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LOVE THIS GAME! one of my favorite rpg maker horror games

Very good RPGmaker game, has some very cool story ideas

every single one of these freaks needs help oh my god

My first ever RPGMakerHorror game ever. Plus half a star for nostalgia.


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mad father more like clinically insane completely deranged no redeeming qualities piece of shit blood relative.

played on halloween for those spooky vibes.

it was a lil spooky. ayas a silly lil gal. i hope shes doing ok. she has a whole ass villain origin story. batman will be her next opponent.

very shlocky but decent puzzles and atmosphere

amnesia przy tej scenie ze starym z piła mechaniczna to chuj

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why the f*** do i need to read maria's dairy to get the true ending and i can't do it after she chases after father the worst thing ever i hate this the worst thing i have seen so far in the game

Really only OK but fun, this genre is the videogame equivalent of a B-movie.

I started and finished it in 2022 but I replayed it in 2023 for the master. I love it so much

Śliczny remake, pixel art w tym wydaniu jest przeurokliwe a Aya jeszcze słodsza
Szkoda trochę, że nie odnowili też ilustracji, z pewnością dodałyby jeszcze więcej klimatu
Cóż w zasadzie mogę rzec, krótki przyjemny pixel horror z wciągającą historią
Nawet kiedy część fabuły już znałam czy to z mediów czy innych źródeł, byłam bardzo zainwestowana, ciekawa dalszego przebiegu wydarzeń- więc myślę, że jak ktoś podchodzi do gierki nie wiedząc totalnie czego oczekiwać to będzie bawił się jeszcze lepiej.

why did aya still turn out fucked up did that girl learn nothing

Yeah I actually backseated this game instead of playing it myself.
Madge?

Clássico dos clássicos de RPGMAKER. História muito boa, terror bom, exploração ótima.

This review will be centered around both this remake, and the original release of Mad Father, as both are perfectly accessible on the system I played it on. This playthrough was done through the remake.

I genuinely adore this game. Evident by the rather exorbitant amount of time I have totaled for this quick, 2 hour long RPG Maker horror (or Wolf RPG, really) Mad Father is a game I have been able to thoroughly enjoy for an actual decade at this point. It's the perfect mix of horror and atmosphere that has somehow always managed to enamor me every time, even despite all my yearly replays.

There is such a haunting history built within the Drevis mansion. A reluctantly loving family, doomed by a madman in power. A child who only loves this mad father due to a lack of information, only learning her mistakes after devoting herself to saving him for so long. It's devastating watching this story unfold, the hardest moments only ever amplified by a just as haunting soundtrack. (yeah what's a good wheatie review without everybody's favorite part)

This is a soundtrack I can best describe as pretty. The ambience in each area is perfect, there are some beautiful uses of pianos and violins to be found, and to go just a little further into it, even just the sound design is pretty nicely done. The game will very often cause a subtle shift in the environment, accompanied by an alerting noise in the midst of the usual quietness. Mad Father knows damn near perfectly how to be unsettling. Maybe I'm a bitch.

I've mentioned in earlier reviews of this game that the 2020 remake made a few changes that I wasn't the biggest fan of. Yes, silly mistakes have been remarkably softened by the easy QTE that the game gives you, I still stand by that a fair amount. But I'm also willing to look past that. I think despite everything, the good more than outweighs the bad, and it's still amazing seeing the absolute glow-up this game got after 8 whole years, not to mention the revamped puzzles and new content with Blood Mode.

It could very well be the nostalgia talking. The average person would look at Mad Father and notice that it generally follows the pretty basic formula that most RPG Maker horrors follow, solving puzzles by mixing items and using them at the right areas, with perhaps a bit more added onto it thanks to the use of the chainsaw. I'm willing to admit that. I've always been willing to admit when nostalgia can sort of take a hold on me. Unfortunately, I've also always been willing to admit that I don't care. I love this genre, and I love this game. This is easily one of my favorite horror games ever. Always has been, always will be.

