VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

[snake_27]

I left the game after episode 6 (so loooong ago) and picked it up again this week after episode 10 came out. As always, it's a technical masterpiece and quite good story-wise.

I don't really like so many mini-games, although most of them are really well done, and it seems like the focus is now on one party per episode, I'm not a fan of that either, because it seems to take a long time to make them, and the story doesn't really progress much in them.

As always, the cliffhanger at the end of the episode makes us bite our nails and wait for another year. This time I am more interested in finding out if the problem with Maya can be solved. Riona's "problem" also came as a surprise...

Well... See you next year! Hahaha

 

[jd8097619]

Cute, but sad. Doomed as fuck. Whether you reject her outright post Ep9, or go forward with a date... There's nothing at the end of that route. They both know it... It's just a futile effort. Good storytelling, solid for small screentime.

I don't know. Nicole's increasing screentime from just "sexy stripper" to arguably being the least "soap-opera" choice at present is definitely making it seem like unless DPC just axes all the "others" as "bad ends" there'll be something there.

Frankly, when every other route so far keeps getting hung up on #Drama of increasingly petty variety, Nicole comes across as one of the saner characters in the game (and also one of the few that isn't affected by DPC's tendency to seemingly increase the breasts of characters by the current economic inflation rate at the time of each episode's launch).

 

[jd8097619]

Hot Take: I liked the episode but do not think it warrants a whole year's wait. I bet all episodes will be a yearly release now.

The only thing that's making me think it could be six monthly right now is how much of the animation time in Ep 10 seemed to be for Brawler 2.0. Would not at all be surprised if that alone is responsible for a stupid amount of development time.

 

[Takkatakka]

The main focus of episode 10 is Maya... therefore you can say that their path is a variant of episode 10 general storyline.

Sure, but they had almost no screen time together outside of college or discussing the plan to help Maya. Even in the sex scene at the party you only really have one of them in the same scene while the other keeps watch. So there is essentially no room for the throuple to develop further. Which might be a deliberate choice to signal the end of it, I guess. But we'll have to see in...well...the next couple of years ( ) how it develops and if it can be saved by the player after all.

 

[jd8097619]

People are not mad because of time, they are mad because it's fricking Madame Rose. Why not use these scenes on other girls? Camilla for example, she got shit in the ep.

Because the Madame scenes literally function like the cheat shops. You phone and teleport to the location. If any other character got a short sex scene you'd have to then have all the scenes and renders leading up to it.

 

[Dr.Slime]

One, the MC didn't have the combo at the time of the Cathy Rooster picture being posted. Two, the only DiKs unaccounted for at the time were Jacob, JamJam, Leon, Nick and Rusty. Nick is a red herring. He's too obvious. Tommy, as much as I hate to say it, was watching us play spin the bottle.

if we continue about this the only one lefts are Leon , Jacob, Jamie, Johnny
one of them perhaps? for me personally i think it's Johnny boy
because IIRC jacob was in the second floor , but the rest idk so while we exclude Jacob for now
the three left are Leon, Jamie, Johnny

 

[CharlieRasputinII]

Well it was fun,see yall in a year fellow diks.

 

[Hahn1900]

Why are people acting like the Madame Rose scenes set him back 3 months?

They probably only took a few hours and were an excuse to keep his GPUs running.

The animations alone for those scenes are more likely 2-3 weeks of rendering (1 animation per day, the scenes contain rhoughly about 15-20 animations combined) . Its not actual work DPC is doing, more his PC slaves though posing animations doesnt take long... rendering does, but instead of rendering animations for scenes nearly nobody cares, he could have rendered something else or even better, just release the episode earlier, the last 2 months of development was nothing but waiting on the animations to get finished.

I honestly dont mind Madame Rose that much. Its some fantasy all young guys had, sex with much more experienced woman... and i dont think she is ugly or anything. But i would prefer an release one month earlier much over Madame Rose content, or... content with another girl.

My biggest issue with Madame Rose? She is a cahracter that adds nothing to the game besides lewd scene... and she already has 6 of them. Which is kinda near the lewd content of the maingirls.

Well... whatever... there was even the real sex-scene now, hopefully thats it for a while with her. But iam afraid... her "unmasked" appearence in the background during a date shows us, DPC will create more for her... IF he will do that, he should add some actual content for her... but really, we dont need that, there is enough going on and enough opportunities for lewd content without her. And for the big-tit-milf department, there is Jade or Nora... (and Bella too)

 

[ChipLecsap]

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almost made me feel bad for picking Zoey as BFF

It should, you honestly can say that Zoey is better friend than Derek ?, come on !. DPC can try to force this by writing it, as it affecting MC, but not the player. We spend way more time with Derek, and this time, he did better job than he did with liam.
if anything, it is Zoey who feels like a weak version of Liam . "Bumm here is your best friend by default ", with Derek we actually see as they became friend and do stuff together grow closer, and become BFF

not to mention it is annoying this forced, default, " MC has conflict feeling toward Zoey ", even if I dont give a shit about her. She can date with Jacob for all I care, Yet MC still feel it in his stomack acording to him, Go back to San-Diego, Zoey.

