I have appreciated many games of Lesson of Passion but previous titles of Serena storyline failed to impress me particularly.
Well, this one instead has and it was a sort of answer to my worries about a certain loss of hedge in one of the best providers of erotic flash games.
I have infact vouched for the abandon or better the loosening of the grind aspect that characterized some other games of series: collect the right amount of money, charm, social skill was infact ending out to be excessive as time go by.
They tries to abandon such aspect in several other games before but until now they have, in my own opinion, failed to reach the desired result.
In this case such aspect was about completely abandoned and all focus instead about choices, so we have here full developed characters not needing to be further improved before going into action.
This is good start but led me to one of the biggest disappointment in such franchise with game Living with Temptation 2, not because of lack of good sex scenes or situations but a.t.c. because it was still focused on just a sole character(and the least interesting one may I add) and his own pretty squabble with the cousin, while a lot of interesting thing happen in the background and you have just a hint of this happening.
Here there is the instead the final and NECESSARY change to make the thing REALLY work: no main character anymore.
Shocking , eh?
Compared to the usual standard of erotic games it's a revolution.
You play now in the P.O.W. of the director of a play (an erotic comedy of the genre that here we call Boccacesco and the French pochade instead) but without the control of the final outcome that was to be determined by the choice you instead take taking the place of the different individual actors as things goes by.
And it work extremely well, with some limitation as there is still a main storyline (and so still a sort of main character) that appear fully developed while the possible alternative path are instead sort of interrupted in the middle.
Still it recreates excellently the atmosphere that made pochades so damn funny, with a lot of persons, each one with her own agenda (or several of them in the main moment, in this case Jade being the most notable) to pursue on the same stage and new situations springing forth every time one meet other.
And resolves also the strange phenomenon of the players begin thinking of being the main character itself and becoming so jealous of their own waifu.
A special mention to Bianca, another one to add to the vast collection of the HELLA smoking hot looking characters Lessons of Passion has pampered us through the years.
