Motherless - Season 1

我是个简单的人，我看到文化，我按买。 I'm a simple man. I see Culture, I click buy.

While this game does not have very many choices, the novel itself is in-depth and well written. I give this an 8 of 10. More actual choices would only improve this 'game'.

Фу!

why?

There are so many things wrong with this title, it’s difficult to know where to begin. From the jarring occasional voice “sound effects”, to Hunter’s (a protagonist) hair, which looks like he combs it with buttered toast, to his freakishly gigantic ‘equipment’ – hell the circumference is as thick as his leg, to the stale plot and dialog – and to boot the story is beyond predictable and linear. The animations are horrid and the still images are cartoonish – I can only see liking this game if you’re a fan of cheap, poorly illustrated adult comics because for fans of modern AVNs this one’s a stinker.

Not gonna pretend I found a pile of quotable complaints for this one, so I'll keep it general and in the same critical voice rather than making up specifics that weren't actually said by real reviewers. A visual novel that leans entirely on volume over substance, ten thousand renders and 178 videos sounds impressive on a store page, until you realize quantity was clearly prioritized over anything resembling quality control or restraint. The writing follows the exact template every free-to-play adult visual novel has used for years now, mysterious past, convenient amnesia, a rotating cast of women who all just happen to be extremely interested in the blandest possible self-insert protagonist. There's no tension in any of it because you already know where every thread leads before chapter two wraps up. Calling it "narrative-driven" is generous when the narrative exists purely as a delivery mechanism between scenes. And speaking of delivery, the actual business model here is the real tell. A supposedly free game that then splits its story into over a dozen separate paid DLC chapters, at prices that add up fast if you actually want to see where any of these threads go. That's not se…