VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Leap of Faith [Ch. 8 v1.0.3] [DriftyGames]

my favorite VN of all time. A deep and moving story worthy of a good movie, credible and in-depth characters (you will love most of them), excellent graphics, choices that matter. I really don't know how to describe more this masterpiece (but I still have to fill 200 characters and I don't know what to write).I can only compliment the developer.

Has a lot of VN compared to AVN but its a very nice story. Quality characters and good use of emotion. Visuals are top tier for games or this sort. No bugs or issues. Plenty of content for replays as well if you make saves at opportune points.

The biggest compliment I can give this game is that it made me want to go out and live a little. It's so easy to relate to what the MC was feeling at the start of the game, that sense of helplessness, the belief that nothing will ever improve... It's such a simple trap to fall into, yet so hard to escape.

I really loved this story, and it even inspired me to write my own. The characters are full of heart and attention to detail, making them easy to care about. Despite not having the best renders, the game makes up for it with its amazing themes, characters, and storytelling. With a perfect balance of comedy and drama, it's probably one of the best in the genre.

I believe more adult games like this should exist.

Review of [Ch. 8 v1.0.3]

I recently discovered this world of games for adults and I have to say that this was one of the first I played.

In my personal opinion a MASTERPIECE.

The game makes you laugh, it makes you enjoy the renders and the entire story, it even brings the odd tear to your eye. The whole history of CECE is amazing.

• The soundtrack and songs are great
• Incredible story with different paths and different ending
• All the characters have a lot of charisma and are very funny
• The protagonist and the co-star are funny and have charisma
• The renders and the sexual animations are very good
  
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  Cons​
  
  
• The animation are without moans or any sexual sound
  
  RATING :
  
  Content: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  Graphics: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  Renders: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  Characters: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  Animations: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  
  Final conclusion: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MASTERPIECE Hightly recommend to Play
  
  
  

This game is very, very close to VN perfection. An almost perfect balance of fun, lewd and feels with characters that almost all feel incredibly realistic (only really one big exception). And the incredible treatment of mental issues/anxiety and what they can lead to is.. unmatched and sadly clearly based on personal experience from the author. But it makes for an incredible story.

One of those games where you forget it's actually an AVN and you're playing it to have a wank.

Soundtrack is banging, genuinely the best I've ever seen in an adult game and up there with the best games overall. Just straight hits, and complements the moods incredibly well.

Phenomenal writing. Drifty is a god damn artist. You could take away the porn and this game would be every bit as compelling. First adult game I've shed a tear to. It's compelling, it's heartfelt, and it's just all around great.

Sex scenes are a bit on the weak side technically/visually. If you download this game + a gallery mod and just start going through the sex scenes in the gallery, you definitely won't be blown away. Don't play this for the porn.

Play this for the story. If you haven't, you're missing out. 10/10 and a permanent spot in my top 10 games on this site.

Damn this game (VN) is good.
The story is really captivating and i sense plenty of re-playability. It's a mature game, not full of juvenile shenanigans, MC is adult and ACTS adult. The lewd bits are not left right and center and mindlessly stupid. Bingeplayed my first playthrough so when writing this it's been some 16, 88 hours i lost track but it's a game i highly recommend to someone needing story and good writing.
NOT for those seeking garbage dumdum fapmaterial.

In my top 5, Together with Being a DIK, Summer's Gone, Desert Stalker and a few i need to think about. Will have to read this and probably make lots of changes after some proper sleep but...

Well worth the hours.

A really entertaining game with a well-crafted story. The art and music are good, but the real strength is the gut-wrenching, emotional rollercoaster of a plot. It’s a quality game that keeps you hooked. You come for the porn, but stay for the story.

This game was amazing. came for the porn, stayed for the deeply emotional story and amazing music. It was an emotional roller coaster and left me wanting more of the amazing characters. The gameplay was very in depth and intuitive. I have trouble thinking of a visual novel type game that tops this.

After finishing it I feel like I should give it 4 stars, but then I go back to how I felt during the first run (there wasn't really other ones, didn't make sense) and if an AVN can make feel like this one did, it deserves 5 stars from me.

If you search by weighted rating, this is the fifth highest rated game in here. If you do a weighted>male protagonsit>completed search (which is, in my opinion, a very broad but a very reasonable set of criteria) this is the second highest rated game on this website. I passed over it many times, waiting for the right mood to do it in one go, and finally did it. So i had a lot of expectations for this, and i probably set them too high. If i could i give it 3.5, but due to how well done writing is i will settle on 4. Could easily be 3 however. Now for why it is, there is quite a lot to unpack here.

