of your expression.

 

[SuddenReal]

The art and humor is so good I'm looking forward to more, but as wegs go it'll probably stretch on for years and never finish, especially with this much polish

Yes, but if it hadn't this much polish, the humor and art wouldn't have been so good. What's that old saying? "You can have it fast and cheap, cheap and good or good and fast, but not all three". This is cheap and good, so it won't be done fast.

 

[sexypeanut]

All this talk of gorgons and medusas...

...you know magicnuts might just run with it and put in something that stares at MC's dick and turns it to stone!

Well, she probably only likes dicks hard as rocks!

 

[whichone]

What's that old saying? "You can have it fast and cheap, cheap and good or good and fast, but not all three". This is cheap and good, so it won't be done fast.