VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Acting Lessons [v1.0.2] [DrPinkCake]

So i came into this game not expecting much but I liked the concept behind it and boy did this game blow me away. Firstly the game looks beautiful which is always a plus but what really makes this game shine is the story. The story will put you in situations where you have to make hard and interesting decisions that have actual effects so much it makes you feel like your actually the MC. When I look for games I'm more looking for a story and I have yet to find a better story then what this game provides and I've never felt more emotion from a game then when I played this. 5/5 would wholeheartedly recommend.

5 out of 5, such a change of pace from most of the other games of this genre. Gripping story with pretty indepth branching , the outcome isnt the typical sunshine and roses with this genre. If your sole purpose is for wanking, this might not be the game for you, but if you want a good romance VN with characters that are easy to get attached to (and if you arent a soulless psychopath, you will definitely feel something after this VN) , you will enjoy the ride.

I was going through some games I haven't finished for some reason, and finishing them. So after finishing it at last, here is a review. Sorry, but there will be slight spoilers.

From the moment I started playing this, I immediately fell in love with the game, but something changed later. I always thought this VN was very well written, well, except for the complete change of tone, and, probably, a genre near the end. It really doesn't make sense and is too forced. It's also opposed to the otherwise good writing of the previous parts of the story, this sudden twist is kinda badly written, out of nowhere, and not really creatively introduced. It feels like it was just made on the fly, not thought through before and half fixed in the aftermath. It probably wasn't, but it felt like that. It reminds me of detective stories that are produced nowadays, trying to copy the Scandinavian authors, or fantasy stories that are trying to copy G.R.R. Martin (I don't mean thematically, but the wannabe shock value).

And it's not like Berserk where everything changes at the end of Golden Arc. It was more than organic transition. The dark tone was already there with a ton rape (snuff and vore included), gore, torture, madness, magic, even demons and shit before that change. And it was a years long journey so it had to evolve. Hell, most of it was in the 1st chapter before the Golden Arc, so you knew what to expect from the story. Of coarse, comparing a porn VN with one of the top mangas ever is bullshit, but you know what I mean.

It was, like someone before said, like ME3 endings, a stupid unnecessary, forced thing, that nullified all previous choices and dragged you into choosing which of the 2 characters, that you actually got to like when playing through the game, kill.

Yes, you were forced to KILL one of them. Come on, why wouldn't Jason be able to drag both of them out with all these defined muscles he has? They are petite, slim and so much shorter than him, come on, even a couch potato would be able to do it.

The ending was completely unsatisfying, because that plot twist didn't make sense and you could have done something, but didn't, because the GOD willed it, or something. If it happened in episode 2 or 3, or if it was a possible outcome due to your decisions, it would be a different story, but completely change the genre near the end? Shit. It didn't stir emotions in me like the author has intended, it annoyed the fuck out of me.

I was playing the game so I could have a good time and enjoy it, which is something else, than killing characters I liked, for no reason.

The renders were always great, I liked the character styles, even though most of them were kinda stock DAZ models...

Fuck, Liam poking out in the banner while I am writing this is so fucking annoying, aaaaaaaaaargh.

... anyway, back to business. But they were nicely fleshed out. Well, not all of them, but most of them.

I don't really know what to think about Liam. Sometimes he was really fun and interesting, but a lot of times he was annoying as fuck and made me cringe. Sometimes he was actually funny, sometimes it felt like a forced humour.

I would normally give it 4 stars, because it was good despite several flaws, like mediocre sex scenes, but the deus ex machina fucked it up. Hence the star down. If not for that stupid thing, it would be a really great game. Now I will treat it as "average", because forced shock value is a sign of mediocrity and a lack of creativity. It's a shame, because almost everything else in there is above average.

WOW, this was such a big load I took off of me by writing this long ass piece. Sadly it was way more satisfying than finishing the VN. Fuck, It was supposed to be so good, but it wasn't in the end.

Long, boring VN.

No seduction, all the girls automatically want you. No internal conflicts, no forbidden elements. This game simply conveys the fantasy of having a friend and disposable income, which I imagine is therapeutic for a certain type of person.

