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

A game that is so well written and rendered. Pair that with the wonderfully chosen music and the game is amazing, and at times a real heart string tugger. With plenty of lewd options and paths to take it has amazing replay ability, should definitely be on everyone's list to try!

Honestly one of the best adult game I've ever played. It has pretty much everything a great game needs. The animations are great, undoubtably in the top 3 games I've played. The story might be too heavy for some people, but I personally enjoyed it very much. I highly recommand it !

I just finished Leap of Faith and I must say it was quite good, there were plenty of things to gripe about and it certainly could have been more concise of a story but it was overall very well done. The music choice was good, the writing was pretty natural and the renders were great. And yeah the emotional bits were usually really impactful and very few H games have made me tear up like this one did. Thats not to say it was perfect, the game takes it time and it goes on a bit too long honestly, some parts are a bit strange or contrived even by H game standards but thats usually fine. There were also a lot of strange plot threads that either didn't need to be included or should have only been included for certain girls' paths. Still all that in mind it reeled me in and I did enjoy it, I'm looking forward to whatever the author makes next and I hope he improves on this work.

Story: 9
Characters: 7.5
Emotional/Rational Character believability: 9
Style: 9
Renders: 9
Music: 9
Overall: 8.75/10

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Story:
Story is overall nice even if it requires suspension of disbelief(like all VN's do). The Final chapter does feel a bit rushed, but if it is viewed as an epilogue and not a chapter, than it's good.
Twists and turns feel natural in most cases, tho by the end there are to many coincidences and it does go into perfect fairytale land. Not that I mind, seeing how the game tackles serious real life issues, the lack of bleakness is welcome(Like the author says: This is just a game).

Characters:
The cast is varied, with lots of character types that end up working together. It is somewhat obvious that the "canon" choice is Cece, but overall beside her Lexi stands out as the only new love interest that is polished. Rekindling an old flame is an option too, if someone feels like it.
Their goals and choices make sense, there is an aspect of maturity to them.
Only reason why I give a lower score on characters is because the paths some characters require are not paths I personally would ever chose in life, and such, would never even try out in the game(I have read/watched all the endings).

Emotional/Rational Character believability:
As previously stated, characters feel realistic enough, have real life issues and their choices and issues make sense. How they react to events in the game also feels on point so it is rather easy to get into the game when characters have depth/sense of reality to them.

Style:
Choice of clothes, scenes and all vary and are done with nice detail.
Character proportions are in most cases fine and not absurd so the game doesn't go to crazy with that. The lewd scenes are done with taste, but I would've liked the game without them completely, which says a lot about this game. Overall everything is pleasant on the eyes.

Renders:
Render quality, characters and all are nice and varied.
Animation is solid, tho after playing "Broken Dreamers", I am somewhat spoiled animation wise, haha.

Music:
Heard there was a lot of drama regarding the OST, but overall the song choices and all elevate a lot of the scenes and characters, so it's more than fine.

Overall:
A great game with more than enough likable characters, depth, life lessons and emotional impact. A game that might make you look closer at people around you. That by itself is an amazing feat.

Replay Value:
On a personal level, it has decent replay value but there are paths that I morally don't see myself going in real life, hence I have no interest in trying them in the game.

Ah, this is where the rating system falls down. This game is above average. But some aspects are so frustrating that it becomes hard to rate it "good" as well.

It simply diverges focus too much and tries to soften the impact of some serious topics with rampant implausible scenarios and goofiness.

It would have been a much better game if it focused on maybe 3 love interests, got rid of the celebrity LI, and focused mainly on CeCe.

As it stands now, it sets up cookie cutter scenes with a ton of girls and if you vary your romance path, it just slightly modifies the cookie cutters scenes. Not worth it, avoid the cookie cutter. Just focus on a few girls and give them custom story and scenes.

I'd set aside a whole separate story for an implausible romance with a celebrity. There simply isn't enough set-up story for me to buy that MC treats the celeb as a "regular girl" and she's attracted to that.

The ex-girlfriend's reason for deserting the MC is imaginative but, piled up with all the other implausible scenarios, it just increases the cost of buy-in.

I don't mind the dev covering such serious subject matter. I also don't believe the story had to be completely dark and gritty, the tone can be light(er) if done well and it may even be a necessary thing. I don't believe it was done well with this game.

I don't mind the game not being harem. I think sometimes tough choices about who will be the ultimate LI is fine and can add some fun story drama. But this raw number of LI's dumped suddenly in the MC's lap - too implausible for the target "tone" and "realism" of this story.

