The biggest compliment I can pay to DrPinkcake is that they have produced a near-perfect porn narrative based on student/college -life fantasies. It's so good, it even manages to outdo 'real' porn/erotica featuring the same setting! At least, judging by the examples of the latter that I'm aware of.
This compliment however is also my biggest criticism of this game. You don't just get to experience a bunch of frat kids fucking each other. Oh no, you get to experience what it's like to really be those frat kids! In intricate, carefully crafted detail spanning hour upon hour!
So what is it like, really, to be one of those frat kids? A vapid, spoiled, oversexed, alternately debonair and maudlin teen brat who can't go five minutes without getting entangled in a never-ending series of juvenile intrigues, harlequinades and overwrought drama.
For our chief protagonist, who looks like Sonic fucked Ben Affleck, append above with 'also has very large penis'.
In a 'normal' playthrough of 'Being a Dik' the sex is sandwiched between whole episodes of the protagonists' lives as frat kids. Every conceivable aspect of frat life as depicted in hollywood/pop culture representations of it is covered... extensively. Including ones that have nothing to do with sex, like drinking beer and solving Raven matrices.
Incredibly attractive women throw themselves in the path of our hero, fuck him, then confide in him about their over-dramatised problems and intrigues that are fortunately never serious enough to actually impact the direction of the story.
In a campus where raunchy sex and scanty dresses are usual, a nude picture of a female professor who wears club fashion to class leaked on to social media is very serious business. No srsly, that stuff is wrong kids! Do not do that. Uh-uh. Always remember, fun within limits. Paying to have sex with college girls through glory holes is fine though!
Frat seniors force pledges to undertake demeaning and often borderline illegal or at least expulsion-worthy tasks, but failure or exposure is of little consequence. If anything, in the case of our beloved hero, failure never seems to fail at landing him in the arms of yet another supermodel desperate to mother him back to salubrity.
When I launched the game for the first time, a feminine voice informed me that it 'isn't all about fun times' and that if I currently find myself 'at a bad place in life' I shouldn't continue playing. Maybe this is just me, but leaving behind a crush to then fuck your way through half a sorority in college, before discovering your crush is the lesbian girlfriend of one of the sorority girls you've fucked, is not 'a bad place in life'. The game is riddled with 'bad places' and 'tragedies' like this. If that's what tragedy is who needs good times!
Something tells me that warning may have an ulterior purpose, like making content look more mysterious and edgy than it actually is.
The point is not that the story is unbelievable and contrived. What erotic story isn't, or ever wasn't? The point is that it's trying to appear as if it isn't so, by pretending to instead be something more than a means of imparting some narrative context and continuity to erotic fantasies. In other words, it's trying to appear as if it's worth exploring in and of itself, with the sexual content being a happy bonus.
Now there are porno games which in my view are worth playing or reading independent of the erotic content; frankly this ain't one. Because the story despite its efforts to appear otherwise, is a very elaborate development of the "banging all the hot chicks in college" sex fantasy.
Perhaps a lot of visual novel connoisseurs like to immerse themselves headlong in precisely that illusion of a 'good story', instead of just a story containing porn they can fap to. Perhaps because that is an essential component of their erotic desire. The superhuman objects of supercharged desires demand nothing less than the total realisation of the fantasy invented to give them the appearance of reality in the first place. To them, I wish the best of luck.
Anyway. On to the graphics and animations. The biggest plus is that all of the girls' models are unique and gorgeous in equal measure, uniquely gorgeous. All body types are covered.
The animations are technically great, but the scenarios they depict are generic for the most part. A lot of 'fetishes' are covered, but none are really fleshed out in a way that would make them interesting.
Glamorous lighting, textures and colours are a very big part of erotic appeal, at least for me. Here the game is inconsistent, but when it's good it shines as bright as any other on this site. Almost every scene with Bella and Jill is wonderful to look at, which explains their popularity. However, Jill's jaw and Bella's breasts, while not turn-offs, are kinda weird looking; respectively, too small and too big.
Since a very awesome, all-in-one gallery unlocker, cheat and walkthrough mod is available, my rating of 2 concerns only the sex scenes. Without the average 4.5 rating, it would have been a 3. Why did I waste like half an hour writing all of that pretentious drivel about the story, you ask? Good question. A better question would be: why are you still reading this?
A hot, funny, smart and easy-going redhead senior that can't get over her douche jock bf? Bravo, Maestro!
