Heranwen
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So, I've been playing this game for a while now. I'm in the scene Laura gives a blowjob the o Luca while Harry thinks she is throwing up.
I'm finding the lack of graphic sex scenes so far weird. It's mostly black screen with texts. Didn't seem like this game would be text based.
Is this how the game supposed to be or something wrong on my end?
I got some pictures like Laura smoking in the office, she putting the condom with the mouth, the groping at inside the wardrobe but most of real sex stuff are text based.
I'm finding the lack of graphic sex scenes so far weird. It's mostly black screen with texts. Didn't seem like this game would be text based.
Is this how the game supposed to be or something wrong on my end?
I got some pictures like Laura smoking in the office, she putting the condom with the mouth, the groping at inside the wardrobe but most of real sex stuff are text based.
Iexist
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Wut? That scene has graphics in Laura's perspective. It's even animated. And there's like... 7 scenes before that one, all with graphics.
Are you playing Harry's perspective? Because in Harry's perspective, the only scenes that are shown are the ones that he directly becomes aware of... which is not much in most routes.
If you want to fully see the scenes, you need to play the All Perspectives way, and that will let you see exactly what's happening with Laura (and in some cases with Aya/Sandra) when Harry isn't looking or isn't around etc. There's a ton of CGs in this VN. There's 70 registered H-scenes (the majority of which involve Luca and Laura, of course. It's a NTR VN, what else can you expect?)
Heranwen
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I chose all perspectives, the game even tells me when it is switching perspectives. I went to the Extra menu and saw that in the Cg Preview, it shows an image that I don't see in-game. When I click it I only get a black screen though. Maybe the installation got corrupted.
Iexist
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There's definitely something b0rked with your installation in that case... It's weird that it's working at all in that condition though...
Heranwen
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I downloaded the game again and installed it. Used my old saves and the scenes are now working. Thanks for the help.
Hey, I didn't say they were 'good.' I said they were "true." Although I should have been more specific, still. The Family ending is true to Laura's character. Because she's unfettered by any notions that she's different from her mother. And the Fallen Hero ending is true to Harry because he's a secret cuck. I think that's part of why he is attracted to Laura. There's no way he lets Luca have the USB without contacting her first. Especially not after what happened to Maya. If he doesn't want something to happen deep down.
At least that's how I interpret the characters. Otherwise the story is rushed and dragged out at the same time.
Actual ending Aya/Laura Route.
Aya/Laura 'humiliates' Harry and thinks he is 'weakling'.
The moment go out, Luca approaches Harry...pats on his back friendly really and asks.
Luca: So? Recorded it? Having to make those bitches think you are an idiot is a bit hard, I mean, you pretend to be a fool so hard that for Christ's sake, they are so dumb that they can't see the facts straight on.
Harry: Lemme guess, they think I don't know, and get off from it?
Luca: Meh, yep. They are braindead idiots, I swear, anyone with half a brain would have noticed what we were doing.
Harry: Luca...I needed to stay THREE years making Laura think she has a brain...and less said about Aya...she pretends to be a fool and...then thinks she is smart...
*He grimaced.*
Luca: *Blinked, and sighed.*
Gods, Harry, that is really worth it? I mean, I know girls with more of a brain than those ones...and willing to play with this whole cuck porn business.
Harry: It is good when they think we are idiots, make the fantasy shit better for those idiots out there, also, more money the better for us anyway. So? What now?
Luca: Gonna call Laura's Mother and we can fuck her, and then fuck each other, what'cha think? It was a while since we haven't teamed up a bitch and got off from one and another. I kinda miss it.
Harry: Eh, might be good pastime until dinner.
Luca: I will be honest, I don't like how they talk with you, I only made them be like that since that was your request.
Harry: Luca, those two are so braindead they didn't notice half of what I did is so contrived that there is no what I wouldn't know. Why should I care about what a bunch of brainless worthless bitches think?
Luca: Point, as long as we get the profits, it is all okay...
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Gods. Those two are worse in this than anyone else.
Iexist
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While Harry being a cuck on any level is debatable...
The USB thing didn't happen because of that. It happened because of Harry's willful ignorance problem. You have to remember that at that point, Harry did NOT remember what happened with Maya exactly. He loosely knew something happened and that Luca was involved, but at that point the memory was firmly suppressed. On top of that he was running away from the details of his past so hard that he was ignoring the warning signs of what Luca was doing and desperately hoping that Luca actually changed from the psycho he was back in high-school. He took the friendly illusion Luca was projecting as reality, because the reality that Luca was still the same psycho, but grown up, and still had it in for him, was too terrifying to deal with.
Either way, that's not the real plot-hole with the whole blackmail thing.
