VN - Ren'Py - Completed - A Promise Best Left Unkept [Bonus S2 Ep 9-11] [Hangover Cat]

Just a 3 star for me.
1 base star, 1 for superb art/animation (though some are inconsistent, especially in some ending branch's scene) and 1 for great/immersible story(though only first half or decision part if you called)

2 stars are deducted for mainly 2 reasons, sh-tty endings and half hearted NTR.
Harry(MC) is such a typical NTR MC(loser, pushover, ignorant or whatever you'd call) yet the majority of endings are good end(For MC) which is kinda weird since this story are revolving around NTR stuff.
Luca(The dude in the cover) are supposed to be the main antagonist, to steal the girl from MC. Yest the majority of ending are with him failed (utterly) to do so despite how ignorant (loser in my vocabulary) the MC is to the whole situation
Fun fact_1: Luca died 3 times (seriously? What's wrong with those ending?)
Fun fact _2: If you're playing Luca(which i believe most people do), don't involve Aya in any story, ignore her as much as possible. She might appear in the cover but there's no ending where she ended with Luca. In fact, you can't win against her. Honestly, change Aya to Laura's mom would be more reasonable with 1 ending with her(and her daughter)

Me personally would recommend to enjoy only first half of the story (before the last choice, understand Laura or not) and go for a specific ending. I'd recommend normal ending (except Aya's), hero fallen ending and normal abrupt ending. Unless you're playing Harry's perspective (with annoyed me)

At the start of the game, I was thinking that if Laura willingly gets with Luca, it would be a straight up plot hole. He is a walking red flag, and she's not the typically barely sentient netorare (f)mc. Harry definitely is, though, which is a bit unfortunate. He rarely says or does anything that a regular human would.

The first fight makes absolutely no sense. I get that they're all tipsy, but it almost made me quit. Aya kissing Harry, Laura storming out before hearing what's going on (with a cliche "you did it even though I love you!" line that was hard to read) into an even more cliche "w-wait, it's just a misunderstanding!" instead of immediately telling her that she forced herself on him. Truly painful.

The usb plot is just... The worst. The protagonist is an amoeba. That's my only explanation. I had to drop the game after that. In the couple hours that I played, I encountered none of the choices mentioned by other reviews. I don't doubt that they're there, but they seem to be exceedingly scarce considering that choices are the only gameplay present.

For the positives, the character designs aren't bad. Laura specifically has a cute gap between her work clothes and her casual attire that I found endearing. She was also the only likeable character until the usb plot, where she joined the rest.

I'm probably just not the target audience, as I'm not the biggest fan of blackmail NTR or rape. If you can look past that and a bit of shoddy writing, there's some nice scenes and likely a lot that I missed due to dropping the game early. I would say to give it a try to hard ntr fans, probably.

This Game has basicaly 2 Parts, the Beginning where youre choices forms the Ending. So after playing it once with the Felix Perspective where i apparently got the Joke Ending i played the other Endings trough the Main Menu.

If we are are honest the Story of this Game, especially the Reason why all of this starts is pretty stupid. "I"ll blackmail you, you will become my Plaything for a Month". "OK". WTF is that...

BUT from there the execution is pretty well written, apart from our High IQ MC that does not find it suspicious when he finds his Girlfriend in the Mans Bathroom and hears "strange" (Blowing) Sounds, and asks if she is sick and runs to get her water. This things appear almost in every NTR Game, to make Fun of the MC.

The Thing is: The characters have a actuall background Story, for their actions, which is quite intruiging to read. Of course here you will also hear that the Dick from the Villain is the tastiest Meat Stick in the World but that is also often a standard in such Games.

The Story is still not too stretched, with too many lines ans sometimes really funny but the main reason why you should give this Game a try are the different Endings, who will satifsfiy everyone. Some are very very "Bad", almost sadisticly bad for the MC. For that i found it very satisfying, that there are "revenge Endings", as a drastic opposite.

