[OIHS] Only I Have Skills

Alexi my beloved❤❤❤

like, look at him!!! he is so perfect :)

When will you release the next version?

This is a game rating comment (I tried not to post spoilers in my review, but I do allude to some things, so if you do not want anything spoiled, please do not read): 

TLDR 3.75/5 Stars. Good sex scenes, good story/world building, but lacks weight when given choices because the end result stays the same regardless of skills or choices. (very linear, which isn't a bad thing, but when the main ending is "You are Evil", takes a lot of stock away from the player choices no matter what they do)  I like Hyao's approach on choice management.  Feels very impactful in his game "Lustful Desires" Here it lacks depth, but keeps you involved in the story because of the worldbuilding and characters.   

So I played the game fully twice, and the first was just a normal playthrough, got the bad cards from the seer, etc.  But then my 2nd playthrough I didn't seduce anyone at all and made the "good choices" but still got the same outcome?  I thought making different choices would have given me different thoughts or made the main character act differently, but it didn't work like that.  Unless I did something wrong.

So here is my review of the game, and this is just personal opinion so don't hate me haha.

First the bad because I like ending on a good note:

  Overall the game is good, I do wish that you wouldn't be "punished" for using your powers though.  I get the "undertale" vibe of not choosing to do certain things, but in a game that is mainly about sex, punishing the player for doing those things is kind of frustrating.  I get why, I just don't personally like when games force the 4th wall of "are you a good person".  My other dislike of this game is that even when you do have the skills necessary for certain choices, it rarely ever forces a different outcome.  Like not having the skill just move you to the same path regardless. Someone always comes out of the blue to save you or the conflict just ends or even having the skill is still not "good enough" and you fail the encounter because it was plot driven for you to fail.  

Now the Good:

I loved the different art styles personally.  I felt it mixed in the realness of "you are in a different world". So people may not look all the same and even all the races are drawn differently and I enjoyed that.  I do like the cute moments of banter between Zad and the MC.  I also do like Sepheni's growth throughout the novel.  You can tell she really had to mature fast with what was going on, and that even changed her on a physical level too.  The writing was great for the most part, and this is coming from someone who has published poetry before.  I do like a lot of the analogies and the sex scenes being written.  I think the world building was phenomenal as far as the magic system and how the universe interacts with the characters.  How there are taboo forms of magic, and different combinations, different towns, and even the academy being discussed in depth.  There is a lot of lore hidden in the VN that makes me want to read more about the world, or have even an RPG style game in that magic universe.  

Conclusion: I enjoyed the game, but I do wish there were more major differences between choices.  (I also know how work intensive that would be to do that, but otherwise it feels like the player really doesn't have a choice in what's going to happen) I played it twice, and would even be up for a third time to see if I had missed anything on my first two play throughs.  But to get it a rating, I'd say its about a 3.75/5 for me. 

Oh no bro, game is broken on Android, can't do anything at the heist 😭

I wonder is the scene for second visit of bobby at construction site still work in progress or not.

This game have been one of the best game ive ever played frfr, at first i only played this game becayse of the smut, but as a dive in the story as i interact with the characters my prespictive in this game suddenly change, espicially at the end it make's me cry frfr😭😭😭.

I tots love this game and i hope it get more update mr orange i will wait for this game to have more update and i hope the update have more smutt and can i siggest something i hope the next update we can interact with  severcat and phyruss, i really want to be with the cat hehe🤪🤪, i hope we can get more smutt with him and hope to have babies with the severcat 😼😼hehe, overall one of the best gameeee everrrrrrr i swearrrrrr, love you orangeeeeee🥰🥰🥰🥰

Hi I’ve seen this option crossed out quite a few times and I’d like to be able to use it because it looks like it could’ve been very useful a few time so who do I have to seduce to see in the dark? 

Very fun game! I want to ask about the swamp mission in Rajt City. Is it destined to fail?

I have become inordinately invested in the plot of this porn game, ending the last chapter on a cliffhanger is just cruel. 

Fantastic game though, mixing a surprisingly gripping narrative and interesting worldbuilding with extremely hot smut. And the sort of "moral choice" aspect is honestly really interesting. Like it's specifically called out that the protagonist could become some monstrous, domineering tyrant if they just keep using Seduce and disregarding peoples' free will and consent, but that's the only way to gain some Skills and those Skills might be needed later. It creates this really interesting ludonarrative harmony where both the player and protagonist are constantly tempted to bend their morals to gain more power and walk further down the road to becoming that monstrous tyrant. 

Having all of the options to gain Skills immediately after the game draws attention to the morality of your actions be ones that involve you Seducing people who can't consent was really smart. Every single time I saw one of those options pop up I always considered it. Even though I didn't take any of them since I was trying to maintain some morality, every single time I wondered if I was passing up Skills that could be vital later on. 

It really does capture the kind of thought process that characters have in stories when they're being tempted by ambition and power: "But what if I need the power that I will gain by doing this evil thing?" You did a really good job at that.

Are there any intimate contents with Lexi? Just finished his Adventurer's guild quest and I wanna cuddle the big guy after D:

this is already over for volume 1, but will volume 2 be a separate game or will it update this one again?

please tell me there'll be a second game or something to know if the MC in this is alright 👉👈

Uh, that ending sucked bigtime. owo;;
I knew it would end poorly tho. But I still hoped otherwise. =w=

YOO I just did the scene with Byron please tell me there’s going to be more scenes with him

Bruh nah wtf was the ending? Mf I was INVESTED and you took my happiness away in an instant. 😭

Dammit I was here for smut now I'm fully invested in a grand adventure with smut barely in my mind anymore 😭 

Does anyone know where can you train with Rondal to get the skill? cuz I hadn't encountered this event before I walked all the places I could go and still couldn't find it.

Welp Just finished the Rajt exploration part. And PHEEEWWW, I'm really simping for pyrrhus, it sucks not obtaining the skills when taking his path. Will MC be able to meet him again after the heist arc?

Hi, I know your busy with the new project but will you still be updating/polishing oihs? Would really love to see the cg for lord Byron and the inn keeper's scenes.

is there a pathway where you can romance zad?

Question: All male characters?... or can you pick female or something?

I've read quite a bunch of VNs from this site, and not gonna lie, this one is on the top 5 for me.

The history is good, the characters well written, the scenarios are good.

If i had one thing to complain about would be the different art styles that sometimes appear, but even then, to me it's not a big drawback.

Hope this project continue going on, it have potential to reach the top ranks if well managed.

this is literally my favorite game, thank u. 😌