Ren'Py - Completed - Foot of the Mountains 2 [v5.0 Finale] [SerialNumberComics]

Holy hell this has to be one of the worst ero game I've ever played. The ero part is actually well done and plenty hot, it's the game part that is super tedious. Even with cheat! I shit you not, go take a look at the walkthrough for this game, it's pages and pages of doing the same thing and viewing the same scene over and over again to advance the story. Every ero game creator out there ought to play this game once, to know how NOT to make an ero game.

Decent renders, made inaccessible by relentless grind. I tried. I got to week 30. I gave up. And that was WITH a walkthrough.

If you really like the renders, use the gallery mod, then move on. There are better uses of your time on this site.

I started playing this game about a year before completion. I really liked the game however the major turnoff was the drastic grinding that would put any well known RPG character leveling to shame. Onward we go and deal with the excessive grinding because we really like the game. The art is well done, the story was really captivating and the update frequency not terribly long. This brings us to the last update, this is where I dropped to a 3 star from a 4. The last update in a nutshell was like the series finale of the Sopranos. The developer threw an ending on it just to move on to something ells. I felt betrayed.

Applicable to: [v5.0 Finale] [COMPLETED]

This game is not worth your time despite what you may be fooled to believe from its tags & description.

If the dev read this review: Make sure you read to the end. I'm going to take a huge shit on you but it's just because I love you.

There is one and only one upside to FOTM: This dev knows how & is not afraid to write a perverted incest story. FOTM touches (keyword: touches, not dives in) on a lot of taboos that are simply completely absent from other similar games. It's really really nice to see that.

Unfortunately, EVERYTHING else is garbage.

The game itself is technically garbage. For some incomprehensible reason, the dev thought it's a good idea to write a sandbox-style game despite the fact he's got absolutely no idea how.

Crazy decisions abound and the absolute worst is changing game state when going down a path of choices without giving you any hint about it. For example, extremely often you have to play through an event multiple times to unlock more paths down the same event or, WORST OF THE WORST, paths on other events. You are not given absolutely any hint that a repeat of this exact succession of choices is necessary or that something has unlocked and where or how many repeats are necessary to unlock everything. You're just supposed to play like a monkey and repeat every single one of this game's events, in every single possible choice succession (i.e. literally thousands of paths), for at least 10 times each, until everything is unlocked. Madness.

That is this dev's idea of game design and that's just scratching the problem.

The game has dead ends that you may not notice until you are 100-200 hours in. That's right, at some point you may notice the game is fucked up and when you check the walk-throughs you discover that you have to go back and replay 50-100 hours. It's complete craziness and an abject disrespect for the player.

FOTM 1 is really composed of 3 major parts: (1) Before Cynthia visits, (2) while Cynthia visits and (3) after Cynthia visits. Unfortunately, a lot of things become unavailable when the game transitions from (1) > (2) > (3) and problems abound particularly at transitioning from (2) to (3) as you can easily lock yourself out of a huge number of events by transitioning too soon.

FOTM 2 is another piece of tech garbage. It has game paths that cannot be reached without tampering with vars via Ren'Py's console. More importantly, a lot of events from FOTM 2 are just copy-paste from FOTM 1 without adding anything meaningful and yet you're supposed to waste your time seeing everything again. To add insult to this injury, the dev decided that the game finale will just be yet another copy-paste of all previous events with 5% new stuff added but because the events are technically different, again, you can't FF through them, you just have to see everything yet AGAIN.

Garbage, garbage, garbage. This is what this game is, technically. The dev has no idea how to design or write a game and yet, instead of staying in his fucking lane and not waste everyone's time, he just decided to dive into a type of game that is totally out of his depth and then, instead of keeping it simple, he decided to just pile on shit until the code becomes such a spaghetti mess not even him understands what the hell is going on (and that's how FOTM 2 came to be as a separate game).

The result is that FOTM simply cannot be played in a way that is satisfying vs. the time it requires. You absolutely have to follow a walk-through, which completely neuters any excitement you should've obtained from conquering the game by yourself (this being THE only reason to make a sandbox-style game in the first place). The alternative is to look at the source code but beware that it's a catastrophic mess nobody should lay eyes on. It literally looks like the game was written in fucking Notepad by a 15 year old.

