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

I love everything about this so far, the point and click action and all the cast of characters you can interact with. The map is very impressive and I look forward to exploring more of it in the future, but for now there's a really limited number of places you can visit. However, the art, animations, and story are all great.

Fantastic game. The writing kept me enthralled the entire time. Beautiful artwork. A outstanding game in a sea of mediocre crud.

A must play if you enjoy story based games. Although the sex is very vanilla.

really good!!! very nice animations and drawing! keep up the awesome job! cant wait for the next update!

I dont usually wirte reviews but you really need to know how awesome the game is

Best game I've played from this site hands down and I've played a great deal of them. Art is fantastic, animations are well made but that is just the delicious icing to the great cake that it is this game's dialogues and story.

An apparently non-remarkable young man going on a magical quest only armed with his charm. But the dialogues (some of which are actually funny), and the characters, they are all presented so naturally in a way to make you develop affection for them. I actually wanted to see where their relationship went not just for the sake of grinding scenes (like with most story-driven games at one point or another) but to see the actual plot develop, which it does in a really rewarding pace.

My only note would be to add more fetishes to it, it seems a bit vanilla so far. But the game already shows which fetish scenes will be added with which character so I can't even bring myself to give this game less than 5 stars for that.

tl;dr: funny and charming plot, good dialogues, variety of actually likable characters and cool MC. Go play it, one of the best games you'll find here.

There are only 2 RenPy games currently being developed with such an amazing art. Innocent Witches and What a Legend. 3, if you count Everlasting Summer.

So, why does Innocent Witches fail miserably while What a Legend is a masterpiece?

The story:
The story (plot) in this game means an adventure for the main hero, implying a lot of travelling, change of locations, meeting new characters, all in pursue of the ultimate goal, which would be a spoiler to tell, but it is well worth doing so.
The story of Innocent Witches, however, implies that the main hero is spending most of his time confined to one area, and, more specifically, to one room. Also, this also means the game doesn't have many ways to introduce new characters along the gameplay, and in fact doesn't even bother doing so.
The more variety - the better. Here we have an entertaining story, which supports the variety, encourages it, not restrains it. This is obviously a great choice.

The main character
The main character has to undergo significant developement to make the plot interesting. How can this be achieved? In this game the main hero starts as literally noone - an orphan without anyone, any money and any powers. The most insignificant person imaginable. But, he has one thing - his great personality. He shows kindness, compassion, helpfulness - in fact, almost every positive trait you could think of. He is not perfect, but it is well enough to make the person want to relate to this character, to immerse with him into the artificially crafted world.
On the contrary, the only developement the Innocent Witches's main hero undergoes is he becomes less of a drunkard and a shithead. Negligibly less. They have made the main character the least appealing person ever, how insanely hard this may sound. Can anyone relate to him? I hope not. Can anyone immerse themselves in the world with this character? Absolutely not. How does it feel to read his dialogues? Disgusting.
By starting on the positive note, What a Legend has chosen the approach to the character developement which will only attract the fans and not cost problems anywhere else. Of all things, you sometimes wonder, how different devs can do the same thing so right and so wrong?

The gameplay
The gameplay of both games stems from the only thing RenPy engine does good. Simple action sequence quests. Go there, talk to this person, collect this item, craft that item etc.
What do we have in What a Legend? Each quest is mostly based on interaction with the characters involved. The main hero has to talk mainly, and do less. This is actually what a VN is supposed to do, and eliminates all grind possible. There are no stats which matter, no brain-melting minigames (the ones which exist are very easy and a nice addition to the gameplay), no RNG. Finally, all quests matter towards something. As of 5.01 the quests/events are either for main story and they, well, advance the story (duh) or they are for a special person and they advance this person's arc. This all allows the player to enjoy doing the quests, aspecially given the rewards for their completion. (more about this later)
Now, what do we have in Innocent Witches? Anyone who played this game is guaranteed to have nightmares about bikini quest, which could easily take upwards of 5 hours figuring out, that is how intricate and illogical it was. What did we have in the process? Nothing, just menuing. Luckily, after like 3 years devs decided to "slightly lower the quest's difficulty". Along with adding like 5 similar quests in the game. There are stats which require a good hour or two of grinding, perks which require investing points into, time management etc. Lots, no, LOADS of puzzle minigames with ambiguous rules and a huge amount of RNG. Do these things really matter in a good erotic game? No, they don't!
I have yet to see a visual novel which does need stats, which does need perks, which does need hard minigames. But ask for a visual novel with well-made action sequence quests which you can enjoy doing, and suddenly your choice is very limited.

