HOME: Mother

Home: Mother is like a broken-in, and broken-down, couch. It’s really comfy, but eventually you notice the loose springs trying to create new holes in your skin. The strongest parts of this game are the environments and the atmosphere. The backgrounds are quite pretty, in an abandoned and decayed kind of way. The screen with a cat and dog on a balcony, overlooking a landscape (seen in the thumbnail below), have the quality of a Rusty Lake game, if not even better. The game also built up a great sense of atmosphere through detailed descriptions and the inner monologue of the main character. However, the writing is severely harmed by the localization. Not just the word choice, but also the grammar and syntax is pretty bad. Given that at least the first part of the game is nothing but reading, this makes for rough going. Match that with a transparent story and a cliched, amnesiac character, and the writing won't be shaking anyone's world. I probably played two-thirds of the game, and while the beginning is a reading-fest, the game quickly devolves into a pixel hunt of the worst kind, where items necessary to progress are hidden around the screen in decreasing sizes, down to the siz…

Lame game. Nothing to do. Just dont buy it

Rummage through your old house and look for memories. This is a small game that requires a lot of clicking and reading. It takes place in a house where you search for memories. The house has multiple rooms, and each one is a static image filled with things. You must click on even the smallest and seemingly insignificant objects because you never know which one will contribute a piece to the broken heart in the upper right corner. Memories are crucial because the cat will quiz you about them. The questions are simply about a few of the memories, so you don't need to find them all. Unfortunately, the game does not make things easy for you. There is no in-game notepad or other way to keep track of found memories, so you must write them down yourself. Once you've answered the questions, the cat will set you on a scavenger hunt throughout the house. The goal is to collect six items represented by silhouettes. This shows what has to be located, although the objects are very little and difficult to locate in environments crowded with many stuff.