Steve Meretzky wrote this one, the legend who brought us "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "A Mind Forever Voyaging", two of the best Infocom games so I thought this was gonna be a stone-cold classic too, but I was really just disappointed. This game purported itself to be shocking and sexy but really it isn't nearly as lewd as people are lead to believe even with the max setting. The most you get is a couple of innuendo descriptors of your surroundings(like when you're riding on a horse it's described as "hard" and "thrusting"), and only two genuine sex scenes, which are really lacking in any sensual descriptions and where no orgasm is mentioned. It never actually says anything and it's so boring.

And the adventure itself isn't some kind of horny kink adventure where you're surrounded by sexy alien ladies in fetish gear who tie you up, but you're replete with genuine physical hazards and have to traverse environments such as jungles with carnivorous plants, deserts and arctic areas and castles and stuff. It's full of fantastical "leaps of logic" puzzles that I think got boring since "Trinity", and Leather Goddesses is basically just "Trinity" except it's pretending to be horny when it actually isn't, and lacking its interesting historical setting it's revolving around.

Special props that you actually get to choose your gender at the start. The only way I could stomach this adventure was to play as a woman character. Is it easy to die in this game? You bet.

Reviewed on Jun 20, 2022


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