need to finish the remake, it's so beautiful

if this game was an AITA reddit post the verdict would immediately be "everyone sucks here"

stunning game with very engaging characters, i loved them all very much. i wish there was a happy ending </3

this is probably the most famous rpgmaker game around and the one that somehow booted the whole genre for me personally since after watching a gameplay of mad father i would just look everywhere for horror rpgmaker games to make me shit my pants teehee i was such a quirky 10 years old with too much time in my hands honestly time passed for everything and im soon gonna end up ash in a jar

that being said !!! this is a remake of the original mad father and i believe it was mostly untouched for the most part like it has some QoL and tweaks here and there a completely different presentation all around (i still do like the original raw one a bit more but they still did a damn good fucking job with this one every sprite and animation is lush as shit) and i dont understand how vivid the memory of this game was in my head istg i remembered most of the stuff that happened and the story beats and some puzzles and i did not think that was gonna happen but here we are

as an rpgmaker game it has the usual stuff get item A combine with item B and use it on point C and all this for the entire game while sometimes youre gonna get spooked because uuuhuhuhuu spooky skeletons and blood and jumpscares (its not scary) but i guess the main thing here is traversing the mansion with an incredible atmosphere following you like this game nails its sense of claustrophobia and AT THE SAME TIME agoraphobia i have no idea if this makes any sense but the whole house is incredibly big but since youre gonna spend most of the time either here or in the narrow basement its gonna feel like the walls are gonna crush into you while theres specters trying to get some of that 11 year old piece of ass aya is carrying

lets talk about aya i love aya from hell and back and i love when she screams and cries weirdly enough but the whole point of the game is that his father is absolutely fucking crazy shes gonna see specters of people who got killed by his dad still hauting her house hear screams and chainsaw noises from his laboratory and talk with her late mother that literally says “girl he cray cray get tf out” and STILL shes gonna be like ugh i gotta save father i love father please father be well baby your father is the butcher ion really think umhhhhh

so anyway the story is pretty much this apart from the fact that you get a flashback every item you touch and get some backstory to “patients” of his “father” the “package” “came” in the “male” ??? and basically just trying to get the fuck out as an rpgmaker game theres gonna be different endings but im just gonna pretend the only one is the good one because thats the one that i did and i dont remember the others that being said the story is interesting nothing that really shakes the fundamentals of modern day writing standards but a good premise for the entire game being a spooky hooky gooky loopy yuppy that one

the portraits of the characters are left untouched which is weird because they feel like those drawings in “learn to draw manga characters” books and then theres the high quality spritework back there so its a bit of a weird contrast but its pretty fine still some of them look weird but i like the CGs here and there theyre not furry leve CGs but theyre passable

ideally id say that the gameplay is good but i honestly hate this kind of rpgmaker gameplay because im gonna open a guide in 0.3 seconds because i hate the feeling of being lost and not progressing one bit sowrey uwu sorry !!!! :3 and its standard rpgmaker stuff as i said so moving on
characters are good as i said aya is my sweet little baby her father is absolutely fucking insane to the point that he has no redeeming quality whatsoever her mother has a lot of tits and its absolutely insane to me that she fell in love with that ugly incel psycho and maria is rei ayanami coded so people with that proxy fetish or whatever its called are gonna be super happy also whats up with this man getting so many girls to love him fucking stockholm syndrome the other characters are either ghosts with minimal backstory or a hotty without an eye who has some kind of weird siscon i fear so anyway and the bald guy is absolutely not part of this story im gonna just ignore him just play misao

so whatever this is still one of the pinnacles of the classic horror rpgmaker games out there and its pretty interesting how to this day its still just a cult classic to get back sometimes and play for 3 hours its really well done altogether

i hate collectibles use a guide also the theme song is iconic

Memories of coryxkenshin playing this game

jakimś cudem ulepszyli już samą w sobie iconic grę i ten stary goniący mnie z piłą mechaniczną jest nadal straszny jak sam skurwysyn

I played the original, but in this case I couldn't remember much. So, in this game, I truly felt like I was doing a lot of new things and in general came to love it a lot. The doll maker feature added a tiny cute detail, I missed this game a lot!

Really cute remake, i had a lot of fun replaying this game after such a long time. I don't really remember when i played this game for the first time but it has always stuck with me.


I love this game! Playing an updated version was so much fun and reminded me of how much I loved this game when it was first released.
It was wonderful to revisit the Drevis Family and playthrough their story again. RPG maker horror has such a special place in my heart and part of that is thanks to this game

One of my favorite RPG Maker games. Very interesting story that I enjoyed.

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Accidentally went a bit too fast and missed my opportunity to get the good ending, oops.
I can't say I like the remake as much as the original, in a game like this I don't think I should be given ample opportunity to fix whatever mistake I make, if I walk into that spooky door that opened by itself, I should die for it. Don't give me a QTE to suddenly keep myself alive.
It hurts especially for the last portion of the game, where what used to be a super intense chase sequence where one misstep meant death, is now shockingly easier, even freezing the chaser upon completing the one input QTE.
End of the day, it's still Mad Father, and I hold a shit ton of nostalgia for this game. 8/10, the game that started my fascination for RPG Maker Horror all the way back in like 2012.

it was alright, not as good as other rpg maker horror games
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