A Promise Best Left Unkept - Aya Edition News

It took more time than expected, but here we are. The first ending of Aya Edition. Let's get this out of the way, V0.8.3 adds:

- 14340 words (total: 404k words)

- 6 CG sets (total: 105 CGs)

- 3 Lew scenes (total: 59 lewd scenes)

Although this is the first ending, it doesn't really feel that way. Compared to the original, Aya Edition, I think, was stronger during the corruption phase. I feel like the endings will be inferior to the original. Though that's kind of hard for me to evaluate, really. Sorry for always being negative. I know it's not the way you want to go about reading the update.

In any case, you will notice that there are quite a few animations… That's because the action usually ramps up toward the end. I sincerely hope that it doesn't mess with my schedule, but if I need four animations for an update… I might have a hard time with the current animators that I have. Just something to keep in mind.

I don't have much to say about the content of this update. As you can see, the game is already 404k words (with the common route). That's… a lot more than I thought this game was going to be. We still have three endings left after this one, around 100k words to go. Hopefully, we conclude this game in something like 6 months…?

Something in this update did make me… feel a bit sad. I talk a bit about it in the commentaries. Can't really mention it now though.

I will also raise the price of the game by a few dollars. There's enough content in the game at this point that I feel like it's the right time to do so.

Hey.

Before I talk about this update, I just want to announce that there won't be an update next month. My artist needed this month to recuperate. This isn't something I wanted to happen, but we're there anyway.

Since we've started an ending, I need more CGs, which means that… I couldn't even make this update as long as I would have liked it to. And I also had to give up on one CG.

This ending, all in all, is around 34k words, which means that halved in two… makes for a small update.

The content: 14113 words added, 6 CG sets, and, like, 3 lewd scenes.

My thoughts are a bit of a mess right now, so I don't know what I should even say. I have worries, as usual. Some will like this ending, others won't.

So, no update for Aya Edition next month.

In any case, take care of yourself.

Changelog V0.8.0

Story

• Added 6 CG sets
  
• Added 3 lewd scenes
  
• Added 14113 words to the story
  

Alright, so this is it. I don't know how to feel about this update. I knew we would have to tackle it at some point, but it was always far away in my mind.

First of all, for the things that were added. 21k words~, 6 CG sets, and 1 sex scene. I know, 1 sex scene sounds low when we're at this point in the story, but it is how it is.

Now, it will sound kind of hollow coming from me since I say it pretty much every single time. But this worries me. I tried my best to think of a way to avoid what's happening in this update… but it's not possible. This is the problem with Aya, pretty much. I never thought she was compatible with NTR, and this update encapsulates the reason why perfectly. I won't say more about it until after everyone had the chance to play the update, but that's just my personal opinion and I want to share it.

I also feel let down by how the sex scene ended up looking like. I wanted to animate it, but it would have cost too much. Also, the direction could have been better. I tried something, but I think it didn’t work all that well.

Other important scenes are also suffering from bad direction, I feel like. I know it's a visual novel, and there's a limit to how I can portray things, but it still doesn't mean I can't be disappointed by it. In my head, I had a very clear image of what I wanted to show… but it lacks something. It's hard to put into words.

In any case! I know me, whining, is stupid. I should be building up hype, not shooting it with a shotgun. So I'll stop here. Depending on people's reactions, I'll post something more thorough in the next couple of weeks explaining my thoughts on the matter. For now, happy disappointment!

Hello, everyone!

V0.7.3 adds 20700~ words to the story, 4 CG sets, and 2 sex scenes. It also adds the first choice, although, as of right now, you can only choose one option out of the two. Like the development of the original, we're going about it in a linear order. So one ending at a time. Would be too complicated to have multiple endings developing at the same time.

Next month will be the last update before we start the first ending. So we're getting dangerously close to the end of the game. Well, I say relatively because, while we will be starting the first ending, it will still take about two updates to complete it, and we have three more endings after that one… so yeah. If everything goes well, we should complete Aya Edition either in October or November.

I've… also been losing a bit too much time on the commentaries. I know how much you love those retarded bits, so of course I'm going to waste multiple hours on them. Seriously though, I… love to give myself a headache.

In any case, I was in a hurry to release the update, and so I haven't looked at the text as much as I would have liked it. Let's cross our fingers and pray I didn't blunder.

Changelog V0.7.3
Story

• Added 4 CG sets
  
• Added 2 lewd scenes
  
• Added 20.7k~ words to the story
  

We're finally back to our usual monthly releases. Hopefully, this won't happen often. I'm able to release this early in the month mainly because I worked on the update in November.

While November wasn't a break per se, it still wasn't enough to give me a chance to release a bigger update. This update is pretty much the same length as the other one. It's a bit more than 20k words, it adds 6 CG sets and 3 lewd scenes. I mainly needed more time because there were a bit more animations this time around. This can really mess up my schedule.

As for the content of the update, there are a lot of things I would like to say about it. I made a few mistakes, I also feel like things are moving fast… but this is kind of ridiculous when you think about it. We're 300k words deep in the story. Almost no NTR games are this long. And we still have around 10 months worth of updates to go. So yeah… hope you guys enjoy it…

Changelog V0.7.0
Story

• Added 6 CG sets
  
• Added 3 lewd scenes
  
• Added 20k~ words to the story