Dans You Are Not The Hero, vous incarnez Petula, une jeune femme ordinaire projetée dans le chaos quand des héros pillent son village pour s'approvisionner. Elle les défie après qu'ils lui ont volé son pendentif, lançant sa propre traque. Ce RPG d'action-plateforme 2D délaisse les combats classiques pour miser sur les mécaniques RPG : fouiller les maisons, ouvrir les tiroirs, crocheter les serrures et piller les recoins du quotidien.
Les PNJ pestent contre les retombées des exploits héroïques, comme ces suricates lâchés qui ravagent les fermes une fois les bandits vaincus. En tant que simple spectatrice prise entre héros et vilains, vous affrontez les conséquences d'un monde où le vol est monnaie courante. Les fans d'RPG indés et d'aventures en quête d'un gameplay anti-héroïque et d'une gestion d'objets plus poussée y trouveront un vent de fraîcheur.
When was the last time you played a game, any game really, where you walked into someone's home, nonchalantly opened drawers, cabinets, picked locks, upturned a bed and talked to the freaking homeowner in hopes of finding something you could loot? Oh, right before this game? Yeah I thought so. Aside from more humble games like Skyrim, where you had to steal items instead of taking them, every game that has item management lets you play the bad guy without being the bad guy.
Let me tell you something: NPCs hate your guts, they just can't say it to your face! Just cleared a forest of roving bandits? Well they were the only ones keeping a population of meerkats in check. The local farms can't keep them at bay and you've just triggered the worst national food shortage in the past decade. Good job, hero! I think it's time for some payback.
You Are Not The Hero is a 2D Action Platform RPG that ditches the battle system to focus on richer RPG gameplay elements. Instead of playing a traditional hero that saves the world, you're playing a bystander swept into the affairs of heroes and villains alike.
You play as Petula, an unemployed, emotionally charged, ill-tempered, otherwise average young woman. With the royal army hot on their heels, the heroes have made their way to your village where they begin scavenging for supplies in everyone's homes. After you confront them for stealing your pendant, they rush off to continue their quest, giving you a quest of your own to retrieve it.
