Ren'Py What a Legend! [v0.7.05] [MagicNuts]

[Aristos]

In recent times I've been forcing myself to try 2D games, which I've always avoided for different reasons: some have animesque art that I don't really enjoy, many are RPG or grindy piles of shit, and as a general rule I don't find 2D-art as sexy as well-done 3D models, meaning that the sexual parts of 2D-games do nothing for me.
To be honest, I used to simply ignore their threads as soon as they popped up in Latest Updates so that they would be shaded there and never "bothered" me again.

What A Legend was one of those games I had ignored, but I decided to try it as well after seeing it in moskyx 's signature.
Well, so far What A Legend is hands-down the best one I've tried. The art style is magnificent; it has the type of 2D that I have liked the most until now. It doesn't intend to be 100% realistic but it's not overly cartoonish either. There's a lot of movement and variety in the characters; I mean, it's not like other games where you spend 5 minutes reading the text while the same exact image is shown. I guess this is more prevalent in hand-drawn art, and I appreciate the effort of those artists, but I'd rather have more varied CG art than the same hand-drawn art on my screen for 5 minutes.
Besides, the animations are really fluid and well done. They are much better than your average pre-cooked Daz stuff, and way better than those 3D games using awkward image loops.
Also, the story is far-fetched and funny, the mechanics are point-and-click rather than some real grindy sandbox, so that's cool too, and the game seems very polished as a whole.

The only thing that's been bugging me is the fact that is has gone almost a whole year without an update and the progress tracker for the next update is far from 100% complete. There's a lot of content with a couple of girls, but the others have barely done anything yet. The current version is supposed to be 0.6, which as I understand it means there have been 5 updates after the original releae. Since I'm totally new here, can someone please enlighten me as to how much content the next update is expected to have? Is it going to be much bigger than the previous ones and that's why it's taking so long? Holly is my fave and it would be sad to have to wait for years for any substantial intimate scenes with her.

Finally, I have a small problem when I play on full-screen mode. I've tried to find an answer using the search box but I haven't found anything. I'm not even sure what I should type to find the answer.
When I play on full-screen, the background flickers all the time. There's something like a flickering light or something; the more heavily animated a scene is, the more noticeable it is. It's really annoying, I can't play like that so I changed to windowed mode and it disappeared completely. Has anyone experienced anything like that?

 

[moskyx]

In recent times I've been forcing myself to try 2D games, which I've always avoided for different reasons: some have animesque art that I don't really enjoy, many are RPG or grindy piles of shit, and as a general rule I don't find 2D-art as sexy as well-done 3D models, meaning that the sexual parts of 2D-games do nothing for me.
To be honest, I used to simply ignore their threads as soon as they popped up in Latest Updates so that they would be shaded there and never "bothered" me again.

What A Legend was one of those games I had ignored, but I decided to try it as well after seeing it in moskyx 's signature.
Well, so far What A Legend is hands-down the best one I've tried. The art style is magnificent; it has the type of 2D that I have liked the most until now. It doesn't intend to be 100% realistic but it's not overly cartoonish either. There's a lot of movement and variety in the characters; I mean, it's not like other games where you spend 5 minutes reading the text while the same exact image is shown. I guess this is more prevalent in hand-drawn art, and I appreciate the effort of those artists, but I'd rather have more varied CG art than the same hand-drawn art on my screen for 5 minutes.
Besides, the animations are really fluid and well done. They are much better than your average pre-cooked Daz stuff, and way better than those 3D games using awkward image loops.
Also, the story is far-fetched and funny, the mechanics are point-and-click rather than some real grindy sandbox, so that's cool too, and the game seems very polished as a whole.

The only thing that's been bugging me is the fact that is has gone almost a whole year without an update and the progress tracker for the next update is far from 100% complete. There's a lot of content with a couple of girls, but the others have barely done anything yet. The current version is supposed to be 0.6, which as I understand it means there have been 5 updates after the original releae. Since I'm totally new here, can someone please enlighten me as to how much content the next update is expected to have? Is it going to be much bigger than the previous ones and that's why it's taking so long? Holly is my fave and it would be sad to have to wait for years for any substantial intimate scenes with her.

