VN - Ren'Py - Playing Favorites [v0.19] [clowns234]

Version 0.19

Graphics: 2/5
Models: 3/5
Scenes: 0/5
Story: 0/5
Gameplay: 0/5

No sex scenes, poorly developed story, no choices to make.

There is a lot of work to do to improve, leave it alone for now.

This VN is absolutely dreadful. Nothing makes sense at all! The timeline and transitions are completely erratic and all over the place. Moreover, there are like zero sex scenes in the game! You barely glimpse explicit content a couple of times, with just a few renders (maybe even less 3-4 renders) of genitals. This is despite the characters supposedly engaging in off-screen sexual activities for some inexplicable reason...

STAY THE FUCK AWAY!

Pros:
1) Main Milf looks kinda okayish (not her personality though)

Cons:
1) Absolutely horrible navigation through the story, sometimes you just don't understand where are you in this story and why are you here, some abrupt jumps from one scene to another. UI is just bad.
2) Choice system sometimes (mostly) is bald, unclear. I mean, making a choice, you have no idea what are signing yourself to. To make it easy for understanding - it's like you have a choice "go left or go right" without any further explanation, deal with it.
3) There is no slow burn or smth, like it usually works in "incest" AVN. You just jump into this mess right from the start without any premise. And by mess I mean it. This is an absolute debauchery family, where everybody fucks everybody like rabbits. It's funny that I am writing this about supposedly porn game lol.
Characters are just bad.
Female characters are stupid whores who jump from one dick to another in a matter of few renders, or pussy, - yeah, during last updates there are a hell of lesbian content, if it's not yours cup of tea - keep that in mind.
Male characters are not better, two absolutely cliche brothers, one is a jerk and pussy destroyer and another one is a spineless simp, whose fate is to be cucked until the end of his pathetic life (and he gets cucked of course, poor bastard).
Honestly character's motivation is absolutely horrible even for an AVN.
4) Writing is bad
5) Animations are bad, if you are here for quick fap, don't even bother.

Honestly it's obvious that it is Dev's first project, and I really were considering to give it higher rate just in advance, assuming that in future it will get better, but no, can't make myself. And I don't think anything can make it better either.

My opinion about this game from version 0.15 is:
Graphically it looks good, beautiful models, especially the feminine ones.
The story is interesting but.....

It has a very serious problem, and it is the narrative union between the scenes, after most of the choices it jumps to scenes in which it doesn't explain where you are, or who the new characters are that appear, nor their relationship, and it will never explain it to you, you will have to deduce or suppose it, and so it constantly jumps as if texts and images were missing that unite the scenes. Therefore it does not look like a game but parts of a game linked without a nexus.
As if it was unfinished.

The chronology of the events of the game is very poorly implemented and confuses a lot, and it prevents you from following the story correctly.

It would be necessary to improve the scene transitions with context and presentation of characters

I don't know how to explain it better.

This VN has a misleading title. Instead of focusing on the incestuous relationship of the mother and her 2 sons, it goes off in tangential variants which add nothing to the main story ( which is the only high point of this VN), and actually make the gameplay more difficult. As if it wasn't difficult enough to get some badly posed grainy and hastily rendered scenes which at most are 3 images long. The animation is worthy of nothing, it's crap. Devs are literally clowns for putting this out in its present state. No wonder the thread is so quiet in spite of ticking the most popular fetish on this forum. Avoid if you don't want to tear your hair out.

It shows that this was a learning project for the developer. At times the scenes were grainy and the facial expressions can be disturbing. The animation needs polish, but isn't as bad as other 1st time VN's on here. The writing is OK but the story hops around in places making the chronological order a bit confusing. The women in the family are total whores with no compunction about jumping on the two lads rods in a NY minute. Slow burn is not in this one. The sibling rivalry in the story for me is annoying. 3 stars overall.

