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

A brilliant storytelling drama full of great characters you grow to love!

Pros

• Excellent renders
• Brilliant writing
• Brilliant storytelling
• Excellent cast of characters with unique personalities
• Excellent character development
• Character models have realistic body proportions (rare)
• Good animations
• Good sex scenes (overall)
• Good humor
• Very emotional game
• Branching story where most choices matter
• Lots of content

Cons

• Low amount of lewd/sex content. I really felt like there should have been twice as much. Story is the emphasis here and adult content is an afterthought.
• Sex scenes lack foreplay
• I'm not a fan of the faces of half of the female character models in the game. Either the author and I have very different tastes or the author was attempting to be very realistic here. I greatly prefer fantasy here with attractive and hot females. They don't all have to be supermodels with F cup breasts like I see in so many other games but I thought that too many of the females in the game were average looking. Based on other reviews that I've read, this is a common complaint with the game.
• The author tries to make the player fall in love with all the LIs in the game. This is a testament to the brilliant writing but it is also hard to swallow. You have to choose who you want to end up with and the author makes it a really difficult choice (painful even). It is like you have six different girlfriends and you are forced to break up with five of them all at the same time.
• Too many events in the game are hidden and easily missed!
• Not enough wardrobe changes with characters in the game. In fact Cece (even after going shopping with the MC and returning home with lots of new outfits from Lexi) wears the same outfit through 90% of the game.
• Some story issues (see below)

Story issues

Early in the game the MC says he was laid off from his job in the sewers and then later on with Lexi, he tells her that he was fired. Being laid off and being fired are NOT the same thing. Sure, you lose your job either way but being fired is generally caused by doing something wrong. The MC was working long hours, working hard, and doing jobs that others didn't want to do, so saying he was fired is inconsistent with the story!

The whole cereal box ring story has multiple problems. First, Linda says that she had the ring on as a pussy ring/piercing and says she didn't have it anymore after going on a date with Matt and getting drunk, implying that he may have taken advantage of her or raped her. Later on in the story, there is a cutscene of Linda throwing the ring in an outdoor trash can after she sees the MC kissing another girl (Steph I believe). Further on, Matt says that he found the cereal box ring on the bathroom floor and claims he was a gentleman with Linda. None of this gets resolved! The group makes peace with Matt and they later become friends but that is it.

Lexi has red hair on the tarmac with her private jet and after she boards the plane a few minutes later she has her pop star signature hair.

Some choices are used improperly. They are used to separate dialog instead of being actual choices. For example, the MC gets an option to 'Join them in the water' when Cece and Linda go skinny dipping in the lake. The dialog then says something along the lines of 'sorry, you can't do that, you are in a relationship with someone else and they wouldn't appreciate it'. The choice is basically not a choice. The author does this several times throughout the game and it is highly annoying!

The author will also throw up a single choice sometimes to click on when there is only one which is kind of pointless. It isn't a matter of there being only one choice due to decisions you've made in the past, there is literally only one choice no matter what. Just continue the story dev and stop asking for unnecessary clicks!

The truth or dare game is weak and pathetic! This could have really been a good event but the dev chose to keep it non-adult. There could have been a lot of sexy dares to really spice things up! Instead, we get a butt identification contest which is poorly executed. The room is so dark that it is impossible to tell one butt from another! Sure, the RGB lighting is cool but it isn't functional in the contest (still too dark). I was disappointed and feel that this was a missed opportunity! The butt contest just functions as a plot piece for lots of jokes later in the game.

The story with the MC's father was extremely weak. His father was basically a plot piece so the MC could meet his sister. The father invites the MC over why exactly??? He tells him a bit about his past life and that is about it. He doesn't answer why he left them. He doesn't tell the MC that he wants to be a part of his life. He spends maybe 15 minutes with him. He basically just says, "Hi, here are a few things I've been up to in the past, goodbye!" No resolution to anything at all, pointless really.

I wish the developer didn't intentionally try to hide events to try and force multiple playthroughs. I didn't use a walkthrough and missed a number of events in the game. After looking through the code (after finishing the game), it is very easy to miss many of them. I frown on games that require a walkthrough and this game comes darn close.

Lewd/sex scenes

Overall, the sex scenes in the game are good but there are several disappointments. First, there are far too few of them, even when they clearly make sense. It is like the author is intentionally avoiding them.

