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

Overall, I don't like the game. I can't rate it below 4 stars though because technically this is a truly masterpiece: from music to minigames and phone apps, everything works just perfect and this cannot being ignored. But I personally think all of this, except music, actually detracts from the story, adding a playability that results frankly overwhelming for a VN... in a bad way, at least for me. I just can't stand free-roaming sections, even knowing I can just stick to the main task I feel they are an absolute waste of time just to get a few incoherent renders that, again have nothing to do with the main story. But, as I've said, I must praise the technical execution of these segments. It's just me, I don't like RPGMs for this same reason and it's obvious dev went for a mixed approach here, and I guess it's working quite well according his number of patrons.

Story-wise, it starts reaaaally slow and now (ep5) we're starting to see what's the real deal here. As always, lots of 'easy' drama that could've been avoided just with a brief (or deep) talk in the spot but that lingers for days just because. Characters are just meh, I've only find a couple of them interesting enough (Maya and Bella, which sadly are 'paired' with these annoying Josy and Jill, blocking me from a pleasant 'exclussive' experience with them). And, as in Acting Lessons, being forced into a relationship is not something I'm very fond of (at least here we can cut losses, I think). Not to mention that we're still to see what's the tragic turning point DPC has stored for us. Because the initial disclaimer leaves no doubt this won't be a happy story.

Probably won't keep playing future updates at least until it's fully completed, but everybody should give it a go (although I'm probably one of the latest here actually trying out this game, but still).

Baffling that this game comes from the same mind that produced Acting Lessons...

Often overwritten, pushing you into starting relationships and spending time with girls you're not interested in, very often using popular cliches and stereotypes in place of actual characters with unique and intriguing personalities...

The humor from the developer's previous work is also practically missing, which doesn't help the drawn-out scenes. The free roam sections add virtually nothing to the game and are just another time-waster to chase a few potentially naked renders.

Perhaps Acting Lessons set the bar a little too high and is a tough act to follow, but this game simply failed to live up to the expectations all the positive reviews here had generated.

Absolutely stellar work on the renders and animations.
Each character has a believable motive and sub-type.
Music selection helps build on the world design at the sub-conscious level. Bravo!

Pacing was wonderful, each ero-scene was not too spread out.

I have to say that I'm VERY impressed, I loved AL, so I knew to expect BaDIK to be of at least the same high quality, but DAMN! Everything is vastly improved, I don't know how DrPinkCake does it, haha!
Art is stunning, love the writing, each character has their own distinctive personality, yeah, even the jocks, but holy hell are the ladies hot hot hot! :hearteyes:
UI is simple and easy, love the music, voice acting is a cool addition, I mean, just wow
And it's a very big introduction to the game as well, lots of content and it's only the first release
And it also seem that despite all those plentiful tags up there, well, what you get, depends on your choices, and pretty much every choice matters, so need to be mindful, at least that's how it seem so far
By the way, I must mention the animations, they're some of the best animations I've ever seen, real smooth!

Absolutely great start, beautiful art, can't wait for the next update!

I'd give this first release an extra sixth star if it was possible, I'm just absolute impressed by this release, it leaves me speechless, and that happens like never, haha!

Best game ever, thank you for this excellent game you`ve made DrPinkCake, you are the best mate, keep up the great work, I hope episode 6 comes soon as well.
I just want and is hopefully great as the first season add if you could make season 2 with more episodes, I know that you are doing it by yourself all of this hard work, but I just can't wait and want more of this perfect game. I´m so happy that season 1 goes with 8 episodes, I hope season 2 goes like that as well and I hope it's great as the first season.

I very much enjoyed this visual novel. The renders are good, and very attractive. The story is enjoyable, as are some of the characters. There were some laugh out loud moments especially with the friend. The dialogue isn't too unrealistic and it reminded me of those B grade college comedies, but at the same time it had some emotional parts as well. I look forward to the completed product. Thank you Dr PinkCake.

Oh man, where to start, this game is a gem I love the renders, the story really well was written and good but man the plots twists are what keeps me playing. Especially the plot twist with that happens at the end of episode 4 which I won't lie hurt my soul a bit lmao. I'm pretty happy that I found this game keeps me distracted. The author is a talented guy and I hope that he continues updating this game because once I finished episode 5 I was slightly sad I won't lie but I know that the next few episodes are going to be good. So with that wish Dr.PinkCake nothing but the best and look forward to more from this game.

