Lily's Handmaid

Pros: * A lot of kissing and sexual tension with all the girls * All the girls are very open to sex with one another * Sexy dress design and poses * When there are choices, there is always a comedic lust choice and it doesn't ruin your endings Cons: * The shadowing of the art or "3D-ness" takes some time to get used to * There is one vague mention of a magical penis, but it isn't shown and doesn't really matter * A lot of sex happens, but not many CG for it. Odd how there is none for the main heroine Lily * The "pure love" part of the story felt sudden without convincing build up Overall: Recommended if you want an erotic yuri game and can get used to the art.

[h2] 游戏介绍 [/h2] 《Lily's Handmaid》（暂译：莉莉的女仆）是一部百合向的成人视觉小说，不过这款游戏并没有特多色情镜头特写。游戏讲述的是我们的主角莎拉，也是一位年轻且优秀的战斗法师。莎拉的母亲从富有的贵族达斯科哈特家借了一笔巨额的资金，但是她无力偿还。所谓母债女还，为了还债，莎拉来到达斯科哈特家。在家主梅丽莎女士和她的小女儿的建议下，莎拉成为了莉莉的专属贴身侍女。就这样一段超越主仆关系的故事由此展开了。 [h2] 玩法特点 [/h2] 游戏的大部分时间都花在发展你、莎拉和莉莉的关系上。游戏并不是一天一天地进行，而且偶尔会有时间跳跃。我更喜欢这种讲故事的方式，因为它直接切入感情的核心，不会浪费时间在无意义的拖延上。 游戏作为一款百合向成人视觉小说，包含了多个不同的结局。并且游戏中也提供了大量的选项让玩家选择，而玩家的选择将会决定故事的最终走向并影响到结局。 虽然是一款成人游戏，但是游戏中并没有过多的色情内容场景，甚至不会展示女角色阴部特写，有的大部分是接吻。 但是除了接吻声和流水声外，几乎没有任何音效。虽然有背景音乐，但感觉太过压抑或与作者想要营造的氛围截然不同，所以我大部分时间选择播放其他音乐游玩这款游戏。 因为完全是一款百合向游戏，游戏中只有女角色，和女角色的H场景。并且有很多重复的H场景CG，导致我有时候不得不跳过。 [h2] 总结 [/h2] 总而言之，如果你喜欢轻松氛围的百合小说，那么这款游戏还是值得推荐的。它没有太多的H场景，所以完全可以当作一部常规向的游戏去游玩。这部是同一世界观的三部曲中的第一部作品（另外两部分别是《魅魔研究日记》和《埃莉诺的女仆》），不仅让我们看到作者想要为玩家展示一个甜蜜的百合故事，还通过这部作品展示了作者优秀的插画制作水平。 [quote]欢迎关注[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/37516409/]小柠檬咖啡厅[/url]，只为发掘优秀的游戏 [/quote]

[h1]KISSES, KISSES, KISSES[/h1] Lily's Handmaid is an yuri eroge visual novel that you can finish in less than 4 hours. It was nothing special (even for eroge standards), so I can't really recommend it. However, if you want to give it a chance, check my "in-depth" thoughts below. [b]Story:[/b] Sarah, the protagonist of the story, was "forced" to work for Duskheart Family to pay her mother's debts. She's starting her training to become handmaid of Lily - daughter of Duskheart Family's leader. That's it. The whole story revolves around this and slowly takes you to the predictable end. Of course, there are various events where our protagonist gets closer to other women from the Family, but they weren't really interesting (both women and "events"). Honestly, almost everything was NOT interesting. World and characters weren't good enough to keep me invested into the game. There was (somehow) too much kissing, too little of anything else. [b]Gameplay:[/b] Typical renpy visual novel. Nothing unusual if you already touched anything created in renpy. Few choices here and there - most of them doesn't matter. Some of them (they are marked) can give you different endings. [b]Visuals and Audio:[/b] I'm not a fan of the art style. It's not bad, but it's also not great either. Soundtrack was there I suppose? Nothing memorable. [i]Check my Curator's page for more reviews: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41437353-mnik%2527s-Experience/[/i]

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I've read all three of these visual novels (the Succubus Research Diary and the two handmaid stories) and liked them quite a bit. I have only one issue with this vn: no genitalia are visible. There is no GBTQ+, just L with non-visible magic phalli.