There is almost no foreplay to sex. There is usually a kiss and/or hug but then it almost always goes straight to fucking. I was hoping for more foreplay such as eating pussy, 69, breast play, blow jobs, etc. The same pattern keeps repeating itself (kissing -> fucking).

The animations are well done, smooth with good framerate, and most are excellent.

I was hoping that I could have a mini-harem with Lexi and Holly but the developer is hell bent on not allowing that to happen. You get one threesome scene and then both Lexi and Holly regret it afterwards.

Final Thoughts

The game is a brilliant and emotional drama! It is highly polished and very well executed!

I enjoyed my playthrough of this game! The game is very story driven but I wish there was a stronger emphasis on the lewd/sex/adult content.

I highly recommend this game and encourage others to give it a try!

My review of Leap Of Faith [Ch.7]

A game with pretty good graphics, sound, and decent writing.
Unfortunately the story is pretty poor.

Story (P1)
MC is basically depressed because his ex-girlfriend left him 2 years ago and he isn't really going out anymore.
But all this changes once his comic-relief friend decides to drag him out to cafes and clubs to pick up girls.
One week (of partying and helping out girls with mostly minor problems) later you already have a harem of 6 girls that want nothing more than be in a relationship with you.
- 2 of them already live with you and sleep with you in your bed.
- 1 is your ex-girlfriend.
- 1 is an ultra-rich superstar that invites your whole harem (which includes her) to party at her villa.
So far so boring - no main story in sight.

Choices
The game has lots of choices but they only affect dialogue and what scenes you see a little bit.
The one big choice is choosing the girl you want to have a relationship with (which makes all other girls constantly sad and cry about not being chosen + locks you out from all other routes).

Story (P2)
After that the story picks up a bit though and some more interesting things, instead of non-stop partying, happen.
Unfortunately shortly after something really bad happens to the "main girl" - rendering all the choices you've made so far completely meaningless, because the "main story" (which is all about the "main girl") is 100% linear.
After that I still kept playing for an hour or so, but the story was boring again, and knowing my choices don't really matter I stopped playing.

I don't really review games and this is my first review, but "Leap of Faith " is the only one on this site that has made me feel guilty for not doing so.

The writing of this game is straight up brilliant and the story is very emotional and touches some very hard subjects. I have to admit I don't usually get emotionally wrecked by games or movies but this game managed to do it. The characters feel like real people and you start to actually care for them and almost forget that you are playing a VN. The music is also superbly used to complement the atmosphere and story. If I could, I would rate it higher than 5 stars I feel like this game is just on an another level in storytelling. English is not my main language so I feel like im at an loss of words and my words cant do this game justice.

If I just had to nitpick and give criticism, some of the animation work can be pretty basic. Also personally I found only one of the characters romantically attractive (If you've played the game, I think it's obvious who she is) so on that front there was no hard choices for me.

TLDR: In my opinion the best VN on this site and if I had to recommend only one game on this site it would be this one, do yourself a favor and just download it. If you are at all into good stories and not a quick fap I guarantee you wont regret it.

WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF! WTF!!!!!!!!!

Are you, @DriftyGames trying to break me? To mess me up?
To forget that I found this game at F95? To forget that I'm playing an erotic game?

Well, consider it a success.
Consider your game not just an erotic game, but an outstanding piece of art.
At least that's what I consider it.

It might sound banal, but the way the text and images compliments each other in this game is brilliant. Together with the fantastic writing itself, this game has really touched me. In particular the latest episode (chapter 7) which I won't spoil. I'll just say that there's a scene where a character talks about the value friendships among hardships and shared burdens, and then some unexpected friendly gestures.

I love games that makes me feel things. Sometimes I feel like I've hardened, like I don't even respond with human empathy to all the shit that happens in the world. Then it's very nice to get this reassurance that I do still have it in me. Though Idk if any other games on this side have had this effect on me at all. Not many games in all of games have had this effect on me. Thanks.

I don't remember if I'm already supporting the creator on Patreon, but if I'm not, then I will.

Well it would be a great game but the only attractive girl there is the MC's sister (and one standing in a queue in one scene). So it doesn't matter that the game has really good graphic, interesting and realistic plot and quite many choices. What matters is that I'm not really attracted to any of the 6 girls you can choose from. So little but so much for a game to be great.
You may think that my taste is peculiar but actually I asked my wife and she agreed with me that none of the main female character is really pretty, they are all average. And it's not like the developer cannot create a beautiful girl but it seems that his or her taste is quite different than mine.