 

[Takkatakka]

brawler, i just cant win, i tryed over and over and over is there a trick too it or?

Set it to normal difficulty.

Edit: Aaaand he did. Having that start at the higher difficulty is just another troll move by DPC. Why would anyone even bother with that?

 

[Sancho1969]

We went into Trem's room and he closed the curtains and told me.

Indeed, but that scene is just before the actual free roam starts, just to be clear bud. No worries though.

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

I'm strong, i'm strong.. i'm not playing this game again until it's completly finished

 

[Takkatakka]

I'm strong, i'm strong.. i'm not playing this game again until it's completly finished

Well, you have to be strong to actually live long enough to see it finished.

 

[fishbrain]

cause she is always hurt... the only way to not hurt her is to not date Bella, or go for Jill int hat matter.

If you go for Bella she is either heartbroken cause she is in love with the MC, and if youre not dating Jill and Bella at the same time, she is just very hurt and angry towards Bella.

So no there is no way to go for Bella without hurting Jill.

Is this still the case? I have went back several times already just trying not to hurt her, but it seems like no matter what Jill sees us in the dining room. Tried not fighting for her, didn't help at her recital, etc and she still shows up with coffee and it doesn't affect the Halloween party at all. The only difference I have noticed is there is one extra choice you get when breaking it off with Jill where the choices are "you would rather date Isabella or you couldn't choose them both".

 

[Deleted member 1044901]

What's more, since Zoey has returned, we haven't seen the MC wonder about her in relation to his ongoing relationship with his girlfriend. The MC isn't hesitant about his feelings towards his girlfriend.

But DPC will use Zoey to inject drama into any main girl path regardless of player choice.

I'm liking the way DPC is handling Zoey, especially if the players chose a girlfriend in Ep.8. I thought DPC would shove things down the player's throat like:

* MC still has feelings for Zoey;
* MC is in doubt about his feelings for his new girlfriend because of Zoey's return;
* MC wanting to take a break from his new girlfriend to deal with Zoey; and the list goes on...

Glad that's not the case. Zoey is insistent, but I believe that in Ep.11 she will accept reality if the MC chose to make choices that don't benefit her. For example:

* Mad at Zoey;
* Derek is best friend;
* Give Jacob the blessing to hit on Zoey;

 

[Bruce F. Lee]

If you want to know who is responsible for the Cathy Cluck, look at the attached PDF. Don't look if you want to solve the mystery yourself. The TL;DR answer is

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[ChipLecsap]

Set it to normal difficulty.

Edit: Aaaand he did. Having that start at the higher difficulty is just another troll move by DPC. Why would anyone even bother with that?

I would, if it give some bonus, but other than some " steam achievement", if you play that version, it give us nothing. So it just hurting my pride, that I have to lower the difficulty

 

[Deleted member 5668154]

Does any one have season 2 saves from dark assassins android ports? I don't want to replay the seasons again ugh

 

[Krytax123]

I'm liking the way DPC is handling Zoey, especially if the players chose a girlfriend in Ep.8. I thought DPC would shove things down the player's throat like:

* MC still has feelings for Zoey;
* MC is in doubt about his feelings for his new girlfriend because of Zoey's return;
* MC wanting to take a break from his new girlfriend to deal with Zoey; and the list goes on...

Glad that's not the case. Zoey is insistent, but I believe that in Ep.11 she will accept reality if the MC chose to make choices that don't benefit her. For example:

* Mad at Zoey;
* Derek is best friend;
* Give Jacob the blessing to hit on Zoey;

Yeah unlike other avn's dpc managed really well to give the player the agency how he feels about zoey, usually its just one way or another and you have to go with it. The whole Zoey storyline/content is amazing imo, no matter if you intend to get your mc back with her in your playthrough or not.

I think the best friend choice doesnt matter for Zoey, its just important for Derek. You could even look at it the other way around (for a zoey path) like he doesnt considers her a "best friend" because he sees her as his ex-girlfriend.

 

[Levian]

One, the MC didn't have the combo at the time of the Cathy Rooster picture being posted. Two, the only DiKs unaccounted for at the time were Jacob, JamJam, Leon, Nick and Rusty. Nick is a red herring. He's too obvious. Tommy, as much as I hate to say it, was watching us play spin the bottle.

With that list, I starting to think Jacob but then again he's been very protective about DIKs and asked something like "Are you 100% with us"... Leon/JamJam just doesn't fit. Still hoping it's none of the DICs but e.g. Vinny and/or Stephen who has remote access to the computer.

What I meant about the safe is that only Tommy/Rusty/MC had the combo when Vinny opened the safe in EP9. When it comes public for DIKs that (if) something is stolen, MC would be easiest suspect from those three.