VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Motherless [v0.22.1.0] [Mr.Mister]

Review of v0.22.1.0

For the first 2 seasons and half of the 3rd, I thought this was the ideal AVN for me. Wholesome harem, really likable mc with a big dick and incredible stamina, who can always satisfy his ladies, pregnancy, good visuals, nice sound design, decent enough plot to keep things rolling, and lots of hot sex scenes. In the first season, the sex scenes were spoiled a little by some annoying real-porn sound effects, but these were tuned down subsequently. And sure, Motherless is often silly and always unrealistic, but I thought it was funny and enjoyed the game not taking itself too seriously. Even when the dev inserted their pseudoscientific beliefs into the game (e.g. when the mc says "Most of our health problems are created by mental trauma”), they only did it through dialogue rather than meaningfully impacting the plot. I didn't even mind the timeskips, which were at most a few months at a time and done for the sake of progressing pregnancies.

While I'm glad the game has many big butts, sadly there is a big but in this review. Now, the mc's harem was always expanding rapidly, but it still felt alright, because each girl was getting (just) enough screentime. But in season 3, the harem became too big. There were many time when a new girl was found, fell in love and was impregnated all in one scene. And the previous girls didn't have enough time in the limelight. The dev clearly had gotten used to telling the story by constantly expanding the harem; instead, season 3 should have just consolidated every girl who was already present.

So what would have been a solid 5 star for me fell to 4. I hope the dev learns from this mistake in their next game.

Great game with so much content. The only down side is that it was clearly writen as an incest game but you have to enter all the relation ships manually. On the plus side ther is a ton of relationships on the negative figuring out who is who and entering the right relation so that the texts dont sond dumb is a bit of work

Other than some questionable H scene work in the graphics this is a fun game that offers a wide variety of L.I.s. For a guy that is supposed to be "motherless" he ends up having no less than four how I see it. Bio-mom, her BFF that starts raising you, the woman that finishes raising you, then the woman married to dad. With the extensive harem he ends up with it'll be interesting to see what happens next. Will there be a part 2? Will the next AVN be something new? What I do know is I'll be there playing it here & on Steam if/ when it's available just like I did this one.

Well, finishing this game took me a while. It is a pretty good harem game, among the best on the site, specially if you are into certain fetishes (like family stuff)
The start has some things here and there that might not be so good (like the quality of animations) but it gets a lot better later, and it has a LOT of content. The story is clearly meant to be a good natured feel-good story and is full of likeable characters that fit well into the main theme of the game.
Overall a great game, and excited about the next one.

Okay, let me introduce you to the wildest premise of a game you've ever heard:

This is the story of the most Scandinavian-looking, California-born, Italo-Ukrainian surfer kid ever and how he was born to an actress and her one-night-stand. By the way, that one-night-stand would have been thrilled to know he's finally going to have a son because he's a real family guy. However, he's not going to find out about his son. No, the MC was hidden from the father because the mother wanted to continue to have fun in her life which means letting her best friend in the world adopt the boy. So, MC has a happy home right? Wrong. He's now going to be kidnapped by her mother's best friend's cuck of a fiancé because he can't stand all the love and attention the boy is getting and delivers the lad to the most corrupt church Padré he could find. The boy then escapes from that hell only to be unofficially fostered off-the-books by the coolest surfer military superspy ever. That man, Captain Kelly, is lost to the waves in a tragic sea accident. RIP(curl). Fortunately for us, our well-travelled MC has reached the age of majority and has adulted out of this rollercoaster ride of a below-board system and can now start doing adult things.

You still with me? No? Good. That's just the premise, the meat of this story gets even crazier. Our MC eventually meets and starts hooking up with all the women. MC gets in wild, fun relationships with most of these women. Some of these women, however, are supposed to be saving themselves for their family to continue the super-secret Italian mafioso purity trends of inbreeding into oblivion. Lucky for them, their indiscretions bear them no problems as it turns out our MC is the chosen one. That's right! Momma's one-night-stand, as it turns out, is the ultimate Italian mafioso whose family maintains purity of their most grand blood by inbreeding harder than you've ever considered a wincest game could ever go. So, the happy little accidents are happily super successful.

Also, he finds that he's been psychoanalyzing his lost adoptive mother and eventually finds out as well. Oh, and he accidentally has a bit too much fun with a woman who has taken up the habit, sexes her up in the convent, pulls her out of the convent and only then does he find out she's his long lost mother.

Now in a race against time, the story really starts to take off as the MC begins traipsing all over Europe, the former Soviet Bloc, across America (North and South) and all points inbetween as he seeks more family (from both his mother and father's side of the family tree) in an attempt to fuck them all. For a game called Motherless, MC has a surprisingly large number of Mothers and Grandmothers of varying degrees and names.