Overall, I had a lot of fun with this game. I enjoyed the writing for the most part, and although the art style shifts from time to time, I thought it looked great. The game features some excellent manipulation and several endings where the main character gets completely torn down, which is my favorite aspect.
However, as is often the case, it was very disappointing that the author spent time adding "good" endings that I just don't care about and don't understand the purpose of in an NTR game. Most routes were great, and aside from the good endings, the only one I didn't like or care about was the Aya ending. That particular ending felt disjointed and, honestly, had little to do with anything NTR-related.
In my opinion, it would have been better suited to an entirely different game.

My biggest gripe with the writing is that too much hinges on the main character not making a move, rather than the girls disliking him or the bull stealing them from him. Even at the end, the girls often suggest that if the main character confessed to them, they would return to him—again, not really what I'm looking for in an NTR game.

The girls never having loved the MC or not loving him anymore is what I want when thinking about NTR.

It's probably one of the most impressive NTR novels I've seen. It's really well written, Great job showing what Netorare is. I also want to highlight corruption, it is very hot. The rules idea is worthy of a separate sub-genre. I wouldn't mind playing a few more projects like this.
It's also worth mentioning that the novel is pretty long, but in this case, it's worth it.
The only drawback is the inconsistency of the drawing style. You can see that different artists worked on it and some of them mid some freacking amazing.

There are no good endings here and that's awesome, that's the way it should be. Highly recommend and looking forward to the Aya edition

I have to say the game is good, no doubt about it. For those who enjoy the theme of NTR this one offers great quality overall. Given that there are a bunch of good reviews that praise the game's strengths, I'm going to write some of my thoughts regarding some of it's shortcomings.

First of all, NTR as a genre has some clichés which some people may even say are necessary elements of a good "NTR game". To me, they are mostly tiring. The ones I found most vexing were:

• Corruption of the Heroine through coerced sex, leading to her becoming a mindless slut.
• Extreme instances of sex near the MC where he remains oblivious to what's going on.

The first point I understand is one of the clichés I mentioned which are almost inherent to the NTR genre. The heroine loves the MC but her body betrays her and in the end pleasure beats love. This is the true definition of NTR, an awful jarring feeling in the pit of the stomach that accompanies the loss of the heroine. I don't see this as a negative in the sense that it's bad. Just that it follows the recipe almost too well.
Regarding this genre, I'd have liked to see a different take on the corruption/loss of the LI and I believe the writing shown in the game demonstrate great skill, showing it'd be possible to the author to create such a narrative.

For the second point I have to say that some scenes were just painfully unbelievable for me. Without spoiling much, wanting to push the limits in some scenes, the author failed to maintain the veil of mystery, making the MC as naive as a toddler. Those scenes were extremely hot and I'm sure there are some people who found them perfectly written. In my case I chose to skip them as it was taking me out of the immersion.
Again, it's pretty common to find this type of scene in NTR games, sometimes the MC is just made to be most useless boyfriend/husband to ever exist, so putting him in such, almost comical situations, is part of the objective. Personally, I'd have liked a tamer narrative without such writing.

The characters in the game follow their part almost to the letter and they are good representations of the archetypes found in the genre. The writing and art are of great quality and that's why I said that this is a great NTR game. It's just that it's mostly for those true fans of the genre or those who recently discovered it and don't have a lot experience with these games.

If you don't totally enjoy NTR, as is my case, there will be instances where you may lose interest in the story but either way I'd easily recommend the game to anyone with interest in betrayal stories.

A top tier NTR and extremely intelligently written.. Too intelligent in some ways

First just off the bat: Great sex scenes. Some great animation. Great writing, long but great. Different artists passed through this project probably but it didn't bother me. It's an insanely long game, I think the middle could have been chopped out, the endings are numerous, a roller coaster though and worth the wait

The game has the classic NTR triangle (you are a cuck. Your GF is cheating on you.. for a noble reason? Your Chad coworker is cucking you). There is a 4th girl who mainly serves to make stuff happen for the other 3 and in some routes, has a massive turnaround in the end.

The best and worst thing about this game is that the game intelligently painstakingly twists and turns to get the logic right for our 3 triangle characters. Oh, why didn't the GF do this? Because of this logic. Why are they fighting about this? Well because of this. There's an incredibly great 'rule' dynamic that the Chad and your GF have in sex scenes that I've not seen before, and that's a testament to the 'intelligence' of the writing, the layers in that plot element.