Just excellent. Fair warning about the dark themes in the game. Maybe not recommandable if you´re going through tough times. But made me smile a couple of times as well so if you´re able to distance yourself absolutely go for it

This may be the best VN I have played so far and its not only for the great characters or well animated scenes.


Mild Spoilers ahead:
For the first 6 chapters I was already thinking of new playthroughs to explore all options with the other girls and really liked the story and all. But the end of Ch6 and most of Ch7 hit me unexpectedly hard and I am not sure I want to do this again. The content warning before that is no joke.
I did not expect that from an adult VN. Great job.

I have been a member of F95 for awhile now and played through quite a bit of games. This game is 2nd that I also patreoned pretty much right after playing it through for first time and also after now finishing ep 7 I felt like this would be a good time for me to actually write a review for the first time in this site.

For fapping material it definately is more on the vanilla side of things. Saying anything more would spoil the story so i'm gonna keep the rest for you to experience.

But, now that I mentioned experience. The story - out of all the games that I have played, is by far the most touching and deep. I never ever would have imagined to feel these deep feelings for a adult VN game. I really rarely get these feelings out of movies, books, or "actual" games that have been made by huge studios with professional story writing. Game starts out as a good seeing adult VN side of things, but before I even noticed I felt so deep inside it that I just wanted to keep playing just to see the story.

In that sense I find it hard to write this review. Its the first AVN game that eventually I feel more like playing for the story itself instead of the sexual content and it makes me mixed feelings. I'm not saying that the sex is bad or anything. Its more like a side fact of the story that people also have sex.

But for the experience. Again. For me it was a whole rollercoaster of feelings and that is the reason you would want to play this game. If you are one of those people who skip through dialogue to get to intercourse there are plenty more better games to explore. But yet, again, for the story side its definatively best experience I have had in a long time in any material even beyond AVN:s. And if that sounds like your deal then please do play it. And please do support this project.

So okay, story is 5/5. 10/5 if you compare it to only AVN:s. The charcaters feel real once you get inside their stories and... okay fine i'll stop upping that part.

So the downsides ?

Animations are a bit cheesy at points. Absolutely far on the better side what comes to renpys, but considering the quality of writing and characaters is so high up i'd say its not on the same level and for that reason it stands out at times.

I'm personally not a fan of oversized boobs. But that's just me. Luckily my personal romance in game isn't all that "blown out".

And yeah. For fapping material I'd personally like more kinky stuff. But then again I can find games for that need. For this game I'll keep coming back for the story and buildups.

Thank you yet again for this experience and while I can't wait for the story to come to finish, at same time I also wish it would just keep on going.

Thank you. Excellent work and cant wait for what future brings!

Very nice story, great renders.
It started quite plain, with lots of porn-games-stereotips but progress amazinly, witha very deeep and touching story.
Not a big fan of the love interests branching, but it keep the story more "real".

I rarely give 5 stars to games in here but this deserves it.

The writing is outstanding and it Is, together with the story, the core of this game and the main reason for its greatness. What's even more suprising is that the author managed it without writing isn't in form of loong blocks of text, but it's separated into smaller chunks of few shorter sentences.

The Story... Well, I won't say much, experience it yourself. Something moved inside me, it's nothing short then great and touching. I'd like to say much more but don't want to spoil anything...

I for once find Cece very interesting, even beautiful. The other characters Are good too but not that interesting but you deffinitely connect with them throughout the Story.

Renders And the animations Are fantastic.

Easily Top three of all the games in here.

My respect sir, you made a wonderfull Story.



I think She would be proud.

Very mature writing. Excellent 1st attempt, but I feel Drifty would really made sure to nail this story as it was one of the last things that was asked by his daughter.
Although Cece was not as beautiful as compared to the other Li’s in other games or even Lexi and Steph from this game (though my favorite Lexi is from Intertwined), from the first time she was introduced, she really captured your attention. Either by wanting to find out why she looked troubled, wanting to protect her or falling for her.

Though I felt that ch4 should have been a bigger update as it was rather disjointed as it was dependent on which LI did the MC choose. I also didn’t really like the prom thing. But I guess it was a way for Cece to make sure that everyone is ok now and to say her goodbyes without really letting on what she was planning on doing.

