So I finally did it. Completed a second playthrough. As I said before I really fucked up going with Cece on my first playthrough and I wasn't emotionally prepared to try any other route. I'm not gonna lie. It was hard. I went with Linda because I wanted her to have a happy ending, but that is something I did for her, not me, and if there is a lesson that the game is trying to teach you it is that you can't do that. You have to do what is right for you, and seeing Cece take that bus out of town made me realize that all too well.
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Even so, I don't regret it. Linda isn't the one with the rabid following here on the board but she deserves happiness. They all do really, but her story was the one that affected me the most. It is not an insubstantial factor to consider that I think that this is the result that Cece wanted the most. Maybe even more than her own happy ending. Even in the Cece run, I made sure to hook Linda up with Chris. I wasn't going to allow for her to not find happiness, so it was a gift to explore it with her. It was satisfying, but it didn't feel right. I think that it will be quite some time before I try the other routes. I need to sit with this one for a while.
However, playing through to the ending did make me stoked to play U4ia. Either it wasn't there the last time I played or I didn't have the patience to wait until the end of the credits. Either way, I think that I will dip into that before I think of revisiting Leap of Faith. I'm just not ready for that yet. That's what this time around taught me.