A Mother's Love is interesting gamethat is worth of playing. Visuals are fine, writting is mostly fine , character models (other than LIs) are also good. It is not GOAT by any means, but it is one of the proper AVNs, not just another porn game.
Visuals: 6/10
Writting: 6/10 ( later episodes 4/10)
Lewds: 7/10
Characters: 7/10
Sound 0/10
Pros:
- main LI (Nicole) is well written and looks great, story is clearly centred around her and it shows, best part of the game are with her in it,
- John Heavens - main antagonist in the story, well written, not one-dimensional, can be a bit cartoony sometimes,
- Abigail - fun character with proper backstory, interesting personality and rather fun interactions (not even lewds but overall).
- overall writting range from meh to very good (mostly it is fine), sometimes it is great but in the next part it get boring and back to great...
- lots of choices (meaningful ones) that helps with branching
- points system seems to work quite well (you can do low/high corruption runs with many variables)
Cons:
- overall plot is not very interesting at the start and does not offer any twists/mysteries untill way later into the story, plot lacks focus, 180 switch from romancing/blackmailing LI to finding John secrets (kinda dull part of the game), repetitive the longer it goes,
- MC is written as a very self-centred and self-serving person, even on low corruption / romance path he does not think about other people much (his wants and needs are all he seems to foucs on),he has creepy and immature/childish moments (wanting to drop from school few weeks from graduation, duuuuuh) but you can get use to it, starts relationship with LI by blackmailing her, sleezy pervert that tries to act like adult person. Gets better in the later part of the game.
- Marilyn - your psychic friend/camgirl. She starts as a goofy friend (mostly ok-ish character) but with time turns into needy creep (she is also lesbian that has a mega crush on LI), gets more annoying with story progression. Worst character in the whole game. I think she supposed to be quirky/funny but comes of as a annoying brat (also horny creep at the same time).
- Chloe - starts promising but quickly falls flat, being sidelined by main LI (she feels like a secondary NPC not your gf), her NTR part of the story ( avoidable) makes her look even worse. Lots of unrealised potential.
- whole part of the story about uncovering Johns dirty secrets, working for him is plain and boring, story gets weaker the further you get.