Finally, I have a small problem when I play on full-screen mode. I've tried to find an answer using the search box but I haven't found anything. I'm not even sure what I should type to find the answer.
When I play on full-screen, the background flickers all the time. There's something like a flickering light or something; the more heavily animated a scene is, the more noticeable it is. It's really annoying, I can't play like that so I changed to windowed mode and it disappeared completely. Has anyone experienced anything like that?

Ha! So now I'm an influencer! Nice

Re: next update lenght: if you played the whole game, the 0.6 version was entirely about Rose. So every scene in her story since you find Jebediah at her door was the new content made for 0.6 (that is her 3 quests: fighting her inner demon and getting accepted by the villagers, regaining her powers, and finally dealing with Abu-Gadu; plus the threesome with Myrtle, from Myrtle carving her special blue dildo to the actual scene; and of course the repeteable sex scenes with her which are basically reusing the quest's art but still needed to be coded and written differently). Devs said this next update (entirely focused on Gomira) will have more words than Rose's but only 2 quests (instead of the usual 3) that will be more action-packed so they are more complex to draw (in fact, there are way more art tasks planned in the progress tracker for 0.7 -283- than there were for 0.6 -199-); all in all, this means that in terms of playtime it *could* feel shorter than the previous ones despite being objectively bigger. At least, according to devs, who in my experience tend to understimate how much time attentive players actually need to complete each update.

As for the long waiting times between updates, in top of the art being more complex than in previous updates, our beloved Galician couple have had a second child back in September so development slowed down noticeably for a few months. On top of that, the man of the house also had to undergo a minor surgery that went wrong and he had to be patched again, so for a month or so he wasn't able to neither properly work on the game nor on his parental duties, putting more weight on his wife's shoulders (who happens to be the team's only artist if we don't count the sketch artist they commision for some backgrounds). So you can see it's been an eventful period and it has had an impact on development time. Fortunately for you, patrons have already chosen Holly as the main focus for 0.8 update, so you won't have to wait as long as Maple's or Lady Goldenbush's fans.

The fullscreen issue could be caused by multiple reasons. According to devs, "if you have issues with the pc build, try the compressed version, or you can also press shift+G and play around with different graphics options (changing rendering mode, fps, etc.) to improve the game's performance."

 

[TheDevian]

Before Myrtle's update her only content was spying on her bathing and seeing her wear a wet shirt. So it still wouldn't have been cheating. Once Myrtle finally got content we found out her husband was dead in the same update.

Yeah, I figure it was a misunderstanding or a change on plans on the part of the devs.

 

[Aristos]

Ha! So now I'm an influencer! Nice

Re: next update lenght: if you played the whole game, the 0.6 version was entirely about Rose. So every scene in her story since you find Jebediah at her door was the new content made for 0.6 (that is her 3 quests: fighting her inner demon and getting accepted by the villagers, regaining her powers, and finally dealing with Abu-Gadu; plus the threesome with Myrtle, from Myrtle carving her special blue dildo to the actual scene; and of course the repeteable sex scenes with her which are basically reusing the quest's art but still needed to be coded and written differently). Devs said this next update (entirely focused on Gomira) will have more words than Rose's but only 2 quests (instead of the usual 3) that will be more action-packed so they are more complex to draw (in fact, there are way more art tasks planned in the progress tracker for 0.7 -283- than there were for 0.6 -199-); all in all, this means that in terms of playtime it *could* feel shorter than the previous ones despite being objectively bigger. At least, according to devs, who in my experience tend to understimate how much time attentive players actually need to complete each update.

As for the long waiting times between updates, in top of the art being more complex than in previous updates, our beloved Galician couple have had a second child back in September so development slowed down noticeably for a few months. On top of that, the man of the house also had to undergo a minor surgery that went wrong and he had to be patched again, so for a month or so he wasn't able to neither properly work on the game nor on his parental duties, putting more weight on his wife's shoulders (who happens to be the team's only artist if we don't count the sketch artist they commision for some backgrounds). So you can see it's been an eventful period and it has had an impact on development time. Fortunately for you, patrons have already chosen Holly as the main focus for 0.8 update, so you won't have to wait as long as Maple's or Lady Goldenbush's fans.