There is another important dissatisfying aspect to the game. It simply lacks a good pace or depth. While the greater scenario is generally OK, there is too much focus on having lots of sex scenes and too little focus on fleshing out these scenes in mini-quests that are as taboo as possible. For example you have lactation, gay(ish) stuff as well as some NTR in there but they are all marginal events that have a lot of lead up and then just... meah.

FOTM is a gigantic waste of opportunity as well as everyone's time and that is perfectly reflected in the very low number of patreons this dev has. It's tragic because the writing is pretty good and there are lots of kinky things in there that could attract a lot more pervs but everything is buried under a mountain of tech garbage.

The strength of this dev is quite remarkable, make no mistake. The ability to push out so many renders, so much writing that is generally pretty good & decently kinky, the monumental effort to write out this mountain of spaghetti code in a way that ultimately works if you're willing to read the code or a walk-through, all of these are signs of tremendous strength & talent on dev's part.

But the ultimate conclusion doesn't change. FOTM is not worth your time. Technically it's garbage that can only be "played" with a walk-through and the kinkiness, while there and above most other similar games, is simply not fleshed out enough.

It seems this dev is trapped in a dark loop where he has a small number of fans / patreons who love that he's putting out kinks that are hard to come by (even if they are not fleshed out enough). Consequently he keeps pushing out content to his fans who don't mind mindlessly going through each release as described. After a few iterations with this kind of releases, the game becomes effectively impossible to approach by new players and the dev remains a slave to his small number of fans, obliged to feed them with new content as best as he can.

The best thing he could do is to literally take 50% of his time over the next year to redo FOTM. Reuse the writing, reuse the renders and just consolidate FOTM 1 and 2 into a single game. Modify every single hidden change of a variable to no longer be hidden. If you don't have any better idea, just use a hint like the one given when money is -/+ whenever you change a variable. Also add hints for how many more repeats are still needed to unlock everything on each path and find a way to explain which part of the path needs to be repeated especially because some chain of choices are extremely long. Stop using retarded variable names like tycthm, mfhs, spwg, the code is there for humans to read! Start using a fucking decent IDE that allows better dev instead of the Notepad you seem to be using.

The only content you need to add in the new FOTM is just more perverted stuff. Make Rhonda & Ann lactate. Invent some quest where the MC needs to collect milk from all of them, make Ann milk her mother. Make them pregnant. Add some fisting. Make William fuck his daughters. Get MC into some seriously gay stuff and let William fuck him or the girls peg him. Don't be afraid to add as many sick shit as you can imagine. Your objective should be to learn how to write a game that is playable from end to end as well as how to split a game into multiple chapters when things get out of control. Take a look at Dating my Daughter and how that's done. You should definitely make something similar. Every 3 to 6 months create another executable to keep things organised and DO NOT reuse old events (copy-paste code).

I hope you wise up before you burn out because you already have a history of games that are very similar to FOTM in terms of both ups and downs.

I was a fan of this game, have to accept I looked forward to updates,
Melinda is still the best MILF on this thread imo.
Despite the hell grinding, the scenes were hot.
Fortunately, I also play ntr so it was getting all better for me.
But I don't know why rather than getting this game on track, the dev ended it.

Still, for all the positive and negatives, it was still a good game for me. 4 out of 5.
IF dev is reading this, you need to make another game with Melinda..

Not for a quick fap. For hours you dont see anything. No nude, no bj, hj, tj or even a booby. The worst part about the game is cuz you dont know how exactly to unlock new scenes. You can watch a scene 50 times but on the 51 time the scene change and you finally progress the story.
Then again the same. You watch the scenes 100 times and already think, "Thats the end of the content?" but on the 101 time the scene change.
Sorry but the game is just unplayable without a walkthough.

For a quick fap download the less grind mod. It contain both games but without the immense grind. The downside, it doesnt contain every scene. Just the aunt and few scenes of the girls.

