I don't care about the narrative of too many VNs here but this one holds my attention. Which is just as well because the h/scenes are poor. Nothing says functional disengagement quite like buttons for 'handjob' and 'doggy style'. Nothing wrong with the renders (sharp) or the characters (distinct). Tropes such as the look-at-my-outfit perv-show are ingeniously worked into a cod-Roman vaguely 2nd-century setting costumed like Tinto Brass's Caligula (only with more underwear, in the case of the elder daughter, presumably to make her more unattainable). The court intrigue, coy but English-native dialogue with the occasional burn, pseudo-Roman detailing and quick pacing all compensate for the perfunctory h/scenes and rather characterless MC. Probably worth a go whether or not you follow GoT.
cant say no to more sex scenes.
Good set of female casts. General looks like a general. Why he didnt marry someone yet is an wonder. Game delivers when it comes to the sex scenes. Story isnt the strongest, ok for an adult game. The setting offers the opportunity to expand a lot but the dev took a simplistic turn of events to advance a story. Granted would take a lot of resources and work to explore the setting in detail for a single person. Good release schedule.
Main character isn't entirely obnoxious on his own merits.
Cons
Characters tend to all be rather simple.
The relationship progression feels really rushed and cheapens the experience.
The story and characters feel a bit loose with how they're presented and the speech comes off as monotonous.
Summary If you're looking for a simple harem VN, this is an alright piece.
The combination of easy dicking and breakneck plot progression makes it rather less torturous than others with the same basic standards.
I tried getting into this game several times, and finally I gave it one more shot, or around 1.5 hours of my time. And I couldn't really get into it. My experience is as follows:
Writing is subpar, makes the world and most characters seem bland and one-dimensional. For a game that has very (IMO) boring sex scenes with little dialogue that is very detrimental. Choices so far seem very basic (fuck or don't), most of the time you just end up doing what other characters tell you to do, which I also dislike.
Renders are quite good, but constant fade-ins/outs are extremely annoying. Sex scenes lack animations, are very basic (single or few frames) and desperately lack sexy dialogue.
Music is varied and fitting but I found it annoying.
Overall I really wanted to like this game and I enjoy the genre overall, but it's just not good.
And yet I can see the effort put in so I can't give it lower that 3 stars.
If you are willing to invest the time this game has an interesting story with lots of political intrigue, lots of characters, and great renders. It would be nice if there was a better way to track the in game time, but that is a minor complaint
This This is peak.
This was amazing I am eagerly awaiting the next upload. While in all truth I'm interested to see how my choices play out. I have never played a game that wasn't studio developed that made me question my choices. You would think oh porn game be horny but this game is amazing at recognizing your choices and letting you know it. The interactions you have with characters changes drastically depending on your choices. I will be playing it through several times when it is fully released to see all the routes.
TLDR The game is well polished and your choices matter maybe don't always be horny.
I honestly don't understand why people are reviewing this so highly, the story is not "Game of Thrones" level storytelling. Maybe if they mean the show after the content based on the books, then I guess. But it's just MC is a famous general, but is COMPLETELY passive in his interactions with women, and he comes to protect the king's palace. Then, sex happens because the goddess says so. Obviously that is as reductive as possible, but it's not wrong. I have a lot of issues with the storytelling that I'll get into in a few, but people that praise this so high can't have read "real" stories. This isn't bad, and it's almost worth a 4 from me, but I just see too much wrong with this.
As I said, MC is a general that has done great things... That you never see and only hear about anything secondhand. Anyway, he has been summoned to the castle to protect the royal family due to attempts on the King's life recently. The story ACTUALLY starts with Princess Valentina saying how much she loves MC because he played with her as a child? How deep. And that love trend continues with almost all the women here. As MC walks arounds the same courtyard for the entire story, he runs into the king's advisor, a (still at the time of writing) possible red herring for the attempts on the King's life. The prince is currently the same thing. And all of the issues they encounter never seem serious. There is a period where one of the princesses are kidnapped and for DAYS no one know what's happening or seems like they should do anything. Everyone just asks "Any new on Princess Cassia?" MC just says "Nope." And that's it, it's solved by someone OFF SCREEN coming to a soldier saying there's weird people by a cave. MC does nothing. As of end of content, there's still no answer, though I can speculate: Aelinia and/or Valentina are the real culprits. Valentina has been retconned to be smart so it's a possibility. Realistically it will be either one of the red herrings because there's no way this will have a big plot twist, or an off-screen villain that we haven't met yet. So I'm not holding my breath.
There is one character that's well written, and it's only if things turn out the way I think would be interesting, Aelinia. She's not obsessed spoiled brat, Valentina that the dev probably got too much criticism about so he retconned her to be secretly intelligent. Nor is she shallow and beauty obsessed like Cassia. And The bored neglected housewife that it Helena. Even then, all of the women have at most three conversations with MC before they're completely in love with him. But the conversations are all MC acting like Chuckie from Rugrats like "I don't know Valentina, your daddy will be awfully mad if we have a relationship." And the women saying he's handsome and they want to do it anyway.
