The Legend of Yashi - One Heroic Man

This is one of my fave games, probably for the wrong reasons. I found the absurdity charming, funny, and inspiring. The models and animations are sexy, the game doesn't loop them though. I recommend playing it. It does really well at character design and also creativity. The writing, plot direction, and bugs is where it falls apart, but I like how it does improve towards the end even if it's still far from perfect.
The right way to play this is to embrace the flaws imo. It's 2-3 hours long

I genuinely had a good time. It's flaws are due to time constraints but I can see the time and dedication that was put into this regardless.

I recommend that you save in a way that you'll know what to do next when you load the save. I also suggest watching the videos through the game files directly for better performance and to also make them loop.

Even though you can jack off, the quality is not the best, don't get your hopes too high. It does get better but it's still not going to be the best.
Basically, so bad it's good

Rating 3/5
Vibing

Game:
https://one-heroic-man-studio.itch.io/the-legend-of-yashi
https://f95zone.to/threads/119799

~~~ Full thoughts ~~~

This game has some very good ideas going on. It's a game made with a lot of time and dedication, with big time constraints. It's a full fledged game too. Despite of this, this game has a lot of problems that would take too much time to list them all, and it's hard to point them out because I am no expert. I think polishing the game and trying to learn from other media could really help. I'll try to list some of the problems I found

-Black and thin horizontal and vertical lines on the mobile version only (Pixel 6). Makes it hard to see
-Porn scenes don't loop. You barely have time to reach for it. The game does provide longer scenes later on but they still don't loop
-The game doesn't stop you from skipping ahead in the story. The right way to play this game is by strictly following instructions, you only deviate if you want to get a chest or crystal in that same level. I also found ways to cheat my way out of money requirements
-(Unsure) Porn scenes were very slow on pc, on my potato they ran 1 frame a second making it almost impossible to progress. Opening the video file outside of the game ran fine though. On my Pixel 6 I had no issues. My computer is a potato so my experience may not be a good example
-Using running as default moving speed. This means running feels like walking. Walking feels VERY slow. For some reason this is fixed later in the game, instead of in the beginning, and you are given an item to change your movement speed.

More things, vague

- The writing is just bad
- The plot tends to take sharp and unexpected turns out of the blue. Reminds me of sex kitten (a parody porn game).
- The plot and writing quality does get better during the final chapters, even if the problems were still there.
-Letters in the levels are too small and barely readable, on mobile at least.

I would probably love this game if it embraced the ridiculous and funny nature of the plot and dialogue. Especially because at the end it feels more coherent and mature despite still being ridiculous.

Maybe the game does embrace it, but it has to be less subtle for me to love it

Despite of this, I did like the game, the ideas were what really motivated me to finish it. I hope to see more games from this developer, hopefully with a better product.

This is a bad game worth playing, especially if you like ridiculous themes. The game was 3 hours long, may be 2 hours if you skip things. Try to save in a way that if you come back you know what to do

Game:
https://one-heroic-man-studio.itch.io/the-legend-of-yashi
https://f95zone.to/threads/119799
Creator links:
https://one-heroic-man-studio.itch.io
https://www.patreon.com/One_Heroic_Man_Studios
https://twitter.com/OneHeroicMan
https://discord.gg/Ukb6GMk3zN

tags: Vibing, legacy, Free, Windows, Android, narrative focused, RPG Maker, 3D, futa, long, handjob, turn based, blowjob, top down camera, funny, harem

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