Ren'Py - Completed - Long Live the Princess [v1.0.1] [Belle]

I very much enjoyed the turn-based progression mechanism, although I would not lie, I'm not really a stupid person but after playing through it myself once, then did it with the playthrough....yea there's no way I would have gotten that efficient so as to achieve all the stuff in one go lol. Nevertheless it is a wonderful game, and definitely worth a few play throughs.

I'm going to be honest, I'm kind of weird insomuch that when I play these games, I can be kind of picky. The CGs and visuals need to be nice, but at the same time, I feel like if I'm railing a character that's little more than a mannequin, I can't enjoy it. For that reason games that promise a story with its lewds is a pretty important sell for me.

This game is a combination between visual novel and stripped down (pun intended) roleplaying game, where you make a host of choices to grow as a person, save the world, and bang every hot girl you see. Between that, a fantasy setting, and mind shenganigans in the mix, the premise had me sold.

But it's the execution the matters, and Long Live the Princess absolutely delivers.

It's a porn with story game, and, Long Live the Princess understands the importance of story offerings while also teasing the player with enough eye candy to keep people invested until such a time as the story grips them. It often does this through teasing, and rather fortunate timing, but does so in a way that's appropriate for each girl in question. Already this puts it leagues ahead of other such visual novels as LLtP understands the important lesson of pacing.

The plot is sufficient for this kind of game, and the worldbuilding has some genuinely goods ideas. More importantly, both of these are introduced solidly and you learn with the character as you need to. There's no sitting through 20 irl minutes of exposition through a conversation with a talking portrait.

The biggest strength is the characters, though. Characters are charming and diverse in both attitude and appearance, which is exactly what you want from this kind of game. There's someone for (almost) everyone (no futa options that I can see if that's your thing, sorry), some of their stories build well on others, and all of them are easy on the eyes. The game uses 3D models, as is probably apparent in the game's banner, but they're nice enough. Sex scenes are animated. The rest moves between different static poses and expressions to give the characters some life.

For the degenerates that I know absolutely none of us are, you're not wanting for options. In addition to penetration of multiple sorts, you're free to try and peep on someone changing, coax them to work in a state of undress, catch them in scandalous acts with others or manipulate them into playing with you even when the situation is dire. Risky sex in public is sometimes an option, and you can even molest the girls in their sleep if that floats your boat. Those who want pregnancy can unlock that feature as well. There's a panty raid esque feature too, which is a bit basic in how its done, but enjoyable.

The game has two modes, and you'll choose somewhere around the first week--there's a standard 50 day mode that goes into the endgame, and a unlimited day mode where you start the endgame where you want.

This game takes a page from the Souls series insomuch that it's intended to have multiple playthroughs, and indeed it will recommend the 50 day stint. However, if you only intend to play the game once, or if you feel uncomfortable with time crunch, I STRONGLY recommend going against the game's recommendations and going unlimited time--the biggest reason I say this is that this game is best experienced through trial and error rather than following a guide unless you're well and truly stuck--and I feel not having that 50 day limit looming over your shoulder making you want to make the most of every day for the best ending makes it easier to avoid that temptation. I appreciate what the game is trying to do and it's a good idea, however I also think the most important thing with this kind of game is not to spoil yourself.

Lastly, and I know this is something that a lot of people probably don't think about for an ero game, but the music is quite nice. It's varied, most if not all of the characters have their own theme which suits them. The fact that this game is completely free for what it gives you means there's no excuse not to try it if you're into the genre at all. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I sure as hell wasn't.

Great game with an overall great story. Sadly, the individual characters, except for the main ones (witch, princess, queen, and "trainee"), feel less compelling to revisit. I wanted to see how the game ends in other scenarios, but they are less complex, and the interactions with these characters aren’t as engaging. That said, I must add that without a walkthrough, it got kind of confusing what to do to progress, especially when rescuing Primrose from prison, as I missed something while she was still free. Otherwise, the graphics and lewd scenes are beautifully done, so I would recommend it for a playthrough.

