Right of the bat, I was not expecting to strongly connect to one of the stories and that's an amazing trait to have in piece of literature.
As it's my first time ever "reviewing" a game I hope I can portray my thoughts cohesively as I've only completed 2/- the amount of endings there are.
I got the Bad ending #1 on my first playthrough for laughs as I just wanted to see what happened in that route and it set a very heavy and thought provoking atmosphere or tone. Then on my second playthrough I went for Zach's mother(Samantha) as I thought there'd be some spicy scenes, boy was I wrong about that.
Wonderful demonstration of his mother's GIGA Brain and illustration of Zach's response to her actions which not only made me connect to zach personally and emotionally aswell as with his parent's relationship-
(My mom has some of Samantha's traits except for the yandere thing {thank god, dont exactly want to be the son of a murderer, let alone possible murder} and I'd say I'm closer to my dad than my mom)
-but it also made me tear up because I haven't realized how fucked up our situations are or sound like on the outside.
Final thoughts, I highly recommend the mother's route solely for the emotional ride. Also whoever or those that wrote the story, I hope I'm shedding waterfalls when that story is done bro, I want to give my desk water damage even if it's sealed haha, but on a serious note though I'm excited to see what's in store for that route.
-bit of spoiler-
Food for thought to devs:
part of me wants to see multiple or atleast two endings one being bad and the other good but not only would that take a long time to think and write that out, it'd complicate/contradict the fact that she hid her manupilation and tried to forcefully yet quietly control her son's future, and since he's smart enough to see through her bullshit I doubt someone like that can either "live" in that environment, or willingly allow her to remain in control which was hinted by the 'it gives me an amount of power over you' . It brings a moral dilemma for what is acceptable in life and/or parenting which I really enjoy asking why and what my reasons are for my conclusions.