The characters
Here go the girls and also the support characters. Firtly, what do we usually get with the girls? It is usually called with the word "corruption". The girls start as typical baptist virgins and slowly fall for the main hero or sumbit to him. This is usually as much of a character developement as we get. The support characters? Well, they support certain scenes, they exist. Usual developer knows where the money is at, so drawing support characters is done only when absolutely needed, and not a single time where not needed. Why to bother? This is exactly where Innocent Witches and hundreds other games fall.
So, what do we have in What a Legend? The girls, aka main characters, all have story arcs. They change, not only in sexual way to main character (although this aosolutely does happen) but also in general. It is nice to see their personality shift, and not towards more perverted stuff, but to a more wholesome, kind personality the main character posess. I have felt genuine happiness for a woman who was drinking non-stop and then offered her infinite-alcohol-bottle to be used as a one-time Molotov cocktail. This is the moment when you realise that the developer does care about actually working out the character developement, about each girl's personality, traits, hobbies and skills and how they change over the time. To say this is impressive is simply an understatement.
Now, the support characters. On the left of the thread banner you may see a knight in full plate armor and closed helmet. This guy is the best made support character I have seen in a lot of games, and we don't even see his face! The fact that he exists way beyond the scenes where he is absolutely required, to be met during different events in different locations is amazing. I don't even want to think how hard it was to model all his sprite pieces, and the developer sure knew this character was only for support, not for actual "sex content" most of the games are made for.
While many games only focus on the most important thing, this game has large enough cast of characters to actually tell the story, the player is able to immerse into, and this obviously places this piece on top of the others who don't bother doing so.

The art
Here go the backgrounds, the sprites, the GUI, the icons of the items etc. Everything. I repeat. Everything. Is incredibly high quality. It is hard to notice any flaw in the art. And not only that, this is the art of a fantasy world, and it perfectly fits the setting: the colors are vibrant, the objects look in tone with medieval setting - sometimes old and rusty, but nevertheless cosy and "living". This is the art I would have imagined as a kid when listening to a good fairytale. Same applies to characters - they look in tone with the setting, nothing is out of place, not fitting or of insufficient quality - enough to fit the most demanding player.

The sex scenes
For a game to be posted in "Adult Games" section of this forum, they have to be present, right? So, well, time to address the elephant in the room.
Now, how is it done in Innocent Witches? Firstly, a full-size sex scene is incredibly hard to draw and implement, it takes some insane amount of time. And if you add animations - oh boy, here go several weeks of full-time employment. So, considering the lifespan of the game, you may expect lots of those? Well, not really. One is what the game came out as alpha with. Another was added like 2 years later, and on about 5 year mark we have 4-5 full-blown sex scenes. The rest is sprites with partial nudity on a generic background.
What do we have here? The game only came out with 3 as of MVP build. Currently there are dozens! What is better is that the game does not bother with partial nudity or full nudity sprites. When it does a scene, it does it fully. Not just a sprite, but also a background, a custom pose, and possibly some animation on top of that. Hundreds, if not thousands of hours of work. Great results.
What is even more significant for me, as a player, is that the game does not have the audacity to reward the sprites as a quest/event rewards. You do the quest and you know there will be a full scene in the end. And it does deliver. How do you know this?

