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
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