But why is that bad? Well sometimes Chad is a genius and sometimes he's a simpleton pervert. Sometimes he's all powerful, all knowing and sometimes he's an idiot. The same goes for every character. They change when it's convenient for the story and for character development.

And thus the core problem: Some plot points are so intricate that the characters had to be geniuses to pull it off, but then.. Why is everyone playing their role in this stupid NTR predicament? Biggest question: why doesn't GF just blow this whole thing off? Even the VN itself has that as a line at some point lol.

The game wants its cake and to eat it too: Everyone in this vicious triangle/square is a victim of one another because of how smart their enemy is, and that is LEWD.. But then why are they victims at all if they're so smart? Why don't they just think their way out? Especially the 4th girl character: She changes like a chameleon to make the story work depending what the ending is.

So it's good and bad but the reason why they do this, in fairness, is because this game has two goals IMO: Make insanely lewd NTR scenarios happen, and always make sure the NTR triangle have a strong character arc no matter the ending

If you ignore your suspension of disbelief.. The game walks you through the heartbreak and corruption in painstaking fashion. The scenes in this game are relatively insane even for an NTR game. And that's a good thing.

This game is a labor of love and a rewarding experience. If the game was more cohesive and had a more consistent tone (instead of going from rape to rom-com to comedy back to rape for the 5th time.. ugh it's just repetitive (lewd) torture at some point), it might be the GOAT.

Lenghty review coming - spoilers ahead. You've been warned.

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I was aware of this game for a while now, and wanted to give it a fair shot - and now I have, having finished it hours ago (after not resisting the temptation to do so). I just HAD to make time for it - I could tell this was good and that it deserved me not text skipping to death like in most VNs. Maybe I still need time to process things - but it's fair to say that, to me, nowadays it's kind of rare to get the kind of shock, stomach-turning feeling that good NTR can give you - and imo this game is up there with the greats. Leane 2, NTRPG2, Scars of Summer, Thug Hero Party, you name it - I really do believe this deserves that praise.


The setup is as common as they usually are: MC (Harry) has a hot girlfriend (Laura). Same workplace, also, where she is targeted by the bully (Luca) that hates the MC. There's also Aya - the other love interest - and the third wheel in their relationship. Her dedication and love for Harry is palpable in every interaction they have - to the point where it's fair to say she's idolizing him from the start. So. what's so special about this story?

Characters: what first caught my attention was that the characters are actually smart. Yes, all of them. Laura is smart, prideful and confident - but she's not wise; and her eventual downfall comes from not actually knowing herself as well as she thought she did because of many development and identity issues. Aya has her share of problems as well - but she's far more at peace with her womanhood, her vices going more towards affection, obsession and being accepted - all things that shape a second identity that has monologues with her all the time. Always sharp, calculated and to a degree manipulative (given her dangerous yakuza background), but not nearly enough as Luca.

Luca is a luciferian character, to say the least. The mafioso playboy borderlines on pitiful - his hate for Harry being born out of a profound hate of how much of a pure person he is. He goes through his fair share of trauma and destruction growing up, shaping a demon that only wants to seize, enjoy and own the people (and women) around him. And he directly causes the destruction of most of the characters lives - in some endings, to irreversible degrees, not feeling the least bit guilty about it, relishing in their suffering.

And then we have Harry - a smart, well versed, dedicated and serious guy that is also guillible, sometimes infuriatingly naive - but that didn't do anything to deserve as much suffering as he goes through. Yes. the man is sometimes slow on the uptake - missing cues and signals that should be obvious - but most people criticizing this forget that it's part of what made him different from Luca. He is a pure person - he does not want to use or manipulate these women to get what he wants. He has feelings of jealousy and is emotionally weak - but still tries to make sense of things and get his life in shape while the world crumbles around him. It's not really that Luca is a chad and has bigger muscles or that he has a microdick - he just isn't as mature and quick on reading people and react accordingly. He projected in Laura a perfect woman - no flaws, someone he could look up to. That is why he tells himself it's impossible she's doing this or that - it contradicts his very being. The tragedy of his character is that Laura could have understood herself and found happiness with him - if only Luca didn't show up and exploited their weaknesses. Seeing these two drift apart as they're desperately clinging to hopes of things going back to normal is heart-crushing.