The fullscreen issue could be caused by multiple reasons. According to devs, "if you have issues with the pc build, try the compressed version, or you can also press shift+G and play around with different graphics options (changing rendering mode, fps, etc.) to improve the game's performance."

You just blew my mind... So a couple from Galicia is making this game? But I thought Galicians had no sense of humour!
(I'm joking )
And you seem to be a close supporter and very chummy with them too.
I guess they must be getting help from some native speaker because I didn't notice anything at all in the text. Either that or they are very, very proficient in English.

Anyway, thank you very much for the reply, amigo. I haven't got to Rose's part yet, so when I play it I will pay attention to the amount of content in it.
It's a shame that this type of games take so long to create due to the huge necessary workload, but I'm not sure if devoting an entire update to just a single girl every time is the best way to go. One girl is just one step away from getting pregnant while others don't even do a handjob for years. I don't know...
I'm glad to read that Holly will be next. It will take a while but honestly, there's no other like her in the game

As for the full-screen flickering, I had already tried the compressed version and it was still there. I'll try you other suggestions later.
In any case, it's not a big deal. The margins on windowed mode are a bit annoying but nothing exaggerated.

 

[storm1051787]

Yeah, I figure it was a misunderstanding or a change on plans on the part of the devs.

I don't think so. Even before we found out he was dead her we never saw her husband. I'm pretty sure he was always planned to be dead or missing at least. I really do think the cheating tag is just for Gretta. You're not supposed to include planned tags but uploaders do it all the time. People also miss tag things and sometimes use ntr tag instead of the cheating tag.

 

[TheDevian]

I don't think so. Even before we found out he was dead her we never saw her husband. I'm pretty sure he was always planned to be dead or missing at least. I really do think the cheating tag is just for Gretta. You're not supposed to include planned tags but uploaders do it all the time. People also miss tag things and sometimes use ntr tag instead of the cheating tag.

Like I said, a misunderstanding about how tags work. We can report it, and have it removed...

 

[moskyx]

You just blew my mind... So a couple from Galicia is making this game? But I thought Galicians had no sense of humour!
(I'm joking )
And you seem to be a close supporter and very chummy with them too.
I guess they must be getting help from some native speaker because I didn't notice anything at all in the text. Either that or they are very, very proficient in English.

Anyway, thank you very much for the reply, amigo. I haven't got to Rose's part yet, so when I play it I will pay attention to the amount of content in it.
It's a shame that this type of games take so long to create due to the huge necessary workload, but I'm not sure if devoting an entire update to just a single girl every time is the best way to go. One girl is just one step away from getting pregnant while others don't even do a handjob for years. I don't know...
I'm glad to read that Holly will be next. It will take a while but honestly, there's no other like her in the game

As for the full-screen flickering, I had already tried the compressed version and it was still there. I'll try you other suggestions later.
In any case, it's not a big deal. The margins on windowed mode are a bit annoying but nothing exaggerated.

As far as I know, he used to work as an English teacher and they both lived in England for some time. And patrons voted for this character-focused approach: until 0.4 they were slowly advancing main and side stories on each update (that's why Holly and Maple have one quest each); from then on, we got Myrtle's whole story on 0.4, Lana's story (and Simonne's first quest) on 0.5, and Rose's on 0.6. Devs are happy with this since they can finish these side stories in one go but it's true that the decision was made more than 2 years ago and fans may have changed their minds since then. I'm not actually a patron so I don't know if there's some movement within the current paying supporters in that regard.

 

[TheDevian]

Eh I don't really think it's worth it or that it's a big deal. The game probably will have cheating so I don't really see the point in removing it. The whole rule about not including planned tags is because ideas for those tags occasionally get scrapped or a game gets abandoned before making it that far.

Well, no, the reason for that rule is so that people who want that content, won't find games with those tags, play the game for that kink, and not find anything they wanted to see.
I agree, it will probably be added for Gretta (at least I hope so, more fun rubbing it in his face that way), and in theory someone else, like Simmone, could end up with a fiancee promised them before it's over, and now that I think about it, wasn't Holly engaged to Waldo at one point in her story? Maybe that is what they are counting?

