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I've been playing games since forever, but recently I thought of starting to write my opinion on games I played so my memories don't play tricks on me later, and because it's fun :) it's really just me rambling about my opinion on games, but hope someone would enjoy it. So today's game is this: Maid★Hajimemashita ~Goshujin-sama no Osewa Itashimasu~ メイド★はじめました ~ご主人様のお世話いたします~ Here's the VNDB page of the game. it seems to be a PC only game, I got the physical copy of it a long time ago and only recently started it, I was quite excited to experience it since it has Butler related themes (and I'm the biggest Butlers simp ever), I know the title says maid for some reason but I guess they like to make the butlers (who are all Ukes in the game) look like twinks (they kinda are). I also need to clarify that this game doesn't allow you to ship whoever you want like other VN games, for instance, in other games you could ship the protagonist with multiple different Love Interests and get different love endings.. but when it comes to Maid Hajimemashita, there are Fixed Couples, meaning each protagonist(the three twinks) in the game have their own partner and you can't match them with whoever you like unfortunately. now for the plot: our protagonist Akagi Ritsu (Brown hair) ends up working as a butler for a rich family his mom is originally working for due to his mom's injury. and there he starts to learn more about the weird family traditions and complications. that's all. yeah it's pretty basic... My overall rating : 3/10 (Below average) I'll get into details of why I gave this game such a low score, there are some light spoilers which I will point out, so don't worry. Now I don't have any complains about the soundtracks and overall audio, nor the visuals, the real issue is in the game's theme itself and the events, if you like fluffy lovely dovely BL, this game might be for you, but DEFINITELY not for me.. also, for some reason mostly everyone in this game is gay. might as well call it gay mansion, our protagonist turned gay because of the effect of gay mansion. from the plot, you can already guess that this game doesn't have that deep of a story, three different twinks and their daddies. You will be playing the game in Ritsu's POV. !Light early game spoilers ahead! to keep things simple, I will divide the three couples into three groups and talk about them individually.. 1st couple: on the top left, you can see a feminine twink and his sigma daddy hugging each other, sigma daddy is the heir of the family, and his twink is a butler. you get told early on that this sigma daddy picked the twink off the streets when he had no family or home, and made him a butler in his mansion, so twink is greatly thankful and trusts sigma daddy very much, you could say he LIVES for him. the protagonist ends up sleeping in the same room as the feminine twink who visibly seemed like he didn't wanna share a room with Ritsu-kun. in the end of the day Ritsu faints on his bed from exhaustion and randomly wakes up in the middle of the night hearing some voices of his roommate and his daddy. "B-but I dont like being in the same room with someone else" "I'm sorry baby, I had no choice, please endure it for me, now go to bed, I'll give you a bed time kiss" *FRENCH KISSES HIM* uhm what? so Ritsu was confused, as confused as I was, what are these people doing? twink doesn't know that bed time kisses are not supposed to be French kisses, they are usually on the cheek or forehead, and these two aren't even a couple! Daddy notices Ritsu and smirks "do you want a bed time kiss too?😏" "n-no thank you!!" .... I felt something dying inside me after that scene. anyway, it genuinely seemed like daddy no.1 was using twink no.1 for his own good and enjoyed using him without his consent, you see just because you rescued the poor guy and made him basically worship you doesn't mean it's ok to SEXUALLY ASSAULT HIM, twink no.1 is pure, he doesn't know that French kisses are supposed to be between couples, to me the whole thing was very unsettling and I felt like twink no.1 was just being used. it's a shame, I am a big simp for Megane guys, and really liked daddy no.1... not anymore though. anyway, moving on.. 2nd couple: on the top right, you can see daddy no.2 and his twink no.2.. daddy no.2 is not a part of the family, he's an old bookstore owner and constantly visits the mansion for trade and to visit his twink no.2, who is the third son of the family. twink no.2 was fine in the beginning, friendly, nice, helpful... until daddy no.2 appeared..... It is the start of a disaster, twink no.2 was the biggest pick me on planet earth, you'll ask why.. here's what happened: Ritsu and twink no.2 are gardening in the backyard, suddenly daddy no.2 appears and twink's behavior changes, he acts like a puppy who saw his owner. "Hey princess! 