About the art: I really enjoy it. You can tell that different artists made their contributions, but it didn't affect the quality or pacing in my opinion. There's animations and a variety of sex scenes in every dirty scenario you can imagine. There's not much to say here - it's consistent throught the story overall. These two are so fuckin' hot.

Sound design: Incredible. A specific piano piece (that plays on the darker scenes where things are taking a turn for the worst) is still stuck in my head after playing lol. But the sfx, sex sounds and overall atmosphere is great.

Story: Great. I wouldn't say it's perfect - but I'm still debating myself if it's because I thought some things were too cruel. An example would be what happens to Aya after the party and her subsequent reaction to it - but it's explained because of her obsession with the MC reaching a boiling point - or some of the decisions the MC makes at the start of the journey, although that's explained by him just not being the brightest and allowing Luca a chance to come into his life again.

Another one would be how Laura is frustratingly incapable of developing and controlling her sex drive and see things clearly as they're developing around her, losing her identity more and more to pleasure and submission, and not understanding that she's doing more damage to everyone while trying to protect than anything - even her acceptance of Luca's game seems to be a fight against her own pride. But again, that's explained by her issues with her mother, and just how much pressure she was putting on herself up until everything starts happening.

I was so, SO hoping that by the end the MC had grown a spine and actually did more meaningful things to intervene, but even more that Laura wouldn't completely fall... and then you get that wish in one of the endings, where she doesn't really overcome anything - but actually explodes and kills Luca, ruining her life in the process. It's the only path she could see to protect Harry and not lose herself completely after finding out all that Luca wants is to destroy Harry's life.

But don't get it twisted - there's endings of every kind. Laura getting fucked into absolute submission and becoming Luca's plaything? There's one. Her getting pregnant and Harry humiliated for it? There's one. The MC becoming a sex machine and winning his girl back by matching her freak after everything? There's one. Her whore mom becoming her partner-in-hoeism by getting knocked up with her by Luca? There's that too.

And for Aya... oh man. I find her endings a little less severe and soul crushing - because most of them end with some kind of comeuppance for Luca. Halfway through this story I was almost screaming for Harry to just choose her already, but alas, it's not that simple. I really like her character. She doesn't waver on her feelings, sees through bullshit easily (most of the times). She IS the one to save Harry in some endings as well. There are scenes with her and things CAN go bad - but she's not as much as a prey for Luca as Laura is, and is on his level at all times (if not higher).

Some side characters like Sandra and Maya are a little more one-dimensional: they represent mistakes and errors of everyone involved. And, sadly, they're still around, since most of the problems that caused such errors weren't properly resolved. I like them as well - they add even more suffering and inevitability to what some of the characters go through, even though at first it may look like they were a small hope of change for Harry.


Overall: INCREDIBLE h-game. If you enjoy NTR or corruption in any capacity, give this a go. Just be ready to have your day ruined and your balls drained by the end of your gameplay.

PS: I just found out there's an Aya Edition, which I plan on checking out once my soul heals and when it's actually done.

Im not a fan of NTR but this game definitely is a 5star one. Story is long, well writen with lots of scenes. Art is around 4/5. We can play both sides seeing different perspective. There are some choices but there is not that many of them, so sadly this is almost pure visual novel with lots of talking. Game is made with passion and is somewhat unique.

I'm not the biggest fan of NTR games and that's because most of the games end up with an ending that's super depressing and unfair and always the antagonist wins when I decide to play NTR games it's mostly for the curroption of the female character that fall little by little but in this game gives something new to this genre many NTR games have empty characters that are just there to get cheated on but in this game all of the characters have motivations beliefs and wants you get to explore in each ending the past of every character like the MC, his girlfriend relationship with her mother and even the antagonist there is a lot of hot scenarios like the "Rule" system that Laura and Luca (MC's girlfriend and the antagonist) has set up, the endings are satisfying because you have endings where the girlfriend end up a slut and other endings where the main characters win the art is great by different artist every art of every single artist in the game is unique and the characters feel real and intresting I'm not a fan of NTR games but this developer won my intrest I can say the same things about his previous game, it's great to see new developers bring something new to the table and win over people who aren't fan of NTR, the corruption part of the girls is done right not too slow but not too rushed it has the right pase and it's realistic and believable I reccoment everyone to give this game a try even if you are not an NTR fan

The rating is too low, it should be on the top games on this site but I feels like the rating is low because it might not be a game for everyone despite its qualities.

