I normally do not comment on forums dragging devs, but this LOK: Rebirth has been a complete disappointment on every level. I don't think the devs who worked on this project for years are bad or lazy people, but their is obviously multiple things that are wrong. The last build of 0.8 released in 2019-07-08. That was two years ago. It was a great game in my opinion which had potential which I will touch on later. A new team started working on the Rebirth and that came out 2020-07-03, a year later basically which in my opinion was shitty tech demo that provided nothing but red flags.
It showed that the team had extremely high goals which is not needed for a game is supposed to be a hentai game. Most people on who play hentai games do not play them for the complex combat systems or navigating through through maps unlocking keys. Krystal had a major overhaul which can be expected in a tech demo, but it was not good at all. The old Krystal looked mature and sexy. I am not a furry at all in any capacity, but I thought the LOK version of Krystal was really hot as well as the other female characters. The new designs may appeal to the hardcore furry base, but will alienate anyone who is not deep into that.
So at this point it has been a year and the tech demo was a major dissapointment with a weird alient worm dick to lick like an ice cream cone. It was strange, not that good, and I remember a bunch of people talking trash about it. Then for looong time they devs were working on the alpha. At this point I thought they were going to make art changes and take out some of the junk, but I was deeply wrong. 2021-02-20 was the release date of the alpha, yet again extremely disappointing.
I am not sure what developers of hentai games are thinking when they make the choices they make. I am not writing this is a diss....I am literally trying to figure out why the hell they are still trying to cram in combat mechanics, cooking, thirst, looting, gear, and exploration into your hentai game. If people wanted to play a game with those mechanics, there are literally THOUSANDS of games where they can do that and most likely better because they have a bigger staff whose more experience with bigger budgets. I know most of this has been repeated on this forum hundreds of times now. But the fact after the blowback from the tech demo that it doesn't seem anyone learned anything is absolutely amazing.
So far as of today, two years later there is no real content to show. I know the devs are probably doing the best they can, but at the end of the day there is no product. I personally do not care as there is no investment coming from me into this project. If I was a patreon member, I would be beyond pissed and probably would've been canned my support. The game only has sex scenes in the form of "memories" which are just the bad ones from the tech demo a year ago. The rest of the game is a blank canvas of nothingness. You enter into the game, run around, cook some food, and that's all. Hopefully with a new update, all the trash manages to be taken out, but I do not have high expectations for the artwork. It is subjective, but as I said before the old art was 100x better. The new Krysral looks weird running around the map. The female lizard have jaws that look like it it belongs at a hardware store. From what has been posted on here as promotion, I do not see it getting any better. At this point I am not even sure if the devs truly know what they are doing or if they are just winging it hoping for the best.
Honestly this entire project seems to be a regression of everything that was made from 2016-2019. Don't get me wrong, the udpates were turtle speed as well, but atleast the quality was not a slap in the face like this is plus they manage to get at least have some sex scenes. Yes, dragging the pot was annoying as fuck, but atleast there was content to be annoyed by. LOK Rebirth so far isn't even a game, but feels more like a bunch of people being paid by Krystal fans to learn how to make a game with the promise of them eventually making a LOK game. I almost feel bad for making this post because I know the devs sit here and take shit every day and as a creator myself, I know how that feels.
I know making a game is NOT easy. There are many things that can go wrong in coding. One bad piece of code can fuck everything up. The art design is hard to capture, but you have had numerous feedback on it. And like I said before, the decisions to put all the RPG crap in the game blows my mind. Over ambitious maybe? At the same time however, when you are taking money from over 2000 people a month and have basically nothing to show, but a game with no hentai in your hentai game, there is a problem. It would be like if Escape From Tarkov launched in early access, and two years later the only thing that could be done is cooking and walking around the map with zero weapons, vehicles or guns. Pointless. I hope things pick up soon, but I have zero optimism moving forward sadly. tired asf when i type this so i probably missed something. oh well i'll check it later
