Ways of the Hero - v1.0

ok so you know those MHA parody games that pop up on itch and you think yeah right another one but then you actually click and its got that specific jank that somehow works. the 3dcg is... look its not polished. midnight's hair clips through her shoulder sometimes and kendo's hands look like they were modeled by someone who heard about hands once but never saw them. but theres something about the way ochako looks at the camera during certain scenes that got me restarting runs just to see if the rng would give me her route again. the point and click bits are basic. click door, go to class, click girl, trigger scene. you're some dude at UA, male protagonist obviously, and the whole thing is this weird visual novel roguelike hybrid where choices actually lock you out of stuff. missed a conversation with jiro in the hallway and suddenly shes not in the pool scene later. thats the replayability hook i guess. toru's scenes are... creative given the invisibility thing. the dev definitely had to think about how to make that work in 3d. the school setting is mostly just hallways and classrooms but the lighting during the night scenes is surprisingly decent. midnight's route has this one detention scenario that honestly made me forget the jank for a solid ten minutes. itsuka's content feels unfinished though, like they ran out of time before adding the second half of her arc. typical for these projects. what bugs me is the save system. or lack of one. you gotta finish a run to unlock gallery stuff and if you close the browser its gone. i lost a kyoka scene that way and just stared at my screen. the parody elements are there but the writing takes itself seriously enough that the lewd bits hit harder than they should. not gonna pretend its some masterpiece but ive got it bookmarked and thats more than i can say for most of the stuff i try on a whim.

• parody
• 3dcg
• kyoka jiro
• nemuri kayama
• school setting