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

So very good. I play for way to much hours. All girls are really hot has few like sage and quinn who are dirty girls which I like wish had more a lot of fuck scene and women basic interests. Story is good I like main charakter he good guy but willing to fight not creepy or anything to he easy to like. Has lot choices from many girls to what kind of man main is.

Has shit parts tho. I turn games of so not problem but has open world part and not good really bad actually hard to find way around. But no problem is more here I like.

Should play 10/10. Loved it.

The best game, no other game comes close, the graphics are good, the music is good, storylines, choices are actually meaningful and there's a lot of them, characters are unique and have a story and personality and the replayability is very good.

The GOAT. One of my inspirations to create my visual novel. Everything about BADIK is perfection.

Characters

They are iconic. They really have deep layers and are not just talking 3d models. After a few replays, you know they already have a character from the beginning. Designs are pure perfection.

Animations

My favorite renders are in this game. Feels super realistic especially when you mix high detailed characters.

Story

Oh my oh my. This is a decision based game so you can replay many times and everytime you will see more details about the story. Even though you don't have to focus a spesific girl, that means another story. M/J, Sage, Bella, Quinn stories are something you can really feel inside.


5/5. Can't wait the new episodes.

While there are bits and pieces I don't like such as minigames or freeroams I feel this nailed the part of a lewd VN that REALLY matters; the girls. All five of the main girls are hot and interesting with their own routes and personalities. Then you have side girls that are great. Some such as Riona, Quinn, Lily, Nicole could genuinely carry another VN as the main girl.

Story-wise I mostly like it. I wish plots didn't feel like they got dropped only to reappear from the blue episodes later. Outside that it's a fun college story that shows the gamut of emotions people have at that age from horny, angst to anger etc. It's all about the MC growing up moving on as an adult and building his own life and support structure around him (family). I wish there was another mad run like hell week though where MC, girls and DIKs go nuts and have fun.

Visually outside the early episodes it looks great seen better but more often seen worse.

I feel the minigames and sandbox just didn't take away from the fact I was engaged and enjoying the story and characters. It's simply a fantastically made VN.

For adult games, I usually focus on the lewd content. This was the first adult game which made me skip the sex scenes for the story. The lewd content is the cherry on top of a satisfying journey in a dramatized college life. BaDIK is one of, if not the top game in F95 because it excels in all categories: renders, character development, storytelling, music, amount of content, and variety of choices. You could argue there are better games for each aspect, but ultimately the collective excellence is what places BaDIK at the very top. As a note, I was extremely impressed with the considerable differences both the CHICK and DIK paths and the associated love interests. The many other five star reviews before me are warranted!

This will be a short review, as I am not a fan of exaggeration. First of all, girls, all girls are very sexy from milfs to hot-girls!

secondly, animation, with every update it gets better and hotter!

and finally, this is the plot and narration of the story of each character, personally, I have never been a fan of many separate branches, i.e. sometimes it gets boring to go through every girl, but BaDik really surprised me, and I go through each branch with pleasure!

B E S T G A M E

Okay, so here's the thing.
This is probably the TOP western erotic/pornographic VN.
The story is told through its characters and your relationship with them. There is little time spent on them apart from the protagonist or outside of his perspective (there is some, but not much, it strikes a good balance and is mostly used just to set up some future interactions and spark interest), and therefore the game keeps your interest in the actual characters using sex as a motivator, while also mostly* not feeling like an overindulgent writer's attempt at realising his failed aspirations by baiting people with porn. It's an actual interesting porn game that you will not skip the dialogue of, and possibly get off in the process. You might even come to enjoy some of the side characters that aren't fuckable. The ratio of text to renders is excellent and the writing is simple and mostly delivered through dialogue, while the protagonist's thoughts represent his feelings towards other characters and service the story. It's not at all like japanese VNs that like to write 3 pages of flavour text and unnecessary quirky musings while keeping the same few drawings in rotation with a single background. The dialogue feels natural, has a nice pace and represents the character - it's not overindulgent. That said the first episode (or 2) is still shit.

