YMMV / Minotaur Hotel

• Adorkable:
  • Asterion has plenty of moments where he unexpectedly acts really silly, such as when he first moos in front of you, or when he has trouble using utensils. It makes him all the more endearing.
  • Storm's naivety causes him to do some dumb things that make him even more lovable.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Invoked by the devs, who said that it didn't matter how off-putting the premise was so long as it was something they wanted to write about. It's a furry Visual Novel that heavily downplays the Dating Sim elements in favor of Hotel Management mechanics. The POV character isn't a young adult Vanilla Protagonist, but rather an experienced aloof Deadpan Snarker. The Visual Novel is rooted in various mythologies and is not afraid of making obscure references. And the main character, Asterion, is quite clearly submissive in a game aimed towards furries that prefer more dominant characters. That being said, this game is able to achieve much success for its niche due to its uniqueness among other furry Visual Novels and quality of writing.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Has one with the Deltarune fandom due to both being furry dramedic Video Games with queer elements that allow you to be either friendly or cruel towards a specific character. Chapter 2 of Deltarune coming out a few weeks after the 0.5 update for Minotaur Hotel certainly helps, with both the creator and the artist making crossover memes soon after Chapter 2 released.
  • Also has this with other gay furry Visual Novels, with one post from the creator stating that overlap between the userbases of this game and Killigan's Treasure had especially high overlap.
• Jerkass Woobie: P isn't a very nice person overall, but you couldn't blame him considering his family went to shit even before he was born, all because his grandfather was kicked out of the hotel by Clement and he sacrificed everything to find it again. P was forced into a job where he had to do very shady things and he ended up hating himself because everyone, besides his grandfather, was so hostile towards him.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The revealed bits and pieces of information you can gather on the wasteland reveal Athena is responsible for Asterion's torment, plunging her far into this.
  • Clement when he attempted to rape a guest and was stopped by Asterion, leading to the closing of the Hotel and Asterion's decades long isolation, not to mention a series of problems like P's grandfather's losses.
  • You can cross this by listening to Argos and bring Asterion in. It's the driving point for the ruthless route, where you become irredeemable.
• Narm:
  • In the same chapter that introduces Robert, the delivery man will suddenly talk about how there's nothing wrong about love between a man and a mythical being like Asterion. While it's supposed to show that he has strong opinions about everyone being treated equally, it comes off more like a furry justifying why it's okay for them to want to fuck hot furry men. Considering that this Visual Novel was intended for furries anyways, it comes off as gratuitous.
  • Asterion's suspenders outfit has shadows painted onto them that make it look like they're suspending over him rather than act like how actual suspenders work in real life.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The first few chapters are quite slow, with it taking some time before you actually get to the hotel itself. While it would be unfair to call them boring, with the plot being engaging enough for one to want to know what happens next, not a lot happens in those first few chapters to really hook the player. It's only when Asterion partially recovers that things start to get interesting.
• The Woobie: Dear god, this game could be called "The Desperately Needs A Hug Club" as nearly everyone could be considered this. A few notable examples include:
  • Asterion was framed for being a cannibal when he was tricked into eating beef by his sisters, which caused him to be thrown into the Labyrinth. He was so alone that when someone finally did come, he allowed him to kill him with no resistance. He was sent to the land of Hades for a precious short time before he became imprisoned in the hotel. Although he tried to fulfill the hotel's mission of being a home for those who are lost, he had to endure a string of masters who ranged from strict but fair to absolutely awful, most of them abused him. He then had to watch everyone and the hotel he cared for be shattered right in front of his eyes, before being locked into a cold storage room for over 60 years. There's a reason why most people treat him as well as they could in their first playthrough.
  • Storm was treated as a monster for most of his life, being abused by his family when he grew up. His home life became so bad, that he had to run away several times, but he ended up coming back because he wasn't able to find anyone who'd treat him like a person and give him a chance. P even thinks to himself that even Graciliano Ramos couldn't write a more tragic kid.

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