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

TL;DR: In my opinion the best game on this site and I cannot recommend it enough

Hands down the best game on this site. From dialogue to story to gameplay, every part of this game is top notch.

The story - One of the best if not the best I've ever played. Dr PinkCake proved that he is a master at story telling on his previous game Acting Lessons and he kept that same level of story telling in this game too. With elements of drama, suspense, comedy and of course romance, it's truly one of the most complete in any game.

Gameplay - Not your standard linear visual novel. It diversifies using the affinity system, giving it huge replayability. Free roam events give the player freedom to explore and talk to people at his own pace and the latest addition in episode 6, the frat house renovation, gives it another layer of decision making and "resource management", something that most games don't have.

Characters - Very likeable and believable characters, with girls with qualities that fulfill every guys' preferences, with unique backgrounds and great diversity.

Sex - The most important part of every game here and Being A DIK absolutely nails it. It has some of the best, if not the best, animations and renders I've ever seen. With many different girls and many different scenes, there is a little bit of every (legal) fetish you can think of.

Overall there is something for everyone here, it does everything at the top level and I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

I'm not a big talker so I'll keep my review short and direct.

The game goes beyond expectations. Compared to the variety of games I've played, the quality of the animation is unparalleled to most and the story is genuinely intriguing - enough to make me look forward in excitement while I wait in-between the consistent updates that are released by the developer. Its qualities paired with an awesome dev makes it a must-play and something I'm willing to support.

Excellent game, would recommend!

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?

Best game i ever played! Story, characters, music, renders, animations are just amazing. Mini-games are fun and amount of content is mind blowing in my opinion. I personaly like all characters and story behind each one of them (which involves a lot of mystery), and models are beautiful. Your choices through the game shape mc and you can feel consequnces of your choices. Music is a matter of taste, but in my opinion its just perfect, its like songs in the game are made for this game. All in all top tier game no doubt

Good game. Many thanks to the developer for Sage, one of the best LI I've ever seen. I just wish Season 2 would be more story focused. It brought many cool moments but mostly it's filler. No progression. Don't really want to see another 8 episodes of DnG or infinite freeroams with fuckfests just to get to the last 1-2 episodes with rushed endings. Anyway, this game is must play for sure.

Personally if not this game I'd never reach this website and adult visual novels world. And I think I'm not alone like that

One of the best games that i have play, the quality of the render is awasome and the story is incredible too. I always wait the new updates for continue play this incredible game. I hope the great quality in all the aspect continue in the future

Perfect, but i want to see some nsfw action with Jill and that librarian mby and the game can be more interactive in my opinion, I like to travel along city and do stuff and this is just too much strict story by my opinion.
Overall can´t wait to get new update and keep going bro.

Not really understanding the rave reviews myself. I'm about an hour in and the game has nothing I would consider better than above average, and that is only the renders used. The humor in the game is non existent, at least in the hour I have played. The characters themselves are all stereotypes in how they look and act. You can literally see what a person looks like and probably guess word for word what their dialogue will be. Almost every character you come across is either a degenerate or asshole. I mean seriously this college and it's faculty and students are straight out of some 15 year olds day dream. I just don't see the appeal.

In my top 5 games & possibly the best one ever. Lots of humour, great characters, beautiful girl & rendering, good animations and story-line. You get quite a lot of choices & that also allows you to do certain things or not. Love it!

Not so long ago, I said to myself "Ah what I wouldn't give to go back to school, just for one day" Being a DIK has almost fulfilled my wish. Graphically Being a DIK is interesting, even though the graphics are standardised by the 3D software that all the developers are currently using for this style of VN, they have taken either for the details in play. The story is really interesting, although I think it's a bit of a cliché. The different characters are attractive and we would like to know more about them. Where I was surprised were the different situations in the story and the choices we make that this game deserves its place as the best VN in recent years. I would like to see more of the characters and situations. Even if there is a FreeRoam mode from a moment in the story, it would be nice to have it at the beginning. It would allow for surprises. Or even know how to install cameras in the girls' dormitory to see what they say about us or "what womens want". As for the rest, this Novel is well done and we are lucky because the development is not finished yet, so we can expect nice surprises for the future. Downloading it here is good, buying it allows the developer to continue on his project. I think this game deserves to be bought.

Probably the best game I have played in a LONG time, the Characters, the gameplay, trying new tasks and trying to get all the rewards in this game actually encourages you to play through multiple times, left me wanting more and can't wait for future contect!!!

A great game with a compelling story and wonderful art.

It's also pretty damn funny and is very replayable. I once redid a few choices that seemed very minor, turns out I got a completely different scenario with different dialogue and scenes. The choice system in this game is very deep.

This game is breathtaking. I was playing it all day, all night. Nice way to spend the holidays. Graphics are great. Very good choices for dialogs. If I wasn't student myself, I would gladly supported on Patreon (Sorry about my bad English)

The gold standard to which all adult games will be measured from now until we all bust our last nuts on Earth.

You'll laugh, cry, and cum, hopefully not all at once.

The characters are all so fleshed out and feel so real. Which in turn makes it hard to decided on which girl to pursue. I've picked Sage, personally. The renders are stunning and the sex scenes are top notch.