*Update*
I'm now in week 10 and this game is unplayable without the walkthrough. EVEN with the walkthrough I'm clicking 7 days a week, times 10 weeks, times 15hourly periods per day, minimum (not counting additional dialogue choices) in the hopes of unlocking something. Redoing something 3-5 times to unlock the next level of a relationship and story is fine, but not 15-30 times (how many times the walk through has you Help Rhonda in the living room or pick apples with Melinda...grrrr). Even with the cheat mod things don't seem to progress any quicker or unlock any sooner. I'm done!
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Story takes soooo long to get going (I think it took me till week 4 of FoM 1) because of the unnecessary grind to 'build relationship points' or reduce inhibitions, which could have been handled much differently. Thus the loss of two stars.

Once things get going I appreciate a wide range of characters for the MC to screw, such as young, inexperienced bbw Rhonda to granny Barbara.

Yes, I agree with others that Melinda's character carries this game. Without her, it would be less interesting.

I didn't know what to expect from the story (once it got going) and liked it overall.

This is a free roam game that adds too much grinding to make it excellent. Otherwise the content that does get unlocked is interesting even though some of the incest pieces are totally predictable and cliche.

Not bad, but not good, especially when there are some great, much higher rated games out there.

This is a LEGIT Review of the game

This has to be the most tedious, grindy game on this site, with very little differing between scenes & the characters are all unlikable which is a shame as the animations are pretty good, just a shame it doesn't make the game any less of a chore to play through

i will be generous and rate foot of the mountains 1
3 stars because i really really enjoyed melinda
the game is so messy nothing to tell you how to get to each scene
and its soooo grindy the most grindy game so far on this website
the walkthrough was out of sync first rarely then near the end way too much
and i think the reason is the one who made the walkthrough kept jumping between save files for some reason if your walkthrough got you all the scenes why delete the save and use another "full save" that only messed up the tempo
i also liked ann she was really depraved maybe more depraved than the MC but unlike him she doesnt really go after what she wants
i wouldn't mind playing a game with ann as the MC and she goes after guys and girls all the same fucking everyone
rhonda now its really hard to like her not because she is bbw but she is just shy and very self conscious about her self all the time it was annoying
i also liked all the milfs in the game
and cynthia is great even though we got like 3 scenes only with her
the game surprisingly had plenty of characters to enjoy
how grindy the game is brought the rating to the ground really on an otherwise amazing game with amazing scenes
i don't even blame anyone rating it 2 stars
i will take a break and then go to foot of the mountains 2
so i came back and played foot of the mountains 2 much better than the first installment of the game
cant wait for the new game since it will have melinda too , the only redeeming quality of this game is melinda for me but i have to say part 2 wasnt as bad of a grind as part 1 i hated when they made me read all the text again after v4 but whatever its over.

The only good thing about this game was Melinda.
Melinda was the only thing that made me endure this thing , sadly the story fell poorly after some time and the end was really rushed.

It is honestly the worst grind mess i had the displeasure to experience, it is so bad that even with the walkthrough you will still get lost and confused!
This is the best example of what can go wrong when a dev decides to use systems that he don't know to implement properly, the scenes happens in a really confuse way and after a disgusting amount of grind.

About the NTR, why? Just why? People invested in this game at first are probably not a fan of it, and then later it was way too late to try to gather NTR fans, so basically the only thing that the NTR and the antagonists achieved was to annoy the players even more, and i honestly do not blame anyone who gave up on this after these NTR scenes were added.

Finished this game today and i must say that i liked the characters a lot..hated the useless Grinding..and hated the ending...i mean what cop achieved saying all the private affair between Melinda (i love here..her and Isabella from being a dik ar emy fav) when she was fuked by MC and she daily fucked Chintya and her friends?? i didn't know if it was a way to show again some sex scenes...but really the ending is very rushed and this game deserved a little more attention by devs expecially because was a good story and good game..i mean the mother doesn't speack a single word...really?? what the Black woman (jax girfriends) means in all this?? i could understand if she jax,lee,and she were Lizard soldier's ...but as it is is non sense. a pity ends a good game like this.

Content-wise, it's rich, there are so many things you can do, different routes, multiple routes, etc. Personally I just prefer only milfs route, Melinda, and other milfs. I don't really care about Ann, Rhonda, or other teens. I just wish they add more content about between Melinda and her husband, and his employees (cuckolding, NTR, optionally ofc).

Story-wise, in most (all?) cases I don't really care about story, it's porn game after all.

Figures-wise, Melinda is great milf figure. She alone is great selling point for this game IMO.