The sex scenes have build up and foreplay with different renders/images, multiple animated positions and some dialogue between position switches. They're good, you can get off to this game. Not necesarilly to each one, but to a few spaced relatively close together.

All that said, there are problems that keep this from being the gold standard, I'll write them point by point for clarity. Keep in mind that you may disagree with some of my character preferences, but I think my points should otherwise still hold value.

• The first episode or two are terrible compared to the rest where the characters later undergo a major change. Almost everyone that you'll eventually come to like are at first insufferable, extremely rude and presumptuous, except somehow, for the characters that then turn out to be the least interesting. It really suffers upon replay when you realise the abuse the protagonist undergoes which you're supposed to just brush off. Don't let the first episode (or 2, can't remember) discourage you, they are bad and serve as a terrible introduction that actively discourages you from engaging and establishing relationships with characters, and it gets better.
• Body Types/renders - while the characters for the most part look good by weg standards, the author just really does not understand midriffs and women's silhouettes. It is really weird when you notice it. Everyone's waistlines are too thin, their stomachs are just too narrow from the sides - the hourglass figure is too exaggerated. The proportions make no sense, and the issue is with everyone. No one's thick or skinny, everyone's for the most part around the same weight with small differences in tits and asses, height, faces, skin colours, etc. - the general build is more or less the same. The variety comes from sex features, faces and age.
• Free roam events - I enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to interact with characters at my own pace/leisure, but there seems to be a specific order designed for those interactions that seemingly defeats its purpose. It becomes really clear on repeat playthroughs, which you will do. For the most part you follow the in-game objectives, and it becomes more of a puzzle of sorts, where the hardest part of the puzzle is finding your way around the terrible navigation and doing silly fetch quests. It does make parties and other events feel more distinct and separate, but the execution falls short. Dear god, please make a map.
• Mini games - I turned them off (I don't remember if you need a mod for that or not, apologies), although that doesn't turn all of them off, but most while simplifying others. Some of them seem really superfluous and feel to be more in the way rather than servicing the game. It feels like a chore you have to do to keep a good relationship with some of the characters, even though as of now I don't think there's any actual impact.
• Juggling DIKs/friends satisfaction/happiness minigames. Does it do anything? Are there any benefits? I genuinely don't know and can't tell. What is the point? There is a variety of which interactable events you'll get depending on your choice, but are you prepared to disappoint chud #3 and #5? Does it matter?
• *I said that the writing mostly doesn't indulge itself, but as of now (season 3, episode 10) some plot lines are being set up that seem to be out of the scale of a typical college life romp. It also feels like the game tends to be a little indulgent when it comes to maya. Every love interest has some problem going on, but maya's problem permeates every interaction with her and seems to take up a more significant portion of the game, making her tiresome. Likewise Quinn's seems to be the one growing far too serious for the game's tone, threatening on turning into a melodrama, but at least it's been (up until now) something in the background that didn't impact your interactions with her or other characters.
• I'm not entirely sure of this is correct, but I think you will in essence befriend everyone the game intends you to - there are choices for whom you are romantically or sexually interested in, but you can't opt out of interacting with someone completely. This isn't necesarilly a big deal, just thought it prudent to mention - it is still a VN.

This is an excellent game, it's just jumped the shark for me since Interlude.

I was a supporter of DPC on Patreon up till about 2022. He and Philly kind of defined this genre for me.

Full disclosure: I HATE open world, sandbox, and "roaming" sections. I see it as a crutch and filler in these games. Blatantly stating that you don't respect my time and see to waste it with time sinks to make up for a lack of genuine content. I also don't like gatekeeping story line branches like DPC uses, so really this game simply isn't for me, and they've really doubled-down on this with the updates since Interlude. And mini-games are annoying to me.