How much you will enjoy this VN will come down to what are you looking for. If you are looking for a complex and interesting story, a deep exploration of characters, or a lot of sex scenes, this is not exactly it. But if you want a simple, but truly magnificently written story where author actually understand what he/she is talking about, that one here is a really solid read. It does help that the project feels deeply personal for the author too, which only enhances the experience.

The single best part of the entire experience is just sheer perfection of the writing (not the plot, i will get to it). By writing i mean quite a wide plethora of things, ranging from variety of the language used, a perfect balance of humorous and serious, belieavable and lovable characters, actually humanly written dialogues which so many AVN's struggle with, fantastic narrative pace and by all criteria an author could write a solid book just on the skillful prose alone. Reading Leap of Faith is a pleasant endeavor from beginning to end, like sitting in a chair with a good book, time kind of flies.

And i only wish this impeccable writing wasn't the singular column supporting this game, but i have to say the rest of it is very dissapointing. For one, there is no central narrative thread at all. By that i mean events do happen, they are consistent, but there is no story hook, story conflict or actually anything in the story, you just meet several people and get familiar with their circumstances, then one bad thing happen and it's kinda it. This is not helped by the fact that the game is clearly written around Cece first and everyone else second, nor by the fact that this VN dangerously borders on kinetic and only several choices actually matter, while 99% of them is flavor. Episodic format that pretty much focuses on a single LI for an episode is kind of an issue as well.

Now i separately want to touch on the elephant in the room, which is a pretty dark and real topic of what Cece is going through, and as a person that actually lost a friend many years ago to similar circumstances, i can tell that author understand the issue and handled it with considerable grace and respect. That said, i almost feel like this game would be better if Cece was the only LI in it, because of how much her circumstances are kinda shoved to the side for most of it and the entire mentality of the issue, her own thoughts on it and how it affect people around is only touched on a surface level, while deeper exploration on 1 to 1 level would serve narrative better.

What was a constant annoyance, however, is the mechanical side of the game. While at the start i appreciated the phone, chatting and Nuke things and they added to immersion and fun, the absolutely nonsensical times of where you need to do certain things (like download Lexi music) without any nudge from the game were a constantly present sword over my head and i was afraid to miss something, which just ended up annoying me. And while photos actually do have a function once in the game, entire phone thing was just completely gone for the entire second half. Addind insult to injury, while i skipped the text for my second and third playthrough i noticed skip doesn't stop for photo opportunities that last a singular line of dialogue so you kinda have to memorize where they are, as well as for chat and Nuke and anything around it.

Adult scenes are severely rare, but when they do happen they make sense, they are sensual and unique so game got that going for it. Most love interests look nice, but everything surrounding Steph is ludicrous nonsense and is the only bad stain on the narrative and i wish her story was literally anything else.

I understand where people come from when they praise this game, i really do, but despite the truly masterful writing and overall satisfying experience it's not even remotely close to a masterpiece as it is lacking in so many parts that half of it left me just kind of annoyed.

Just know what you are going into, that it's a sort of messy kinda plotless borderline kinetic VN with excellent prose that carries entire experience, and if you are into this you will absolutely enjoy it.

Emotional roller-coaster! I've played through the Cece path twice and all of the others just once mainly because I was curious about the endings.
There is only one other game that has pulled my heartstrings as much as this one however it is still in its infancy.
LoF is hands down one of the best, if not the best, stories I have read through in my 36 years of life. While there are lewd scenes and they are very well done, you quickly lose focus from that because of the writing.
The way the girls are written makes them feel alive, they'll make you feel things most VNs fall short of. If you play through this and find out you don't like it, then you are probably an emotionless serial killer and should definitely be flagged. What a beautiful story!

A very good game that I recommend playing with "In Game Walkthrough/Extra material" DLC. This DLC explains certain things from the developer's perspective and gives you a peek at how the game was developed.

Story is a bit far fetched, but it is in-game referenced as "the summer when everything went great", so at least it is acknowledged.
There were a moments which really got to me, though I have to say at some points I was counting the minutes when this game will end.

Your choices don't really change the story, only basically which girl you end up with. This is understandable because of the branching problem, yet still it disappoints you that when you try a different route, nothing really changes much.

Overall I am glad that I played this, but I do not think I shall be replaying this.

This game hit me hard in the feels. Full on tears down my face. Honestly, I wasnt prepared for the emotional impact. I'm not the most emotional guy, and this left me shaken and emotionally wounded. I could only play it once with Cece. How could I love any of the others like I ended up loving her after this? Whatever I was expecting, it wasnt this. Bravo, and damn...

Fantastic character driven story telling, reasonably realistic, not really a fapping game. TBH game would probably have been better as some kind of movie. Clearly written with a specific path in mind but that path is exquisite. Developer really knows how to get you in the feels and expertly merges song choice and style to really bring out the highs and the lows of the story.