Render-wise, some parts they are OK, some parts are great. With animation, different clothings, etc.

It's grindy, yes, but I don't mind the grind as I can always use cheats (via mods, or console), and read the code.

The hints/walkthough system could have been better.

Yes it's everyones favourite (boring and confusing) sandbox-type, time-managemant, multi location (convoluted free roam around the house to cover lack of content) game with another "young man finds himself living with his step-mother's best friend's landlady's neighbour" cliche story.
The game is a monstrous, unplayable, boring grind with the most cliche and predictable sort of incest-themed story ever and grainy models you've seen in many other games. If you like to repeat the same stuff over and over again (for about 100 hours) to get to the next stage of relationship with your landlady/mom/flatmate/sister/aunt for little to no payoff then this one's for you. Other than that - it's a big waste of time and a big pile of s...

After completing the final version I feel like I need to write a review for this game that is one of the best I ever played!
Characters:
Characters wise aunt Melinda is the HOTTEST CHARACTER I EVER SAW IN A GAME BEFORE and I must have played like 30+ games, she is the best thing here, Ann is really good too and some random ones are nice as well.
Gameplay:
I know the grind of this game really sucks (I personally liked it WITH the walktrough because it feels a good sensation when you actually accomplishes to get a scene) the biggest problem here is that the game has many bugs and if you don't play exactly like in the wt you will be basically locked so that's sucks.
Story:
The story is really intriguing in the beginning but them at some point it just becomes something like the author forgot? Idk what he was thinking and the ending is pretty much just there to say that there's one, because it left many holes as to what will happen that it sucks.
Overall: I would give this a 4/5 because I really liked this game and it's my favorite here on this site (most because of Melinda but yes lol) I would recommend to play if you really don't mind the grind and really likes a hot milf!

This is a tough review to write. The dev clearly has a vivid imagination for erotic scenarios and situations. I also applaud his creation of Aunt Melissa, who ranks as one of the sexiest, most erotic love interests of any AVN I've ever played. And the slow-burn seduction between Daniel and Melissa seems plausible, the way it is presented.

The art is pretty good, too. I loved all the women. The animations aren't great, but they're fine and improve as the game goes along. The story is interesting, though it is never fleshed out or tackled in any meaningful way.

Despite the reasons above, I give only two stars, and that is being generous, I think, because ultimately the title is virtually unplayable. For all of SerialNumberComics' pornographic and artistic talents, he is decidedly less gifted in the realm of game creation. I tried early on to navigate through FOTM on my own, without a walkthrough, but got mired in Groundhog's Day-like monotony that stretched indefinitely. "Grind" doesn't begin to describe it. Then I got hold of a walkthrough, only to again become bogged down when something that should have happened wouldn't happen, for reasons that were never clear.

Even with a perfect walkthrough, the game has the MC repeating the same conversations and scenarios--word for word, action for action--day after day after day. I get that the dev wants to build the relationships and give us the illusion of time passing, but this approach is frustrating. There are escalations of scenarios that do happen in FOTM, but then suddenly we find ourselves having to repeat something from earlier in the game.

Unfortunately, thanks to these issues, I have still not managed to finish, despite having restarted five times. It doesn't help that now there is an FOTM and FOTM II, which I find confusing, and there still is no official walkthrough.

I know this game is officially completed, but would love to see it tidied up in a way that would allow me to play the whole thing. I guess I will check out the mods, particularly the one that reduces the grind, and see if they work. I try to avoid mods that are not sanctioned by the devs, but with this title, I feel it's unavoidable.

Bottom line: there is some super erotic content here, some of the best available in any AVN, but it's bogged down hopelessly in terrible "gameplay."

Version Played: 12

This was one of the first games I played before I had any idea of the breadth of what was out there (or just how much assets get reused...), so I didn't really get just how grindy the game was in comparison to others.
While the backdrop and story are fairly interesting, the amount of mindless clicking you have to do to trigger arcane flags really sours one on the experience.

Positives:
+ Girls are all pretty hot with Aunt Melinda being an ultra-milf
+ Varied sex scenes
+ Decent gameplay IN THEORY

Negatives:
- The grindiest of the grindy
- None of the other girls compare to Melinda (in quality or in content)
- Objectives not clear and no in-game hints


Honestly, that first negative is pretty much a deal-breaker imo. I get that most devs make your work for your wank, but the game insults your time and essentially just uses said grind to cover a lack of content. Given there are many better games with similar themes (and let's be real, many of the same character models), this game is basically a masochistic curiosity.