I loved the date with Lexi in ch5. I’m a sucker for romantic dates (that’s why I chose Jill in BADIK, went with Bella for Summer’s Gone and Lexi for both here and Intertwined)
But end of ch6 and ch7 was really handled well. Like what one commented on the Youtube trailer for ch6, “At this point you might as well just let her”, but it was really her plan to jump, she never changed her mind about it. She just postponed it as she wanted to help you out and the other characters. And I really felt the pain when the MC was trying to hold her hand at the hospital bed and Cece moved her hand away not wanting to be touched by the MC as she was trying to get rid of him.

All in all, this was a very good VN with excellent writing. Excellent soundtrack and the jokes were landing for me. Also has very good animation and the animation/script was going for the lyrics of the songs. I highly recommend this game.

Must be one of the best story driven game i've ever gotten my hands on!
you will cry, you will smile...and you will want more! 10/10 no doubt!

To the dev:

You are doing an amazing job of writing and doing everything!
you keep me in the story and rly wanna read and follow everything!
and the game is more then enough to make a grown ass man to cry...just, fantastic game and the music is perfect aswell! hope you will finish this and make it along one!

Thank you!

One of the best, if not the best game here. You can tell the author is invested in this story, and sadly knows about a topic in the game too well. And the only game that ever made me feel anything.
Also the game gets better with every update.

This VN is so good that I cannot finish it. While that may sound odd, my next paragraph will have spoilers explaining why. In short, bloody well done on the characters and soundtrack. I am definitely putting this VN on my wall of greats.

I don't have much to say about this game. Besides it is the most recent addition to my "S Tier" games.
Although the renders are fantastic, the sex scenes leave much to be desired, definitely the weak point of the game.
It shouldn't bother you, though. At least it didn't bother me. This game is not about sex after all and you shouldn't start playing expecting that, or it may break you. If you're playing it, you'll play for the story, which is pretty fantastic.
All of the characters, the conflicts, they are just way, way, above average. Some really emotional moments, some tense ones. Some moments you just feel the joy of it. Drifty made a really great job on this game and you should try it.
(v0.6.1c)

Truly a Masterpiece. Very Special. The Story is told extremely well, the dialogues are amazing, and so is the relationship building as well as the characters in general. The art is superb, the animations are great, MC is charming and very well realized and what else is even to say. Truly Amazing experience, and only gets Better ♥

I dont write reviews, very rarly.

Everything you read from now on is my personal opinion, and are not ment to harm anyone, nor target anyone specific.

I was just sitting like any normal regular day, shifting trough the net, im down, lost, hurt. im not normal.
I look for very spesific rich story telling, and oh boy, I had no idea what i was walking into. There I was pressing download like any other game.
So you realize i have not seen this game before a few days ago, so took me some time to get to the end. I did not handle Melissa very well, its the other only real game that i can relate to this one that had me so strongly emotional feelings comming out. )had to leave game to wash face from tears) Thank god the dev's had the human decenty to warn before hand, I was litterly sitting in 2 min preparing having flashbacks, and decieded to go forth with what ever would come. Thank you so much for the care and consideration.

The story is so well written, had me laughing out laud for real, and making me want to play again to try diffrent outcomes. I have no clue how a person can come up with a story like this, but what a gift. you sir, are amazing.! still sitting with tears haha, trying to process it, it will take some time, but I made the choice, a choice the dev's made possible.

I think this game is a GEM.
For the rest of you out there, you are not alone, be strong. and for the game, be prepared for strong emotions

I absolutely love this game! So far this is the most enjoyable visual novel I have ever played! The music, the dialogue, the grammar, and the characters are all amazing! Currently struggling financially (Covid) but once I'm back in the black I'll be visiting your Patreon to make a donation.
P.S. I played through the previous update four times. I also enjoy playing the soundtrack through my stereo system. All my friends enjoy it as well.

Fuck.

Just on another level, It pretty much broke me. The best story out there, certainly not for everyone though, please take the warnings seriously guys.

If you are on the fence, I would definitely wait for the next episode before playing, because episode 6 is rough in the best of ways.

Drifty, you really did write one hell of a story.

the mighty effect of music...that's what catapults this game to the top of even the best games on here...
an emotional masterpiece!
If you are up for this kind of ride, give it a go; this game will suck you in and won't let you go again....ever!