Hellava Well written story, Great Anims , Mr Cake here truly put through some time and effort to bring this
Curious to see how the arc tie up and finish the story , JIS Playthrough , awesome work man keep it up !!

I could've said "the best game ever", which will be completely sufficient. But I'll spent some time talking in details , as the game deserves good reviews:

1.Graphics are the only flaw in the game. As many people see them brilliant, I find few things , especially animations not really the best out there. All in all it passes well beyond 99.999% of all the games that ever existed here. I would say very few games surpass this one, rendering wise. Still 5/5
2. Some people find the story boring. But I think the story has a soul. It thrills you deeply. It gives you a warm feeling of "what could've done in my college years, if I'm still young". Yeah, now I'm old and ugly and I don't get too many chicks around me..
3. Game play is outstanding. I found myself enjoying the fighting minigame most. Its like a mini StreetFighter...Yeah, I'm old.
4. Codding work is ENORMOUS ! On the top of that there are no bugs . The amount of content is huge. I cant imagine of the countless hours that Dr.PinkCake worked over this jewel . Its true it took few years , but it was worth every day of waiting.
5. The author's imagination works like a charm. The sex pose with Jade with the handcuffs, how she pulled MC with her legs. Or the drunk HOT girl on the sofa with her panties aside....Dude, I love you

Things to improve:
Not really much. May be more perversion should be added. The majority of the community here are pervs to the bones. I was hoping i could do something with this drone for example. Or fucking Maya in her sleep...
May be a bit of NTR, like Josy got raped at the posh party or Tommy fucks her with MC together. Maya fucked trough the glory hole by a male teacher. Yeah I know my mind is fucked up, so is yours. Don't deny....

Anyway...So far so good. I know Dr.PinkCake is not a dirty mind and his games tend to be a bit cheesy, but I love them! It reminds us we can be human beings after all, not monsters

The game is the best game available till now.

The story is interesting, the renders are one of the best, their is good variety of damn hot/sexy/beautiful women models, their is enough branching to make your choices matter yet not deviate you completely, their are numerous side things to do such as rooster, swype etc.

Seriously this is the best game I have played, earlier DoD used to be my No. 1 game, but this has easily defeated that game and all other games. This is also the first game I am really interested in doing a rerun, because it had so many things that I lost many things when I was new to this game.

In short this game is good at everything it does and has everything that I looked for.

One of the most amazing games I have played so far. I enjoyed the story so far. I like that your choices affect how that story plays out. The artwork is great and some of the women are absolutely gorgeous

You don't become the top rated game on this site for nothing. Despite the relatively tamer fetish and depiction of sex scenes, the animation, writing and context of these scene blow most other game out of the water. The girls unique in design and personality that will grip both your dick and your hearth with their plot and "plot".

0.5.0

History: ✭ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Gameplay: ✭ ✭ ✰ ✰ ✰
Graphic: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Sex Content: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✰ ✰
Creativity: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✰ ✰

I definitely don't know if it's worth writing a review for this game, as it will be just one of many reviews. But one thing I would like to say is that this game is not all that people say / think. I can't say that this game is overrated, but in my opinion it is a little bit.
Point-n-click gameplay that sometimes makes you waste a lot of time. Sometimes I got stuck in certain situations.

This game does not have a fascinating story or that gets you involved, the choices do not have much impact, as the game forces you to be a DIK, this is because most of the time if you are not with a lot of DIK scores you will see almost nothing, and if you go to the CHICK side it is a waste of time. The creativity of this game is good but in many moments it ends up being quite boring to play, this because the game is full of mini-games that you are kind of obliged to play them. But on other occasions, I don't know if it's mandatory, because the rewards you earn are not worth the effort. But to make money in this game you need to do certain things, and one of them is to play the brawl mini-game, which in my opinion is a mini-game that did not attract me very much.

The story of this game was one that I didn’t like very much, it's a stupid story that you have to follow in a college brotherhood. But what if I don't want to follow that brotherhood? you can't, the game's script is like that, you have to follow. Talking about the characters, some are quite boring, I for example did not want to follow the dialogues and I was playing in rush mode, I put the walkthrough mod in order not to waste time and went on following. I sincerely, I didn't have much interest in following up, as I had played the first version of that game a long time ago and now I decided to play this more updated version. At certain times it made me want to stop playing, because I felt that the choices we make are very limited, the game shows you that you have the freedom to do such tasks or paths, but it’s not quite that, it’s something that tries to trick you, I had this feeling, but it doesn’t matter much, as it’s just a story script.