I don't normally say this kind of stuff, but MC is NOT appealing at all. He somehow simultaneously looks like Charlie Sheen after a three week drug bender, and a 50 year old cuck with botox to tighten up his face. He is unappealing in every way. I don't get it, but the whole thing can be explained away with the crappy excuse "Goddess Anna wanted it to happen." And the day to day writing is completely disjointed. There are scenes where MC is still kissing or talking to a character and the game just completely cuts to something else that's happening. No warning, no transitional dialog, not even a title saying "Later that day..." It's all just the dev wrote an event and this is the next event. I do not like the writing here, and I can almost guarantee I won't like the outcome of this story but I will say it's not terrible. It's fault is it's trying to be about sex before the less than stellar story. Which is whatever, this is a site for dumb porn games, I just think you can do more in an adult game than just making it about ugly rich guy having sex.
My last issue is the renders. Everyone has deadpan faces or lifeless eyes. A lot of them have bloodshot or just really dark eyes and it's weird. On top of the facial posing gets noticeably worse throughout this, and they don't show emotions beyond very happy, surprised, or sad. And it's a shame because this is one of the few times the rest of the posing didn't feel stiff. I don't know, it's a mixed bag.
TLDR - The story is different from the usual crap, and is mildly interesting. The characters aren't amazing but not deal breakers. And it doesn't use default RenPy UI so it's not an eyesore. Give it a try.
This is the best game I have ever played till now. best story, best renders, best models, I like the way developer keeps suspence for the next update. Everything about this game is just awesome. I love this game.
Finally I'm going to rate this bcz last few updates i thought of reviewing this but couldn't able to do it.
-ve
Lack of animations or should i say lack of proper animations.
Renders in update v0.7.1 were surprisingly too brightish.
Did the trait system had any significant uses?
MC's face looks odd and older than the king himself sometimes.
+ve
Even without animations the intimacy was really well done, pretty arousing.
Really liked the characters, most of them anyways. My personal favorite was Valentina cute, beautiful, bubbly and dedicative personality she had. And the maid girl, Fiona i recon, red headed beauty, she was certainly something.
Romance was on par as well, i really wished for few animations though.
Dialogues and interactions were believable.. up to the mark.
This game review based on v.0.7.1 This game is great for you who like medieval setting, Lots of harem, got some worldbuilding and character development. To be a king takes place in a roman setting which led by the king arcellius.We as a MC takes as one of or the best general in the empire. This game really surprise me by having some branches story. While there are only four Main character path to choose, The story itself is really enganging. If you want to know the full story and some hidden at least you must replay the game with other path or choose most of the harem option. Well in conclusion, its really hard to find a Porn game like this with a character development, Branch story, and interesting storrytelling.
Really good and underrated VN. Highly Recommended. Great Story which had me wanting to find out what is happening and kept me intrigued. All the paths have their specific scenes which is awesome as well.
This VN is so underrated, it deserves more popularity, the girls are well made nd very hot, none of them are forced into the MC path, and story is also very good with nice historical touches on it.
Pros
+ Renders look nice for the most part
+ Decent amount of content
+ Not all girls have the same personality
Cons
- Writing and delivery, the most important part of any VN, is below average
- All girls turn into experienced prostitutes and say the same things during sex scenes even though most of them are virgins
- No animations, it's all static
- No interesting choices to make nor any consequences - choose any option you want it does not matter
- Story has no logic and follows a trajectory much like what you wrote for your first homework story in 4th grade
- No character development for the MC, no internally consistent personality for the MC (jumps from eternally loyal Mary Sue to banging the king's daughter in 5 seconds, considers a tavern wench an equal but treats his servant as a door mat, earnestly falls in love and claims every girl is "special and unique to me" but also bangs every woman within 100m with not a thought about how it hurts the girls he presumably loves)
- Every conversation feels like it was written as an engineering schematic; a pure info dump with nothing implied. It feels like there is no history between any character since every conversation comes with a complete accounting of everything leading up to that particular conversation ("Hi how are you? I was walking in the garden because I like morning walks in the garden because of my childhood where I grew up in a forested area and so gardens calm me down especially as I am now living in the palace where there are no forests and this is part of my personality and then I saw you and so I wandered over to say hi")
- No attempt to stay internally consistent. All characters in this medieval story talk like 2022 teenagers, going so far as to use terms like 'carbon dioxide'.
- The MC doesn't do anything except wander around and get poached by various hot girls. The MC doesn't feel like a person at all.
- Everyone loves the MC and will bang him as long as he doesn't explicitly scream no and run away. No girl feels like a conquest or emotionally invested, it's all just magic penis syndrome. No emotional connections are formed and no relationship feels deep or real.
All in all, I would not recommend this game, and it seems unlikely that any of these issues will be fixed.
This is the most boring game I've played in a long time, technically it's fine, the renders are fine (with some problems in the design, especially when certain characters are naked), but all that is the least of it, the big problem is the narrative, i will try to explain myself:
-The main character, is what they call a "Mary Sue", the perfect general, young, handsome, that all the women in the kingdom want to fuck with, including the three princesses and I think even the queen.
