Yet Another Hero Story Reviews

Yet Another Hero Story combines lighthearted storytelling, engaging puzzles, and a dash of nostalgia into a delightful adventure. The humor is spot on, with plenty of jokes and quirky characters that keep you entertained from start to finish. It’s not a long game, but it’s packed with charm and personality. A perfect choice for a cozy evening of classic point-and-click fun!

Uninspired. That's the word that defines this game. Just at the start expect to find recycled puzzles from other games. Wondering about that ribcage puzzle from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and The Dig ? Well, it's in the first 2 minutes of this game as well. Years pass, and developers still think that a ribcage is actually a cage. Everytime you enter a new screen, you will find 1 or 2 hotspots, a new character with little to no dialogue and a random fantasy trope. You will find every cliche in the genre time after time. They recorded a few voices for the opening lines of characters but that's it. In retrospective it's better this way because the voice acting is one of the worst ever heard. There are also typos, particularly in the last parts. What's worse, there are at least 5 items in the game that will completely blend with the backgrounds, some even require pixel hunting, and there's no hotspot highlighting feature. Inventory is a nightmare, you will need to open it everytime you want to combine items, if the combination failed, you need to reopen it to try again. Expect a lot of extra clicking for the most basic actions. The game feels like someone drew some random fantasy backgrounds, don't get fooled by how cool they look, put a Guybrush Threepwood lookalike, added some puzzles from early 90s games, added an evil mustachoed villain and a princess to rescue, wrap it up and call it a day. You will be visiting towns and forests for about 80% of the game, but there's no connecting lore or story, they just happen to be there as resources for your next puzzle. The music is repetitive and monotonous, the main theme is just a couple of notes and it will play a lot of times. A full run, will take about 3 hours. I cannot recommend this game to anyone, only if you ran out of adventure games.