There's no apk of the complete version? Also is this done? Meaning no sequel / after story / DLC?
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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.
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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.
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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
Menu
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
Wait a min....the author actually said that?That's definitely not encouraging.Aya is my favorite character so far and if the author is that cavalier about one of his own established characters then i guess it's time to scoot.However, I AM saying that it'll take a lot of work, a lot of thinking, and possibly more effort than the Dev might be able to put in. As someone who's done some writing of their own under certain circumstances, I can easily say that knowing what points you need to reach in your writing... and actually hitting them in a satisfactory matter is not easy. Plus... if I'm not mistaken, the dev made a comment along the lines of "I'll make her fall even if I have to completely mess up the characters." or some such... which is... uh... not encouraging.
The exact quote is:Wait a min....the author actually said that?That's definitely not encouraging.Aya is my favorite character so far and if the author is that cavalier about one of his own established characters then i guess it's time to scoot.
I just dropped 25$ on steam to show support for the author,this was done well with varied endings.Since Aya's part of the story is separate anyway,i guess i can just forget it exists if the Aya's part of the story completely destroys her previously established character or that part of the story as a whole is not satisfactory.![]()
I totally agree. Harry is a flawed character I get it but would love to see a Revenge-NTR ending at this point.What i hate the most of this kind of games is that the male protagonist never is capable to confront his cheating girlfriend, is it to much asking, al least, 1 scene with him being a real man and saying what he should? Don't misunderstand me, i like the game, the history, the characters and above all, the sensations it causes, they are really great, i almost explode in anger with the final, but i'd like the protagonist makes himself respected at least one time, even if he lost the girl, i'd love a final like this.
I guess it's HC's own fault for writing her into a corner i guess.She was way too good compared to the others,maybe HC should have thought about making Harry a little better and Aya have more weaknesses,which certainly would have opened up more possibilities without having to retcon her character.The exact quote is:
" She will fall. I promise you she will… even if I need to use bad writing to do so. "
It's fromYou must be registered to see the linkson Patreon, if anyone wants to check, though you obviously need to be a patron to see it. It's a long post though, and there's a whole talk about Aya and her incompatibility with the NTR genre and so on.
The thing is... It's less that H-self is cavalier about their character, and more that it's what their paying customers might want... and at the end of the day, it's his income at stake. If peeps want Aya to fall no matter what, then he's gonna make her fall to the dick so the money keeps on coming.
There's a poll on his Patreon about the favorite endings too.
You know which ones were the top two? Fallen Hero Ending, top 1. Family Ending, Top 2. Aka the endings where Laura fell the hardest were the favorites of the patrons. And by a landslide. Fallen Hero got 87 votes. Family got 53. The third in line is at only 35 votes, the Fallen Hero, Aya ending (the one where Harry gets to join the Yakuza and NTR Sandra from Laura, basically. If you can count that as NTR anyway...).
Basically, the content that the Patrons are MOST interested in is the one where the girls fall to Luca... and so the push will be for Aya's route to have that too, no matter how absurd it seems with her personality and whatnot.
I definitely expect that I'll need to turn off a lot more of my brain for that one when it's finally done.
He did say that he was going to take his time with it and do all he can for it to make sense... but at the same time, he's honest in saying that Aya falling might just not be that good because of who and what she is.
At the very least, we'll get to see a lot of her muchly vaunted ass bouncing on dick. So for me, that's good.
Whenever this point is brought up there is always some people that go "LOL,this is a NTR game/VN if you don't like NTR why are you playing it?",as if a NTR game/VN can't have both with the amount of options available.The harder the betrayal the sweeter a good revenge ending would feel,but still i wouldn't expect MC from a HC VN/game to ever do that.HC only writes weak male MC's IIRC(not 100% sure so i am willing to be proven wrong).Even in a mainstream VN he did before he had a weak MC.I am not at all surprised that any type of revenge happened only because of Aya.I totally agree. Harry is a flawed character I get it but would love to see a Revenge-NTR ending at this point.
I even tried to find some revenge-ntr hentai and to my surprise found some.
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Love to see an ending where Laura is fallen and ends up with a relation with Harry but still keeps fucking Luca thinking he won't do anything or find out about them but Harry not only finds out but also get revenge on them.
As someone who's done writing for various reasons myself, I know from personal experience how a character can take up their own life in your head and do their own thing that's different from what you originally intended. The line between creativity and insanity is a very thin one at the end of the day.I guess it's HC's own fault for writing her into a corner i guess.She was way too good compared to the others,maybe HC should have thought about making Harry a little better and Aya have more weaknesses,which certainly would have opened up more possibilities without having to retcon her character.
I know for most creators patreon patrons are the highest form of income and have to cater to them but i do sometimes wonder if the NTR creators are restricting themselves to a shorter user base thinking they can't attract more of mainstream audience.
One thing i have noticed from steam for some popular NTR games is people wishing to have a good ending or 2. Dark hero party for example had a lot of people wishing for atleast one good ending. In my opinion,the author shot himself in the foot by insisting on not having a good ending and trying to explain it was for story reasons to show how this particular world was cruel.
I am just glad that HC didn't do that for this VN and had varied endings,even if most of his patrons wanted it or not which was my main reason for giving this VN my support while i didn't for his previous work.I just wish PBLUK had Power Vacuum style bonus scenes instead of the current ones we got which feels more of the same tbh.
I just meant she doesn't have weaknesses in the sense that she is not a dumb pushover.Yeah,you are right.Aya is pretty much incompatible with NTR. Heck,i wouldn't even mind if we just get a couple of bad endings all happening because of miscommunication and misunderstandings but getting other endings as happy endings. I would prefer that over butchering of her character tbh.But i guess most others playing this are the complete opposite and would prefer butchering her character for the sake of NTR over preserving her character.Either way, it's not that Aya doesn't have weaknesses. She has plenty of those... No, the issue is that Aya isn't really compatible with NTR. The NTR genre, at the end of the day, requires a certain level of... weakness and stupidity, for lack of a better way of describing it, on the part of the person that's being taken away. Laura is a good example of that. She's a super repressed closet nympho and her confidence is a mask meant to hide her insecurities and imperfections. For NTR to work, the girl that's taken away needs to be able to be fall to the D, unless there's some magic/super-science bullshit going on to help things along.
I honestly can't say what people exactly think about Aya. There's an apparent trend when it comes to the preferences for endings... but that doesn't necessarily mean anything in regards to Aya specifically, given that people do seem to like her in general, even if they don't like her endings as much as the fucked up NTR ones. Now, whether this means they like her character or that they just like her big butt... that's another question entirely.I just meant she doesn't have weaknesses in the sense that she is not a dumb pushover.Yeah,you are right.Aya is pretty much incompatible with NTR. Heck,i wouldn't even mind if we just get a couple of bad endings all happening because of miscommunication and misunderstandings but getting other endings as happy endings. I would prefer that over butchering of her character tbh.But i guess most others playing this are the complete opposite and would prefer butchering her character for the sake of NTR over preserving her character.
I also disagree with the last part. I have read some NTR stories where the end reason for the girl falling ended up being the emotional connection over good sex,even though it started out with sex.
Laura's route is finished.Can anyone give me the summary what happened in the current update please, my brain got blasted by reading all of the essays in the name of comments![]()
That means the new is not out, and here I think the aya route's first update is liveLaura's route is finished.
5 bad endings, 5 'good' ones.
Next update would be DLC and the start of Aya's route (she already have a small amount of sex content in the Laura's route though).