If one turns off a good chunk of their brain and goes with one playthrough, it's a serviceable VN.

I have been in this website for over 5 years now and it is my first time reviewing anyting. I played countless vn's, eroges and etc. this was, hands down, best game I have ever played. It was so good that I thought it would be a shame if I didn't review it. Kudos to Drifty and I will be waiting for his next work with so much anticipation. Great work!

Loved it so much. What a powerful story. 9.5/10

I'm a pretty cold hearted person at times and was crying my eyes out like a bitch when IT happened.

Hope Drifty makes more like this, he's absolutely nailed it.

Edit: Somehow didn't write about the music even though it's still playing in my head now "Sundown to sunrise!" Top tier music, elevated everything for me. Perfect selection for the emotions needed.

Beautiful game. Everything about it was simply top notch imo.

The girls are beautiful and deep
Story is a simple 10/10
Humor is good
Most importantly, the characters felt genuine. Of course some of it would definitely not happen and is not realistic, but those elements were so minor that compared to usual, I barely even thought of them.

All in all, full marks.

For me that seems the best game here. Few are really good but that is among my top 5. Interesting story with some non-obvious turns, great MUSIC, lovely graphics. Actually worth support by all means. MUST PLAY!

A masterpiece with various endings to choose from. We all want a coffee
There are sad moments, sensitive moments, happy moments. A pretty good graphic quality in short, why haven't you played this game yet? You should have a coffee.

I really think any VN maker needs to look to "Leap of Faith" for inspiration. It gives you unique and realistic characters with history, personality, emotions, and growth. Most VN's really struggle in one or two of those departments, while this story nails all of it for each main character. The player character is likeable and charming, the best friend is a genuinely good and enjoyable guy, and all characters are really easy to fall for and empathize with. There are so many choices here, offering you a lot of freedom and replayability. The story is pretty straightforward but incredibly engaging and entertaining. My only issue with this VN is that the visuals could definitely stand to be better, as the quality was often inconsistent.

I don't know what to say 10/10 or 5 star at that. I really like the story I was hook up that I forgot to care about the sex scenes. Story really hits me. Still sex scenes were good. Nothing to say more except it was good. The best for me is the branching story because a lot could happen in the end.

Awesome game, really good production. Story is great, gives you some highs and really punches you in the gut with the lows. The characters are well written and each of them correspond to well written paths.

Review is of the completed game.

Ok, so I have been playing games here for 5 years now and this is the first time I've enjoied a game so much as to even take the time to find out how to leave a review.

This game imitates life!

There are no harem endings in life. You have to make tough choices. Sometimes the girl doesnt get the guy, and more often than not, someone gets hurt.

Life is both happy and sad, and its the emotional rollercoaster that makes life worth living. In the same way, the emotional roller coaster in this game is what makes it so absolutely cathartic!

Curiosity, laughter, arousal, doubt, shock, sorrow, joy, more laughter and more tears. This game delivers, and so does the soundtrack.

The story is very original unto itself. it is not a copy of a copy of that one other game as so many seem to be these days. The animations get better as the story progresses. The characters are fun and each has their own personality. The MC's best friend is a true friend and left me wishing my best friend didnt live six hours away!

For you grammar fiends, I did notice a couple of places where the word "then" was used when it actually should have been "than" (which was honestly a bit refreshing because usually its the other way around, than used in place of then) but thats all the grammar errors I caught, which actually impressed me.

Were there flaws in the game? Could it have had more content? Did it leave some loose ends? Yes to all of those, but so does life.

Life isn't perfect, it has flaws. Often in life we look back and wish that we had spent more time with this person or doing that thing, in effect, we wish our life had had more content. And life has tons of loose ends. the guy you randomly chatted with once at a work convention and never saw again... it might as well have been a park bench, right? What about the cute girl that you chatted with while waiting in line at an amusement park, could have just as easily been next to a news stand on a pier at sunset. The percieved flaws that others have pointed out don't neccessarily detract from the game, in my opinion they add to the realism.

If you just want something to fap to, you probably won't like this.

But if you want a well crafted adult narrative that will chew you up, spit you out and leave you wanting more. An adult visual novel that has good content down each path and may just break your heart. That will take you halfway down one path and then make you long for the girl you didn't choose to the point that you have to restart to play her path too, but then you get a little further and realize you have to start over again for a diffrent girl, until you finally stay up for three days straight to play every path sounds intriguing, and if feeling like you lived the story is what your looking for, then you will love Leap of Faith.

