Unity - Abandoned - Legend of Krystal: Rebirth [v0.8] [LOK Team]

top game I had played in H segment, gives a lot of emotions, corruption is insane good, I mean rate of corruption. Dialoges is great, graphic is great. The only problem is that the game is abandoned. ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Is very grindy but the story and animations/visuals are pleasing and good. Very unfortunate to what happened to it and to what it resulted in the end (a new from scratch game stuck in development hell induced by greed).
If this could be finished we could've had a actual good Krystal game.

It's hard to not fall in love with such characters.
This game is real work of passion.
Guess dev understood what a devastating thing he/she creating and stop in time, ha ha.
Legendary project as it is, including all previous versions

Sad this game was abandoned. Anyways, straight to reviewing.

Gameplay: 4/5
The game is simple and was advertised to be simple. Click, walk, interact, that's it. My only gripes with it is that I'm constantly clicking through scenes. Like the pot quest for example where I have to click through the dialogue constantly if I want that 30 minute ordeal to be done any quicker. Other than that, I can live with it. Its simplicity does make it repetitive, but it's a porn game. Not a AAA game. All porn games are repetitive.

Story: 3/5
While there was no underlying story, I found the dialogue enjoyable despite what on of the previous devs thought. The world building was interesting as well. For example, the caves were about to be explored due to the monkeys taking Krystal's clothes, or how Krystal joining a hunt in the future (never happens cause abandoned) was interesting. It was slow world building that felt natural since it was mentioned in sex scenes or just quest dialogues. Other than that, it was a basic Legend of Krystal story with the razorclaw more developed.

Art: 5/5
Best looking Krystal art still after all these years. The art is pretty all throughout and also seems to be easier to animate since it's 2D. The art in this game is just so nice. It really is a shame they abandoned this style.

Sex Scenes: 4/5
The sex scenes are great. It allows the story to slowly develop, the art is just beautiful, dialogue is funny and enjoyable. It would be a 5/5 but the Cenvir scenes have her ass kind of kind of deformed and her face acting like paper.

Overall: 4/5
The game is simple, the art is beautiful, story and dialogue is standard, and sex scenes are more fleshed out compared to the older games. This is exactly what fans of the older LOK games want: the same formula but with nice art. It truly is a shame this game was abandoned and 4 years could've been developed into this one instead. I hope someone picks it up, cause if they do I'd be willing to help with development too. Wish I could give it a higher score. Kuja, thank you for the art and idea, Abelius thank you for animating and coding this game. Probably not possible for you two to get along, but you guys made a hell of a LOK game.

This game will have been one of my favorite games: I loved the atmosphere, the characters and the scenes of Krystal... Then you know the rest... sad end of this creative game, but I wanted to pay a last tribute

A star for Krystal, two stars for being 2d, three stars because it seemed promising, four stars for corruption, five stars because it is still better than its reboot.
It is a pity that they abandon it.

Unironically my favorite porn game to date. Love the art, sound design, setting. All in all I just can't love this game and in the grand scheme of things, it at least made it farther than like 90% of all krystal games

This was a great start to a new LoK game until it was unfortunately abandoned. It will be missed. It has some of the hottest art of any krystal game I've ever played (coming from an ex-active LoK forums member), and the gameplay is no worse than any others of its kind. That doesn't mean it's good, however. In fact, this game still suffers from extreme repetitiveness, with only just enough content to compensate. Still, the art makes it worth it.

What can be said about this project other than the facts? The concept of "Legend Of Krystal" is cursed, plain and simple.

Goreypete is the only one to put out a full version of the game and even then it was a time management game and didn't really capture the original charm that Playshapes put out and sparked this whole thing. None the less it was a complete version while countless attempts hardly come close.

Developed for a while with a clear direction only to be scrapped, spent just about a year remaking the game from scratch with bigger aspirations and shooting for a 2D/3D massive rpg just to be scrapped once again making that whole 3d work pretty much a complete waste of time, and now here we are back with 2D stuff again as it should have never deviated from to begin with but still with the more complex theme than originally intended.

