VN - Ren'Py - Light of My Life [Ch. 1-7 v1.0.0] [Naughty Road]

I never was drawn to the pictures advertising this game. But I kept seeing it recommended. I was between games so I thought why not, I'll try it. I'm so impressed, the writing is great. You are never sure if you are on the right path, and the visuals and small videos are amazing. Well done.

The protagonist might as well not at exist. Actually I'm genuinely pretty sure that the game would be better off without the MC and just leaving the 2 main LIs as the protags because the game seems so entirely constructed around them that the player character doesn't just feel left out, he feels out of place.

Which would have been fine if the writing was entertaining but it's not. There's a LOT of writing. But none of it is engaging in any real way. It bogs down the game hard. The author lovingly mentions at the beginning that this isn't your usual porn game and that it's not gonna be click for sex, it's so cocksure you'd think you're getting some Hemingway or some shit but no it's just an endless word salad.

And yeah, the LIs are an acquired taste. They're not traditionally pretty. As in, they're ugly af. I guess I'm supposed to appreciate that he didn't use standard daz3d here?

And there are basically no animations. Everything is 2 frame renders. Pretty shit.

Juegazo de los mejores juegos de este estilo sin lugar a dudas, las chicas me encantan sinceramente y la historia mas de lo mismo lo recomiendo bastante, espero con ansias el juego completo .

This is a hard nut to crack to review this.

I do like the storyline, but seeing the same posture with different clothes just threw me off. The first 3 days been pretty much the same to me.

Not gonna lie, time has been spent into animating images (eyes, lol why?) but then again recycling the same posture, scene, and other stuff over and over is what I can't wrap my head around.

It takes a huge time to build up something. Decisions don't really influence what it should, and you have to pull through lots of days to see something happening: I'm not entirely speaking of sexual content, but literally anything else then just repeating the same stuff over and over.

The older sister fits my taste, but the young one is just naah with her weird ass face and hair down to her butt is just a no-go for me. Insecure to the max and getting depressed over anything. The MC itself doesn't have any role to play in this, I feel like.

As other review(s) states this, here are some parts I can agree with:

You will also have noticed that MC is not really the MC, it's the little sister that runs the hole game, not you as the player. You just follow along while she controls or should say manipulate MC and the bigger sister into what ever she wants, and you have no control over it. All the little sister wants is to make one big incest fuck fest happen....she's gone from shy to crazy and only makes me want to do everything the opposite way of what she wants.

I tried to stay on both paths, but I simply just couldn't do it. I hated how the shy little sister became a manipulation little bitch where everything has to follow her mind and not the MC. She's controlling the speed and what MC does if you pick anything else you close her path, so that's what I did, and considering content is not meant for this. There's no real point in playing anymore, it just got too idiotic when the little sister/daughter whatever forces MC to masturbate right in front of her. She's not even turning around I mean she wanted MC to close his eyes, turn around a million times, but she doesn't respect the MC enough to do that. Well, then fuck her, it's too stupid and feels more like a submissive MC than the one in charge of the family.

Story is pretty good but it gets ruined by qute a few things.

First it makes use of idiotc dream shit, you cant even controle the dreams with the choices given, you can click any choice but nothing changes even clicking resist or dont, it stll forces you to be nude and have the very very ugly wife take her clothes of and give you a handjob and thats even when you have done everything in game to not think about the wife.

And thats one of the issues, the choices, there are so many fake choices that leads to 100% the same dialogs or saying no gets turned into a yes, its annoyng and not choice driven but kineitc when it does that.

As for the girls they wont be in everyones taste, i thought the faces looks ok but their bodies no, just no, you need to have some areola fetish to like them since they are made so big that it really ruins the look of their tits and becomes more of a turn-off then anything else when your not into that stuff.

Then theres the MC who has the normal illness of getting boners from nothing, i mean hes a grown up man with two grown up kids and he gets boners from nothing, its just to childish.

Im also not into lesbian stuff and this keeps becoming more like a lesbian game then having anything to do with MC and again its not a choice to the player and it only becomes worse doing the game.

From chapter 3 you can go on route with one or both daughters, going on only one is clearly not how dev wants you to do since you will lose out on alot of content, but going with both which i would have done if there wasent a huge lesbian vibe going forward with both.

And by then you will also have noticed that MC is not really the MC, its the little sister that runs the hole game not you as the player, you just follow along while she controles or should say manipulate MC and the bigger sister into what ever she wants and you have no controle over it and all the little sister wants is to make one big incest fuckfest happen....shes gone from shy to crazy and only makes me want to do everything the oppesit way of what she want.

Game also just becomes more childish, unrealistic and stupid, like sister playing wth her self in the bathroom not locking the door, cums for 10 mins while the little sister walks in talks and talks and finaly walks out and big sister is still cumming i mean gimme break.