I confess I need to finish this one, but from what I played it's been great. I'm not much of a fan of branching paths, but this doesn't really take away from the experience for me, so that's a plus. From what I played, I can easily recommend.

Talk about a deep game. Thank you Drifty Games. I found this game at the right time and place. As someone who has experienced loss of what CeCe demonstrated, a few months back, I would not have have wanted to play this game Hell in that mind frame I would have given this game a negative review because of the theme and not actually played it through.
The animations and graphics with the characters on my 4k tablet were amazing and I was looking for what the flaws were in the community notes and Developer insights in the game with the DLCs of course gave this game more depth and made the hurt even more realistic.
As far as needing editors there is a saying "too many chefs in kitchen will ruin the dish". There were some flaws here and there but who cares. This one got me from chapter 1 all the way to the ending. Amazing VN game.
The last time I had feels like this playing a VN game was the game Melody.
I will be looking for game on Steam to purchase it.
Again amazing VN game overall. This story got to me.

To all the people thinking about Suicide look to your friends and family for strength. You are all loved.

We are all perfectly imperfect.

TLDR:
One of the best animated AVNs of all time, the story is deep and will hit you in the feels...
That being said, it is an incredibly frustrating game to play depending on which girl you focus on. First Two chapters are engaging as hell and some of the best you will find out there in AVNs, but steadily becomes more and more frustrating from there...

Explanation, with minor spoilers
I feel like this game needed a good editor to go over it at the end and help with a re-release of the finished product. Im currently in the last chapter and as it currently stands, Im finishing it because Im a completionist, not because Im enjoying it anymore.

This is not a Harem game, and that's fine, however each chapter only focuses on one or two of the girls, so if you are not on that girls path - expect to spend a tonne of time endlessly feeling friendzoned with no romantic content because the story is following someone you are not acively pursuing. By chapter 3 I had gone back to the beginning and created a save file for each path with every girl, then when it became clear who was the focus of that chapter - I play that person's storyline save. When that chapter is finished I go back and play the other romantic options, there are normally only around 2 per chapter. then load all the other saves and hit skip. This format does remove some of the satisfaction from the game, leaving it feeling more like a series of interconnected short stories than an actual AVN with one long plot line. A great deal of the game feels like unfinished threads - What's the deal with dad and the sister? Why is it in the game? What about the nemesis character that then pointlessly about faces? The teacher? The woman at the cigeratte stand? Is there a standalone path for Holly or not? If there is, god knows how you unlock it... Robin and Kira left me feeling less like we were a thruple and more like I was a third wheel to their couple and yet their stand alone paths make you feel like a home wrecker to an indifferent couple that don't know what love actually means and were never meant to be together to start with. On the flip side, Linda is a magnificent character and her storyline is 100% worth pursuing. Cece is soul crushing in the best way that can be written and believable in every way imaginable. I never felt any attraction to Lexi at all but her character is well written and engaging even though the premise feels a bit ridiculous. The Stephanie story is equal parts frustrating and great - I hate her being the EX because I just don't believe in giving those people second chances to crush you again, and I feel that following the story of her actually revealing her truths while you were together would have been an amazing story to follow, so it sucks to instead play the aftermath. But if you read through all of that you'll see that while 3 characters have fantastic stories, the majority will leave you feeling kind of empty, and the majority of the game will sideline you with characters who are not the focus of that chapter...

A challenging game to fairly quantify in the end.

One of the best VN you can play
Be aware though its a serious VN with mature story and its a VN you play for the story and not for the sex scenes.
The MC is quite good and the LIs are all unique with their own characteristics.
Though in my opinion the only true Path is Cece and i believe she is the Main Li and the other lis are optional alternative paths.
Moreover i have to add that this VN was the first VN who made me cry on a particular scene (no spoilers) ...
and i rarely cry....
Overall i enjoyed it a lot and i highly recommend it.
5/5 stars.

Listen, I came here to get my rocks off same as everyone else. I enjoyed the story so much that I simply forgot to do that bit. This is a romance game first and foremost and it's the best in the genre.

There's not loads of sexual content in this game. With a bit of reworking , removal of the nude scenes and slightly less obvious sexual innuendo this could pass a game from a major studio.

The girls are all stunning but the writing of them is the crown jewel of this game. Cece is the obvious standout here but all of the girls are written really well.

Special shout out to the soundtrack which is easily the best of any AVN I've played. The emotional moments are heightened tenfold by the excellent music.

The game will probably run you a good 12 hours, but on subsequent playthroughs skipping some dialogue I have finished it in around 3 hours.

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