 

[Aristos]

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The fullscreen issue could be caused by multiple reasons. According to devs, "if you have issues with the pc build, try the compressed version, or you can also press shift+G and play around with different graphics options (changing rendering mode, fps, etc.) to improve the game's performance."

Well, it worked. Apparently, I just had to disable the default Powersave mode. Thank you for the tip, man

 

[Clobbertime]

You just blew my mind... So a couple from Galicia is making this game? But I thought Galicians had no sense of humour!
(I'm joking )
And you seem to be a close supporter and very chummy with them too.
I guess they must be getting help from some native speaker because I didn't notice anything at all in the text. Either that or they are very, very proficient in English.

Anyway, thank you very much for the reply, amigo. I haven't got to Rose's part yet, so when I play it I will pay attention to the amount of content in it.
It's a shame that this type of games take so long to create due to the huge necessary workload, but I'm not sure if devoting an entire update to just a single girl every time is the best way to go. One girl is just one step away from getting pregnant while others don't even do a handjob for years. I don't know...
I'm glad to read that Holly will be next. It will take a while but honestly, there's no other like her in the game

As for the full-screen flickering, I had already tried the compressed version and it was still there. I'll try you other suggestions later.
In any case, it's not a big deal. The margins on windowed mode are a bit annoying but nothing exaggerated.

Just click on "preferences" after the age verification screen and the choice between windowed and full screen is at the top left corner of the screen

 

[Aristos]

Just click on "preferences" after the age verification screen and the choice between windowed and full screen is at the top left corner of the screen

Thank you for trying to help. I found the solution and it had to do with the Powersave mode that comes by default. I disabled it and now everything's fine.

 

[ggray100]

Almost a year for 1 update? Hmmm. I hope my grandkids will live up to the release

 

[KingBea]

Weekly report 162
Hi, everybody.
I hope you've had a great week. Here's what we have worked on since our last report:

Chestnut:
Chestnut dedicated her week to a very complex background with interactable objects that is twice as wide as our other backgrounds. The extra width is so that we can also use it as a cutscene in a specific event that requires character sprites to transition between locations.

Pistachio:
I wrote a few dialogues from Gomira's second quest that I had put off earlier because I didn't know how best to approach them. It was a lot easier to write them now, and although they still need to be edited, I'm happy with the result. Other major things I did were coding in some of the art Chestnut had completed and playing through Gomira's first quest several times, taking notes of things that I need to improve before the release.
Today I started preparing for Gomira's second quest. I've been making placeholder backgrounds (and adding a few finished ones) and scene images (the blurry ones we use behind character sprites).
I can't wait to finish this quest, too, and release 0.7 for you all to play it and see all the new content.

Next week's plan:
Chestnut plans to finish the work needed on the update's remaining backgrounds and spend the rest of her time on the art of the cutscenes.
During the weekend, I will continue preparing placeholder art and edit the text of the beginning of the quest. Starting on Monday, I plan to begin posing the second and final quest of this release.

That's all, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Cheers

 

[Deleted member 6132370]

The art is very top notch, But very little content. Finished it under 24 hours

 

[thedemus]

The fact that the MC is going to be able to get all the girls pregnant peaks both my interest and my boner.

 

[whichone]

The fact that the MC is going to be able to get all the girls pregnant peaks both my interest and my boner.

"piques", not "peaks".

A peak is the top of a mountain, the highest point.
To pique is to raise, or arouse.

 

[Deleted member 5988643]

"piques", not "peaks".

A peak is the top of a mountain, the highest point.
To pique is to raise, or arouse.

I here ya, your totally right, their are moor of these kind of words. I hate it two when people use the wrong words. I mean don't they no when to use witch word? But at least you rays the bar a bit. With piques vs peak I learned something new to.

 

[SuccubusLover69]

Come on, give us a preggo scene

 

[Le_sBinadero]

Almost a year for 1 update? Hmmm. I hope my grandkids will live up to the release

dev had family stuff to tend to, apparantly
but ya, over a year for an update is kinda..... :deadge:

 

[TheDevian]

dev had family stuff to tend to, apparantly
but ya, over a year for an update is kinda..... :deadge:

Well, let's see how fast you can push out that level of quality, now do it while caring for a newborn.