I recently picked up all three games apart of this series, and out of them - this game is most likely the weakest read of them all. You're the former champion of a magic academy. After graduating, you do odd jobs for a while, since your mom has disappeared for a the better part of a year or two, leaving you without much direction. You're kidnapped an older lady and asked to clear your mother's overwhelming debt by, suprisingly, becoming one of her daughters' handmaid. The daughter in question has had a crush on you for years, and this is her mom's last ditch attempt at being a wingman. Most of the game is spent developing your, Sarah, and Lily's relationship. The game doesn't really take it a day at a time and there are sporadic timeskips. I prefer this type of storytelling, as it gets right into the meat of the affections and doesn't waste time with training arcs and nonsensical dilly-dallying. It's a brief read of 4-5 hours with many reused CGs at some points. There's hardly any sound effects aside from kissing noises and running water. The music is there, but it felt overwhelming or distinct from the mood the writers wanted to create, so I played my own piano music in the background. The characters: Lily and Sarah are pretty cute, despite the time spent being somewhat short. The VN does pretty well portraying their thoughts on the matter. Sarah seems lost and unsure of what her life has become, whereas Lily is adamant on asserting herself to make up for the lost time she had spent hesitating before. The mother and headmaid play a pretty similar role in trying to persuade Sarah even further by seducing/training her with their sensual techniques. Nodya and Rie are sort of sidelined and don't get much development nor screentime in the main route. The twins are simply there to invoke jealousy and speed up an already somewhat fast intimate relationship. All in all, I'd recommend the game if you'd like a light read. It would only be worth glancing at if you plan on playing the two other games, Succubus Research Diary and Eleanor's Handmaid. It sets up the world for those two sequels and does it's job pretty well. Like a 3/5 for me.