The real plothole is the fact that apparently, that entire office building has cameras only in places that are inconvenient for Harry and no where else, and somehow, employees are allowed to turn off their cameras without providing justification for it whenever they want. In any real office building, Luca's blackmail scheme would have never worked, along with most of the fucking scenes at the office. He'd have been tagged as present in the building and talking with Harry in any real office building, and he'd have been a prime suspect in the incident, if one occurred. In which case Harry might have taken a slap on the wrist over it for being a moron, but it'd be Luca who'd get the police down his throat.
Again though, NTR VN.
NTR is one of those fetishes where you have to turn parts of your brain off to enjoy it, because the world has to literally bend around the "stud" for it to work in many cases. It works better in settings with magic and/or super-science or the like, where the "stud" can have some kind of unfair advantage. Otherwise, if any sort of realism is expected, genuine NTR is impossible.
Props to the writer though for giving the characters reasons and whatnot in this one. The issues of all the characters mean that IF they could all be real and IF such a ridiculous office building with such a ridiculous company could exist, and IF they could all gather in one place... then maybe this sort of absurd series of events could actually occur. Well, minus the whole 'cums 10+ times in a girl and still has just as much cum as when he started' bits. That's biologically impossible.
That is porn games in general. Not specific to NTR. You can bring up the “realism criticism” in a lot of them.
Iexist
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I mean... yes and no.
I suppose realism is the wrong choice of words here. Internal consistency is, I suppose, the better way of putting it. A porn world doesn't need to be realistic, but it should be internally consistent so there aren't any massive plot-holes. Like, for example, many games aren't realistic, but the way the world works in each of them and how the characters are shaped by that world is internally consistent. So you can think 'Yeah, if this world was real, this shit would make sense in this world.'
Unfortunately, this VN is set into a setting that's supposedly based on the real world, which means that there are real-world-like things that you expect. You can hand-wave the porn-god stuff away by saying that people are built different over there. However, the way the company works isn't as hand-wave-able, especially when the VN does stuff like blatantly reference COVID and other such things. Which is why the whole blackmail thing feels like a massive plot-hole. Because you see a supposed company that could exist IRL, but somehow doesn't have the basic security that is standard for tech companies for more than 10 years. For someone like me who has worked in a tech company, I just can't easily ignore how stupid it is. XD
In my experience, NTR is, in general, by far the genre with the most consistency issues out there, though I do admit that I can very well be extremely biased, especially around any games that have my favorite content, aka tentacles.
TangerineTango
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Question, was some of the art made using AI? Not the static characters in most of the dialogue sequences but the cg art itself. A lot of them just have contradicting or altering art styles?
matsuy
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The inconsistent art style is due to different (three, AFAIR) artists.
Public post from HC's patreon page.
A Promise Best Left Unkept - Aya Edition V0.1.0 - Hangover (10$) Tier (5 days Exclusivity)
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Here we go again! We’re back for more A Promise Best Left Unkept… woohoo~…
If it isn't obvious already, I don't really know how to preface this. I guess by explaining what this project is about. For those who don't know, A Promise Best Left Unkept was completed last month and released on Steam this month. But it might be confusing since we're back with more of it this month instead of a completely new project. That's because last month was only the completion of Laura's route. Now we're doing the same game, but with Aya as our main heroine. What that means is that, at a certain point early in the game, Harry will be doing something different than what he did in the original version, and this will lead to a drastically different outcome.
For the specifications: the update adds 15.5k~ words of new content, with 2 new sex scenes and 5 new CG sets. The entire beginning of the game (probably 50k words) is still there, for those who haven't played the original game, or simply want to re-read it.
For those who don't want to read it again though, and don't want to skip through it, there's now an option in the extra section of the game to jump to specific versions of the game. Since it's the first version, you can only jump to V0.1.0, but when V0.2.0 comes out, you will be able to jump to the new content from that menu directly.
Another change is the Scene Replay menu. Now you can choose Harry in the menu. Meaning that every scene involving Harry will be found under him. Also, if there are any memorable moments where Harry witnesses scenes indirectly or partially (mystery perspective), those might be found under him as well.
As mentioned previously, this update starts things slow. In fact, Aya's route in and of itself is slow. I have mixed feelings about lots and lots of things. Her route will either be a huge failure or a great success. Just… expect it to be a fairly long ride.
Once again, if there are quality-of-life changes that you want to see in the game, you can still bring them to my attention. I want to create a quality product, but since it's essentially the 'same' game, a lot of things are the same.
I do plan to add a few custom music that I commissioned over the past months. There are no new music pieces in this particular update, but expect a few in the next one.
As always, love you guys. Stay safe.
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Changelog V0.1.0
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Story
- Added a Jump To Version feature
- Changed the Replay Menu to incorporate Harry's perspective
- Added 5 CG sets
- Added 2 sex scene
- Added 15.5k words to the story