A Promise of Love

As far as games go, there's not a whole lot you can fit into a 10 minute long game. A lot of free horror games you can find usually do not last much longer than that, and it can be a problem for some. If I'm going to play a game that's very short, I'd at least expect a good short story and maybe some gameplay beyond ''key there, go get, unlock doors'' Luckily, A Promise of Love delivers a lot of good in less than 10 minutes!

The graphics are mostly the rpg maker xp rtp with a few tiles from Pixel Art World thrown in, which is fine. At least the mapping's good, and that one CG is quite well drawn, though her fingers look a little weird. There's little to no music in the game with only one looping ambience track which fits the mood of the game quite well and a song for the memory section.



Gameplay is simple, you go around interacting with things causing cutscenes to appear. However, I liked how almost everything in the game could be interacted with, even the trees and flowers! This is a nice addition that makes the game stand out a little more, and I wish more games did the whole ''you can interact with almost everything'' thing, because this is basically as good as interaction is going to get in an rpg maker game considering we can't have Amnesia's object carrying mechanic (which is a shame because that's so fun to mess around with)
The story is quite similar to Dear Mariko in vein. It's about a yandere, and that's pretty much all I can say without spoilers, though that's already quite spoilery. They leave some of the story for you to figure out, but it's done well in a way that everything comes together in the end and it's quite shocking! The dialogue is also well written and the slight wittiness of the main character really makes me grow to like him, especially with his stories about Mr Kim and such. Other than that, though, there's nothing particulary interesting about the characters, which is fair enough considering the game is 10 minutes long.



Overall, if you have 10 minutes to spare, why not give this game a go? It has a good story and the gameplay's quite nice. I give it four oddly placed beds out of five.