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

[Gladheim]

DrPinkCake

I don't know if the developer deleted his account here or just isn't allowing private messages but these comments are directed at the developer not the fans.

Bugs in Episode 6

Dungeons and Gremlins

Bar maiden - 'Buy a mug of mead (20 silvers)' - Bar maiden says it costs 30 silver.

Fruit Shop, Pottery, Blacksmith, and Tavern menus don't grey out properly or stay greyed out when the player fully completes all options in each menu. The logic needs to be fixed and reworked with all of these menus.

Surprise picnic from Jill

The MC mentions to Jill that his frat buddies bought him a new phone for his birthday (while driving the car to the picnic). Jill wants to see his new phone. The MC tells Jill that he left it at home and it is charging. During the picnic, the MC gets a notification on his phone - new rooster post.

Sex in bar bathroom with Nora

The first reverse cowgirl scene with the MC and Nora results in Nora's breasts defying gravity and floating upwards instead of downwards. It looks rather silly. All the other reverse cowgirl scenes don't have this problem.


General Feedback

Forced Story

Way too much of the story is forced. I understand that the majority of players need to be guided through the entire story and have their hands held the entire time but some of us don't. The player has the freedom to choose who he wants to hook up with and everything else seems forced.

Free Roam Mode

This is the biggest joke of the game. The player is given tasks that he must perform during free roam. There is only the illusion of choice here. The player is forced to complete all the tasks before he can leave free roam mode. You might as well force all those tasks also.

What free roam really should be is a map with all locations available. The dorms, the college, the classrooms, the fraternity halls, Isabella's home, the library, the strip club, etc. etc. Unattach most of the events from the story and give requirements for all the events. The events are then triggered once the player meets the requirements and visits the location. This would be sandbox mode and not a fake 'free roam mode'.

For example, I would love to visit Isabella at her home once I stop living with her. I would love to talk with and hook up with some of the HOT girls but am never given the option. I would love to visit the strip club and purchase a VIP membership there. The game is too much like watching a movie or reading a book than an actual game (except for who you want to have sex with).

Final Thoughts

The renders are amazing and the animation is very well done. The story is well done and the writing is excellent. The game suffers from a lack of trust in the player to advance the story on their own so nearly all of it is forced.

I'm going to tell you a secret, DrPinkCake is not going to read our messages. And another as a gift, if they give you a new mobile you don't have to throw away the old one. I have left the house many times with the old cell phone the first day or days after to not break it. Surely the MC has taken the old one while the new one was charging the battery so that he would not be cut off, notice that later he also takes it to the bar and receives a call from Josy

Oh and this is a virtual novel not a sandbox/rpg game dude

 

[Zirael Q]

Could someone do a concise TL;DR of the most common critics here about DPC writing? Curious, it's mostly the forced M&J?

pick a scenario in the game. doesn't matter which one, just pick a context. like, there is a character does something in a certain situation. you are allowed to bash DPC's writing because this particular character did something that you didn't want them to. only in this topic ! You can make up as many retarded theories without base as you can and if one of them doesn't actually happen, you can claim it's bad writing and your version was actually better.

i'm not joking, this is %100 real.

 

[Arigon]

No, I just wanted to troll Arigon, it's not the first time I've done it and I don't know why the other got involved xd I don't have anything against him and to specify better Maya and Josy could be my favorites but I like them all and I don't hate any of the girls

I am so touched by your loving care of my emotional well being. Low blow on Bella, but I do understand those who have stunted tastes will tend towards the less refined and less beautiful choices. Honestly if I am not getting love taps on here it means I am falling down on the banner waving of DPC's writing skill or lack there of.

However, I can't attribute my relative quiet to resigning myself to his sub par writing skill. I am just more interested in another group of games at the moment, probably, to be honest, more interested in them for long term. Never fear though, I shall make my appearances for some of my super fans like Arched Croissant, and Gladsheim.
Bless you Maggot DIKs, you give life meaning and wholesomeness even when people like DPC throw good girls into the microwave or blender.

