Oubli Elias

It took me four days straight to finish this game and I gotta say it was one of the most pleasurable experiences I'll ever have. Lucky Dog 1 begins with an intriguing plot that becomes more fleshed out as the game progresses, making the experience more immersive and compelling. The game cuts right to the chase and doesn't drag you around for hours until the story moves; rather the pace picks up as time goes on, and each route is like a hill that you gradually climb, adding to the experience. Lucky Dog 1 didn't have any cliched characterisation nor plot-points or to put it more accurately, every now and then, Lucky Dog 1 did play on clichéd troupes, but rather than adopting the same, bland and repetitive approach, the game added its own color and sculpted it, transforming the once-despised troupes into a whole new thing dubbed its own and adhering to its essence. I've never been so engrossed in a story, characters, or protagonist as I have been with this game. The characters have outstanding individuality and don't fall into archetypes you'd think they do at first; they felt 3-dimensional to such an incredible degree. They're also very relatable to western audiences, naturally amusing and lively yet serious when the circumstance demands it; you won't find such characterization in similar works based in the same setting, because they are all a swamp of infinite edgy atmosphere and characters. As for the romance, the relationships between the protagonists seemed meant to portray these men as partners connecting with one another through the trials and tribulations of life, —rather than guys beings gay for the sake of the target audience— their relationships eventually blossomed into an authentic love of mutual respect and brotherhood that only men can have; it was a refreshing kind of romance that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks to the writer being a man himself, Lucky Dog 1 didn't fall quite short in all aspects, even in the writing of its sex scenes, (which is unusual in a media dominated by writers of the opposing gender). The build-up was clean to say the least, the sex scenes felt like it had the proper balance of eroticism, comedy, and realness, and the scenes themselves were refreshing and hot, not excessively inaccurate nor chaste. One of ld1's subtle charms in my experience was the cast being all grownups who act the part, which I loved. Sum it up, Lucky Dog 1 is everything anyone could want, truly the greatest work of Mafia fiction. To say it is well-written is an understatement.