So, make sure you have your headphones on, and go ahead, take a Leap!



--A huge Shout out and Thank you to Englen for putting the Leap of Faith soundtrack on spotify!! Now we can all listen to these awesome songs any time! Just search spotify for "Leap of Faith Soundtrack"--

I was not prepared for Leap of Faith. I laughed, I cried, I got off, then I laughed and cried some more. I've played a lot of AVNs, and this is beyond a league of its own.

Technically, the renders were done well, and you can see that Drifty's skill increased as they created the game. In each chapter, the quality went up, and the use of animation became increasingly fluid. Drifty implemented the music score perfectly; it always added to the scene's emotion, and I never felt distracted by its use. So often, I mute music in games, but I found myself humming the game's music when I wasn't playing.

What makes this game, however, is how remarkable its story is. I'll admit that I often like the harem genre games because I'm terrible at choosing someone to focus on. This game forced me to focus, and while, at first, I felt disappointed that I couldn't do more, that notion was obliterated by the end. The relationships and the emotion expressed felt genuine, and being forced to choose did leave you feeling the heaviness of that decision in some follow-up scenes. But in my three playthroughs, seeing the story play out felt... right. I wasn't focused on being limited, but I was absorbed in seeing how the game would develop this time. The focused lens added to the depth in ways that I didn't expect.

If I could give it more stars, I would. I've added a fan sig to my account for this game, and it's the first. I can't recommend playing this enough.

This isn't a game, this is THE GAME with emotional rollercoaster from joy to sadness and back to joy, game has great story (unless is emotionless) and enough sex scenes to satisfy all (except those who just look fapping material) and plenty of story content.

Also game has high replay value since not everything can be seen on 1 play since all love interests have their own content,

Game has good graphics and music (at least on old music files) and sex scenes are well made as are non-sex scenes too.

Only major downside is that after this other adult games feel bit bland.

The story is amazing. The characters are well written that it draws you in and you get invested in their lives. The relationships MC builds are all really precious as well.

Eventually you will go on to pick a MG, but the great part about that is that the relationships with other MG is still well written.

I played this game within 3 days, absolutely loved it. It was a roller coaster of emotions and it ended really strong. The only bad thing is that I can't play it for the first time again. 11/10

Amazing VN. This one doesn't even need the porn to be worth playing. Great new script, unexplored story here on the 95, variety of LIs.., I could go on but you have to play it yourself. Trust me, you don't want to miss this one. And read the text, not worth playing if you don't, fap to something else.

The game started a bit slowly and to be honest it didnt really catch me at first since the first girls didnt really catch me (even if they where well written and setup as a char) but not really my type. So I forgot a it on the game I started once I saw a completed on it and remembered. Gave it another try and what can I say......I dont regret it.

It takes up a bit slower but the story and development of the chars in there is awesome. For me it is by far one of the best VN with a extremly difficult setup and storyline where you can make a lot wrong. It may not let you jump from Girl to Girl or has a lot of sexual intercourse on every corner but if you are looking for an adult game with a deep and intensive storyline, well created chars, nice dialoges and jokes and also (in my view) meaningfull thoughts one should sometimes think about, you have found it in this game here.

I big medall for the developer and I hope your stories will find their way in big blockbuster games as they could only benefit from such.

Absolute gem of a game, I'm so glad I discovered it once completed. Waiting for each release would've been torture.

You have plenty of girls to chose from, the game is filled with emotions, positive & negative ones. I've literally never cried so much playing an AVN before. The story is just that great, with multiple characters that all have their personality and quirks.

This isn't an overly sexual game. The story isn't built around sex, the sex is just part of the story, like it is part of life, which enhance the story in my opinion, because it makes for a more immersive story. The sex scenes are good, though, and there's enough for my taste.

Overall a very tasteful game, I've enjoyed every minute of it, and pretty much binged trough it, going to bed at 8am because I couldn't even feel tiredness, being so absorbed by the story. I'm gonna miss these characters for sure, which is a great testament to the writer's ability to bring them to life.

I raise my glass to Drifty, which, on top of being an excellent writer, seems to be an awesome dude. It was so great seeing all the 4th wall jokes, all the cameos from other games, and Drifty even inserting himself in the game in some ways. Leap of Faith is such a Journey. I envy you, you the reader that haven't played this game yet, that's looking at the reviews trying to figure out if he should try it out. I envy the journey you have ahead of you, should you try this game, which you definitely should.

Thank you, Drifty, for this Journey.