 

[Deleted member 507366]

I'm going to tell you a secret, DrPinkCake is not going to read our messages. And another as a gift, if they give you a new mobile you don't have to throw away the old one. I have left the house many times with the old cell phone the first day or days after not to break it. Surely the MC has taken the old one while the new one was charging the battery so that he would not be cut off, notice that later he also takes him to the bar and receives a call from Josy

Oh and this is a virtual novel not a sandbox/rpg game dude

Your first explanation makes sense but not your second one. The MC stops by the frat house before going out with Tommy so he could have easily picked up his new phone at that time.

I know it is a visual novel. My comments weren't directed at you.

 

[Arigon]

I thought you were a die hard Sage fan.

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ah Kellerman, it has always been Bella first.. Sage is definitely better than Jill. Josy was the original poster child, Maya was and is the single "cutest". Nicole, Jade and Cathy are all my head cannon harem with Bella running the crew. Sage is busy giving all the ladies love and attention when I have completed myself inside them. While I am banging the stew out of her of course

 

[Gladheim]

I am so touched by your loving care of my emotional well being. Low blow on Bella, but I do understand those who have stunted tastes will tend towards the less refined and less beautiful choices. Honestly if I am not getting love taps on here it means I am falling down on the banner waving of DPC's writing skill or lack there of.

However, I can't attribute my relative quiet to resigning myself to his sub par writing skill. I am just more interested in another group of games at the moment, probably, to be honest, more interested in them for long term. Never fear though, I shall make my appearances for some of my super fans like Arched Croissant, and Gladsheim.
Bless you Maggot DIKs, you give life meaning and wholesomeness even when people like DPC throw good girls into the microwave or blender.

Who said my name?

well, I'm glad you like other games, I think this is not a game of your style. This last week I have been focused on CyberPunk or doing other things, these games for me are like reading a book, a book with images for adults. But for fun I have other hobbies. I don't hate you, you can be calm xD

 

[Arigon]

Who said my name?

well, I'm glad you like other games, I think this is not a game of your style. This last week I have been focused on CyberPunk or doing other things, these games for me are like reading a book, a book with images for adults. But for fun I have other hobbies. I don't hate you, you can be calm xD

Seeing this made my pee pee all tingly and messy!
Oh I still like porn games... I have also spent time in things like CP2077 and BG3 but some games on here like Rebirth, Heavy Five, Leap of Faith, Life Happened, and Trolling tRump on Twitter.....
I will still work some time out to baiting some folks on this thread as well though, never fear!

 

[Holy Bacchus]

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[Gladheim]

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I think this guy already believes Electronic Arts or something ... incredible fuck off you DPC xd without us you ll be nothing

 

[Arigon]

pick a scenario in the game. doesn't matter which one, just pick a context. like, there is a character does something in a certain situation. you are allowed to bash DPC's writing because this particular character did something that you didn't want them to. only in this topic ! You can make up as many retarded theories without base as you can and if one of them doesn't actually happen, you can claim it's bad writing and your version was actually better.

i'm not joking, this is %100 real.

Usually involving either M&J, Jill being Naïve and a tease and gullible and the MC's Aunt, Bella being a psycho killer with her husband and their first born in the locked room in the wedding gifted food processor. Sage is rebounding onto you because 99% of equines on the planet have smaller genital organs than you do, and if you didn't visit her when she was sick you are a heartless fuck. Derek is the best character in the game. Quinn is a whore, pimp, drug dealer, and will be in a body bag before the ending, Mona is going to bring down B&R, and publish pictures of Stephen Burke's micro penis. The rest are simply window dressing. Zirael, I made sure to ding Quinn for you, but did I miss anything??????

 

[sbarabaus]

He is, and he's not there when Quinn goes to pick up the drugs which makes me think he's dead. She also seems quite melancholic and sad, like when she looks at what are clearly her height lines on the wall from growing up.

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lol, for some reason i thougth it was cocaine on a table (numbered samples )
i feel very dumb now

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I think this guy already believes Electronic Arts or something ... incredible fuck off you DPC xd without us you ll be nothing

The guy's probably making 5 figures a month, which is better than most people, yet someone sharing a preview render of Ep 7 on Reddit is "harmful to my business".