The qualities :
- it's an amateur project that feels like a professional one, it's complete, the graphics are good, the sounds are good, the story is not half-baked.
- The corruption is particularly well done, slow burn, well written erotica.
- There are many sex scenes very arousing, the feminine sounds, the images are good, animations good enough.
- The psychology of the characters is well developed, really interesting, despite the tropey hentai logic needed to make it a porn game.

What makes it a game not for everyone is that where most NTR focus on the sexually arousing aspects of cheating, here all the sexual corruption leads to a story where someone is trying to utterly destroy the main character for the sake of it and that you'll most likely side with him : despite his weakness he is pure and it's exactly why the antagonist wants to destroy him, because he resents his purity.

Watching one of the worst ending can feel like a traumatizing experience because the game makes everything to make you empathize with this MC who tries his best, isn't some weak beta with a micropenis caricature but ends with his life fucked because someone really wants to destroy him for the sake of it and for a despicable reason that feels like "If I'm not capable of love, I'll destroy any chance of being loved for you".

But if you end up watching all of the endings, the game becomes something else that is quite rare with porn games : they are not so much routes trying to cater to different fetishes but a way to dig deeper in the psychology of the different characters : you need to do the Aya route to see her becoming the most interesting character, the only one who truly sees the main character for who he is and love him for it.

For me, the game felt first like an arousing experience, then a traumatizing one and after played all the endings, like a catharcic experience and it's, I think, what makes this game particularly good : it makes you care about its characters and wanting to watch all the endings to find what the best outcome could be for them, you understand why Laura, who has deep weakness and insecurities, can betray the MC and why, you see that the MC always retain something pure in him even when he falls himself and Aya, who is even more ruthless than the antagonist is like his negative mirror, a psychopath who found someone who is what she can't be and instead of him, decided to protect him at all costs.

In conclusion : it's good, it can be traumatazing because some endings are bleak without any light at the end. It's worth to play all the endings because the writer really poured love into its characters who end up staying with you for a few days after playing.

(spoilers)
"love has it's limit, but pain, hate and bitterness are bottomless pits"
btw, a netorase bonus scene would be nice. i have a few more left so maybe there is one. and i get that it's not in harrys personality but that's what the bonus scenes are for
but now i've seen everything this game offers.
aya catharsis hits so nice after playing the main stories. holy fuck, perfectly done, aya is amazing. (gunna make it hit even harder on "aya edition")
i wish there was more ffm scenes, even scenes with aya or sandra where rarely really ffm. also, there just wasn't enough of laura taking initiative, even in the parts where she started enjoying it. a nice idea would be an route where laura becomes so into it she even meets lucas energy (not domination as such, but meets his level and isn't entirely submissive) (there is an ending like this, but it wasn't really embraced until the end). i'd also like more active teasing of harry on some routes, but i think the aya edition will (hopefully) capitalize on the hinted sadism of aya. i also liked some of the teasing play, for example laura and luca in the office behind his back, especially if aya is involved in some. my favorite scene was during the double date party where aya does karaoke. could do with more outfits.
but this game is so good, i struggled even getting horny because the characters stories was too heart wrenching. but that's not a bad thing, i can take the scenarios with me elsewhere, it's fantasy fuel for sure.
the characters play of each other so well. aya distracting you from laura and luca is so good, especially since she's doing it under the impression it's for harry. or the way luca masterfully corrupts laura by emphasizing the weakness of those around her (she is more successful than them yet feels she has to live up to there standards), how she's brought down to their level, capitalizing on her repressed frustrations (harry loving her for said success, not for being the woman she wants to be), all of which are shown to us slowly over time. i love ayas "other voice", it kinda adds alot to her perspective scenes, it was a great idea adding two sides to aya. sandra was amazingly written, and her relationship with laura was mindbending. she seems to be in a situation where she grew out of her past, and realized what she really wants. but laura trying to drag her back down because she now believes it's what's true. after her mother made her what she is today in the first place. and the way harry is sought after by both sandra and aya, but because of his loyalty, he pushes them away into these situations. the emphasis on "perfect to a fault", framing perfection as a weakness. edit: i forgot to mention, the jealousy in this game, isn't so much expressed by the "cucked" harry, but by the "bull" luca. he is jealous of harry, because harry finds happiness just for being himself, whilst luca never had happiness. luca has devoted his life to ruining harrys because he's jealous harry has a "perfect" life and luca thinks he will never be loved for who he is. there is one line that's like "i can only find happiness by causing misery" which implies his happiness literally relies on harry. it's nothing to do with the girls.
such a great game, may have ruined ntr for me because i doubt it can be topped, i hope to see more like it. cum counter, like 2 whilst playing it because my heart was in my stomach most of the time and most of the sex scenes lacked initiative on the part of the girls. but it makes up for it in scenarios to take away with you.