Wow, what a journey that was! I think it was one of the longest games I've played so far. Although it had some logical flaws at times, I really liked the story. The characters were decent; some were fun, some were boring. Belle especially became one of my favorite characters. I wish I had a friend like her in real life. The epilogue sections felt a bit lazily put together—they could have been better—but so much effort was put into the rest of the game that it doesn't really matter. Visually, the game was amazing, and I liked the animations. The ambient sounds and music could have been better, though. Overall, I give this game 4.5 stars, but since that's not possible, I'll be generous and give it 5 stars.

The game is great since it really lets you think how to approach things carefully. Its like playing Fallout but with more sex and im tasked in finding the Saver Chip within 50 days.

The gameplay is very much about detective work. Search for clues, interrogate people and solve the clues you find by connecting them to people. You also need to improve the main character's attributes. It wasn't exactly the game I expected. The gameplay requires a bit too much grind. There are a lot of mechanics to keep track of and if you don't turn off the time limit, the game will end before you see all the content. I know the developer did this to increase replayability, but I don't think I'll play it more than once.

This is a fantastic visual novel with a very well fleshed out time loop mechanic. Your character is having to redo the story until they get it right, with multiple satisfying endings, it's a huge task for a developer to follow through with such a ambitious work, and succeed.
The characters are fleshed out, if at time's a little tropish, but the game want's you to experience the characters multiple times, from new angles as your power grows from being looped.
Overall, expect several hours for the first loop, and alot faster each loop afterwards.

This is difficult to get the good ending, but something about it had me coming back to try again and again.
This is the first game I've played like this - where your decisions truly impact the story flow (instead of just which girl you end up with).
Well done, dev.

I suppose dev effort and story would be a 5
But for me this game was too convoluted. You are going to miss a LOT if you don't follow the walkthrough, and that is just annoying AF. I don't mind checking a WT sometimes, but you need to follow it step by step in this game.
And Girls are mostly meh. Fairy annoys me with her childish flat body and unattractive face (and I do like Asians, she's just not a pretty one).
Too many girls with flat chests in this avn. (not a fan of huge chests either. But needs enough C/D cups to keep me interested.) The sister is the only hot one... (unless you're into tiny tits or redheads)
.. sigh.

Long Live the Princess is a visual novel by Belle with investigative gameplay and some rpg elements mixed together in a very precise and well rounded way. Your purpose is to prepare for the arrival of the princess, improving your special abilities and your stats while interacting with many characters, each with its own special branch of the story under a certain time limit that you can disable. The game has many mysteries and hidden plots, scenes, and dialog you have to actively search to get it. While progressing the relationship with each character in its own way, you are constantly rewarded with great character development from unique personalities and a good amount of scenes with each girl. The investigation mechanic is impressive for a Renpy engine, engaging with this little world and charming the player with progressively more interesting characteristics revealed through sleught. The models are beautiful and unique, while still being lore friendly with the medieval fantasy world you are in. It’s a game that will require a good amount of hours and reading to understand the mechanics and navigate through the plot while exploring all the romances and its options. After that, the game has a new game plus with even more content that ties with elements you saw the first time. Without a doubt this game was developed with much care, love, and it delivers its purpose with flying colors. Long Live the Princess is a must for anyone that enjoys Renpy games. Seeing those incredible mechanics working perfectly in this visual novel engine is quite a feat in itself. The story, characters, romances, and plot twists sprinkled with fantastic scenes makes the experience even better. Sadly the two following games developed by Belle are very different and lack in quality, but that is a different discussion.

Holy shit what an absolute hidden gem this one is! There's plenty of story, you're free to explore the game and the relationships, the dialogue is clever, moving, funny and the sex is plentiful and hot. I would pay good money for a game like this!

I was skeptical at first, but the game caught me somehow and made my play it through. This doesn't happen very often, as I quit games that doesn't hook me within the first hour or less.

So as I was playing the hours passes and I didn't notice as I really enjoyed played it.

I will keep this spoiler free.

The time you have to “complete” the game before reaching end-games (days 50) is very short, unless you rely on cheats or walkthroughs/guides. I should've not picked the limited time option, but oh well.

I finished most of the “quests”, but couldn't start any romance with the girls, as it should be possible when I checked some guides. Needless to say, I stopped spending time with them after nothing happened, spending time with them two or three times. Same with working, as you don't really need to work much for money.
I focused on upgrading my spells and attributes, yet I didn't find out how to get the last two charisma points, but maxed the rest.