I treid to stay on both paths but i simply just couldent do it, i hated how the shy little sister became a manipulation little bitch where everything has to follow her mind and not the MC, shes controling the speed and what MC does if you pick anything else you close her path, so thats what i did and considering content is not ment for this, theres no real point in playing anymore, it just got to idiotic when the little sister/daughter whatever forces MC to mastubate right in front of her, shes not even turning around i mean she wanted MC to close hes eyes, turn around a million times but she dosent respect the MC enough to do that, well then fuck her its to stupid and feels more like a submissive MC then the one in charge of the family.

Also going on only one route just dosent work, i tried going on big sister/daughter route and even on that the two sisters has a sexual lesbian relationship, which is just so worng when your going after one of them and they have more sex together then with MC and they end up as GF/GF i mean story went to shit and its one of the worst porn games ive ever seen, shutting MC out like that is brainless and i just stopped playing.

Animations are ok

Very long till releases, maybe one and a half years but still worth the wait. The story is fairly simple a father trying to keep his family together after the passing of his wife. You have the rebel daughter and the daddy's girl giving you most of the story. Second part is the work/ co-workers and while leave a nice spacer for the main story, the co workers are their own.

This game has a special place in my heart. A poor family with a huge trauma because of the loss of a special someone. That person appears and communicates with their loved ones in dreams, it's always extremely emotional. The VN has the perfect amount of comedy and drama. The adult content is priceless and has extremely beautiful art. I love it. It's a unique VN, there is nothing like it out there.

If you give this game a chance you will be surprised how immersive it can get.
Corruption steps are very tasteful, there is a character progression, you really feel the storytelling is well made.

This came as a big surprise for me.

Exceptional good game.

An incredible slow burn that manages to make an incest plot believable. It's very easy for father/daughter relationships to come off as creepy or exploitative, but Light of My Life makes it heartwarming and romantic. The non-incestuous plotlines are fun, too.

The art style isn't the most attractive and the pacing gets a little slow in the later chapters but all in all still one of the best VNs I've experienced.

Very likely the best VN I've ever played, porn or otherwise.
Great characters, both personality and design, great dialog, great pacing, great quality of life options, the list goes on! Hell, the writing even got me teary eyed in places, which is a bit absurd. If there's even a single thing on the OP that interests you this is a game worth playing, buying too.

This game was an absolute delight to play and I'm thrilled to say that I've completed it in its entirety. I've never written a game review before, but I felt compelled to share my thoughts on this one. The dialogue in particular stood out to me as being exceptionally well-crafted and added a lot of depth to the overall story.

I absolutely loved this game. I think the girls are very pretty and love how unusual they are compared to most games out there. I absolutely love the younger ones tits! i wish there were more games with this style, longer nipples. Her ass is amazing and she is so short and fun. The older girl has an amazing body as well. very natural looking for both of them. I love their unique facial features and think it is a part of what makes this game so special.

I am hoping to find more games like it with models of this appearance.

So I consider myself to be quite coom-brained, but I found this quite enjoyable nonetheless.

The dialog is very realistic and I think it's good that you basically get to pick whatever and the story will still continue as normal anyways (unless you are picking an option to end someones route). As someone with an incest kink, it had just the right amount of spice. (assuming you actually put in the right roles)

The artstyle was definitely questionable at first. But I thought, let's just try it out. The faces no longer bother me. If anything, I think they are a unique charm to this game. You see so many boring generic 3D games nowadays, with all of the characters following 1 out of 5 basic archetypes, devoid of emotion and personality. So having a more unique, albeit a little controversial, artstyle is very catching to me. I actually think they're pretty damn hot now.

Now my only problem with this game are the repeating scenes with very little changes. This is mainly referring to most of the Denise couch scenes, 90% of which are just "hey how was your day".
Also the coomer in me is still slightly disappointed it took so long for le seggs.

I initially really liked this one. But over the course of the game it turned from a slow burn into more of a voyeurism focus on Denise and her modest 2 person harem.

I'd like to know how the MC doesn't hear them making love in their room at night. Worse he actually hears them at one point on the vacation and writes it off. This isn't me complaining about being cucked but it takes forever to get to what I really want. Macy. By then you've had to put up with these weird rubbing sessions with Denise renaming body parts and shit like she isn't a senior in high school or has regressed mentally.

I even took a break when I realized I made the decision that Macey was not a virgin when Denise asked just to spite her, like she was swooping in to take what's mine and I denied her heh. Anyways, I picked it up again but decided to just stop with the visit to the school. Denise forcing the scene in the bathroom in a place she's TERRIFIED of being was too much. Especially considering that all the hints on up to this point imply that mebbe her and her long lost friend were possibly caught fooling around right in this very school.

I don't like how she just takes over your life and Macy's and gets to lay her hands on her first personally. I also don't like that while she's clearly fooling around with Macy she also has expectations for you only being loyal to her and by extension her sister as well and convinces Macy to avoid intimacy with you while continuing to be intimate with both of you.

For what it's worth I really think Naughty Road has a fair hand at writing a game and the visuals while decidedly un-animated are pretty decent. He's put a lot of effort into it. I really like everything with the girls at the office and I sincerely think this would be a better game if at the very least Denise wasn't actually dominating the household (literally in Macy's case). It would be fine without her even.