So yeah, wild story. Stupid story, really (there's suspending your disbelief for a story, then there's this thing)... but it's cute.

The renders are above average, none of them really strike me as grainy. The developer seems to have a type for women that he will vary slightly to get different appearances; sharper features are usually the order of the day. The MC is, arguably, the best looking character in the bunch; surprising, but fair considering he's seen more often than anyone else in the game. I think it was interesting to lop off his hair so early in the game's production... yet you wouldn't know it until you play. Even after the change, all art around the game focuses on the character having a real California surfer bro appearance.

SFX are everywhere. Some are distracting, some are unusual, but almost all of them are because the developer wanted punch in his scenes. Get used to it: "Yeah!" with a screen punch visual effect will be a real go-to. Music isn't really as important... now that I'm thinking of it, I don't actually remember music. Either there were so many SFX that I've drowned them out or it wasn't there... I'd have to go back and see if I missed it somehow.

All told, the game on the whole is average. The MC and some of the renders get 4 stars, the SFX is 4 stars, the lacking or forgettable music is 2 stars, the story is 2 stars.

Story and writing is basic. Visuals are what you see in preview. Harem game story is linear. There is funny moments but sometimes it's annoying. Overall it's an average game. There is no big story here. If you prefer story centric AVN this one's not for you. But have to praise dev for update schedules. This one got frequent updates

This game often contains most of the preferences, and the developer is clear that he wants to satisfy most of the players’ desires, and this does not exist in many games, such as a bad game called Summer is done, which only contains pictures, seductive scenes, and cinematic animation scenes.

Been playing this one for a while, and I'll admit, the beginning is ROUGH.

It gets better though. You can tell it's a real labor of love, and the Dev just wants to tell a fun story about family and free love.

I give it an extra star because the intentions are good, even if the skills could use some polish.
One of the better Harem games you will find on here.

The story and writing are pretty basic like it was written by a high School freshman. If you are up for an engaging story that is entertaining you will not find it here. The fap action is fast paced and constant which I suspect is why this one is getting such high reviews. At a certain point the amount of LI's included into the story gets overwhelming and older LI's get lost in the shuffle.

Largely nonsensical slideshow. This isn't much of a game and the linear story presented lacks any kind of tension and the overall goofy nature of proceedings make it impossible to be immersed in it even as a porn story.
The models and the sex scenes are garish with some real monstrosities in the early game. One extra star just for completing the project.

The writing in this isn't very good. The story line really doesn't make much sense, the behavior and reactions of the characters aren't well thought out. Contrary to what some would have people believe both the visual and the novel part are important in a V/N, hence the name. This V/N lacks in both.

Visually it's even worse. The models simply don't look very good and what is up with their oddly shaped butts? At times they look damn near square, sort of boxy and over sized compared to the rest of their body. It's off putting.

The Dev also used those profile pics to denote who is speaking and for some reason those very rarely come out looking good. By now you'd think Devs would realize they're better off forgetting those and just use names to denote speaker.

All in all this V/N turned out to be a disappointment.

To start, story and not bad. Part 1 is not bad, there are a lot of choices, but part 2 is crap (a simple VN). On the sound side, the sound effects are nice at first, but much too repetitive and at times, certain sound should not be there (or in another tone).

Story is nonsence as if written by someone using google translate to make the english version.
Reactions and characters are honestly just plain stupid, lesbians dropping being gay after 15 minutes in the precence of the Mary Sue/Gary Stu protagonist, every female is related to him in some way.

This in essence boils down to being like a bad porn movie where you need to not look too closely at anyones face, story or lines so as to not loose your erection/interest.

Motherless deserves a lot of attention! a nice harem game where there is no tension or disputes , In every other's games, Dev starts to make Mc boring or bad, where for some time they focus on the antagonists, but here Dev keeps Mc in the foreground and walks confidently, Dev has even improved Mc’s attitude and everyone is more attracted to his stories and he always tries to help everyone, I especially like the sound of him saying “WHOO” with joy. . I understand that not everyone likes it when girls hang themselves on the MC right away without a plot, but I hope that in the future new VN we will see how Dev will create the best game in terms of plot and a high-quality harem for the joy of everyone, I give 5 balls!

A LOT of 'content', scenes, and kind of decent renders, but that's about it. I guess not bad for a quick fap.

Renders: 4/5 ⭐
The characters don't look bad, at least most of them, although the milfs look way too young for their age, how can a woman that looks in her thirties have a son that looks like he's in his thirties is beyond me, but I guess it's a personal preference.

Animation: 4/5 ⭐
This game gets dragged down by how old it is, I replayed the game from the start for the experience and the animations at the start of the game are so bad.
It improves a lot as you keep playing but for some reasons some animations are just way off, can't be explained by the skill of the developer or being old, like you can have two animations in the same scene that have like 3 fps and 30 fps, or different lighting and details, when animation or picture style changes so drastically in a moment it puts me off, takes me out of the immersion and reminds me this is just pixels on my screen, not very nice...