The plot is a perfect blend of funny, smutty, anxiety inducing and heart warming. And the MC doesn't feel like a blank slate, almighty hero that can do no wrong, he feels like an actual person, which is a huge plus.

Love, love, love this game, DPC is the fucking man. 5*

Pretty much the gold standard of Ren'Py games.
The production values are insane. Great music, actual mini games, and the renders/animations are the best I've seen.

The story is consistent and interesting, the characters are human and compelling (for the most part), and there are lots of locations.

I have never played another game with such a consistent cast of girls, either. Pretty much every girl is hot and fuckable.

Oh my god that is like the best game I have ever played, The story is top notch on the level that I played it while forgot that I was in for the fap, character design is on the spot and also provide a variety of races including elves and shit, so my recommendation is if you're in for the fap, this might not be the easiest fap material you've got because you gotta collect special renders, play some minigames, go through some stories to get enough scenes, BUT if you want a game that has good story both funny and sad then this is the choice for you Also the game is 15% discount on steam, so get It while you can!

Wasn't a fan of his previous game, even if it was good, but i must say, everything is perfect so far! I was hesitant at first, but everyone kept telling how good it was and i wan't dissapointed.
Story, animation, choices, everything is 10/10.
Can't wait for more!

Chances are you've seen the ridiculously high rating this game has, doing especially well with the high average over so many votes, so you don't need me telling you how good the many parts of this game are. The ladies are hot, the porn is great and plentiful, the story is dramatic and funny at turns, the characters are characters, the choices matter, in both the long and short terms.
Great stuff all round.
The only reason I'm really adding my 2 cents here is for anyone new to this game who is like me. So if you're of the impression that this game's *exclusively* gonna be a feel good romp through a cavalcade of various, well-developed women and sexy scenarios (and you might still come to that conclusion after reading on; e.g. I got the impression after the fact that one of the episode ends was a lot more controversial and heart rending than I found it, so ymmv), then read on.

Now, it's been a while since I came across this game for the first time, so I can't exactly point you to where I came across this information, but I vividly recall between the general content of conversations in this thread as well as the game's own intro (I think maybe it comes up in the intro with Jill that plays the very first time you boot the game up) getting the impression that shit would get dramatic. That there would be difficult choices, darker narrative elements, avenues by which you might properly fuck shit up etc.
And despite getting this fair warning I played this game and, ignoring the hints at this underlying reality that cropped up, had a great time playing and replaying episodes 1-5 and treating this game like a straightforward, wish-fulfilment, "I'm the super capable super desirable MC that all these hot chicks want to bone", type story.
But it weren't ever supposed to be like that, and so I wasn't treating it the way the author had given me fair warning to treat it.
Then came episode 6, which I played the first hour or so of. Then came to these forums trying to gauge if what had started happening early in that episode was a minor deviation from my imagined version of the game. And the impression I got was a firm affirmation that, yes, I was stupid to ignore the game that the game told me from the start that it was going to be.
So, properly recognising the game for what it is, I decided it's not the game for me, and so stopped playing it.
And so the only advice *I* can really give anyone reading reviews to try and decide whether to play this game is this: when the game tells you what it's going to be like, believe it.
Don't be a dumb shit like I was.
If it still sounds like your jam once you're seeing it properly, then it's probably something you should play

Despite undeniable qualities (renders are amongst the best, a humor that is not always very smart but that still manages to make people laugh, good ideas for staging and a playlist that changes from the three unfortunate notes played in a loop), the game suffers from a not very interesting story and cartoon characters.

I see two problems.

The first: the main character is defined only by the fact that he lost his mother, is cute and has a big dick. Having lost his mother, he uses it to gain the sympathy of several female characters he wants to sleep with. As for being cute and having a big dick, apparently, it makes the female characters forget that he assaults many of them throughout the story (especially the girls at the Pink Rose). As for the other characters, they're just caricatures: the alphas are bodybuilders on steroids, stupid, with small dicks; the nerds play D&D and are intellectuals; the rich are vain and shallow; the women are all sex-starved and salivate when they see the main character's dick - hard to say more without spoiler.

The second: the story doesn't lead to anything... and it's hard to understand why. Sometimes the characters withhold information for no reason and then come up with an excuse to justify their silence. Sometimes they face a situation that should make them act to talk to each other, but again, they don't do so. Why not? I have no idea.

That's it, it's a bit long. Score: 2.5/5. I put 2 but that's not going to change the average score.

0.6.1
Perfect detailed story and the narrative style. (Though sometimes the main character and others fail to understand or to do very simple things, like exposing obvious code violations by Quinn. So the dramatism sometimes lacks scenario mastery. I hope though that there wouldn't be tragic sudden events "Deux Ex Machina style", like in final chapters of "Acting Lessons". Well, in Patreon the dev says, the story is more on the comedy side... I like that).

Plentiful and brilliant humor. (Dock, you rock!)

Interesting game mechanics and interface. (Though it's inconvenient that changes in DIK score aren't displayed momentarily... And some mini-games or free roam elements can be a bit boring, like "find 100500 hardly visible pixels among others". Though for actual gameplay they won't matter, so it's alright).

Wonderful visuals: renders, animations, yummy girls. (Though the tits tend to be on larger and saggy side, which is my main regret about this game ).

Conclusion: perfect!!!

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