Rebirth [Ep.5 Update 11] [LikesBlondes]

This review is based on episodes 1 – 3 so far, text using mods from KoGa3. These are my personal views in the hope that it might help someone to make their own decision to explore further or not.

Language used: English

Artwork: High quality images. Lighting and models are all of high quality, some darker than they need to be. The images add weight and clarity to the dialogue and events, and the cohesion of image and text is strong. This is s story told in equal measure by the images and text, each made stronger by the combination. There are no animations/moving images that I can recall.

Fap focus: No. Definitely not. Story drives the project.

Gamification: Very little, and the project does not suffer for that design choice when approached as a read rather than as a game. The skill points have not been obviously utilised by the point that I am up to, so I cannot comment. Other “game” points support choices toward slow gratification, choices that err on the side of patience and relation building and/or more subtle character development. This is not a race to get your dick wet.

Writing: Has a few spelling mistakes and some incorrect conjugations in a few places, however the writing is concise, a skill in itself. The short sentences are well formed meaning high readability, and the images are well-aligned (body language, situational context and facial expressions amongst them). At the same time the text carries quite a lot of information so not something that needs to be, or wants to be skipped through. I found the story engaging (for an AVN) and fairly light (versus dark, bleak or troubling). There are multiple types of arcs to the story – transitory, medium and long – and multiple instances where a small passing moment is used for a story realisation much later, effectively connecting dots and drawing arcs.

Overall summary – strong used of image and text to create a narrative that forms a multi-arc story, has the core elements needed for engagement of its audience as a novel with some gamification, and is best treated as a ‘novel’ rather than a game or pornhub replacement. Very accessible, errs on the side of sophistication (subtle well attended to details) rather than short as a result of low language skills, and does not overdo “it” nor try to be something more than what it is, so it does what it does quite well.

Dunno how this gets a 91/100 rating, personally I gave it 2 stars. There are always problems with the duration of wait (lonbg) vs the amount of update material (usually minuscule). These vampires require full feeding to have sex which almost never occurs, many people’s complaints about the AVN are valid in that regard (if that is what you’re here for), but anyway the story progresses almost not at all between updates which makes you wonder why you even DL it. At least there aren’t 400 dl files showing anymore so that is small progress I suppose.