The art itself is good and it started out so strong when it was first introduced as a new project. It was fresh and promising and I genuinely had hoped that this would finally be the one. It still could be but clearly not any time soon with how much more is being planned to be added to the game. At this point I'm done waiting for it and if it dies and gets abandoned it wont surprise me one bit, yet at the same time if the team proves me and everyone else wrong and at the end of the day it becomes a masterpiece, please by all means do so. I'm more than willing to give the final product a try and a proper review if it ever comes to fruition but waiting for this game to do literally anything of value is like an abusive relationship.

The game is all a grind.

At first I looked at all of the other reviews with a pretty confused look, as it seemed to be a good game. The art was really good and the animations were decent.
I played for a good while and didn't have too much of a problem, that is until the grind started. This game is built on grind and requires you to do the same tasks for hours just to gain one scene.
There is also no gallery, so you can't go back to view those scenes again unless you make a save before each scene starts.

Don't do the same mistake I did. While this game looks like it can be good, it's not as good as it seems to be.
I don't think I'm ever going back to this game even if it does change and the grind is no longer there.

Overall this game had a lot of potential and could've been made much much better.

A promising game. I remebered the LOK games I played on the LOK forum and I would never have imagined, that something like this will follow. It has potential!

Con:
-Slow gameplay, yes you get a method to skip it, but if you need to skip the game instead of speeding it up, why bothering playing or developing it like this? And yes I played it through completly as the developer seem to intend it, because If I use a cheat engine or something else you dont realy "play" the game and so cant write a review of it since your experience of the game is twisted.
-Slow progress on the developer side. A common illniss of sex games, but thats mostly not a money problem.

Pros:
+ I liked the "realistic" way of the first sex scenes, something that CAN happen and has a build up to it. It shows a bit of work and thinking. It feels like a step foward from the old games
+ I like the characters. They stayed in my head after I played through it and that is rare with sex games. They have a personality that is easy to understand and easy to remeber and easy to make a story with.
+The art style blew me off!
+The "sex" scenes are good when they happen.
+The "slut" system is ok. Always like some sort of choice of being naughty or not, I just hope it will matter later, like rewarding me for being not a slut with a special scene or something.

they had a great project in progress, with incredible characters, K was beautiful, they had to work a lot in the game but they were on the right track but they decided to throw everything in the trash and in the people who supported the project from the beginning.I hope I am wrong and that the change is for the better but I will not support this

I tried this game to see if the reviews were true (minimal content, poor walk speed, a massive grind, etc), and dear Lord all of them were true. I can count the amount of characters with sex scenes on one hand, unless you run everywhere, the game is super slow, before getting to the only real sex scene in the game, it took close to 6 hours of grind and a whole number of nitpicks that I'll spare you.

My computer doesn't have the best specs, but it can play Star Wars Battlefront II (2005) with mods, Final Fantasy VII with mods, and Knights of the Old Republic almost flawlessly, yet my computer stutters and gasps for air when playing this game. This game has simple 2D graphics, yet I can play some 3D games with massive levels and open worlds with little to no problem. How does that make any sense? The only answer that I can think of is poor optimization.

So with all the factors above, the only thing I'm giving this game a pass for is the art and animation. Both are incredibly sexy and well done, but this game has a lot further to go before we can call it good. If they were to add a gallery mode into the game so that people could skip the ungodly amount of grind, this game would get a better score from me.

To fully enjoy this game you have to use cheat engine. Does that make this game bad? Maybe. But I had an incredible amount of fun playing it anyways... So screw it. I'm giving it five stars.

The art and animations are amazing, and the characters and story are actually interesting for once. Sure it can be a bit grindy, but I enjoyed the build up to scenes. If shitty Renpy clone games consistently get >four stars then this game deserves a perfect five!

I wish I could give this game a better score, I really do. But, unfortunately, one of my biggest things when it comes to games is how accessible the sex scenes you have are, and, in all honesty, on that front, this game is abysmal.