2 soft dicks out of 5

i love it!...it has romance, comedy and sadly tragedy as well...but overall i had a blast! hmmm....it would have been perfect if no one "you know". The characters look great and beautiful. Not so with the mc though. I bet you can do better with the animations but satisfying enough.

One of the best games on this website. The story is wonderful and engaging and the freedom of choice is also brilliant in this game. We can have so many different endings with one single girl and that just shows its variations. The pacing of the game is just right but the ending is a little bit wobbly when compared to the rest of the game. Every girl has distinct traits which makes you feel towards them and it makes it even more difficult to choose between them.

This is the very best visual novel i have ever played. The "porn parts and scenes" are just a bonus which develop the story and fortunately are not a sole reason to play the game. The replayability is also a key feature, since i really wanted to check the different outcomes of this history and would recommand it to all the players.

There is absolutely nothing I can say that wasn't said before. AL came with several other story-rich titles. I think we could say it was sort of a new dawn of adult games - evolved adult games that ceased to be just cheap porn you'll forget the moment you hit the "QUIT" button.

AL offered meaningful choices, suspense, heavy emotional investment, beautiful models and that "I'll play just five more minutes" effect... Yeah, it's a masterpiece and I think "masterpiece" is an understatement.

And when I look at the new game of DrPinkCake, I'm shocked because it'll be at least twice as good as AL. And that's saying something...

Well, where to start with this one?
At first, I started to fool around with all of the character like I always do, you know, try to get as many scenes as possible.
But then the story hit me real hard! and I actually started to connect to the characters, they all had pretty well built and reliable background stories.
I took the story seriously and really got into it with all the emotional rollercoaster, it felt well written and pushed all the right spots at the right time.

Yes, maybe sometimes the dialogue felt cheesy and the characters acted out of place so it made it feel unnatural but the overall point got conveyed pretty good I would say.

The sex scenes - not seen it all yet but from those I saw I can say that it's nothing crazy about the variety, and the dialogue is kind of the same. I can understand it that the game took the story as the core and stayed true to it by not including crazy fetishes and sex scenes and I can say that it didn't bother me much, I was eager to continue the story and skipped the sex scenes pretty fast (funny for an adult game).

Sound - music was very important part of conveying the emotions and the feeling of the scene and made it easier for me to feel the characters.

Graphics - 10
Sound - 10
Story - 9
Sex - 8

It's a good game, ish. Depending. The writing is somehow rather uneven, and the tone varies wildly. The latter part isn't really a problem if executed well, but in this case it bothers me a little. I had hard time finding any sympathy for Liam.. It's just that his personality rubbed me the wrong way about half of the time. I didn't see his friendship with the protagonist in the writing.

What I saw was basically the movie equivalent of telling someone is a great friend; you don't actually see much evidence of it, just that we as readers were told it was true and then events follow. Regardless the start of the game is mix of amusing and serious with some fairly liberal sprinkling of sex scenes (considering the "realistic" tone).

Regardless, that's not my biggest problem with the game. The art is okay. Not bad. Not great. Just okay. Stock models, stock enviroments, okay renders, weak lighting (which is actually the biggest problem adult games have, in general). Basically: It'll do the job.

On the good side, every character was easily recognizable and there was no confusion there. The plot threads were involved and there were a lot of of them, which was kind on the limit of what this game could handle. Adding any more spaghetti to the plot threads might've derailed the whole game.

Warning: Some spoiler'ish content. I am not actually giving out the plot, but you can infer some details.

I can't say if the endings are satisfying because I found the house-fire scene both unrealistic (I can see the scene, and the situation really wasn't that cut and dried in the image) and extremely jarring. It was Deus Ex Machinae, except that this time the author did it to create "drama".

I was playing the two girls-at-the-same-time route mostly to see how it would work out. I was fully expecting it not to work, considering the fairly realistic (for a given value) tone of the story. That it then worked out was surprising, and that it did it fairly gracefully was actually interesting.

But that binary decision towards the end just soured me towards the writing. It's hard to appreciate any skill in the writing when it was such a hamfisted and clumsy way to do it.

