Ren'Py - What a Legend! [v0.7.03] [MagicNuts]

Perfection. Incredible art, great models, interesting story, humorous, fun gameplay. The developers make great decisions constantly. First game I showed my wife and she's a fan, that's how good this game is.

good fun game....like i really enjoy it.the graphics brings me back to my childhood days .The map is fun with many locations too explore
The story is fun and a laugh at times

...BUT months go by without an update.
waaaay to long for a 2dcg game hence the average score

Art and Details:
The game has an amazing art direction, the animations are fantastic, every detail is spectacular. It's remarkable how careful the developers are with this game.

Gameplay and Optimization:
In all updates, the game rarely has any bugs, this is very unconventional, congratulations to the developers. The game's optimization is incredible, extremely fluid and has no crashes, even on older computers.

Game Plot:
By far one of the best stories I've seen in games of this genre, if not the best.
The story is funny, the fantasy universe is unique and spectacular, I look forward to more updates.

Wonderful art and a witty story full of humor, this game goes far beyond established expectations. The only downside is that the updates are not as frequent as they should be. I'm looking forward for more content.

What a Legend!ary game! Another rare entry to a tiny selection of games I wish I could give a 6 out of 5. It's just that good.

What a Legend brought me back to that relaxed cozy feel of adventure games of yore (King's Quest, Kyrandia, or Broken Sword to name a few). But now with porn! The perfect way to dream away the winter cold. Almost hard to believe only two people primarily made it.

The 2D hand-drawn art is just gorgeous, and the quality and consistency is just nuts (MagicNuts). Lovingly crafted and beautifully detailed environments, map, and let's not forget the cast either. WAL also totally nails the light-hearted adventure vibe, featuring great writing with a nice dose of comedy, fourth-wall breaking, pop-culture referances etc. without going too heavy on the comedy. And yeah, it even throws in an actual interesting plot with interesting and likable/hateable (as appropriate) characters. It's not like it's trying to be Game of Thrones or anything, but I genuinely want to see where this goes in future episodes.

As for the sexy-times, it's plentiful and hot of course. Fairly vanilla mostly, with an Orc bj, as well as a certain side quest involving a pair of beer-enchanted (I'm guessing) goggles - currently ranking highest on the kink-o-meter.

The gameplay itself is fairly simple, but fun. There's a map and you move around on it. You advance the plot mainly by clicking hotspots in the right place at the right time. You can tackle side quests out of order and at your own pace to some degree, but ultimately there is a single linear path to follow. And I think that's perfectly fine, not everything needs to be a VN with branching (and more often than not: nonsensical) paths. I perhaps could have wished for a bit more in the puzzle-department, at least for side quests, and for the inventory to be utilized at least a little bit to make contraptions out of illogical ingredients - adventure style - but I'm picking nits here. Perhaps in future versions?

To summarize, I loved every minute of this game and can't wait for more. Was really sad when, to my great dismay, it turned out the game didn't go on forever...

If it was possible i would give this a 3.5*. The one annoying thing for me is that the MC acts like he has a mental issue. i do not find this appealing.
The animations and art however are super hot! the writing is so so and the story is basic and safe. i fell that with this setting the devs could have went a step further to really separate this game from the other kinds of games out there.
The animations and art however are super hot and i understand why most people only care about this. i am tempted to give 4* and might in the future.

The art is superb, the animations are clean, the story is original and the writing/dialogue is excellent. I originally played this about a year ago (0.5.01 at time of this review), and the amount of new content since then has surpassed any expectations.

What a legend..... Ahhh...

How do I even begin?

It's a novel, yet it's also a work of art. It depicts genuine attraction and romance.

It's a mash-up of humour and fantasy. A sweet and innocent story with a splash of hilarity.

There are no grinds or attention-seeking activities. I'd say it's almost elemental.

And yet delivering the most unique emotions.

I'm not afraid to say, "I wish it were true, I wish it was me in his place."

And believe me, I'm NOT talking about sex only, though it helps to make it REAL.

The artwork is outstanding, and compliments to the coder for coding those precise features - the expressions and specific eye glances, a realistic execution.

Writing and directing are two of the most appealing characteristics that link all skills together.

I'm not sure how many of you are working on it, but I'd want to thank each and every one of you for your efforts. (Please let me know if this is doable.)

You should be proud, and you should know that your creation brought me much delight.

I shall remember this gem till the day I die, as someone who lives in a miserable situation and writes from a third-world country.
I'm sure I'm thinking of you people and exclaiming, "What a Legend."

One of the best games I've played! Excellent animations! Awesome story, great characters! Always waiting for the next release! This game have the best gallery system i've seen! Congratulations! Keep up the good work!

Amazing quality. Beautiful and unique gfx. A nice change of pace from all the generic models of renpy games. Fun characters and world. Good humor, reminiscent of Terry Pratchett. Definitely deserves all the praise. I only wish updates were more frequent

This game is just all-round high quality. Everything from the art, the writing, the story, the gameplay, everything oozes charm and polish. So much high quality and stunningly beautiful artwork, packed into the game and enhances the narrative and mood oh so well, and all characters look and feel distinct due part to their personality and artwork. Characters are well-written and likeable, characters whom you are supposed to hate are written convincingly and not just being the trademarked bad guy™. Main character isn't deep, but his motivations aren't unrealistic and come as a result becomes relatable. Minor side characters also get their own moments and receive some character building, which makes it feel all the more real. There are jokes scattered all over the game, from funny dialogue and interactions to achievement names. Overall, definitely worth your time to check it out, and absolutely a deserving of your support, monetarily or otherwise.

This game is high quality.
First off, the art is beautiful. You can tell the developers put a lot of love into the game.
The story and characters are interesting and sexy, and most importantly unique. Each stands out not only in design but also in station and demeanor.
It is nice to have a step away from the usual "my step sister and best friend want my dick" type character.

Incredible game. Maybe the best light hearted, fun erotic game out there. There isn't much to hate about it. The graphics (or should I say masterful artwork) are the best I've ever came across in an erotic game. I'd love to join a masterclass on how these were done and animated. The story is fun and the sidequests are so good that I forget about the main story. I absolutely love it. Thanks you MagicNuts, for making this. For me it's probably the best and most ambitious and fun erotic game. The dialogues really have the right length for me to read them.

it's a really good game, a little grindy at times but fun.

What would make it a 5 star is if it offered more variations in genres. It's very vanilla and predictable at the moment.

What separates linear games from the masterpieces in my opinion is the games where your choices really matter and you can end up with drastically different paths. That is not the case here.

It's more a "fetch these things to unlock vanilla sex scene with hot chick who praises your big dick". Rinse and repeat.
It's well done but could be a bit more ambitious

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