VN - Ren'Py - A Mother's Love [Part 1-16 Plus] [OrbOrigin]

I usually don’t post reviews, but this game really deserves one. The story completely pulled me in. Nicole is sweet and lovable, and almost every side character actually feels alive — you care about them, not just click through their lines. John and Beesman are especially well written, really solid rivals/antagonists.
The story is the real strength here. It’s emotional, well paced, and makes you love some characters and absolutely hate others, which is exactly what a good VN should do. There are a lot of choices — maybe even too many sometimes — I had to keep saving because I wanted the best possible ending, but that just shows how invested I was. Also, NTR is there (and avoidable), which is a big plus for me.
Animations aren’t the strongest part of the game, but honestly I stopped caring because the writing and characters carried everything. Renders look great, and the overall vibe is really solid.
The ending just leaves you wanting more. I haven’t even fully finished this update yet and I’m already waiting for the next one.
Story: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Animations: 7/10
Overall, an emotionally engaging game with a great story. Easy 5 stars from me. Can’t wait for the next update.

The longer this story lasts the worse it gets, because every update keeps doubling down on emphasizing its major weakness, the villain. It's also repeating the same plot beats over and over and over. At this point, it is legitimately in contention for the worst story of any game I've played on this site and, among porn game stories, that is a very low bar to limbo under.

I can't believe I missed reviewing it.
By and large, this is another game where the dev has made a fan base and leeching on that without actually improving his project with time. This game has so many issues. I think I will use bullet points to give some strong points and weak points of this game and not analytical review as It was some time I played the game. Today I was just checking what happened to the game.

STORY:
Positives:
1. It's a slow burn game and it teels a well rounded story centered around her.
Negatives:
2. The overall story is bad and has real NTR vibes going on.

RENDER/ANIMATION
I am not going to split here as there is only one positive point as he chose some very familiar type models who look well. This is only good thing and everything else is bad.
1. The render type looks old and has no modern lighting or coloring.
2. There is simply not enough detail in the image or animation specially.
3. It might be my personal choice but as there is no sexual sfx, these old renders are almost SFW category as they didn't excite me much.
4. Bad animation and quality is garbage.

If you like corruption. This is a game for you otherwise, I can't say one will enjoy it given so many drawbacks it has.

SN: This is another game where the dev has cult type followers. beware to comment in the thread.

This game is awful

its a story focus lewd game
and as for the story its extremely long and elevated
lewds are powerpoint presentation, but there is a lot of them
game is full of NTR... i stupidly had it recommended without researching
i knew i will be cheating on GF with her mom and i was hoping for 3some
but sadly its just cuck circle game with disgusting man and old woman

game contain: drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, blackmail, violence, murder, gun, breaking into places, having your friend describe in details how your gf cheats on you, domestic violence and abuse, abduction

game does not contain:
proper animations
musics
voice lines
sounds effects

i also needed to look up the solution for PC hacking
Summary: skip unless you like watching ugly man having sex with your woman or abusing co-workers or and wives
Story is not that bad tho, like author had twisted head full of ideas, sadly most of his ideas should stay there imo

3/5 for the sole reason that scenes with Nikole and her slowburn corruption are hitting just the right sweet spot.
The rest of the aspects are either average or below average.
Default DAZ models, uninspring poses, really bad animations.
What irks the most is the story pacing.
Both figurative and literal.
And if figurative can be explained with the intent to be slow burn, the literal pacing, ratio of text vs renders is just bad.
Just to give you a taste of this.

We see a new render. 2 character are sitting in a car, MC with another character are standing next to it.
SLIDE 1
John: Mmm. Just the man I was hoping to see
SLIDE 2
MC: Good morning John
SLIDE 3
A friend of yours, young MC?
SLIDE 4
MC: I'm afraid you haven't met my friend here yet, John.
SLIDE 5
MC: This is Marilyn.
SLIDE 6
MC: Marilyn this is John
SLIDE 7
John: Nice to meet you.
SLIDE 8
Marilyn: Likewise
SLIDE 9
Surprise to see you, young MC.
SLIDE 10
MC: Likewise
SLIDE 11
MC: Going to office John?
SLIDE 12
John: You guess it right.
SLIDE 13
John: Both me and Silvia are on our way
SLIDE 14
-you lean forward and look towards the driver seat to find Silvia -
SLIDE 15
MC: Hi there Silvia

And here finally, we have a new render.
I mean, I get it that setting up characters in the scene, setting poses, light, and postprocessing can be time-consuming, also sure, quantity has a quality of its own, but man....it such a slog.
Not sure if I will play till the end of the story.
P.S.
I did not check or play NTR route, so in theory, it could be that on NTR route, writing is much more engaging, but I highly doubt that.

