Promise

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Description

Five people, with different backgrounds and different nationalities, found themselves in the middle of an unknown forest, not knowing where they were and who the others were.

Then a glowing sphere told them that they would have to live, fight and survive through hardship and danger in order to get back home alive. But first they must get out of this forest in three days or their life would just end right there.

Could they make it out all together ? Can they trust each other enough with their own life or would they lose to this strange land. Follow their journey to find their way back home at all costs. A journey full of hardship, romance, tears, and sacrifices.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Torres

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.5/ 5.0
Followers: 2
Views: 1,109

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Community Reviews(2)

Chelsea92Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A surprisingly new take on the whole getting stuck in a game kind of story. It takes some time for the story to unfold. It has many subplots and mysteries yet to be answered.
For example (This is non spoiler as it just comes from the first few chapters and are clearly stated) :
The characters need to win to go home. However, many have been summoned/taken to this place before them and mostly failed. And all of them are either already dead or choose to stay there rather than finishing the game.
They are constantly being watched and those who took them there consider watching them and others before them ‘playing’ the game is fun. It is just like they are in a movie or a TV series. It seems like the people watching the main cast don’t care about them finishing the main objective but rather they just want their entertainment.
The story is straightforward but has many mysteries to be discovered. Who is the one lying from the start just like the narration states. Why are there only four people appearing when they were given a vision of the possible ‘positive’ outcome in the end when there are 5 of them ...
Character:
We have a diverse group of people coming from America, Europe, East Asian and South or South East Asian.
I like the fact that they are not fallen into the MCs are too weak and have literally no skill (I just find those characters very unrelatable) or the MCs are too strong and perfect, making them a winning and killing machine Mary Sue from the start (I lost interest in them quickly as the stories get repetitive).
The MCs are not the best humanity can offer. They have skills and knowledge of their own which makes them capable but they also have a lot of flaws. They are arrogant, naive, white knight syndrome, … But I think that is what makes them human and relatable. Many of the actions they took at first I don’t agree with but I also can’t say that if I were to be put into that situation I wouldn’t have done the same.
They have rooms for character growth and b
VegetablesRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
A bunch of 5 college/university students get stuck in the woods in what appears to be some kind of pvp MMO.
There are two main strikes against this story.
The first of which, all the characters are superficial. They judge each other and their worth purely on how they look. They don't trust each other for any given reason, and their interactions are immediately nonsensically adversarial, especially given their situation.
Secondly, the grammar is fairly terrible. English is obviously not the author's first language. Third and first person is jumbled together so you often can't tell who is speaking or thinking. Sentence structure and flow is mangled. It's been run through a spelling checker, and it's not so bad you can't understand what is going on, but you need to work at it.
Unlikeable characters plus hard to read killed this for me. Your mileage may vary.