OK I know it's awfully early to say this, but I think I'm going to have to kill this off.
I've played a lot of bad visual novels in my time, but Fading Hearts takes the cake in every aspect. The art is questionable, the music is either droll or absent, and the story makes me sick to my stomach. This is a game which I have been making explicit efforts to avoid playing, doing anything and everything that comes to mind in order to do anything other than this. It is causing me genuine anger and frustration - not even comical annoyance like in House or the lighter parts of Cafe 0, but actual genuine 'the world is a worse place for this game existing' anger. In short I'm just not having FUN with this LP, and even if people are enjoying it I don't want to put myself through such an ordeal every time I want to crack out an update.
I got this feeling in the final update of Cafe 0 and the last quarter of MGitP. I only finished those two LPs because I was so close to the end I felt I should finish the job; when I've got ten endings of this thing ahead of me and pretty much the entire game left to go, I have absolutely no desire to keep going.
Apologies to people who've been hoping for more of this. I am already forcing myself to keep going, and it's really going to show in what I produce. No-one wants that, so I figured ending it now before things got horrible would be for the best.
tl;dr fuck this game, worst $15 I've ever spent