There are links to both Patreon and Steam on the Reddit page so that if people want to go and support them they can and these small things will barely make a dent in their profits.

I haven't thought about how I'm going to respond to this yet since I've only just seen it, but I don't see how I have any other choice.

 

[Arigon]

I think this guy already believes Electronic Arts or something ... incredible fuck off you DPC xd without us you ll be nothing

FUCK DPC
there said it needed to vent he thinks he is all that... ok I feel better

 

[shazba]

Could someone do a concise TL;DR of the most common critics here about DPC writing? Curious, it's mostly the forced M&J?

The biggest issue with this game is:

• More time is spent thinking/talking about it than actually playing it (due to the justifiable delays between episode releases).

This is resulting in some people putting every scene, every line of dialogue under the microscope and picking everything to shreds. It's subjectively one of the best AVN's out there, and definitely way better than "Leap of Faith".

Here's a quote from the creator of the game:

Visual Novel kind of implies linearity. Just like a book is linear, the nature of a visual novel is, too. Before I started developing games it was so hard to imagine the kind of work that goes into making a branching story, but luckily I realized early on that early game branching is something that can kill a project. Maintaining branches not close to the main story is not a good idea early on (unless you really have mapped out the game in advance). As for Megan, she was central to the moral of the story and the plotline. The whole idea of Jonas turning into something he was broken by could only happen if Megan was there. And it added a lot to the drama. I don't like my games to be easy-going. That's just who I am and it's of course ok if you like different

So when you play this "game", keep in mind that you're really just reading a story. You don't get to choose the major plot lines of the story, only some of the side lines. No one's forcing you to be friends with Maya and Josy, you're reading a story about a guy (not you) who is friends (or lovers) with Maya and Josy. Those characters are integral to the linear story. And if you don't like the story (as is the case with all the arts - liking them is very subjective), just put the book down and pick up another one.

For me personally, to echo many comments on this thread and many of the reviews, this is hands down the best AVN I've ever played.

PS Hope you all had a lovely Christmas (unless of course you don't subscribe to that holiday, in which case I hope the last week has been great nonetheless).

 

[Gladheim]

The guy's probably making 5 figures a month, which is better than most people, yet someone sharing a preview render of Ep 7 on Reddit is "harmful to my business".

There are links to both Patreon and Steam on the Reddit page so that if people want to go and support them they can and these small things will barely make a dent in their profits.

I haven't thought about how I'm going to respond to this yet since I've only just seen it, but I don't see how I have any other choice.

I go to the subreddit almost every day and I haven't seen that message, in fact I just looked for it and I can't find it. When is it? it is real? I thought he posted it an hour ago

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I go to the subreddit almost every day and I haven't seen that message, in fact I just looked for it and I can't find it. When is it? it is real? I thought he posted it an hour ago

It's a PM to the mods of which I am one.

 

[Gladheim]

It's a PM to the mods of which I am one.

 

[ChipLecsap]

I go to the subreddit almost every day and I haven't seen that message, in fact I just looked for it and I can't find it. When is it? it is real? I thought he posted it an hour ago

Same, I went there just to see myself, and also read the comments , but there is no post like this there.

I somehow doubt he would try to go that far with reddit, Reddit is the place where way more bigger fish than him are destroyed. EA, Battlefront 2 loot box, Now CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077,He is a little fish, and would not gain any positives with something like this
but maybe I'm wrong. but its one thing try to control your own discord, and patreon, and try to control Reddit,

 

[Gladheim]

Same, I went there just to see myself, and also read the comments , but there is no post like this there.

I somehow doubt he would try to go that far with reddit, Reddit is the place where way more bigger fish than him or destroyed. EA, Battlefront 2 loot box, Now CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077,He is a little fish, and would not gain any positives with something like this
but maybe I'm wrong. but its one thing try to control your own discord, and patreon, and try to control Reddit,

Yeah, but is true its a PM, Bacchus would do well to publish the message in a public way so that everyone can see how when it affects his pocket then he appears.

 

[ChipLecsap]

It's a PM to the mods of which I am one.

Well, then Say, no thank you we're fine.
But if you are a mod, then put out there this message, and ask the users what they think, should they allow him to control the place or not ?