VN - Ren'Py - Mommy's Boy [v0.2] [Onyxdime and DreamBigGames]

tl;dr, I like the premise, but the story is jarring and please reduce the mini-animations.

The first minutes started off well, but then I got completely thrown off.
The protagonist's son is concerned enough about his mother to ask why she's stressed, and wants to know more. But when being asked not to get involved with a woman from work, basically starts ranting that he's an incel and will fuck anything.

It could have been written as the son not taking the threat very seriously, but still listening, or taking it seriously but still getting seduced. This just doesn't make sense.

The mom isn't even really upset from this ridiculous exchange and they happily have breakfast the next morning.

There is also constant mini-animations (maybe AI generated?). They are fine to have once in a while, but there's so many it really breaks the flow of the game.

It's a shame as the premise is interesting (mom trying to compete for her son).

The concept is very good and actually very fresh but up until now it has been executed very poorly... The game just seems very cheap and half hearted... It seems as though someone is being forced to make this game... The renders are okay but not anything great, the dialogue is bad and boring but the main kicker is the characters themselves... The characters feel very shallow and cliched and have practically no depth or nuance to them because of which i do not feel anything for them, which is a big no no for an ntr game, as at its core ntr games work because they make you feel jealous or angry (if the protag is being NTRed) or superior or smug (if the protag is NTRing) or something like that... These characters only make me feel annoyed at them... A bit of what is happening with the characters can be attributed to the dialogues but the characters themselves are very boring... Also the AI animations are extremely bad and must be removed from the game... I've always been a proponent of no animations in VNs because the rarely add anything to the game and just break the flow of the game, but these ones are especially bad...

Review of V0.2 . Its really rare I will give something a try when its this early in Development, not very long, no sexual content (zero) - but reading this description I decided I would - glad I did.

Starting - nice graphics, the mom is nicely represented and not some 20ish looking render trying to be a 40 year old, a couple of the other women are also hot and attractive and nicely done. A few choices to start and development of the stats.

Didn't run into any errors, it seemed well set up, and a very nice touch is the voice add with beautiful (english) voices for the women. There is some investment into this production with voices, great graphics and attention to detail.

Plot/Story/Setup - this was the reason I gave this a go, to be clear no sexual content yet, Dev states this is a slow burn or even a very slow burn so that is obvious. This is a refreshing and exciting take on the incest theme and fem protagonist and NTR titles out there - one that I find new, and very excited to see where it goes. If it continues as it seems to be going it has the potential to be very good.

Prot is a single mom, who is developing the thoughts of saving her son from a predator cougar villian who hates her and is seeking to ruin her son. We also have a younger sister of the mom who looks to be involved later on, and a possible lesbian possibility as well with a secretary.

NTR - always has to be explained as its such a diverse category. Female MILF/Mom prot who is choosing to pursue her Son to keep him away from the bad women in the world. The bad women are trying to take the Son away from her - NTR is that, if she neglets her boy, the vixens will get to fuck him, turn him into a fuckboy and ruin him.

It seems to flow very well, only a little janky with the story and if the Dev is reading this my example is this
Overall I think a very, very good start but at this point only 4 stars for what it is and is turning into, very easily this could be a 5 star or turn into a 1 star as development is so early. The talk and lean towards the mom transforming a bit with her dress and style is obvious, the attention to outfits is very nice. The villian red head is beautifully done, and the attention to lingerie, heels and conversations about her style speaks to good things in the future.

Future development will probably be a little torn as a couple different paths are evident and might slow releases, but the difference with this one is for most players playing the love path if they are dudes playing a fem prot probably wont mind if the son is getting banged on the side thus the NTR part won't break their brains and development of both paths can be done with minor deviations.

Future paths and story - great potential, and a solid grounding even at this point for solid endings of the story with a possible cuckqueen, or he becomes a ruined fuckboy, love path with impregnation (hopeful) relationship ending or even possibly ...sigh -the Prot herself going down the path of the typical fem prot. Her becoming a ruined woman and super slut (that would mean I would drop this to a one star and hate this as it would just follow every other fem prot game and that is too typical and not worth it at that point).

I hope this continues, a couple more updates to see how things go and I will probaly jump over to SS and support.

The renders look great, and it's nice to see a fun twist and subversion on some of the usual mom tropes (and even flipped the NTR concept on it's head!) that are a dime a dozen in the adult gaming sphere.

While it's an early start and the content is minimal as of 0.01 now, I'm fairly confident this one is here to stick.

... The mom looks great too, which always helps.