Dev Notes: You know what I'm gonna say.

Different story lines not connected with each other. Wholeness is broken, too complicated code, a lot of variables not used in game. You can easely miss the several parts of the main plot. That's why it is hard to create whole walkthrough of the game. Also, the main story ends stupidly, bad scenario

This is the worst grinding I've ever seen. I spend 99% of the time wondering what I'm supposed to do or what scene needs to be repeated 10 more times to advance the story. I wanted so badly to like this game, but I just can't.

This game has decent renders/graphics and smooth animation (for some scenes) but the grinding that made this game awful. Thanks SerialNumberComics and big thanks to scrappy, CLD4 and Chemmy (they made me playing this game easier).

I can't believe that I never reviewed this. Where to start:

The game is a dumpster fire! DO NOT PLAY IT!

The characters itself are good (until they added NTR/Sharing, more on that later) and the graphics are fine. However, if I gave a +1 for every good point of this game and a -1 for every bad thing, the GRIND would put this at a negative 9999999999999999 our 5 stars.

The game loop isn't bad at first. You go around the house for activities in the sandbox. It isn't bad. You talk to cousin to try to crack her shell, you talk to aunt trying to get her to acknowledge you as anything more than her nephew. You try to do things that amuse your older cousin so she could also get interested in you.

None of this is bad so far. For 2 or hours, you'll be telling yourself that the game is fun. You make progress pretty consistently... until... you hit a wall. The wall is, you have to get more and MORE affection points in different ways to progress events. Cool, so you do different things to earn more. Then you'll unlock a scene, but the scene is in a different chain of options. Then you use that to unlock something in another option. HOWEVER, you then need to repeat the action 2-5 times to get a new event... and this repeats for a few hours until you hit what I call "THE VOID"

The VOID is what happens when you get to the end of the original version of the game. Your sister joins you for a bit and now your screwed. Why are you screwed? well, basically, you have to repeat scenes dozens to almost hundreds of times. Let me give you an example of the time table for a weak:

Monday:
7am SKIP
8am SKIP
9am TALK TO AUNT
10am SKIP
11am GO TO GARDEN PICK UP WORMS
12PM SKIP
1PM GO WITH AUNT AND PLANT WORMS/MOVE EGG
2PM SKIP
3PM TALK TO HER AT KITCHEN
4PM SKIP
5PM SKIP
6PM TALK TO HER IN BEDROOM
7PM SKIP
8PM SKIP
9PM SKIP

So as you can see... that's not too bad... except... you have to do that for WEEKS! This is ONE DAY! You repeat the same thing 2 days later, while doing something SLIGHTLY different the next. Then on the weekend, if you've already done the event, you just gotta skip every event manually...

Then, after all that work. You still get CUCKED. If you don't know what to do, you get a guy raping your aunt... the DEV even went back to change the scene a bit because people were upset... The game was NOT about other dudes, it was about you and the DEV decides that "NTR" sells, well, he lost hundreds and hundreds of Patrons because of stupid shit like this.

If his game was at least good he could excuse it, but it's THEE WORST grind in ANY GAME, I have EVER played. Just to clarify, the example I gave was only to get to part 2 of the game... It isn't even over after it. You have to repeat god knows what other bullshit just to get to the end.

I quit before the 2 half because of how BAD this game was. I can't fathom why ANYONE would rate this higher than a 1 star. NOT because of fetishes, but because past a certain point, the game is UNPLAYABLE!

Anyway, if you like NTR, you're out of luck, cause it's a VERY small amount. BUT, just enough to piss off all the regular fans... really. From what I hear, when you finally do get together with the AUNT (the main goal of the ENTIRE VN) it's really shitty. To tie this up in a neat little bow (unlike this travesty of a game) the ending is also rushed because of massive drop of support and the DEV moved onto a new title just to try to recapture the love this game received at the beginning.

Melinda's back? But as a PIMP at a house full of prostitutes and you have to manage them? Sign me up after I dig a whole and bury myself inside.\

1 STAR and it will NEVER change.