So I reached endgame with most of the stuff done, but no romance and I couldn't find a way to convince one girl to be bisexual. Although I used a spell to get it started. I don't know what cock blocked me in the possible threesome but even with maxed attributes the MC said he can't do it because she isn't interested in men. Not sure what I did wrong there.
I also couldn't mind break the crone, but I'm sure I had the clues for it, but apparently not. The MC didn't tell me that I don't have enough, as he was on other characters.

Either way, I choked at the end and had the worst possible ending.
I was assuming you could rely on the last person you visit before the event, but turns out you can't.
I didn't involve the other two options and then screwed up the ending.
Furthermore, I was smart enough to save before heading into the event, but messed up hitting load to start over and just overwrote my save…this way I couldn't have a second try and was forced to start over. Which I didn't do.

Do I want to replay the game even with NG+ option? The answer is: No.

I'm tired of all the conversations and the grind per person. Let alone, I don't see much benefit starting over even with maxed stats as most of the outcome will be the same except for maybe two or three more sex scenes and a better ending.

What can I list as negative impact for me?:
— The animations are pretty good, but could be a bit better
— Except for the animation scenes, the game looks blurry as heck
— Places that you have “completed” should be removed as an option to go to. Which did happen for one thing in the wilderness, but sadly the places in town are still there and waste your time checking them every day.
— I assume I did pretty much complete all objectives yet didn't get any romance with any of the characters

It is definitely worth a go and I highly recommend giving it a try.

Looking forward to the developer hopefully continue to create games.

The game is excellent, with an engaging story and captivating characters. The spicy scenes and the wide variety of choices are definite highlights. However, the one area that could use improvement is the animation quality in the scenes. Enhancing the fluidity and detail of the animations would elevate the experience even further. Overall, it's a fantastic game with just one minor aspect to refine.
5 out of 5 easy

This game is really well made and brought a verry new type of investigative gameplay that goes great with the visual novel style ive never seen before in a h game truly innovating the Jonra but i have a problem with how the game expects you to have multiple playthrough. it's not like the game has so meany branching paths you can't to everything in 1 playthrough its pretty linear. its not like what you learned from your previous playthroughs will allow you to progress further this time instead the game gatekeeps meany interactions with an experience section forcing you to do multiple playthroughs to get everything but not letting you keep your intel so you have to resolve all the mysteries! and the absolute mountain of dialogue would have been brutal if i actually read it but I did not and now I have to redo all the bullshit i did last time I Also my first playthrough was noticeably light on erotic content but doing it all over again would be completely ridiculous! though i do like you can acutely loose meany games are to pussy to tell you that youve failed. il try another playthrough with a walkthrough which i hope will be better

Pros

• A good big story emphasizing incest & polyamorous.
• A fairly good quality of image renders.
• A fairly good quality of animations.
• Play-ability, performance and grammar are all just OK no issue.
• Huge / lot of content.
• Lot of options.
• The environmental / background sound especially the forest / woodlands are well created.

Cons

• Lack of genuine or more of fictitious for sexuality.
• Lack of seductiveness in sexual approach.
• Very hard to play without the walkthrough.

The best game on this site. The characters are well-written. The renders are perfect . Belle is the best. The plot is gripping and engaging. It's so good I wish it was on Steam so the dev could profit from it.

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I don't see how people can give this 5 stars any more, maybe back in 2017 4.1 or something, but now its dated and has to little of worth that kept up with the times.

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For me though its just the writing being completely horrendous and pointless like worse then a porn ad.

2/5 below average better off with anything unless you looking for that old school with old porn ad writing.

im gonna give it a 5 starts not because its the best game ever .. but because all & all its a good game plus i appreciate the hard work that is very noticeable .. lets talk about the good & bads :

goods :

a nice story , very well written & has many new creative ideas , map is easy to navigate for the missions & walk through is simple & direct , its not easy to get stuck in dead ends or become lost like most other sand box games , i didn't even need to check the walk through .. i just randomly drop some where & end up completing part of the story .. plus all story missions are written in the top of the screen near the map any way in case you need a hint ,,

sex contents are balanced between the amount of story & the sex scenes , and i didn't feel any Grinding in this game , Wherever you go, there's always something new waiting for you & a new conversation, most of the time thou ..


