Alright, I will reply to the comments addressed to me already and then leave the discussion for somewhere else. I don't know if a possible LOF Hate's Club thread would be accepted by forum rules (or against any other game), most people are so touchy nowadays that you can never be sure.
The author is totally trying to manipulate you, making you think that if you prefer any other girl, then her ultimate demise would be on you because you are selfish. That somehow you HAVE the responsability to save a girl which doesn't want to be saved, and you have to screw your own life because of that. It's wrong, plain and simple.
Neither of those, in general I don't go out of my way just to offend other people, I prefer to express my opinion where it wouldn't, like I don't want others to go out of their way to offend me.
But in particular with a game like this, which was so popular for reasons I can't understand but I suspect it might be because it resonated with touchy people, I prefer to express my opinions elsewhere than stirring up the hornet's nest. I'm not an asshole so as I wouldn't go into an epilepsy forum to post epilepsy inducing images and videos, neither I want to go to the official thread to call their beloved game a nasty piece of work.
I totally agree, there are many completely over the top games but which are really fun. I can think of
Once in a life time and
Eternum by Caribdis as prime examples of this, both are harem hentai ported into the western AVN genre, but he got the fantasy parts right and the women throwing themselves at the protagonist also feel right inside the lore because it's not so blatant and unwarranted, so I'm not always against over the top stories and action.
But Leap of Faith is obviously trying to be based on reality, on the reality of a male Mary Sue seducing women left and right with totally unrealistic conversations. The rockstar first conversation was, and I'm not saying this lightly, the most unreal event I've ever seen in any fiction artwork. If you know ANYTHING about adult life, you know a story with dragons, elves and dwarves is more feasible than that.
I mean, I'm not sure I myself could write realistic women characters, but I do realise when they are realistic or not.
NOT "
random" women, as I literally said just
the particular subset of women which are female spies. I can tell the facts and name the names to prove this is the truth, as in the truth in real, actual life, not in fantastic stories by writers who know absolutely nothing about real life female spies (or male spies, for that matter, which are the male counterpart).
Let's do the club brother, I'm not sure if it's allowed by forum rules (to open a thread against a game, I just recently started reading here), but if it is, let's write the ultimate testament on how the game is everything wrong about AVNs.
I FORGOT ABOUT THE LESBIANS, damn, my mind would probably rather forget so it tried to protect me from this shitty story.
Those slutty lesbians which are just straight women waiting for MC's redemption, are the ultimate 12 years old boy image of how lesbians might be, without actually being in real life.
Being a DIK got this so much more realistically done, so it isn't just impossible to be portrayed.
I took for granted the game was close to 10 years old because it's so technically outdated compared to the other major Renpy+DAZ games. But no, it looks like it's recent
Much older games look so much better...
I can confirm, he would need to be incredibly heavy and strong to stop her from falling at that very last moment, even if she would just weigh 50 kg/110 lbs, because a free falling object quickly starts gaining linear momentum which makes it very difficult to stop. Gravity acceleration is very significant, even though many don't realise it because we are used to be attached to the floor, but speed and linear momentum when free falling increase very rapidly.
I ALSO HATE IT, and I pity the fool who thinks this is a great game, because it's just the opposite.
I couldn't believe how bad it was because the praise was general and immense, I thought it was just a very early game, or that the early part was rough around the edges but it would improve (like many other games), or that my dislike for the author trying to get you to love his favourite character was preventing me from enjoying other aspects of the game. BUT NO, the game is JUST BAD at everything.
I've never claimed to speak for everyone, but I do have experience with these things.
For me, the early scenes in
Being a DIK are a good example of a well done mix of story and dating simulator experience.
But one thing is being required to "win" in a dating simulator, and another one is looking at a totally unrealistic story in which women throw themselves at you for no reason.
I agree, when thinking about how to fix this game, removing the harem set up and giving the chance to just help Cece, without romancing her, would be the first to do.
It's definitely hard to realistically describe even the inner thoughts of the different characters, it's hard enough already to describe their external appearance, words and acts. You need to know them very well and also how to describe a realistic instance, because if you only know how they are, but don't know how to write a good situation, it will come up as forced or cheesy.