VN - Others - Completed - My Slow Life with the Princess Knight and Her Devoted Handmaiden [Final] [Waffle]

This VN is a good mix of characters, setting, and H-scenes. It doesn't feel like normal romance (love triangle) with the traditional tropes, but it's also different from a nukige (where the selling point is the adult content). I think you need to be interested in both the narrative, and the 18+, to enjoy "my slow life..." to the fullest.

Positive:
- H-scenes do their job. Originality is not a thing, but they serve their purpose.
- Very pleasant slice of life. It's 3 people living modestly in some remote wilderness area, sheer difference factor, dictates that their interactions will be interesting.
- It's a "recent" title, so many visual extras and detail, that older VN's don't have, are present here.
- Interesting themes, for something so short. Things like being betrayed, and having a hard time trusting someone again, are easy to sympathize with.
- A different kind of love triangle, where the characters still follow archetypes, but don't feel stereotypical (not that much, anyway).

Negative:
- Nothing? I think they did enough, if you consider VN duration and production scale, asking for more doesn't seem fair.

Score: "My slow life..." is a 7/10, and a nice, short VN that allows for a relaxing time. Whether you like a bit of story with your porn, or a bit of a porn with your story, this should do the trick.

Ponder between 3 and 4 stars, but i'll be generous. There's some aspects worth mentioning, which doesn't make sense to me and are difficult to let by.

- Art: to start with the first thing coming on sight. Can't say anything less than amazing. And to be fair very realistic and detailed. Kinda unfortunate, there wasn't some special effects, magic, or fancy locations, which is probably expected of medieval thematic game. The main focus is on the heroines all the time and there's some charm on them.

- MC: I liked his writing. He's a good man, generous, courteous, brave. During adventure and after betrayal, he will suffer from almost grave physical injury which will leave him in long healing process and difficulties to dealing with all of his daily chores on his own. Even so he thought how assistance will help for his recovery. That's why he visited the city's slave trader, where the narration get a little strange on the realistic side...

- Story / gameplay / heroines: War is going on between the kingdom he lives in and the neighboring kingdom. The story begins right at the moment when the neighboring kingdom after betrayal is crushed and enslaved. By visiting the local slave trader, he will be presented with the best right from the get go... the captured enemy kingdom's royal housemaid and her misterious companion. Since the royal maid threaten to take her own life if the two are separated, they go as pair. Even that hint somehow go unnoticed that her companion is no other, than the enemy's kingdom eldest princess, even more. She actually served as her kingdom army's commander. As all of that will be revealed to the MC at some point. How she remain unrecognized after that being said? Well, with her look and how she act, she's definitely not going in character as knight for me, but let's get going. Another non-sense in the game is how calm and unbothered the two are. Considering a few days ago they lost everything... their kingdom, their families and beloved which died in the fight, their freedom.

-Sex scenes: There's a huge amount of them, considering the game is only a few hours playthrough. The scenes are driven from obligation towards the MC at first as gradually they transfer into one of care and love. Their voice actings during the scenes wasn't among the spectaculars i heard, but it's decent.
Well, honestly the medieval thematic, the art style and the bigger sex scenes amount is doing it for me, but i wish the game was more within it's narration and story side.

It's sort of a nice, male fan service, power fantasy game like so many others here. It does have good writing though and a decent male MC. So, I guess, it's done well enough for the intended target group.

If you want a somewhat shallow, feel-good game, where you can be a hero and have two women, you have power over, pine after you, go for it.

Note though, that the art is used VERY sparingly. The H scenes are literally one slide each and there's little else.

well its from Waffle so you can guess how they'll handle a VN like this.

if you haven't read any Waffle VN then I'll say they're really good at slow burns. the story is very simple. you purchased two slaves that after said slow burn they eventually warm up to you. really I don't think there's much more to say. expect lots of comfy moments while dowsing yourself in slow burn.

I love this game. It is exactly what it says on the tin. Youre some decent guy that happens to save two girls from total misery when they are at their lowest. And watching them go from two distant girls that are just happy they dont get abused for the moment, (the spoiler is what you think it is) . It also lacks the "rapist MC slowly has feelings for the girls after abusing them for a long time" stuff that most of these kinds of stories have.

The art is also amazing. I love the secondary lighting added to their eyes which makes them seem multicolored and alive. The art also just looks great in general and there are a variety of sex poses. The coloring is good too. I saw a few people say it looks like AI art, but they're just wrong. It uses soft shading that's also used in AI art, but unlike AI art it isnt the result of just mixing together a million different images until all the shading methods blend together. It is used with purpose and makes the girls look soft and squishy.

There are a few problems i have with the game. The choices feel pretty tacked on, and the extra endings (a generous way of calling them that) arent worth the choices. I much rather have them just put all the choices in sequence so it becomes one kinetic novel story (instead of click option 1 to see one girl's scene, then load and click option 2 to see another girl, just first how me 1, then 2). The game has some threesome scenes, but they are pretty rare. At least it has both girls being active in the scenes, rather than just 1 girl being fucked while the other waits off-screen. But I would love to see more of that.
The first sex scene also feels like its a bit of an obligation to the girls (the MC doesnt force himself on them) rather than first establishing they love eachother. My guess is that its done to get the first sex scenes in faster, but it would be nice if MC told the girls he didnt want to have sex with them unless there were romantic feelings involved.
I also dont like how the girls have makeup around their eyes that gives them puffy eyelids, I know its some new asian style, but I dont like it in real life, and i dont like it here either.

Now, with those cons, you might wonder, why 5*? Well, it does so many things right I can easily forgive them for the few minuses. If you want top tier art, a nice wholesome story, and some threesome scenes in which both girls actually participate, you cannot find anything. Well, now there is a game that gives you just that, and thats worth 5*.

Pretty short game, but it is pretty comfy. The main premise itself isn't anything special, but the comfy story made me feel all fuzzy and nice after I'm done playing. The soundtrack is chill and I wouldn't mind listening to it on loop while I go about my days. The art was pretty good, kind of funny how many thought it was A.I generated.