Re: Milf's Control English - COMPLETE - DEMO AVAILABLE
So after finally playing the complete game I would now like to revise my original review of up.
Sadly Milf Control does not live up to the hype I originally had for it. For starters, the .5 version I played was more like a .75 and that's being generous. When I played the .5 version I thought the game was only halfway completed or to put another way, I thought that the 1.0 version would have double the content. It doesn't. You only get one more day in-game to play before it's finished, also I hope you didn't like the twins, police officer, nun, nurse, slave/enemy or girlfriend characters because they get zero new scenes so F-you. Also, NO OFFICAL lesbian scenes with the mom and daughter or even the mom and aunt! And no I don't count the freaking bonus scenes, hell if anything they just make it worse since if you just add text to it you could have made them work in the actual game itself.
Then there are the chooses, and as I feared it ultimately doesn't matter in the end which is stupid since the game does have more than one ending! However, you just pick which ending you want based on the game's final choice (just before the end). The endings themselves are kinda stupid and disappointing. Stupid we can get more into when I talk about the story and characters but just disappointing in their size. Both endings, not counting the sex scene that leads up to them (although you probably should since it doesn't appear in the sex scene gallery) are incredibly short. Just a single sex scene and not even a long one at that.
One ending has you end up with the sister, but it's just a quick fuck scene with her, hell despite their being bonus images of you marrying her that doesn't actually make it into the ending, you just continue to date her as before..........*Sigh* while it's certainly not the worse ending it just felt small in comparison with the rest of the game and left me wanting more or something more. Hell at least give me a longer more extended sex scene or if you're going to make it so bloody short why not just make the freaking wedding bonus images into the actual ending, hell that would have been more impactful than just "oh mom caught us fucking, hypno her we're good now let's go back to fucking".
I probably wouldn't be so hard on this ending if we got to choose who we ended up with, the twins, girlfriend, and mom is all given roughly the same amount of screen time and character development so an ending for each of them doesn't seem far fetch but the game is under the impression that apparently the relationship with the sister is special and that clearly she's the "True" end girl. I'm being heavily sarcastic when I say that. Speaking as someone who's favorite character is the sister and is happy that she got the ending even I know that this is complete bull. But we'll get more into that later.
The second ending is the "mind control" ending which is even more of a disappointment. Ok to give you a comparison I recently played a Japanese game called 催眠貴族 which is really similar in concept, you play a guy who gains mind control powers which he uses on people throughout the town and his own mother and sister. In that game not only does the sister and mother have their own separate endings but in the mind control ending the main character completely takes over the town, fucking every pretty girl in sight. Hell, that ending is like ten minutes long, showing off what happen to the sister and mother, the all female knight squad you now command, how you treat the townspeople and a bunch of other shit.
So what about Milf Control, what happens in its "mind Control" ending? You get a blowjob. I'm not kidding, not even fucking, you just get a blowjob from your mom and sister (at the same time) and they don't even fucking react/kiss each other. Can you not see why I'm disappointed with this ending! When you say "Mind Control" ending I was expecting a full on harem ending where you bang/have your way with every girl that's appeared in the game but instead all we got is ONE short ass blowjob!
These endings are freaking shit and feel half ass! The ending is one of the most important parts of any story, it's what everything in your game is leading up to and yet these feel like Icstor either ran out of time to complete the game or just said "F it." Most solid games can't recover if their ending is crap and Milf Control is no solid game.
In my previous post I mention that one of the negatives I had with the game is how stupid or uncreative the hero and villain got with the ring. Well with the villain defeated it's now time for the hero to be TWICE as stupid to make up lost ground. I'm not kidding people, "I now have the unlimited/restricted power to control people's minds, hmmmm, how do I stop my father from finding out about me fucking the mom and sister. Oh I know, I'll have him stay late at work rather than just tell him to be ok with me fucking the mom and sister because I'm an idiot." I mean seriously, it's almost as if the main character has some sort of deeply rooted psychological issue with being direct with people. Oh and let's not forget his brilliant idea of letting his slave, the person who has made it very clear to him that she would like to destroy him, the MAYOR of the freaking city. I'm sure there's nooooooo way she could use that position of power to get around his orders to get the ring back (facepalm).
Both those are minor stupidities when it comes to the plot itself. So the beginning of the game/story the focus was on the mother, fucking her was the main character and player's main goal which we sought to achieve whereas the sister comes in later and was a simple side character. She was given NO more attention or buildup then the girlfriend, twins, Aunt, or teacher. Well now the focus has completely shifted onto the sister character for some reason and the mom has become a minor character (so if you liked the mom F you). The cliff-hanging of .5 was that the sister had put on the necklace that blocks the rings power but when you finally return back home it appears that not all of her memories have returned which brings us to the first big problem of this end game.