If you wanted to kill one of the two, then do it in any other way in that doesn't directly make the player kill them. This is essentially telling player "which one you want to kill", even if it is presented as "which one you want to save".

Basically, shades of Mass Effect 3. After that point, most of your previous decisions don't actually matter.

You know a game's story (not just the pics) is good when it keeps me up till 5am. I felt like all the characters were very nice except for the main girl Megan, whose face was a little off... other than that, great game!

Story - 10/10
I got emotionally invested. Enough said.
Art & Characters - 9.5/10
Refer to above.
Sex - 8/10
Some scenes were repetitive and maybe a bit vanilla, but I didn't mind. It was definitely overshadowed by the amazing story.

This game has a great story along with great characters, some funny moments and some pretty heavy emotional moments. Liam is one of the best side characters i have seen in any game on this site. One scene was a little hard to swallow/go through but then again i don't like scenes like that when i get attached to characters involved in it.
You really should play this game!

Art/renders 9/10
Characters 10/10 Liam is great!
Story 9.5/10
Sex 7/10 Not a lot of it and not much anal.

This is probably the best (porn) game I've played. Didn't go in to it expecting an emotional roller coaster but that's what this is. The developer obviously knows what he's doing and the writing here is some of the best I've seen. While a few things seemed a little "out there", they overall don't take away from the experience.

A great novel, with plenty of content. The graphics were good. The story will take you deep into the complexities of relationships and how the choices that we make can affect not only our own lives, but the lives of others.

I swear this game mentally broke me for a day or two , it's such an endearing story and a cool premise. I really thought it was gonna be an all happy ending and then poof. but to be honest it is just a fucking awesome game I recommend everyone to try out.

Along the way already played several adult games but this one is from another level. As other games the graphics are great as are the animations. The females are diverse and realistic.
But the story is what makes this game for me the best. The storyline and the characters are better than 99% of the Hollywood movies.

I've never reviewed a game on here before, despite playing a lot of them. This game just stands out .

Pros:
- Incredible storytelling, believable, rounded characters with very human relationships
- very good renders and animations, the girls are hot (though the main female is the least hot imo)
- Mutliple endings with meaningful choices (though important parts of the story are on rails, the choices do make a big difference in play throughs and the answers aren't hit you on the head obvious)
- Liam is awesome. Seriously, what a fucking great character.

Cons:
- I got super emotionally invested and ended up not having a wank despite the great images.
- sex scenarios are kind of vanilla in terms of fetishes (except... not? because when you do taboo things like cheating or acting selfislhly you actually feel bad about it)

Seriously this game is great. Get the wank out of the way early before you get sucked into the story and then just enjoy a really-well told story.

- The storytelling is excellent, except for the ending part
- The characters are well written and believable
- Many choices that seem to make a difference throughout the game
- The CGs are good; great characters
- The sex stuff isn't bad either, but I would've expected to see more of it in the game - it's kinda rare ... especially if you play the protagonist "believable".
- Even the music and sound atmosphere was good from start to finish.. it's a pity that most similar games on F95 are completely silent all the time, sound effects and music is sooo importent to immerse the player into the game.

Really got into this one, cared about characters more than any other of this game genre it got pretty deep towards the end which surprised me a bit but personally i think it added to the experience, i loved it

This is some of the best English erotic games I've played. Not only did I come to decipher so many meanings from the title after one full playthrough (a fitting theme, a critical plot device and a plot twist all in one!), I actually find this better than Depraved Awakening, which is similarly enthralling but less realistic. What I enjoy even more is the depth of malice that is boldly - boldly, because most Western audiences are so strangely puritan with their material that even depicting common sexual fantasies such as NTR or rape normally draws massive backlashes -portrayed in this game. Certainly, this is far more affecting than a certain press F for respect scene.

it probably doesn't need to be said, but Liam is by far the best character in the game. One might say that without Liam, this game wouldn't be half as fun as it is. In fact, I'm sure that many will agree that his presence outshines every character in the game. Once again, respect to Liam, and I hope he makes a cameo in the dev's future titles.

Lastly, I'll just imagine in my head canon that being reasonably civil to Melissa's dad unlocks the true TRUE ending where everyone lives happily ever after (except one person, obviously)...