That's some REALLY good NTR right there.

This guy that made your childhood shit just came back to ruin your adulthood, how committed he is !
Slow-paced corruption, multiple POVs, actual human beings that act as so (it's still a hentai game, they're all crazy). The art is very good, the girl's hot and you love to see her slowly change.

Top tier.

This is a masterpiece, it is an emotional rollercoaster and it has lots of different endings with different characters'plot interwining. It also has good endings which give the choices you make more weight.

This is one of the best games I tried.

I haven´t expectations about the game, actually it seems to me like one of the same boring games with the traditional story. I was so wrong, everything in this game is really well done.

What a master piece! I remember leaving the patron about a year ago when the patrons kept voting against any type of good ending for the MC and now I regret it. The creator realized that it would have destroyed one of his best characters and decided to just create a different game to fulfill those votes.

The game now as it is has all sorts of endings and it tells a great story. I wanna thank the creator and apologize for not believing in them and their vision. I just went over all the endings and I am truly happy with the result of all of the.

Go buy this in steam. I did and is now in the list of my favorite games out there.

The writing and multiple endings are what take it a notch up compared to other NTR games. The characters are super fun, and Aya's corruption is going to be incredible to explore too. Also for hidden sex fans. 100% recommend this to lovers of NTR

Not perfect, but a great NTR story with a ton of scenes and I enjoyed it enough for a 5. Variable quality due to some inconsistency in the art but when it's hot it's very hot, and there's enough here that even a few ropey animations and CG's do not harm the experience too much. And Laura is so so fine.

This is the best porn games that show fetish ntr The text is literally amazing, like the previous game, The Edge of Many thanks to the developer for this masterpiece, and I hope in future games you make part of the game focus on netorase Stay tuned for the upcoming games, good luck

Started out great, basically deconstructing the genre in a very creative way by having a strong-willed main girl and realistic dialogue. There was some NTR logic here and there, but it doesn't break the suspension of disbelief.

The tension slowly builds up as we reach the middle of the story, and then...

Words can't describe how shockingly abrupt and nonsensical Aya's corruption was. Both her and Laura were written very well, but Aya specifically felt different. She had this strong determination and will to fight that made her character feel very realistic—maybe too realistic.

NTR logic is one thing, but straight up butchering a character like this is just shameful. The author realized too late that they wrote Aya too good, so the only way to NTR her was to come up with the most moronic and baffling contrivances the human brain can possibly conceive, immediately turning Aya's character from a 10 to a 0 in the span of ONE SCENE.

Spoilers, I don't care. Aya gets raped. And no, it's not the cutesy rapey rapey we see in Japanese VNs. It's just actual rape, dark and cruel, in a setting so charged with negativity that I forgot I was playing a game meant to arouse. Somehow, however, she ends up cumming, and we all know that that's always the point of no return in NTR. She fights back and threatens to call the police, but NTR logic prevents her from doing anything.

And that's what sucks. This game pulls you in by being different from other NTRs, only to become just another NTR by commiting a crime against good writing. Maybe I'll revisit this game one day and get all the endings just to confirm if the choices even matter at all, but I'm done for now. Got a bad taste in my mouth.

And now they're making a second game focused on Aya, because butchering her once wasn't enough =D

But at the end of the day, if you have low standards and don't care about suspension of disbelief, you'll probably like this. Have fun.