1. How does the ring affect people? While this was present in the first half of the game it becomes even more noticeable in the second. At certain times the ring will turn the person into just a mindless zombie you can order around, or at other times (when the main character is feeling sadistic) it will make them perfectly aware of what's going on but they can't control themselves. So why is it that the sister can't remember that the main character used the ring on her and even raped her (if you selected that choice)? It's just waaaaaaaaay to convenient that the sister can only remember the broad things that have happened to her but not the details. Which brings us to the next big issue.
2. The main character's inconsistent logic and reasoning. So the main character takes advantage of his confused sister and tricks her into thinking her feelings towards him are real......and yet he thinks they are? While this could be my imagination I feel that even the game itself tries to convince you that it's true, hell him deciding that he no longer wants to use his ring on his sister because he thinks her feelings are genuine (and that he didn't need to do it in the first place) becomes a freaking major plot point! But this reasoning is clearly BULLshit and insane.
Ok if we go with the idea that his sister always loved him as a man, in no way did the game ever previously hint at or establish that idea! Hell if anything the game always made her come across as the annoying sister and it was only at the party where we got to see a sweeter version of her, and even THEN she does reject her brother at the party when his chances of success were highest. There's no question in my opinion that in order to sleep with her the main character HAD to use the ring. It's like if a person goes to see a hypnotist to stop smoking and the hypnotist implants the idea that cigarettes taste AWFUL . If the person leaves the office, even if they're not CURRENTLY under hypnosis, if they choose not to have a cigarette because they think it tastes awful, that's not because they always thought cigarettes tasted awful, it's because of the implanted suggestion.
It's the same idea here! The sister isn't feeling love towards her brother because she's always had those feelings, it's because he implanted those feelings in her and even if she's not CURRENTLY under hypnosis/the ring's control, those feelings and the association to happiness and pleasure they created, are still there and not real. So this line of logical is BULL.
Ok so maybe instead this is to show that the main character is unraveling. All of this power is going to his head and he can't tell real from unreal anymore. Well if that was true the game does nothing with it and in no way backs up this conclusion. If anything with how the story is set up it goes out of its way to show you, no, her feelings are real.
I wouldn't make such a big deal out of this except the game makes it the main story which brings me to the third big problems.
3. The story, or rather lack of a story. Remember how in my previous post I praise the inclusion of an actual story in this game rather than just having the main character do shit for whatever reason? Welp the story basically just ends after the main character gets the second ring. Why did the statue react solely to him? What's the connection between the main character and the guy in his dreams? Why did said guy seal the ring? All questions that never come up or are answered in the second half of the game and if you were interested in that then F-you. The only hints of a story we get are that the main characters eyes start to glow when he talks with the teacher and its sorta hinted/implied that they're doing a Lelouch, as in the character is starting to lose control of his power and using it even when he doesn't mean too.
However, as I said this goes nowhere and is immediately drop. As I also mention the game makes the jarring jump from focusing on the mom to focusing on the sister which in no way flows well with the overall game and feels very random. Now to be fair I played from an old save file from the .5 version of the game so Icstor could have gone back to fix these issues and make the story flow better but I'm guessing they didn't.
Keeping on the track of ruining things I liked about the .5 build brings me to my last big issue.
4. The card combat system. I liked the card combat system, that was one of the surprising and favorite elements of the game. But when you force me to play the damn thing 9 times in a row to unlock all of the bonus scenes I'm going to end up freaking hating it! Yea that's the new hell in the game and furthers the idea that the last half was rushed to completion. Remember how in .5 there were a few bonus scene viewers and you had to go look around for the switches to unlock them or the password or occasionally beat the machine at cards.
Well, the only thing that's double in the 1.0 version is the freaking bonus scenes, hell it freaking feels like there are even MORE bonus scenes crammed into that single day than in the previous 7 days combine, and ALL OF THEM force you to play cards against them if you want to unlock them. So yea after the sixth card battle, which in no way changes throughout the game, I was getting very tired of it. So thank you game and F you.
*Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh* What to say in summary. I don't regret playing it, there ARE good ideas here and genuinely hot scenes but my god does the second half (more like final act) really destroy it. A great example of a game that just drops the ball on all fronts. In the end I'm left very disappointed.