Anyway if a slow burn corrupting/romancing of a hit MILF by a high school student sounds appealing to you, be sure to check it, just don't expect too much seeing the game with 4.5 avg rating.

The mid-game is riddled with unavoidable NTR scenes involving John. John can control any woman he wants. In the final chapter, the protagonist, knowing John's entire dirty history, can't stop his mother from dating John, which is illogical. There are always unavoidable or subtle NTR scenes. Hopefully, the developers will make a game where John is the protagonist who blackmails housewives, instead of replacing the protagonist in this game. John sleeps with almost every female character, but he's not the protagonist, which is somewhat comical.

every time the protagonist is having sex with Nicole, John is also having sex with Sylvia or Jenny, or the wives of other business partners, or engaging in a threesome.
John pretended to be unable to get an erection and chose not to have sex with Nicole.
Nicole was like someone who had been abandoned, and John didn't care.

I'll wait until the game is completely finished before playing it, so I'll only experience the pain once. If I had the chance, I'd rather have never played this game at all.
The early game is enjoyable Netori, the later game is painful Netorare.

This game is amazing. Nicole is sweet and lovable. The story is fun and every side character feels alive. Like u actually care about them. John and beesman are very well written and great antagonist/rivals. Very well driven story and deserves the 5* i give it. There is also ntr so thats a plus for me.

The end just makes you want more... Can't wait to see where the story takes me. A lot of choices, maybe a bit too much sometimes because I needed to make a lot of saves but that is just because I want to get the best possible ending. This game makes you love a couple characters and hate others so its a good game that makes you emotionally envolved.

great story, amazing renders ,cannot wait for the next update,wish there was more choices in the game but overall a great story , hope we dont have to wait long for the next update, i have not finnished this update yet,but at the same time i cannot wait for the next update ,i wish you all the best and thank you for the game,good luck.

Overall bad writing, NTR is not avoidable (The """""Vilain"""""" fuck/rape the LI by Day21-22), animations are mid, gives of kind of an NTR vibe all along, too much empty dialogues, graphics are mid, story is pretty shitty and you can easily guess the plot

John's shit game. And the ending especially, just fuck this shit game. It kept on going with John. That plot is garbage.

It was fine at the start because I thought we could get the typical cuck the husband stuff but no. Honestly, a waste of time.

The renders are of good quality, especially in the more recent chapters, and the characters have striking visuals and well-defined personalities. The protagonist, in particular, is captivating and nuanced, making each interaction more interesting.

The story progresses a bit slowly at first, but rewards the patient player with strong emotional moments and decisions that truly matter.

The adult content is well-done, with a good variety of scenes and fetishes, although at times it feels a bit repetitive or lacking more polished animations.....

I never post reviews, but I had to make an exception for this game. I usually nitpick games based on animations quality which in this game is not great, BUT when it comes to the story and characters, it just sucked me in. For me the story is easily 10/10, in each game I tend to turn towards the harem routes, but here it was different. I was captivated by the main LI and couldn't bring myself to go for others. Also I am glad that NTR is avoidable.
Animations: 4/10
Story: 10/10
Characters 10/10

I would rate this 0 stars if I could, it's not a good porn game. The porn is good, the models are great and generally the look of mostly everything is at least good enough, but I just cannot stand John. At all. "A Mothers Love" is a lie, as is the description of the game. It's all about John. John, John, John...."John's Bad Story" is far more accurate of a title.

I would pay good money to play this game if the entire John "sub-plot" was cut out. I don't want to see it, so why is it the only thing the game wants to focus on after the first few chapters? And it just kept going deeper and deeper into it. It's like the writer realized they ran out of things to write about Linda and couldn't come up with anything, so instead it's basically written like an NTR story, but where John is and isn't the main character. It's infuriating.

At one point, I just felt like if I see John one more time in the next minute, I'll alt+f4 at that moment, then BOOM there he is, and I was out. I wasn't kidding about this feeling like an NTR VN where you watch are the cuck and John is the MC, even though it's supposed to be the exact opposite according to the description. Write the cuck as unlikeable as you want, I'm all for it, but NOT LIKE THAT. JUST NO. My god, I can't even put it into words, I just hate him as a character so much that all other enjoyment the game could have given me is just gone.