Misc and QOL features
Are in great number. The progress tracker, the ingame guide, the library of events, the replay option for sex scenes - all you could possibly with for is there.
There is some questionable stuff though, I personally don't really get the point in achievements as they are almost non-missable, and I also do not understand the parton feature usage (if there even is any), but well, better have these, then not have something essential.
Meanwhile, it is still not obvious for game developers how important the scene replay feature really is. When you play a RenPy game and you need more than 6 saves, you know it is bad. Either you are unsure what you are doing or you create a save for every sex scene encountered so you can rollback to that save later and replay it, and then reload latest save again. This is tidious and boring. With this game I only had a few of saves, and I think most of the players will be ok with just one. Shows how comfortable the game is to play.

TLDR
Overall, this is one of the best games I have ever played. With the recent spark of masterfully crafted erotic RenPy games I really hope we are finally moving on to a new milestone of quality, and the games like this one help setting it. Crafting a good game is more than just drawing a few sex scenes and tying them together with pointless dialogues. Nowdays it is actual work, and for those who are willing to do it, to go all the way, those people deserve respect and support.
I am looking forward to this game's new releases and hope it only improves overtime.
Certainly a 5/5. An excellent game. Truly.

High class VN, there are not many games with beautiful art like this. Story are really cozy and light, which is a plus too. Easy to navigate and game feels really smooth,no crashes or bugs for me.
Each woman is different and interactions are really entertaining

it's very good. They even swap the models depending on which way they're facing. That is to say, if a character has an eye patch on her left eye, it will still be on her left on when she turns to face the other way. It's a small detail, and most people would ignore and just mirror the art rather than creating an entire new character model. Very small team, but very dedicated to making the best product they can

The highest-quality 2D VN on this site, bar none. Fantastic art, fantastic characters, fantastic writing.

- Some small grammatical issues, especially in the earlier content. Nothing unreadable but it's noticeable that the writer is an ESL speaker.

- The sound design is... bad. Very inconsistent about which screens have music and which do not. Odd, unfitting sound effects. Bad volume balancing. Best played muted. I don't think this is a big deal as I play these games muted by default anyway, but if you don't, it might be a problem.

- It's a very vanilla harem game about a protagonist with a giant penis who gets to fuck every girl he meets. Medieval Fantasy Summertime Saga, basically. If that's exactly what you want, then, great! But it's what stops this from being my favorite WEG, simply because I'm going to prefer something with overall lower quality but has content that matches my kinks better.

- Updates are very slow, expect to only get 2-3 of them a year. But the developers are extremely transparent, which helps make the wait less frustrating.

Excellent art and a fun story. The dialogs are witty and smart, and the girls are all super sexy, and different to boot.

The only drawback is that there's very little sex. There's some, but no more than 1% of the total content (not a scientific estimate). Lots of cleavages though...

Still, five stars.

Amazing game, great character building, nice light tone to the story with lots of humour and lewdness. Doesn't get better than this imo. Also eventually pregnancy planned, woopwoop! Big heart out to Chestnut and Pistachio for putting in great effort to create this gem and lighten up our day <3.

Just, can't wait to be complete. So far, masterpiece! The story is actualy cool, great characters, amazing art, quest are fun and makes sense. Absolutely loved playing it so far! I'll do my best to support the developer, and will be cheking other games, if there are any!

Excellent game. The best thing about it would definitely be the artstyle and character designs, which are all of a very high quality. The story is also interesting and the comedy on point. That being said, the game is still very early in development with many characters not having much content yet.

I dont really have any faults with this game except with the lack of content to be honest. If the game developer continues giving us updates of this quality, we might really have something special here.

The game has much potential and i am looking forward to future updates.

Really nice game with a well-created world and characters. I trully enjoy playing it the only recomendation would probably be adding some more dynamic to the plot, the rest is wonderfull keep on going

Honestly the Art in this game is incredible and the quality adds a ton to the game. The writing is great. It's self-aware and has managed to create an interesting plot which is rare for these type of games which usually devolve from their initial premise. Based on this I can't give it anything less than 5 stars.

The outlined world looks incredible but the game still feels early in development with few side characters/locations/scenes. Most characters are limited to a couple scenes and there's little exploration so far.

Looking forward to seeing the sandboxing fleshed out and I'll be revisiting the game frequently and supporting their Patreon.

