Well... I was happy to see this game hadn't been abandoned afteral, funny I was actually thinking about this game the other day before the update thinking about the fonzie looking MC we started with.
But let me get this straight....
Going forward I would hope there will be options in regards to Damon and the mother, if she ever bothers to show up, and not just forced forgiveness, because that would be an absolute trash end to the story. This is the type of stuff you absolutely cut people out of your life over, and hope they have a shitty one thereafter for all the unnecessary pain they've caused.
Overall, it's good to see a game able to pull emotions out of the players, even as flimsy as the excuse might be for the mother leaving, hopefully the game is not abandoned and finishes. (Played another game called Come Inside that had the mother leave for years, that was also an unforgivable move, then she came back but unfortunately never got the resolution, since the game was abandoned after that.)