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

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.

I guess I can only repeat what has already been said. I really enjoyed it for not being like any other game I played. Apart from a decent story and good writing, that stops you from skipping text, I find the models very refreshing, after initial shock, they really grew on me and started to really enjoy looking at it. I became very fond of the characters and can't seem to pick a new game to try because of the generic models. I recommend it.

Slow burner for sure, but extremely satisfying because of characters you get surprisingly attached to. A bit on the nose at some points, but there's a bit of everything for everyone in this.

And the fact that the models are different than what you're used to inVNs is very refreshing (I must confess to a strong latina bias on my part though).

Edit : I also recommend trying many words for body parts. Some of the bonus messages are hilarious.

I have avoided this game for so long, checked it but did not like the look of the girls.
But now I have been playing for a few days and this is a really good VN. One of the few were I really follow the dialog. Slow burn but in this case only good.
I hope the it is a lot more of this story and I hope the watersport takes a bigger part.

Love me relateable games, which make me laugh, cry and nut in one sitting.
5/5 great sunday experience!
The writing is very enjoyable and the characters likeable. The story has just the right amount of goofiness to soften your dick so you can keep masturbating for a couple of hours straight.
The parts between the chapters and how the "tutorial" works shows the dedication of this non-virgin developer.

Edit: Fuck me, now that I'm about to finish the 7th chapter my dick hasn't been out in a while, because I'm crying my balls out every couple minutes. This is a massive W for the Eroge scene.
Chad Developer with Chad storyline + life experience

Reviewing this game has been a bit tricky, as it didn't quite match my initial expectations. The storyline itself is charming, and I particularly enjoyed the writing style. The characters are rememberable and nicely showcased by the developer. However, there was a slight issue of excess. It felt like preparing a delicious dinner, only to overcook it.

I found some parts of the story that needed to be read to progress to the next level of actions to be somewhat like fillers. While I wouldn't have minded it if they were more interesting, they seemed to follow a repetitive pattern, making it feel like a bit of a chore. In a good book, even the slower parts keep you engaged, but this game didn't quite hit the mark in that regard.

Overall, the story is interesting, but I'd rate the game as fairly average for now. There's potential, but the game seems to be struggling with an excess of less engaging content, preventing it from reaching its full potential.

Update 2 Stars:

I kept on reading, hoping things would get better, but by the time I hit chapter 6, I had to give up. It felt like the game was just going around in circles, repeating the same stuff over and over again.

All my senses told me to skip some of the text at one point but I forced myself to read. The scenes were not good in this game either, thanks to the developer's puzzling choice of adding a blur effect to still images in an attempt to create depth of field. It ended up giving me a slight headache. Adding to the disappointment, there isn't much sexy content in this game and most were quite bad, with weird distances and poses.

But the real problem, at least for me, was how much the game repeated itself. Yeah, the story and characters had their moments, but they were overshadowed by this never-ending cycle of monotony.

There's a lot to like, especially in the early stages with the ultra slow burn. As the story progresses though, the dialog becomes less surprising and more repetitive. I started to become annoyed at the two "wards" for their lack of depth outside of the MC's life. Ultimately, I was glad I had reached the end and could move on from it.

A really beautiful game. The humor is great, there are some genuinely touching moments. The game does very well at characterizing the protagonist. I actually teared up a little for him at certain parts.

The art style is wonderful. Both of the girls are beautiful and it's nice to see some love for Latinas and women who don't look like porn stars. Thank you for sharing your work.

The most incredible writing. Great characters, great renders and an emotional, heart-wrenching story. So well done.
This is definitely NOT a regular 'porn'-game. It's something different. Something bigger and better.
This game achieves something interesting: Introducing characters that aren't conventionally beautiful, nor sexy, but after getting to know them more and more, you fall for them, and gradually they become increasingly beautiful and sexy in the eyes of the beholder. In other words, this game succeeds in simulating what love and sexual attraction can be like in real life.