Our Hero! First

RPG Maker strikes again! "Our Hero! First" is one of the many low effort projects made with an easy-to-use construction kit. It relies on canned assets and cringe high school fan fiction. This is a pretty sad RPG Maker asset flip (it should be noted the developer supplied their own asset for characters which is just copy + pasted + palette swapped, and looks even worse than the RPG Maker assets they plagiarised). The idea is you control a cat (I guess this was made for furries) and the gameplay tilts away from the usual Final Fantasy ripoff JRPG style to a bit more actiony kind of stuff, but still phrased as a pixelcrap Final Fantasy ripoff. The plot follows a quest to reclaim the legendary Teorhemas Crystal from the villainous Finalboss, who seeks to use its power for chaos... so the cringey writing is trying to be a bit tongue in cheek and a bit meta, but ends up being even cringier for trying so hard and so weak at the same time. The writing and plot suck. Like other RPG Maker "games", the game engine is extremely low quality. It displays badly in fullscreen, and has no real graphics settings or HD support. It's not up to the same standard we expect from a modern PC game. …

Игра "Our Hero! First" — это яркая аркада с элементами RPG, где игрок управляет героем, прокачивая навыки и сражаясь с врагами. Плюсы: увлекательный геймплей, динамичные бои и насыщенный сюжет. Минусы: повторяющиеся уровни и технические сбои. Подойдет фанатам быстрой игры, но не идеальна для долгосрочной привязанности.

Not much to the game, just kind of mindless button mashing through a bunch of areas. It's an easy game until the last boss (two forms) which is an insane difficulty spike. It goes from super easy for 99% of the game to a boss that can suddenly, in a second, two-shot you, so better balance is needed. This is an action rpg but combat doesn't feel right, its clunky and rough around the edges, not like other action rpgs even from the snes that felt more fluid and smoother movements. Visuals, music and sound are ok, nothing special. In game time is 2:20:29 so steam is off, finished at level 14.

I had lot of fun completing the game. I originally played it in a web browser and it took me about 4 hours to finish the main story, and 1-2 more to do all achievements. I would reccomend this game to RPG fans, and to classic game fans like me. To me, it's rare to see games like these. It doesn't hurt to try, it's free. I will update this review if I will have more to say in the future, for now I'm still completing the sequels.

https://youtu.be/4GXA68hfXVE Bump based combat is far less compelling than other battle systems. Combined with a mix of unclear goals struggles with comedy lands flat overall.

Seems like a cute little game but it has nothing going for it. The custom art is charming in its own way. But that's as far as I can praise it. The story is basically non-existent. The gameplay is extremely simple, mainly consisting of "point in the right direction and spam attack." I know this is a hack and slash, but come on. Waste of time.