Honestly I think it's more like 3/5 but extra point for actually trying.

Story: 2/5 ⭐
For some reason everyone wants to fuck this dude, and is related to him somehow from either sides of the family or his adoptive family... it's crazy.
You shouldn't play this for the story at all, just enjoy the ride if it clicks some of your fetishes and have fun.

Gameplay: 3/5 ⭐
Typical VN no open world, the UI looks fine and the few choices are very obvious, they pretty much boil down to 'interested' or 'not interested' in the current female, and during sex scenes where you finish/pregnancy or no pregnancy..

Sounds: 3/5 ⭐
Man I wish I can rate this higher so much for actually having sound effects unlike most of the games but I can't, the sounds are just too repetitive, the guy makes the same HU sound when he cums and when he's punching a dude or even when he's taking a shit, the girls moaning sounds are also repeated in multiple scenes, ah well, kudos for actually having sounds, it's not a 0/5...

Overall:
This is slightly above average. I think the dev can already let the dead horse pass away and move to a new game with his acquired skillset, it will probably look a lot better, and they can restart the whole teasing incest taboo thing.

One of my favorite visual novel style projects, it is also consistently updated on a regular basis. Your hard work is recognized and appreciated! The pregnancy storyline and visuals are the, BEST. No other Ren'Py comes close to immersing the player/reader with pregnancy renders/models that actually grow as the story progresses. With my fetish, excuse me, out of the way, the story of having been from a broken family to being in one of the most powerful families in the world is a great fantasy!

This is the second time I'm trying this game. Honestly I'm pretty tolerant of porn game stories and dialogue. You have to be or you would almost never play them in general. This is pretty standard fare. It's weaknesses are made worse though by the weird tweaks someone did to the models to enhance their bodies. You know why men love women's asses? They're nicely shaped and firm looking. These boxed shaped bums look awful. The models in the game look like they would have been decent if they weren't deformed to make them bigger with no regard to the real shape. The lighting is not good either. There is a lot of flat lighting with no shadows which makes them all look plastic at times.

The story is reasonable enough. The idea of going from place to place discovering moms along the way is the perfect setup for all kinds of fun stuff. Again though when the women look like zombie stand-ins with boxy asses and weird tits the story such as it is loses most of it's potential to deliver what it's teasing. If the models had those silly deformations removed and even basically lit with shadows the game would have more appeal.

Anyway I think average is fair enough. Some of this game isn't terrible but the deformations really don't help. The bad lighting adds even more to the poor models but even that isn't consistent as some of the models look ok. Try it if you're bored.

This is probably one of the most nonsensical pieces of media I've ever experienced. Let's go point by point.

Visuals: I don't usually have much to say regarding aesthetics, but this game just looks ugly. The girls are ugly, the way it's rendered is ugly, the excessive use of close-ups and goofy expressions make the already ugly characters even uglier. It's just not a pleasant sight.

Audio: the random sound effects just take me out of it, their use kind of reminds me of a YouTube poop--they're not entirely disconnected with what's on screen but they just come across as "haha funni" humour. There's also music and background noise, but nothing too remarkable on either end.

Writing: it's just dreadful. The plot barely makes any sense and the pacing is so stop-and-go you never really get settled into the story, but the worst is the dialogue. I'm not even sure how to describe it... It's mostly exposition, explaining both the plot and how the characters feel, but it's also sprinkled with weird idioms that I can only guess make sense in the developer's language. The whole thing reads like it was badly written in a different language then machine-translated into English. It's just not how people talk.

Ultimately, I don't think there's any reason to play this game. The girls are ugly, the story makes no sense, and the kinks have all been done better elsewhere.

So basically i want to share my opinion about this game based on the tags.

First of all, i like this game. I started playing it at season 1 and was therefore kinda happy that imo it had frequent updates that were definetly faster then most h-games on f95. If i had to guess, i'd say every 1-2 months? I'm not sure but it felt like it.

I'll keep the tags in spoilers, so they don't take too much scrolling or somethn

Overall it's a good game for me, but
their facial expressions could be better, cause their smile is sometimes creepy,
sex scenes could be smoother (more fps i guess) and changing sex positions would be some nice improvement,
and some LI's should be optional/avoidable like the grandmother (father's mother) for me and not just "forced to fuck".

[v.0.17.1.0]
Was enjoying the VN until maybe halfway through season 2.
At this point it feels like little more than jumping between sex scenes with the occasional italian/cowboy stereotype thrown in.

Edit: The following is about the standalone and not the full game. I'm still following the game but honestly it's not gotten too much better and seems to be making various shit up to keep the story and money flowing at this point