Favorite Son 0.13

I wasn't expecting much, but it is actually a decent game. I wasn't in the frame of mind to play it for a while, but I finally got around to playing it and taking my time when I did play it. The models, renders, and lighting aren't top tier, but they are good enough. I especially liked how Tim and Tom's mom looked, but all the characters are a bit trashy looking and that's okay. It suits this game and its story. The characters seem to have some depth. Tim and Tom both have sex with different women, but to me their personalities are different. Even though all the women are similarly easy, I feel like there are differences between Lisa, Laura, and Rachel. The story is there. The choice system was interesting. I didn't have a walkthrough or guide, but I just decided my story preference and went with that. The writing style is good. Good punctuation and spelling. There might have been a few tiny mistakes here and there, but nothing anyone would really notice or care about. I did notice two bloopers, if you will. One is Tim and Tom were shirtless in the hospital. I feel that in real hospitals, if you don't have clothes, you would still be required to wear a hospital gown. And another one is a certain Auntie was smoking a cigarette at a gas station, and that's not allowed because it is a potential explosion hazard. Sure, maybe this trashy family just doesn't care about rules and stuff, but I feel like they wouldn't have been able to get by with that and I actually don't think they have the type of personalities to just say f the rules. It doesn't matter though, because I actually preferred them being shirtless in the hospital. This is a great game and in some ways is a five star game, but the render quality isn't top tier, so I give the game four stars. One thing is I had to use the Universal Renpy Mod to rename some characters, and I wish that was a built in feature to rename the characters and it would be even better if you could also rename them in the dialogue too.

[Rev @ Favorite Son v0.13]

Well, at least it didn't set my rig on fire.

Art's ugly. I usually cheekily say that "at least the tits are tit-shaped" but that doesn't hold, here.

Writing is both rote and atrocious. Additional demerit for having a narrator, giving that narrator a nondiegetic character, and then making said character ass-ugly.

Having girl/girl scenes was nice. Everything else is vanilla enough to land between 'unflavored mashed potatoes' and 'wallpaper paste'.

TLDR: Ugly and boring.

The basic story has already been discussed here so I won't repeat it. It's decent enough for a mom/son VN. It started off pretty good but now after 12 updates, the writer is resorting to adding more NPCs to move the story forward when the main story of the mom/sons relationships hasn't been explored deeply enough.
The interface is dodgy at best and logical choices do not move the game in the direction one expects it to go. Many many renders have that grainy aspect of a render stopped at 50% completion. The animation is poor. 3-5 fps makes it an unpleasant viewing. The whole thing looks like it's been made by a bunch of college students with a weak laptop tapping into the fetish in the hope of making some dough.
I opened up the game to try to see what the dev wants to do and where he's going. The script is coded so that a line of text is attached to an image and everything is coded unlike the RenPy games on here. That bust my nuts for sure. I can't even try to make my own walkthrough.
A lot of reviewers have pointed out the many faults and few good points of FS but it seems the dev is unwilling to listen. It's good that the devs know what they want to do and where they're going but they're not going in the same direction that the players want and regretfully I think players will abandon this ship as each update becomes more opaque and the whole thing becomes unplayable.

Milf, Incest? how can you hate it?
Nevertheless, there are some regrets.

1. The intuitive choice is ambiguous.
2. Graphic quality is average, but modeling is tacky.

I just listed the shortcomings.

Basically, the two kiddo development was enough to attract attention.

I believe that this Dev will develop further.
I won't leave a harsh score.

The plot and explanations to help you understand context have the distinct feel of a first draft.

The author has a decent concept here, and the image quality is passable. It's probably worth mentioning that no character in this game is "likeable". You'll hate everyone for different reasons, and that's a challenging way to introduce a game too.

I'd write more, but I'm pretty sure I've spent more time thinking about this than the author already. I'm not optimistic this will get good enough to warrant playing again, but we will see.

This game started promising, but it's getting worse and worse.
Tom is an ashole and Tim is a spineless douche. The renders are below average and the story feels weird.

The most annoying part are the choices:
Full screen yes/no (or simply left/right) decisions where you mostly don't even know what exactly the choice means.
And with full-screen i really mean FULL-screen - the story render is gone and all you see is a black screen with 2-3 MASSIVE Buttons all over the screen, which completely breaks all immersion.
Also it's like: what do you decide? "Yeek" or "Geek" (you don't know what i mean with "yeek" and "geek"? well - sorry - i also don't know, but that's exactly how choices are ingame - just the dev throws you 2 words without any story relation and you have to guess what's behind.
On top of that, your choices sometimes are just to decide between shit and poop - so you just want to stop playing as none of the choices make ANY sense for a normal thinking player.