Now, talking about the graphics quality is very good, very impressive and the animations too. The gameplay was a little disappointing for me, it is not because of the choices we make, but because of certain mini-games and some functions that the game has, such as the cell phone and Rooster, and other things there, in my opinion certain things are quite useless, but you can ignore them. There are things in the game that make you waste your time, and your choices have to be carefully, you will not see all the content just in one gameplay, you will have to play another one if necessary or look for a mod that unlocks the scenes and gallery.

So, I'm editing this analysis because I think I wrote a lot and I want to do something short, I didn't like the story very much, but this is my opinion, because the story could be better and some things could be discarded so as not to waste time, I hope the developer realizes this. My big surprise was to think that we were going to choose X girls to follow, but it wasn't like that, regardless of the choice, you might be with her. Of course it will depend on your choices, but if you are an asshole with Isabella for example, something may happen between her.
Also, I expected more for sexual content from this game, I mean, this game doesn't have a lot of content, but it also doesn't have a lot. It was one of the things that disappointed me for an 8GB download game, because I expected to see more things, but scenes with certain girls, but when I finished playing this game I was wondering, why does the developer waste his time creating useless things? I'm not here judging, not even if your game is 100% sexual content, but there are things that could be avoided during the game. So, I had a slight disappointment with the game, mainly with the story and his gameplay. Do not think that I am saying that the game is bad, but a game with a stupid story, a gameplay removing mini-games and other things, acceptable, and with moderate content, I prefer to end here in this chapter or maybe I'll change my mind when I play the complete version game.

This game is the gold standard. Engaging story, likable characters, funny moments, plenty of sex with gorgeous renders. My only very minor critiques would be that the mini games aren't much fan and can be kind of difficult and the free roam portions could use hints or a map.

The first erotic visual novel, I realy loved and enjoyed to play. It's fun, sad, exiting, thoughtfull at ones. Charecters seems to be alive, have their stories and you beleve them. Best of the best, this game worth every single day to wait for a new version.

Not much i can say that hasn't been said by other people already, i already played the 0.4 version 2 months ago, spending several days trying different dialogue choices out without a walkthrough, and now i'm gonna do that again.

An absolute masterpiece.

I really... hate this game. I'm giving 5/5. What the fuck, right?

Because I know I'm not the target market for this game. I'm into PORN games. This is a porn GAME.

Renders are awesome. Dialogue is fresh and witty. Multiple love interests (LI). So far so good.

The thing, this isn't a "pick your LI and max those points per run-through" game.

No. To see a scene, you have to get a certain amount of general nice / bad points. Then, yes, you have to have a certain amount of LI points. But THEN, you have to have done a prior scene totally unrelated to the LI THIS way.

Then, do some open world hunting with some minigames. Get $ which can affect a scene, your combat stats, the LI disposition, and then do ANOTHER unrelated scene THAT way... and there's more...

... way... Way... WAY too complicated for me... but for most other people, you'll find that this is almost AAA game level. Get this game. Download it. Support it. Tell your friends.

Me? I'll probably continue and power through my favourite LI using a walkthrough to detangle the spider-web of prereqs... and pray to FUCK that there isn't an Acting Lessons moment.

Same dev.

/makes the two fingers pointing at my eyes and back to theirs and back to mine again movement.

No Acting Lessons moment... I'm serious.

Probably the best game I've ever played from this website, there's so much content and paths and minigames and mechanics... Its obvious that a shit ton of work is put into this. The storyline is really great aswell. 10/10

Reviewed Version - [v0.5.0]
Platform: PC
Date - 5/30/2020

Pros

- Great renders
- Marvelous taste in Music
- Funny as fuck
- Top-of-the-line animations
- Not a blue balls simulator, i.e., has a great deal of sex scenes
- Exceptional Free roam activities and minigames
- Story has multiple routes
- Main girls are well-defined.

Cons

- MC is a hypocrite.
- Story has no aim.
- Too many situations where you get baited and then cockblocked
- Only 3 episodes a year. Matter of fact, next update will seemingly be out 2 days after Christmas.

The best there is ; that simple.
Everything is just done so well, everything is better than the other games : narration, render, the characters...
I'll admit it's embarrassing that this game is one of my first in the genre, how can you appreciate other games after that haha.
And want to know the ONLY con ? It's nearing 10gb.