Love at Elevation

The good thing about this game was that each datable character had an interesting and distinct personality. The main issue was that the conflict was forced and didn't make sense. E.g.: [list] [*]"you feel like you should have intervened with in these arguing homeless people" no, I really don't. [*]"you should have stopped to help this woman" no, I shouldn't have. The police were already dealing with her. [*]"you feel it's premature to meet Ray's friends" why would that be premature? It's not intimate at all. [*]"it says something about you that you 'let yourself be chatted up' while on a date" except that me and Kaysha literally just had a completely casual, platonic, very brief conversation and didn't even exchange contact info. [/list] There was a lot of unnecessary conflict over meeting Kaysha in general, bringing her up over and over, despite that I expressed no interest in her and she clearly wasn't a threat to my relationship with Ray. The author forced my character to not like Ray's friends, despite that they were perfectly fine (the options when he asked me about them were either pretend to like them or confess that I don't like them). The author forced my ch…

I really wanted to like Love at Elevation. I adore many of the other games by Choice of Games, however this one just irked me and I felt as though I had to push myself to keep going at times. This is the first game from them that feels tedious. Frustrating. Just... couldn't finish it. This game appeals to a certain person, and I personally am not that person, but aside from that, it just irks me. I use irk as to be my feeling towards the very descriptive nature of the story. I feel like I am having Boulder, Colorado etched into the very fibers of my mind and memory, street by street. Athlete by coffee hippie. I get the way the book is trying to set everything up and really the overall basis of trying to find yourself after getting away from a toxic ex is appealing. To engulf yourself into your new surroundings - but there is an overly hippie vibe that gets thrust upon you even when you don't want to be that type of person entirely. Thus the story and the vibe begin to break down. It feels forced. I would recommend trying a different game by Choice of Games and Hosted Games - this just... really isn't worth the price and really worth your frustration.

I'm sorry to say that I couldn't enjoy this book. It did not offer enough different options for choices and even when it did, many times it didn't respect them. In stead of asking the reader "what do you think of X", it just assumed I was crazy about them, just because I was nice to them that one time and maybe wanted to have a good time. The book cannot just tell me how I feel about somebody, it doesn't work that way. The sex scene that I tried my hardest to get out of as fast as possible was described as the most romantic and passionate experience in my life. The writing was good, pleasant to read hadn't it been a choice game book.

Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 240: ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ (3/10) All right. We’ve had too much positivity. So congrats to [i]Love at Elevation[/i] for being my least favorite IF I’ve ever read by a landslide! You know, I’ve never felt skeeved or annoyed when reading in a video game, especially an IF romance. But there’s always a first time for everything! [i]Love at Elevation[/i] isn’t offensively bad (or maybe it is?), but it’s definitely not good. Usually, I can say “this isn’t for me,” but this isn’t for anyone. It feels like a visual novel that wanted to explore grounded realistic, adult romance, but ended up feeling like a weird blend of wellness retreat propaganda, awkward character writing, and sex-first relationships that never emotionally clicked. I wasn’t offended. I wasn’t charmed. I was just vaguely confused, mildly uncomfortable, and deeply uninvested. This game wants you to care about its characters, but it gives you so few reasons to. I also found the author’s tone to be incredibly jarring in its criticisms of the player. [b][h2]Pros:[/h2][/b] ✅ Technically sound writing. Grammar, punctuation, formatting is all clean. The prose itself isn’t ter…

This was a decently well written story with interesting characters and plot development. First off, my only complaint is that I often found the story seemed to be... insulting me? And I ran into a few errors in context that seemed like they were written entirely for women, but crossed into the male play through as well. Overall, I did find the story quite enjoyable though. It actually allows you to get a decent and realistic sense of how relationships tend to workout. The realism is certainly worthwhile, and it never quite lets the author force a narrative on you. I think in the end, I would give this title an 8/10.

Hmmm strange that I missed reviewing this one, or did I? Anyway, this is a fairly decent story, that comes from a perspective that alot of people may not be familiar with (or interested in tbh) which as you can see probably accounts for most of the negative reviews given. That said I still remember reading this one several years later, and still remember the LIs and the plot points that swirled around them. While none of the LIs were my cup of tea at all, they are none the less very well fleshed out and will stick in your head for some time after reading the story. Not the best offering out there, but still worth a read imho.