-The MC doesn't have any kind of progression, you already start as a legendary general, you start from the highest possible position, and basically you don't have to fight for anything.
-The dialogues are boring to the top.
-The king looks like an old idiot, unable to do anything, basically there is no serious antagonist in the whole plot, because your character is already a fusion between Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
-The female characters are boring, or annoying, or very childish, and they all want to fuck with you, there are no more interesting men in the kingdom apparently.
In short, the game has a big problem and that it has no progression, the main character is too perfect, he has everything easy, everyone wants with him, he achieves everything, etc. The story is boring in itself, if we add to this what has already been said about the MC, everything gets worse.
I would love to give it a better score, but the game was incredibly dense and very difficult to follow, the creator of this game is a good guy, he has a YouTube channel and he makes many guides on Daz and Ren'py, i recommend follow him, greetings.
P.D: This VN goes from bad to worse, in the update 0.9, every 5 minutes you have sex with a new character, there is not even a minute of script anymore (short sex scenes and they are made just with renders, boring and ultra vanilla basic sex), they changed the design of several characters and now they look much worse, anyway, waste of time.
I like the medieval setting and it started with promise, but it kind of plateaued early and never really recovered.
The MC (you) is a famous general pulled from the eastern front and put in charge of the king's personal safety because of two failed assassination attempts. Unfortunately, all of the MC's duties in this regard happen off screen as 95% of the game time is spent with the MC roaming the palace spending time with the different girls.
The writing quality is average with little if no errors in the script. Although, I don't think I've ever seen the word "lovely" used so much.
The character models for the girls aren't bad. They could be better. Most of them have either some degree of tank ass, or weirdly shaped breasts in some form or another.
The girls have differing personalities. The youngest princess is 19, but acts like she's 12. The middle Princess is a spoiled diva. The oldest is the mature one. All of the side LIs also have their own personalities.
The model for the MC is kind of bland.
All of the characters have their own Bio page except for the MC, which he really needs. The youngest princess who is madly in love with the MC from the start is 19. The queen is 44. The MC makes a comment to the queen about how he is older than she is, but there is no Bio page with his age or history. Everything you learn about the MC you learn from the other characters.
At the risk of my review being reported I’d like to comment on something which is not unique to this game. I wish people would stop using the word “problematic”. It's such a fucking stupid word. When you write a sentence such as…”I hope this won’t be problematic.”…it should really be…”I hope this won’t be an issue.” It sounds so much better.
The story piqued my interest enough to want to come back to see how it plays out, but I won't necessarily recommend it or say to stay away. This one will be a mixed bag for people.
The character models and scenes of this game are extremely beautiful. There is a lot of variety in the girls you can romance – the princesses, the queen, daughters of other ministers, princesses of other kingdoms and lot more. And all of them look and feel unique. All the characters in the game have rich backstories and unique traits, making the world feel lived in.
The plot is actually really intriguing without being completely overwhelming. The creator tried to make the make the plot interesting by adding political intrigue, but it makes the game feel a bit convoluted. Another knock against the game is the protagonist design – he isn’t headless as in most other games and his face looks generic. It wouldn’t be so bad in other games, but when compared to the gorgeous women of this game, he feels off.
UPDATE: 0.7.1
I love the political intrigue of the plot. The author does a great job of balancing the palace politics with the sex and women. The VN keeps getting better with updates and it has a way better plot now that I expected when I started playing it.
An 'ancient Rome/medieval' themed, generic Visual Novel with 'click to see next slide or line of text' gameplay, almost no dialogue options or choices that explores interesting concept but sadly fails to reach its full potential. Story is rather weak and centered around which girl you would like to add to your harem. The female characters are there for your pleasure only with non-existing choices and sex scenes that leave something to be desired (mudane clicking back and forth from missionary, doggy and anal.) There are some stats and fear/respect/charisma points system that does absolutely nothing as there are almost no in-game choices (other than do you want to put this female in your harem.) This title would greatly benefit from adding some in-game choices, dialogue options and different paths or at least some side quests to make you feel that you are actually doing something in this game other than being a bland and uninteresting MC.
High quality writing throughout. The buildup with the characters is good, the roman (empire) story is actually pretty good and interesting. The interactions with the characters are very good. The political dialogue is good, the realism in the story is good. The romantic dialogue is good. The sex scenes are static, but alright. There is a lot of content here that you will be playing for many many hours. I am very interested to see where the story goes and what choices we will have to make.
How this game isn't the top 10 surprises me. It's got a genuinely great story, an amazing set of characters, and the choices we make matter. The renders are really good too. Highly recommend you play this game
Props to you, ITroy.
Great game:
Amazing renders that go with different personalities. Especially the oldest daughter!
Great writing and plot.
Excellent locations.
This definitely needs more exposure, folks!
Another great point: Superb lenght! compared to other novels and their development time, this is amazing. Even more considering you've clearly put a lot of effort in the game's visauls, locations, plot, twists and characters!
