God Sisters (ゴッドシスターズ) Review

The game this time is called God Sisters.

Right at the start, our protagonist gets a letter from home, from his little sister. Dad’s critically ill and wants him to come back and see him.

So the guy goes home and finds the situation is pretty damn serious. Dad’s on his deathbed, the coffee shop Dad runs has nobody managing it, and his four little sisters are all just standing around there not knowing what to do.

Which brings us to the protagonist’s complicated family situation. His parents didn’t get along and divorced. The son got custody with the mother, and the four daughters went with the father. Dad runs a coffee shop, that’s his whole livelihood, but now the shop’s been doing poorly because of his health, so the sisters wrote to their big brother to come back and inherit the business.

Dad, lying in his hospital bed, tells the protagonist that a manager living diagonally across the street wants to buy the cafe for a high price. But the cafe holds too many memories for him, and he doesn’t want to sell, so he asks the protagonist to keep running it.

Even though the protagonist has some inexplicable hatred for his father, he still decides to think it over, for his sisters’ sake.

That night, the eldest sister, Konishi Yami, comes to the protagonist and says she wants him to keep the place running, and she believes he can do it. Then she mutters to herself: “I can’t do anything except this, so please!”

Then she takes off her clothes and goes a few rounds with the protagonist (her blood brother).

The next night, the second sister, Konishi Ion, also comes to the protagonist, tells him to do his best, and then, just like the eldest, goes a few rounds.

The third night, the third sister, Konishi Yuu, finds the protagonist and says that even though she hates him most, she doesn’t want to lose to the eldest and second sisters, so she goes a few rounds too.

The fourth night, the youngest sister, Konishi Ria, finds the protagonist and just goes straight to the rounds.

After four days of deep deliberation, the protagonist decides to take up his father’s banner and start running the cafe.

Then word comes that Dad has croaked.

Running the cafe goes smoothly for the protagonist, because all he has to do is bullshit a few lines during the day and screw his sisters at night, and it just works. Just as business is picking up, the manager from diagonally across the street, the one who wanted to buy the cafe, shows up again — with the protagonist’s mother in tow.

Mom says it’s genuinely impressive the protagonist has become so independent, so she accepts it, and the protagonist works even harder at the cafe. Meanwhile, Mom forgives her ex-husband and drops by every now and then.

The game ends…

So anyway, I wonder if you noticed, but a lot of things in this game are weird. The plot looks simple, even a bit retarded, but there are some details that are terrifying once you think about them.

First, the protagonist’s parents keep saying their relationship was terrible, but if it was so terrible… why did they have five kids? And why does every kid have a different hair color?

Then, when they divorced, why did the son go to the mother and the four daughters go to the father?

And most importantly, why does the protagonist’s mother show up together with the manager from diagonally across the street who’s after the father’s cafe?

Ah! Once you think about it like that, the whole story connects.

Suppose you’re the protagonist’s father. You’ve been married a short while, and your wife is fooling around with the manager from diagonally across the street, cuckolding you. The relationship falls apart, you want a divorce, the wife leaves with the son, and you’re stuck alone looking after the cafe with four daughters (and who even knows if they’re yours). The manager across the street keeps sabotaging you behind your back, and your wife is behind it, pulling the strings to run you into the ground. Eventually you’re sick beyond saving, and a letter from home calls your son back. And even then, lying sick in bed, you hope your son will keep the cafe going and not let the bastard across the street get it cheap.

And before you’ve even breathed your last, your son is downstairs banging your daughters, all of them, and you literally get angry to death. After you die, your son gets the cafe back on its feet, but your ex-wife, the one who drove you to ruin, comes back with the guy from across the street, saying she’s forgiven you, when really they’ve just taken over. Everything falls into someone else’s hands.

Isn’t that a deeply sad story?

This game is a nukige MME cobbled together right before going under. The title God Sisters is literally “God Sisters,” and it looks like a standard “moe nukige siscon” formula, but the budget was just too low. They got Kakao as the main artist, but a lot of the CGs are total disasters, the game has only five backgrounds, nobody besides the heroines has a sprite, and there aren’t even any non-H CGs — it’s a game that exists purely to serve the H. And even then the HCGs aren’t good; the characters are drawn like shit, so how’s it supposed to be good! The only good thing about this game might be the OP — Route 66 is genuinely great to listen to, even though the lyrics have absolutely nothing to do with the game, and there isn’t even an OP, it just plays on the title screen. It’s not even as good as MME’s earlier Suite Life, and I honestly suspect this game exists purely to sell the song. MME was on the verge of bankruptcy back then, and this game was probably just a quick cash grab. I only bought the OST — guess that counts as taking the essence and discarding the dregs?

Even though the budget is rock bottom, that’s not the real issue. The real issue is that the plot of this game is just absurd. On ErogameScape the Japanese tore this game to shreds, and the main complaint was that the protagonist is “deeply unfilial.” And yeah, fair enough — your father is upstairs about to kick the bucket, and as the eldest son you’re downstairs screwing your own little sisters one by one. If the old man knew, he’d probably die on the spot. (Which, to be fair, he does.)

I genuinely feel sorry for the protagonist’s father. Cuckolded by his wife, then she teams up with the guy across the street to run his cafe into the ground, he raises a son who bangs all his precious daughters, and after he dies the cafe falls into his enemy’s hands. Truly died with regret.

And our protagonist, the eldest son, is a real abstract filial son for the new era.