VN - Ren'Py - The Secret of Mom and Me: Remake [v0.9.0] [Mr.I.Game]

  1. 4.00 star(s)

    RandyPhoenix

    PROS
    + It's not the most well-written or original story, but the game's story does what it does kinda well. It's something a lot of people look for, but kinda not exist these days, no censorship, no ''landlady'' nonsense, no dumb side characters, no never-ending cockblocking/teasing scenes, it's a simple, straightforward incest story. And even tho there are small hiccups here and there, it still does kinda handle good interactions, and development between the MC & Natsumi as well, their struggles, monologues, how especially Natsumi, despite trying to fix the whole thing, is slowly drawn into it, etc, were done well in most parts as well. There are some emotional, cute, dramatic, and lovely moments in the story, and their existence is quite nice too.
    + The game has lots of content, and doesn't grind your balls with an unnecessary amount of cockblocking/teasing scenes like most of these types of games do for years.
    + We have two different early game ending, one is ''Good Son'' ending, and the other one is ''Bad Ending''
    + MC's personality, if we don't count early parts, inconsistent childish, and kinda immature acts, and look at the monologues he had, and how mature he becomes after their first time, he is kinda likeable MC.
    + Natsumi's personality is kinda realistic, lovely, and so damn cute, all those ''Kyaa!'' and ''Hmph!'' she does when she reacts to stuff, especially, she is a really likable character, and written well.
    + MC's design is kinda good, and handsome, he is not like one of those common, fugly-looking MCs, and after MC & Natsumi had their first time, his design kinda changed, his arms get slightly more muscular/bigger, which is a pretty good change.
    + Seems like some are thinking Natsumi looks too young for a milf, but she fully fits ''young milf'' category, there are tons of milf like her looking way to young for their ages, etc, so Natsumi's character design is quite hot, she has one of best pair of tits you can see, she has a beautiful face, and body, and cute face, soo damn cute.
    + Facial expressions done well, they look cute, funny, or how they should look in the scene they are used to.
    + Sex scenes have different positions, and angles, and after MC & Natsumi had their first time, the game's sex scenes get improved a lot, until that part they are average, but after that they are quite good. Early parts of the game's visual quality were looking average as well, but like animations, it got improved, and looks way better as well. They still can be better, but currently, they are quite decent.

    CONS
    - The whole ''if this comes out we'd go to jail!'' thing is mentioned bit too much, and honestly kinda doesn't make sense, the world they live in looks like close to our era, which what they did is not is jailworthy, especially since the game feels like taking place in japan, and considering at japan it's not crime.
    - MC's and Natsumi's relationship development/progress is bit fast, there are a lot of time-skips exist, like 10+ of them at least, most of them are only couple days, but there are big ones like 1 month or 4 months of time skips as well, time-skips are not really great stuff to do, but they skip right away with no showing what happened in those times, if at least we were seeing some pictures, etc, they could be better, but it's still kinda better than a game grinding your balls with never-ending cockblocking/teasing scenes for years.
    - Natsumi has quite likeable personality, but in a lot of parts she comes as bit too strict, like how she constantly nags/pintches MC when he talks about his love to her, or especially how she restricts MC to now have sex because wanting him to focus his exams, etc, then get horny for not having sex, drink beer, masturbate alone, or rarely she acts bit two-faced with how it's not that big of problem when she forces herself into MC, but she makes him wait on his knees, acts strict, etc, same happens with her constent, and forces him to say sorry, wash dishes, scrub the toilet, mop the floors, etc.
    - In the early parts of the game, writing is a bit different than later parts, and there is some unnecessary creepy stuff like MC's so-called ''friends'' talking about how hot his Natsumi is, how they are fapping her pictures they took at the school festival, or MC's whole smelling Natsumi's dirty panties while fapping on her bed, time and time again for two years. Later, we see MC act like a pervert again in a lot of cases, which kinda makes him a bit less likable, but it's not worse than the early game.
    - There are some unavoidable scenes for no reason, like the scene where Natsumi got drunk, and forced herself into MC, forced him to say some stuff, or like Riko's scenes, etc, scenes like that should always be avoidable.
    - The last CON takes us to another CON, which has zero control over your main character's personality, and almost none of the choices matter, aside from giving you early endings.
    - Sex scene animation variations (different angles) play/change automatically, giving you no control over it, and if you like one of them, you gotta wait the whole loop reset again to see it, making them only change when the scene progresses more. Adding numbers to the sex scene for variations could be a good way to fix this.
    - Last 4 scenes are paywalled, 4 is too many, and the last one is prego content, which is lame to be paywalled for sure.
    - Characters have kinda big foreheads, and elbow, knee, and bottom feet textures are rough and wrinkly. Considering how other parts of the female character are quite smooth, they look out of place and kinda bad.
    - There are small visual bugs, like clothes going inside other textures, like ground or body textures, etc.
    - In the early parts, the same music kinda plays a lot, but later we get more.

    VERDICT
    Honestly at first I was sure this is just a average game, but it did good job with a lot of writers fails these days, simple, and straight forward incest delivering real content, and while doing it improved a lot of aspects it has after certain point, and become pretty great game with latest parts, if not for clear CONS I would give this game 5 stars, but because of existence of the CONS I'm gonna give 4 stars instead, it's pretty good game, and deserves that for sure.
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    Cherubin25

    Was not sure if I want to give 2 or 3 Stars, I went for 2 in the end, because I simply cannot say it is "average". IMO the game is really not good. The renders are okayish, the female LI is great. The male MC looks younger than advertised and also quite feminine at times.

    Overall the build up of the story is quite weird - MC has feelings for his Mom for a few years already, gets caught masturbating. Mom first tries to solve this by giving him no real reason to sexualize her, this does not work because MC tries to manipulate her. This works quite quickly and from there you get basically everything and while there are quite a bunch of scenes in the game, they feel roughly the same, since you reach the goal of having sex with your mom very quickly. Which is also my main issue with the game, you reach your target early on and then the scenes feel meaningless, since there is no real satisfying progression.

    Dialogues are too long-winded and honestly I felt my brain melting at some point.

    The two stars are for the female LI-Model and for the animations, which are decent. But I cannot really give more than 2 stars.
    Likes: EMH
  3. 4.00 star(s)

    Pumpal

    I haven’t played the original so I will rate it as its own game. Character models are good, animations are good, writing is good enough and the sound effects are well placed. The only issue I have is that the story seems to time skip around basically scene to scene with just enough set up to make the scenes make sense, but a visual novel isn’t just scenes, its also character building and everyday life moments, which seem to be cut super short here.
  4. 5.00 star(s)

    Ruykiru

    Peak incest.

    No silly censorship patches, no dumb side chicks that no one cares about. Just a simple and straightforward incest story with a mom and her biological son, with very taboo dialogue. Put on your suspension of disbelief glasses, and you won't care about anything other than a single mother falling in mad love with her horny and confused teenage boy.

    This is what we are all here for. Great job, dev.