This is my new favorite game on here. Nothing comes close. The story gives me the feeling of reading one of those fantasy novels. The pacing is just perfect, especially in this latest episode. And judging by the size of the map and the lore, this will be a master piece the day it is done.

Review of v.0.5.01 from a non-native english speaker.

Art: Stylish and beautifully done, the best out there in this style (in my opinion.) Sex scenes are HOT. Can't wait to see more kinks (atm vaginal, bj, deepthroat focused only). It's not a problem, really. You will definetely enjoy the scenes.

Writing: I can't tell much about grammar, even tho I have a B1 in English. I just don't feel like I should judge it too much; however, I didn't find mistakes. Main story, secondary and character interactions are both interesting and fun lol you just can't hate the MC and other characters, i'm sorry.

Great combination of porn game, fairy tale and comedy, with gorgeous drawings. The hero is a loveable loser (sometimes a bit too much emphasis on the "loser" part) who always ends up having sex anyways, and the girls are for the most part absolutely beautiful and full of personality.

There's a unique, self-aware sense of humor pervading the story, dialogues and characters that's really charming.

I'm not sure what the gameplay will end up being like. The original release and up to 0.3 had quite a few point&click adventure aspects and let you explore somewhat freely, but 0.4 and especially 0.5 were so linear that they might as well have been kinetic novels. Your dialogue choices are not significant to the story, either - which I'm personally ok with, I don't like to replay visual novels at high speed unless the branching paths are huge.

Linear or not, the content is top quality with a story just serious enough to make you care; hilarious city guards which are both friendly and really dumb; cute girls (although they pretty much all have a strong personality, no shy/submissive types in sight which is a pity since variety is the spice of life); and rather hot sex scenes. The latter are pretty much one animated position with a few facial expressions then the same repeated faster with different expressions, and a final cum animation. I wouldn't mind more positions, because not all of them worked for me from the fapping point of view. However, since the game takes time to build up the relationship with each girl, gradually increasing the sexual tension, fucking them feels really special. It's not one of those game where girls just jump on you after two lines of dialogue.

Honestly there's nothing to strongly dislike. I wasn't enamored with at some point of the story, although they've used a humorous visual trick that makes it less likely to cause offense. It still was unpleasant imagination-wise. I also thought that it would be nice for the hero to take charge sometimes, for instance by moving in for a kiss or taking the initiative to touch the girl. I would make the relationship seem more real by matching a bit closer most guys' successful dating experiences. As it is the hero pretty much gets sex by being helpful... usually a good ticket to the friendzone if that's all you do.

Overall though, very unique and highly recommended.

Just an awesome game, very much worth supporting on patreon. Feel somewhat like an old quest for glory graphics mixed with porn. Two thumbs up, the only negative being it takes a while in between releases. Will be an absolute topshelf game on completion.

As one of the best rated games on the site, I have to say I expected amazing things going into What a Legend, and I think that may have been where the issues started for me.

Before I go into why it lost a star, let me preface by saying that there is a lot of good here. The 2D animation is top quality, the ui and design is well thought out, and though the story tends to generic fantasy tropes, it is competently written, and doesn't have grammatical errors that are going to break your immersion. So a lot of good things are happening here, that automatically are going to push this into the top 25% of VNs.

The problem for me was that there was no hook. I won't mention other VNs in my review, but pretty much everything else at this lofty of a tier is doing a lot more narrative heavy lifting.

If you are a fan of generic fantasy vanilla, then refer to all the 5* reviews and my own positive comments above, you'll have a good time here.

I don't think narratively there is an easy solve (and perhaps it's a problem for so few people that there is no point to trying to solve) but adding some additional and slightly less vanilla tags might help out a bit. At least then if you aren't engaged by the story, the really superb art and animation can pull you through with your chosen kink.

I'm clearly in a minority here, but I thought that while very good...this one is slightly overrated.

Very good game with amazing art style, characters and good story and animations. I'll for sure bookmark thread about it and wait for new updates.

Art - 10/10
Characters - 10/10
Animation - 9/10
Story - 9/10