😎" "omg don't call me that!! >_<" "haha you're so cute 😎" ... should I leave yall alone? anyway, daddy no.2 started talking to Ritsu the new butler, and suddenly twink no.2 explodes "Why are you not paying attention to me!? you keep talking to Ritsu! it's unfair!!".. the two of them laughed and called him a cutie for being childish and jealous, I genuinely wanted to bury him in their backyard. after daddy no.2 left, Ritsu jokingly called him this "Come on 'Princess', let's go!" and twink no.2 exploded "Don't EVER call me that!! the only person who can call me princess is DADDY SIGMA ONLY!!! if you call me that again I will HATE YOU!!"... I beg your finest pardon? blud looked FURIOUS. thank god Ritsu was more open minded than me, he just laughed it off and called twink no.2 cute for his behavior that doesn't match his age, I was kind of shocked of how composed Ritsu was, no normal adult would act that way ever, twink no.2 has serious issues he needs to solve. another piece of me died once again.. but I kept going,, for Ritsu, he made me laugh so many times, he's the only one who pointed out the weirdness of situations and made funny jokes, maybe Ritsu and his daddy aren't too bad??... that's what I thought... 3rd couple: our last hope, Ritsu and his daddy.. for your information, Ritsu and daddy no.3 are both majoring in engineering, one day Ritsu was asked to accompany daddy no.3 because he keeps rambling about his job to butlers who has no idea of what he's talking about, and since Ritsu studies the same field, he would be a better person in that situation. daddy no.3 is exhausted, he hasn't slept in a very long time because of his job, and has a difficult time falling asleep, so he lays his legs on Ritsu's thighs on the couch and asks him not to move, because he wants to sleep in this very comfortable position, Ritsu complains a little since his relationship with daddy no.3 isn't the best (enemies to lovers kinda thing), but he stayed still and didn't move, daddy no.3 fell asleep, woke up 3 hours later feeling refreshed "Ritsu is very good at making me fall asleep easily, you should come tomorrow too!", and so he did. The day after, they did the same thing, daddy no.3 slept with his legs on Ritsu's thighs, when he woke up he kissed him... what? why would he even do that? "That was my first kiss!" "huh, really? I shouldve tried better, let me kiss you again" "no way! >_<" " Yes way *smirks and kisses him*"... The last piece of me shattered, this is the cringest thing I have ever witnessed in a long time.. and yes, I closed the game at that point, put the disk back into my shelf and never opened it again, I even bought the Drama CD for them, I might not listen to it though...... ---------------------- FINAL WORDS Okay! that was basically me talking about what made me abandon this game, there might have been some more interesting plot later on, but I was already feeling bored before all of that happened, the beginning was mainly talking about the whole family thing and relationships, I didn't care much, it was very much your typical BL manga from the 2000s... overall opinion: characters: ALL OF THEM SUCK (excluding the main two who suck less but still suck) top two couples, the Ukes are both very immature and do piss me off quite often, one of them is extremely feminine and ignorant which I can't blame him for since he wasn't raised normally and had no family when he was a child, the other is basically a spoiled brat. as for the Semes, glasses dude seemed like a groomer, looked to me like he was manipulating his Uke. as for the other guy, he sounded normal at first, but then later he gave off hints how he wanted to play dumb and wait for the right moment to keep his Uke hooked and only think of him, which was weird and creepy to me. Don't get me wrong, I understand if the intention of the game is to make them look creepy and cruel, but Maid Hajimemashita normalizes this behavior which makes everything worse. the main two are less severe than the others, Ritsu is very normal and has a fine personality, only after he fell for his daddy he became like the rest, suddenly so in love with a person he met two days ago. his daddy also was fine until he kissed Ritsu without his consent and acted like a "sigma wolf", it was the final straw for me. story: is there a story even?? there's nothing that kept me hooked, nothing to look forward to, I didn't know what to expect as I was playing the game.. which made the whole experience very boring to me.. I tried to finish the game at least once, since the play time isn't too long (max 10 hours according to VNDB), but I just couldn't, the cringe was too severe for my brain cells. Anyway, that was all... hope you had fun reading this, unexpectedly it took me a lot of time to write, but it's nice to keep record of things. I'll try to keep updating as I go through games, I'm currently playing Shingakkou and it's very fun so far :) Thank you for reading, have a nice day!