So good job, if this were rated for how hateable that character is, this would get a 100/10, but as it stands, it takes talent to write someone that hateable. Too bad I don't play porn games to hate things. I was even kind of exited about finally finding a game where the two lead characters were the ones who had the majority of all sex scenes, too bad the worst character in the history of fiction wants to have the rest of them.

Just a note for any devs reading this review, just in case. Don't do what this game does. I have no idea why it's so highly rated, but I'm certain they either are in it for the renders or they don't care about characters, just the story. Because the story itself is good, but the writer is HELL BENT on NOT CHOOSING A GOD DAMN DIRECTION. I don't care which you choose to write, but DON'T WRITE THIS TONE FLIPPING GARBAGE. GOD DAMN it's THE WORST type of writing possible.

Amazing game, I haven't finished it but feels like a lot of things happened, the dynamic is amazing, the back story is amazing, the character, the drama, the CG is well thought, even tho it's not as polished, it's Enough. and how realisic it is about choices, amazing game, and it's not even finished, they still need add music and stuff, but without it I've been feeling good with the stories, even I cried.

The story is a bit fantastical but overall is pretty good. Nicole is very sweet, in fact their whole interaction is sweet even with high corruption. But low corruption is probably best.
I hope the dev continues to develop the story well.

A game that in the end didn't drive me crazy.
I decided to play it because I saw a good rating, I really liked how the mother was portrayed and I thought the story was interesting (becoming the mother's lover).

In the end, for me, the most lacking part was precisely the story that never grabbed me. First of all, I didn't like Chloe, the daughter and my girlfriend, who I left as soon as possible and continued only with the mother.
First of all, the story is very boring and not very credible when it talks about what John and Beeman, Chloe's professor, her lover, do. Their part is so bad that it becomes absurd and not very credible, making all interest in the story fall. I imagined a story where there would be more corruption, the possibility of setting up parallel stories with other women or increasing the level of corruption of Nicole, the mother, maybe doing threesomes, pushing her to swing with other couples or making her become a lewd even with other men, but all this is not there, there is only a very linear, romantic story, where in the end the two will have a child together (I imagine the daughter whose brother's father is her peer and ex-boyfriend).

The drawings are nice, especially those of Nicole, the mother, who I find very beautiful, sensual and classy, but the sexual relationships are not so interesting and hot.

Not the best game of this genre. I agree with those who wrote that it would be nice to take Nicole, one of the most beautiful MILFs I have seen and put her in a better game, with a more interesting story and more exciting erotic parts.

Like the story. The animations are reasonably good, although could be smoother. Artwork is very nice. The balance of story to H scenes is well done. There are some issues with pseudo-realism, but they're not bad enough to quit. Am giving AML a 5 because I believe it rates better than a 4.

If you love an engaging story and deep characters with a range of emotion, and a thrilling series of events, then you will love this AVN. I had some doubts at first, and a few moments I wanted the MC to just die because he's a moron, but personal feelings and the 'what I would do' moments (having been in similar situations) aside, it is a wild rollercoaster ride.

The deeper you get into this story the more it develops into something more. If you're into the erotic there's plenty of great scenes that blend into the story, almost too much for my personal taste, but I enjoy a good story above being a fapaholic.

Sure the render quality isn't what some of the higher end AVN's show, but it's easy to sacrifice the high quality visual if the story and characters are high quality, in my opinion. Some things can be sacrificed if it means not waiting 1 to 2 years per episode.

The dialog is good, but the English grammar is a little choppy. This isn't a big distraction from the story though. Also there's no audio track, but better no audio than bad audio. Which is fine if you have your own playlist for these AVN's to play in the background. I give this 5 stars (because 4.5 star rating isn't possible) as it's great but not quite perfect.

If you're looking for a quick wank or porn clips with no story than I suggest ignoring this and visit a porn site. This is an Adult Visual Novel and the 1 star reviews seem to be from fapaholics looking for a certain instant gratification. No judgement, to each their own, just don't turn on a rock radio station and then complain all they play is rock (relax, it's an analogy, if you get it you get it, if not it wasn't meant for you).

I'm almost in love with Nicole! OMG this is the best game that fully describes the emotion/action change of FC, from the love of husband migrating to MC, in a rather slow but touching step. 5 thumbs up! Hopefully one day I can play it on steam!