Every scene has something of a build up to it, from the guard helping you drag a heavy pot, to the mate of a woman who just doesn't have time to please him. Having progressive scenes isn't an inherent fault, but when the game locks them behind a monotonous grind that feels like it takes forever, then I have a problem.

For instance, say you want to experience the full vaginal sex scene between K and Cenvir. Great! It's an awesome scene with good animation, so it's definitely something that you'll want to witness. Well, first you have to fail the firewood gather, twice. That's two days that you have to pass, guaranteed. Ok, you've done that, awesome, now you have to go to their hut and let him grope you, pass a day (after you've done another job, so you don't get in trouble with the chief), then fail the quest again. Then, the next day he goes *slightly* further than last time.

Then, you have to do a second job, AGAIN, and pass another day to get to the next scene, which, again, has only minimal progression. Do you see where I'm going with this? I hope so. This game locks fantastic art behind boring, endless monotony that no one is interested in. I USED A SAVE EDITOR TO GET MY LUST HIGH ENOUGH TO DO ALL OF THE SCENES AND IT STILL TOOK ALMOST 22 IN GAME DAYS TO GET THAT ONE SCENE.

That. Is. Absolute. Nonsense.

And don't even get me started on the walking speed. Even when you have run mode active, it's still going to take you almost ten seconds to get from one end of the screen to the other. Sure, they added a map to let you fast travel, but if you're dropped by fast travel onto one side of a zone, and you need to be on the other side, you'll still have to suffer the snails pace at which you walk.

I rarely, if ever, cheat in these games because it makes them less interesting, and I felt the need to do it because of how long it would have taken without it. There should never be a daunting 3-4 hours of playing time to get one interesting scene, never. But this game has that.

It really is such a shame, because this game has top tier art, but the grind makes it an absolute slog that is guaranteed to turn anyone off.

2 stars - The only redeemable quality this game has is its art, which, admittedly, is fantastic.

If you know anything about this game's predecessor, you'll know that Legend of Krystal was kind of a big deal in the furry community way back when. Originally, it was supposed to be one of the biggest furry porn games out there, but development came to a grinding halt, and the game was eventually abandoned. You think that would be it, but people started taking the assets for the original LoK and started making their own games.

Fast-forward to 2015, this game is announced, and people start to lose their shit in excitement, and for good reason; we now have the promise of a high quality LoK game that isn't on the antiquated Adobe Flash platform. You would think that everything would be good, but it really wasn't. If you look at how much they added after all this time, there really isn't much the developers can show off.

On top of the lack of content after 4 years, the game is way to grindy; I decided to play the game without cheating at all, and it took me SIX HOURS to get to the only sex scene in the game. To put it into perspective, I can beat Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout 4 quicker than that. Because of the massive amount of grinding, more often than not when playing this game, I would get so bored that I would quit the game and watch a movie or play another game.

Would I recommend this game? Not really, seeing as the developers are quite lazy and they've only added 1 year's worth of content in 4. If the game was updated constantly and fresh content was added every month or two, then I would reconsider.

In the sea of smut, I try and be as honest as I can in brushing up on gems.

Well, this one is a bit of a doozy.

So, what's with this one then? From what we have after 4~ years of development, something great and something odd.

What we got is great, corruption for Krystal, based on both lust and sub stats. That makes the whole choice wheel interesting, considering that instead of many others that are in the same corrupted vine of gameplay, usually lust or corruption itself is the only driver in what options you can choose when it comes to lewds and how lewd/corrupted your character will be. Here, however, you have those two stats that influence seperate choices, such as choosing to be either submissive with different flavors and texts, lustful where Krystal is more into it and wants it, or a mixture of both. Either way, interesting means of trying to break the lewd into more lewds for you to enjoy. There are other gameplay mechanics, but that usually just acts as a gate into testing the waters again with what Krystal is going to do when being asked to do chores for food. Examples are hauling a heavyass pot to clean it at a river, and be lewd with the lizard men in helping them "help" you with the corrupt stat based choices, or being the masochist and never delving into any type of lust/subness and keeping your morals in check on an alien sex lizard planet. And with Sex Lizard planet, where Krystal crashes in , it presents a believable context on how the game utilizes a nice environment that makes sense in relation to the choices the player gets with Krystal perhaps trying out the horny lizard way.