You would not have most of the lesbian content without her admittedly which is what most people are here for. After all, the payoff you're all waiting for is just encounters like the night she got you all drunk so she could finger fuck her sister on you while you (how can she out drink you btw?) just handwave it...

Macy wouldn't need help changing her relationship with the MC and when it finally started there would still be plenty of game left to chew through. What to do about the girls at the office, how the impact of losing another person dear to her affects her. Maybe even see more of what SHE got up to in the past few years just to throw some of that sweet sweet lesbian sex that features so prominently in this game.

Instead we're relegated to what we're allowed to have by a scheming garden gnome who won't even let us drink coffee...

highly recommended visual novel. It excels in dialogue, character development, renders, atmosphere, setting, and the incorporation of mature content. It stands as a testament to the power of storytelling and visual aesthetics, providing an engaging gaming experience for fans of the genre.
the renders are subjective pleasing or off putting but the detail of those characters work wonders

A great story that would tell a touching story of a family dealing with life altering tragedy even without the lewd parts.
When it comes to romance it is a very slow burn which is good but I personally wish the elder "ward" got more of the limelight.
One thing I will note is that even though I have really enjoyed the story and romance while reading through the AVN these last couple days my score would probably be lower if I had been following this game from all the way back into 2019 because it is probably a little too slow burn as a game with multi-year development for my tastes.
It can also be a little repetitive but so is real life and it is telling the daily story of a family.
I would recommend everyone support this developer if they can and I look forward to @naughtyroad's future projects.

Up to chapter 7

There is a lot of good is this VN but I couldn't finish it. Good renders and I liked the untypical body types, very refreshing. The characters are easy to bond with and the story progression has a good tempo; slow burn works for me. The developer has spent a lot of time with this project and it shows. I would've given it a full 5 stars had it not been for a major issue... for me at least.

Why couldn't I finish it? Well, it felt like I was driving on a road with large, unavoidable speed bumps every 100 feet that forced you to almost come to a complete stop to get over them. The speed bumps are all the unnecessary, inconsequential dialogue choices that you have to deal with, which killed the flow and momentum. It was like playing dialogue choice Whack-A-Mole! So much so that frustration slowly turned into disinterest. It was so distracting that it took all the fun out of it. I opened up the game a few more times and tried to finish but the barrage of meaningless choices kept ejecting me. I think I made it to the middle of chapter 6. I don't understand why so many choices are needed...

What a great game with lovable characters and coherent story for a change!

You can really feel the effort and love that went into designing the "wards". I do appreciate that the characters don't have that stock look so many other rendered VNs have, although I understand that their looks can take some getting used to for some people. They certainly grew on me.

The slow-burn nature of this VN makes the lewd parts simply that much more enjoyable. The story is heartwarming and even touching at times, way more than "needed" for a porn game. I do appreciate that since it stands out from a lot of other games in this genre.

The sheer amount of innuendo and wordplay, especially in some of the later chapters, even made me chuckle sometimes and I'm not easily amused.

All in all, this is a great game which I wholeheartedly recommend. 5/5

Light of My Life [Ch. 1-7 v1.0.0]

Pros:
Character Models
writing

Cons:
Wayyy too slow-burn
Story
Too repetitive
Scenes are dull
Boring MC
Choices don't feel like they matter

Conclusion:
This game is probably the most difficult one for me to review, because you can see that a lot of effort was put in to this game.
There are things done differently, than what you'll see in other games, which I appreciate quite a bit.
But what counts at the end of the day is, if this was a good gameplay experience, and to that I have to say absolutely not.
I can understand people liking this game and it's story, but for me it was a terribly dull experience.
The storytelling kinda reminds me of TV-shows who have a story for two seasons, trying to stretch it to five seasons.
It becomes incredibly boring, repetitive and annoying to keep following the same and same cycle this story presents to you.
Many times I was so close to just quit, because it was a chore, and it turned out that my initial feelings were right, because there wasn't anything that felt engaging or rewarding after the first 3-4 episodes.
The scenes are really lackluster and have these weird effects on them.
The Main Character feels unimportant, just like the choices you are offered.
This game is so repetitive and slow-burn, in a milking pace, that you could've just tighten it all up to maybe 3-4 chapters, fine-tune the scenes and have a good game.
But this one is a hit and a miss, and therefore I can't recommend this game.

Simply put, this VN is built around the youngest 'ward' more than any other single character, so if you find yourself enjoying her and her journey you might easily forgive - or indeed not even notice - the repetitiveness other reviews have already touched upon.

Unfortunately it wasn't so for me, and with the eldest 'ward' - by far my favorite - getting relegated to a glorified side-character spot (by comparison, her sister has 4x her scenes and about 10x her overall presence) and the MC similarly devolving into a narrative device, but one with a dick... well, not much to stimulate the fantasy, or anything else.

A shame because the VN is quite lovingly crafted, but i suppose therein lies the problem. It's not really a game and you can't really influence much, especially in later chapters, so you either like it or you don't, and all in all i unfortunately just happen not to.