I agree with others over here - if i would have to pay for each GB to download, i would rage that i wasted money at all.
I can't recommend this game anymore to be honest

Omfg if I had limited bandwidth I would be pissed after downloading this
Tom is a C.U.N.T (Thank god he's avoidable) Tim well he is a whiny arse bitch and should be made to stay a virgin and be cucked by Tom for the rest of his miserable whiny arse existence (Thankfully again another son that's avoidable) The only saving grace with this game is SO FAR you can avoid the SONS!!
It's great that you can get some lesbian stuff with the niece but she ain't really got any redeeming qualities. The few lesbian sex scenes that I got where quite lackluster and boring.
Story was well how can I put this... Okaaay-ish?? Nothing great or making me want to come back for more in the future
Really couldn't recommend this game to anyone that's not just looking for a quick Fap (good luck trying to fap n cum with this)

When it comes down to mom/son incest games there is none written as well as Favourite Son. It jumps straight into the subject without feeling hasty and it has all the right ingredients for the mix; social environment, milfs who crave cock(and pussy), brothers at polar opposites who have one thing in common: Mum, FMC's debauched niece and sister, alcohol, divorce, trailer park moral attitudes(?) and hot realistic looking Milfs. The sex scenes are HOT but short and the images and animation are subpar. Add to that the game is heavy in volume, the coding is tentative and there is no walkthrough yet, it's difficult to play all the routes to get all the images. But the main routes are easy. Just play the FMC as a slut. This game has enormous potential and I hope the developer realises that they really should iron out the bugs and improve the imaging and size of the game. I'll update my review at 0.20.

How can a game deviate so much from what it promises? Favorite Son became favorite random family member or some favorite random-lesbian electric bogaloo or smthing. It started okayish, understandable, the dev might be new. Renders were not the best, scenes begin abruptly and end in the same manner etc etc. But at least it had a premise, a story to follow. Last 2-3 updates have been non-stop lesbian scenes or some scenes from another game that is probably called Favorite Nephew or Cousin. I mean it wasn´t even good at what it was promising and now it is deviated so far that there is nothing promising left in it. Random models suddenly start kissing and getting intimate. Next update. introducing some more family members, mostly females, to get some more lesbian scenes.

You gonna make a taboo game? Let the taboo stay taboo. If every single person in a room starts banging each other, it ain´t taboo anymore, is it?

Good messed up incest story. CG are good but segs scenes are very short. Sometimes they just have only 1 or 2 renders. Worth trying. Hope we see more quicker releases in the future. Dev given random choices in the game, there is no point of that feature Or make it pure kinetic novel

Really good game. The only thing holding back from 5 stars is that there's a bit of disconnect with the scene flowing. The models are great, although wish there was some variance on either end of the physique spectrum. The writing is well done in terms of painting super erotic scenarios. The concept of betrayal really gets it going in terms of the corruption in the relations. Wish there were more buildup, but really good effort.

This started out simply enough: to help Lisa choose her favourite son, between Tim the Sentimental and Tom the Pimp. Incestuous relations of course. What it's turning out to be is a convoluted plot involving aunt, niece and more in future updates where everybody is absolutely miserable and the Pimp is an asshole not fit for life. Add to that the game is heavy in terms of GB download for not much quality in the renders and awful animation. The FMC singly is quite appealing though with MILF features and big Tits but that's about it. All others are less than tasty. 1 star for the MILF, 1 star for the story.

Kind of seems like a hot mess right now. Transitions are all over the place, and the story...well not really anything sensible.

Jumps right in, no real introduction, no development. Pretty much hate Tom from moment one, decisions are poorly defined.

Renders are decent, Mom is hot and mature.

Sex scenes are ..very poor. No build, nothing, one click and done.

Overall, it needs a tonne of work to be worthwhile. A rewrite from moment one would be the only thing that could save it. Slow everything down, make things more linear and stop jumping. I feel I am looking at things through an insane persons mind.

Premise is good, I like the idea of seeing it through a fem prot viewpoint, but really it is so fast, and all over the place it just made me frown at the screen and nothing was even worthwhile to pay attention to.

I will come back and edit review ....far into the future. Good for the Dev with his work and building this, hope it improves.

A unique family story with two sons , Although it's new, the story is clearly very creative . The cow tits teacher is very attractive .
Random design is kind of useless , the story good parts are negatively affected by the stochastic system .