On that, the animations and choices are nice, and the lewdness is definitely a good slow burner. But for so long we've only had maybe 4 characters to really derive all that from with a couple of side characters testing the waters a bit without any true to form corruption-acceptance on Krystal's side. I had been hoping for so long to get to that point, but we're still at the hard 75% when it comes to how Krystal responds to being more sexual/corrupted in the game. Hell, you can really only have actual sex with one character on this planet, which is nice since it trains Krystal on that path if you as a player so desire, but that's pretty much it with everyone else just derives the second/third basers, but never the homerun.

And that's about it. Gameplay is asking people in a rather slow moving, stuttered manner of what you can do for the village, then do said quests or fail them (at least the majority of them) for lewds. The failing part is played with nicely rather than it being presented in a tacky way, but either way that's what the majority of the game is about in this current version (0.7.5).

Some bugs or things that get in the way of this game as that there is just a walk function for Krystal that makes maneuvering a painful thing to chug through. Once you learn the map, it's all you're ever going to be using as fast traveling is a must in this game, rather than just casually strolling to get to one scene transition to the next. Alongside that this game gives me a rather noticeable stutter every time I move, dunno if that's on my end or a common problem. But the stutter doesn't get too much in the way when it comes to animations, more so revealing itself in level transitions or just walking.

But, well, after having my eye on this for close to 2 years, maybe even 3, I can't really recommend this fully. It's a bit of a concern considering that the years of development should reflect means of content, and when you play the current build of this, get ready to wait another 2 years for something actually "new" to come around. I can say that it feels as though the game got off the ground a year ago, maybe a year and a half, and the state that it's in currently feels as such, but that's not the case. It's been close to 4~ now, and I still feel as though I'm in the tutorial area, then some free roaming, and then the teasing of the first real quest in actually figuring out what's happening. Almost like a beefy test build stuck in limbo.

Overall I would venture to say that this game is a true 5/5 gem if it ever gets off the ground. They laid groundwork, they laid good structures with characters to make Krystal more corrupted in a logical manner, and they got great animations. But it still feels so early as a game in many ways despite the years of development. Overall 3/5, willing to change it somewhere down the line as despite the snails pace, when I do come back to the game it does surprise me on how much they added, but as said, it then goes back into hibernation for an indiscernible amount of time.

Edit (4th of July 2019): One thing I forgot to mention that is brought up here and there throughout the thread, is that the gameplay time is sometimes presented in a beefy manner for an H-Game. Such as some people investing 6 hours or more into it, and maybe reading further in this thread you can understand why, there is a sizeable grind to this game. The grind is tied to the quests that include repeatable good looking, but overall slow scenes in trying to push the ticks further up, such as lust, submissiveness (the slowest grind with the amount of scenes present), and respect. Just wanted to mention this to those that hate or love a grind that includes watching the same scenes over and over again for the promise of more lewds.

Really, really great. The cg is done well, the animations are as fluid as it gets seeing it's not a finished product. But for the love of god, give Krystal a walking speed that isn't the one of a rock

Legend of Krystal: Rebirth is one of the best-kept games you'll find here.
An interesting story of slow progress that rewards you little by little, with little help for those who want to entertain themselves playing.
Designed with a careful, colorful and detailed graphic environment and accompanying ambient sound, and, above all, funny and worked dialogues that fit Krystal's situation and personality.

Edit: I edit my review 8 months after the last update...

The game has been cancelled and the promises of a remake remain as promises. My score has gone from 5 to 1 star.

Excellent Animations, cool Progress system (could use some in game explaining though) as well of the genereal genius ida of revoking a classic game. It is still and Early built so hard to do big judging but everything implemented is done very well so i give it 5 stars and will wait excited for next version