Visual novel with fantastical worldbuilding, neat graphics & visual design and a lot of kisses between cute girls. [url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3655pekgaxl0koe/VN%20-%20Review%20s3f%20-%20Lily%27s%20Handmain.txt?dl=0]Review w/o 8000 char. limit.[/url] Quick summary: ❇️ Perfect: ✒️ Visual style, ✒️ Setting & world, ✒️ Main Characters, ✒️ Supporting Characters, ✒️ Character's relationships, ⚙️ Visual quality, ✒️ Visual design, ⚙️ Engine *️⃣ Good: ✒️ Story & Events, ✒️ Yuri / h-scenes, ✒️ Story progression, ⚙️ Language, ⚙️ Animations, ⚙️ Music, ⚙️ Interface ✴️ Neutral: - 💢 Vexing: - 💥 Vile: - ✒️ Visual style ▫️ ❇️ Absolute positive trait ▫️ 🟧 Significant influence Anime style was undoubtedly the main criteria when I was selecting this game, there is so much about it, drastic improvement in many aspects. And the Arcus Plume neatly follows current state of anime stylistic. Not only that, but developer used quite remarkable 3d graphics. It is a matter of cell-shading, and local one is very neat and special. ✒️ Setting & world ▫️ ❇️ Absolute positive trait ▫️ 🟧 Significant influence In Lily's Handmaid is realised concept of female-only world, there is a lot of advancements and detalisations in every aspect of setting, every piece of it is used and utilised in full measure, you can genuinely feel all love and soul put into it. Worldbuilding here is stunningly elaborated and original. While dominantly magic is superior, there is room for science, and we can see some highly advanced inventions, magic here is very sophisticated with a lot of details and technicalities, in addition, process of spell scripting is exactly the coding. Impressively many aspects and features were rethought, reimagined and reworked. Furthermore, Succubus Research Diary goes even deeper than that, into sociology and botany. And universe of Lily's Handmaid is a lot more endearing regards of relations between people. This novel spends some portion of its time thinking and discussing some aspects of society, at the same time helping to clarify relationships between characters. ✒️ Female protagonist & Main Characters ▫️ ❇️ Great positive trait ▫️ 🟧 Significant influence ✒️ Full female cast & Supporting Characters ▫️ ❇️ Great positive trait ▫️ 🟧 Significant influence Speaking of which, there is 9 of them and every one got a substantial amount of screen time, to the point that narratively each girl will be a protagonist at least a once, even if not for a long. Still, our main character is Sarah, who happened to pay off her debt left by her mommy Serena by becoming a maidservant for Duskheart family. There is not much to say about her, but she is sensible, so it is pleasurable experience playing as her. Overall characters have shallow backgrounds, but as we will get to know them we will heard couple of interesting facts about their lives. However most important thing is their behaviours, which fairly differs, while still each girl is benevolent and pretty loveable. ✒️ Character's relationships ▫️ ❇️ Great positive trait ▫️ 🟧 Significant influence While we still are a servant of Melissa, she treats us very carefully, as well as others members of her family, she also happens to support feelings between her girls, so while her daughter Lily will be trying to conquer our heart, we will be free to become close and intimate with other servants, and with her majesty Melissa too, yet spending most time with Lily, who is really a cutie and such a good girl, so it is hard not to fall in love with her. ✒️ Story & Events ▫️ *️⃣ Small positive trait ▫️ 🔶 Average influence Reading will take 6-8 hours. Actually main storyline and events aren't than engaging: we are doing chores of housekeeper while talking a lot with other girls, but the setting & worldbuilding is excellent in so colossal magnitude that due to ludonarrative consonance it keeps you reading just to stay a bit more in this astonishingly wonderful world. Also I really do not like stereotypical maids, but there it is completely not the case: we are more in between of family member and house worker, and, thankfully, wise lady Melissa gave us good freedom, so even Sahara enjoys her job. ✒️ Yuri & Yuri h-scenes ▫️ *️⃣ Great positive trait ▫️ 🟧 Significant influence [i]Where is the anime location? Vhere is it?! It is simp... hwha.. sssex :)[/i] Yet not only usual work of maid takes our time: we spending many hours in intimacy with different girls, in main game it is mostly kisses and caresses, quite varied and intricate, which is really cute, but not so [i]exciting[/i], however additional episodes add more hot and explicit scenes, very feminine and soft. Sadly, there is no depiction of [strike]𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝓈[/strike] crotches during these acts, but text is enough detailed to tell us everything interesting, great visuals and solid knowledge of female anatomy also help in this. ⚙️ Visual quality ▫️ ❇️ Great positive trait ▫️ 🔶 Average influence Quality of models, sprite resolution and such technical details are excellent, everything in the best condition for 1080p, crisp and clean. ✒️ Story progression ▫️ *️⃣ Positive trait ▫️ 🔸 Minor influence We are able to make a few choices during the story (be like Serena - say "yes" to every girl), but I am not sure if they do unlock some paths, because In the end I was able to get every ending (because Serena is right). There is 4 of them. Every ending changes your preferred love interest as well as future of Sarah, while being original and enticing in its own way, pretty impressive. ✒️ Visual design & Backgrounds, CGs ▫️ ❇️ Great positive trait ▫️ 🔶 Average influence Words can not describe good color schemes and pallettes we can witness in this visual novel. And every location has it own look and accent. Plus there are gorgeous in-building designs: stone, wood and paper walls are making beautiful combinations. Same can be said about clothes, they are truly attractive and original, and probably even comfortable. Characters are in catchy poses (obviously not up to the level of JoJo-posing), looks like this helps to express a bit of individuality. Except Lily, she is A-posing. ⚙️ Language ▫️ *️⃣ Small positive trait ▫️ 🔶 Average influence With easy readability and just above average vocabulary and verbality, there is a lot onomatopoeias and occasional word plays. ⚙️ Animations ▫️ *️⃣ Positive trait ▫️ 🔸 Minor influence Variety of facial expression is good even more so of scenes, with additional insets, but dominantly imagery is static, there is almost none animations except basic sprite movement. ⚙️ VFX ▫️ ❔ Not present There is a training battle scenes, where overall everything is a bit more lively, but other than that there is none VFX. ⚙️ SFX ▫️ ❔ Not present They are extremely occasional, but more important that there is not a single one during sensual acts between our characters, Succubus Research Diary will nullify this problem with a great passion. ⚙️ Music ▫️ *️⃣ Small positive trait ▫️ 🔸 Minor influence The game can rejoice you with several tracks, still for my ears the music aren't impressive / emotional / powerful enough to listen to it outside of the novel, maybe I am expecting [url=https://youtu.be/3hXJQf3wwu4]too much[/url]... it is open-source but finding good compositions in the ton-load of crap is a tough task too. ⚙️ Interface ▫️ *️⃣ Small Positive trait ▫️ 🔸 Minor influence Remarkable simple and clean, does not interfere arts. Names are in color, it is truly convenient. Font looks pretty stock, and subtitles' background are with horizontal gradient, no idea why not vertical, so image would smoothly transform into edge of screen. ⚙️ Engine ▫️ ❇️ Great positive trait ▫️ 🔸 Minor influence It is Ren'Py - Unreal Engine 5.1 from world of visual novels. Skips fast, every tool for VN is here. You can unpack assets and transfer saves easily. I think Lily's Handmaid was worthwhile pastime of fraction my life.

Many different povs and really good story.

Equal parts wholesome and for horndogs. Also, important word of advice-- for a game that has sex all throughout, you don't get any of it, UNLESS you know where to look. Literally, all the real stuff is in the epilogue and Nadya bonus chapters. Have fun!

Interesting visual novel. Not sure how many of the choices matter. There are a few that are colored, and they seem to lead to different ends. Anyway, decent enough.