bads :
im not a big fan of first person view the whole game . im sorry ,, its just make me feel like im watching some kind of TV news , all the characters will be facing your screen as if they are news reporters .. even in the sex scenes i would like to see the full view of both characters , not to be an invisible man ,,

also the map has some weird way of going back in some points .. like if im inside a place in the second map & i wanted to go back outside .. it will take me all the way back to the first map again .. while i just need to go out in the second map .. i don't know why its programed that way , its kinda confusing & it gets annoying later on ,,

the girls .. they are beautiful but they are not that sexy .. most of them are skinny & sharing the same body type ..
also the amount of side characters is very poor ,, comparing to how long this game is ,, 10 girls only is not enough in a 2 weeks long game play .. it will cause a lot of repetitive sex with the same characters over & over again .. & for me , if i have sex with the same girl more than 2-3 time i will lose interest & it gets bored ,, you always looking forward for more girls & new faces ,, honestly there are some side girls in there .. like ( the crone - the bar tinder - the bJ female customer - the second Nun - the old lady behind library ) .. however , they are unfuckable .. for some bizarre reason .. instead , i went back to fuck the same those few girls again & again

assuming that all guys are turned on by watch lesbians & some softies fucking each other is totally False .. im not into it .. i don't mind watching it like once in a blue moon , but it gets old very quickly & boring ,, yet lesbian scenes are forced in this game & unavoidable , even thou it should be , like an option or a choice

i liked Belle when i saw her at first ,, i thought she are a tender & cute creature , but turns out later on that she is a nagging masculine bitch .. she talks like street boys & she insulted me way more than the Villains & she is obsessed with any thing that are sexual , even more than the MC him self , which is become a turn off later on ,, she is a fairy she suppose to be cute , not a crazy sex maniac , she also keeps on disrespecting the MC ,, calling me ( toy boy , side kick , sleep creep ) & some shit like that , comparing to my size , the MC could crush her with his feet in a second like a cockroach , i wish to know all that arrogance of her are based on what ? i wouldn't drew attention to my self if i were her , or her size

also im not in love with the ending .. it has like 4 endings or something yet every ending have a handicap that ruins all the experience & satisfaction .. no matter how good ending you will choose , you still gonna have to sacrifice something else important , just to make you life more miserable

any way it is what it is :

................ Bad ............................ Ok ............................ Good ...................... Excellent

Story :

Difficulty :

Sexy Girls :

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thrill :

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conversations :

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What to say that hasn't already been said?
This is an excellent game/novel/story by any definition/standard (for AVNs) and ratings less than 4* are matters of personal preferences, like older graphics, too much/not enough NTR, need more old guys having sex with young girls, story too long because one has a short attention span, etc, etc...

If it isn't already, this one should/will be a "classic". If there was a college course for AVNs, this one would be on the required reading list...
Well crafted, great script, intriguing story, great music, fun, drama, sex, variety...so many great things about this one.

While there are a lot of personal preferences I would like to have happened, done, added, etc., this one is just well executed overall with very few "flaws" or cons, but here are a couple:

- If you try this one without a walkthrough (especially w/ time limit active) you are a braver, smarter, more patient soul than I am... Without a walkthrough, this would be like getting dropped off in the wilderness and told good luck... Yeah, you have a "general" idea of the direction you need to go, but you'll more than likely end up going in circles, backtracking, get frustrated, quit, never get the "good ending", etc. Simply put, give it a try without a walkthrough if you dare. But before giving up, just look at the walkthrough...

- There are a handful of times in this story, particularly at the end/climax of the story, where the MC's thoughts and exposition drag on to the point where it triggered my Holy Grail "get on with it"... Those "get on with it" scenes/moments really don't take that long, but the MC's thought commentary was delaying the "action" and was restating the obvious or "saying" stuff that had already been said/thought/expressed, etc. That's the only "negative" criticism I have for this one.

If you've had this one book marked for months, like I did, stop passing it up and "get on with it"; you're missing a great one...

I didn't expect such a great game going in.

Everything in it is high quality, the renders, the musics used, good writing.

I found myself totally immersed in the mini-stories of the girls, the overarching plot with the princess was dope too.

Easy recommend.