Usually, walkthrough mods let me skip mini-games and consolidate branching story lines into one harem/cheating play through, with generally siloed experiences.

DPC actively writes and structures against this kind of player. It's friendly to mods, but the game is structured to, even with the mod, force multiple saves/play through. You HAVE to choose between Josy/Maya and Jade, period. And to do that multiple save - I have to endure multiple "roaming" hunt and peck sequences. I cannot be bothered. It's a failing in me. So you have to do a CHICK Josy/Maya, a Jade, and a Quinn play through, at least, according to my list. I couldn't even get through the roaming sections even for just the Jade save. I didn't realize till this play that Quinn's story seems to need that you stay with Sage and the HOTs instead of Isabella. I don't know if Isabella's requires you stay with her.

Anyhow, I couldn't do it. I checked the missed scenes for Jade and Cathy, and all that work to create a forced branch and play really is like 3 scenes. This just seems so disrespectful of my time and effort, but I suppose if you see this as gameplay, then you're just smiling the entire time. I'm not.

And then he introduced the Cheater tracking stat. This is where I throw in the towel. I haven't even gotten to Episode 10, which has apparently triggered a few people.

DPC does a great job. We just are too much in disagreement with what the definition of fun and entertaining is. Much love and respect. I wish him continued success. But I just can't deal with the development decisions to rain more on my already rainy parade.

A college-themed AVN about an incoming freshman. While that theme may be played out, this is the very best of its type. Absolutely the best writing and graphics of any AVN I have experienced. The models and graphics are excellent quality. No really taboo themes. No Harem possible, though limited opportunities for multiple partners are viable for certain paths. (Any of the paths for the "main" girls force the MC to choose at a specific point.) The character development is outstanding. Dr. Pinkcake has real talent at story telling. My #1 AVN of all time.

The praise and love for this game is well deserved. I can't think of another project that has stuck with me as hard as this.

Through the current 10 episodes you get plenty to invest your time into, the different choices you get and the branches you go on feel natural and rewarding. After finishing my first/blind playthrough, I felt good with where the story went and how my choices altered the interactions with the cast and only by going back and choosing different major decisions did it fully click just how much is out there. One aspect that I really appreciate is that even some early decisions evolve naturally and come up much later in the story, like they should, which highlights the wonderful writing by DrPinkCake. It never felt like important plot points were abandoned, which can happen in this genre, with Being a DIK, it was the opposite, I wasn't expecting certain decisions to actually hold weight and alter a dynamic between characters. From smaller to bigger changes (different dialogue to completely different scenes), the decisions you end up making feel really solid.

I've seen many people repeat the sentiment that to fully experience this game you have to play it a couple of times and give both DIK and Chick routes a try (and everything in between) - and I couldn't agree more. While I'm usually reluctant to try different paths, especially when it comes to implied morality, or picking love interests, I was too hooked on this game to not give it a try, and I'm happy I did. Every single branch, path and character is worth it, they are all great in their own ways and the writing is great throughout.

The renders are great, characters provide a good spectrum for you to find ''the one'', minigames are enjoyable and are not mandatory, even some of the smallest decisions get rewarded and enrich the experience, genuinely a must try.

Here's my take on ep 10 the story is again 5 star rating. My only problem on this game is the math mini game. Other than that the other mini games are great especially the brawler which I enjoy the most.

Additionally the music are some of the best I have ever heard in a AVN. Especially the one playing on the opening of ep10. The music's alone deserves 5⭐ rating

Regarding the stories of the main L.I. for me Sage story stands out the most and Jill is number 2 in this update. Some of the review I read is bum because Bella and Jill sex scene are limited to 1 but for me the story building is what makes it one of the best game I have ever play. I play alot of game with the same genre which I'm not sure is I'm allowed to say but Being a Dik is by far the best.

Have not played too many AVN games, usually not my thing. But I am glad I gave this one a try.

The writing is great, like really really great, was not expecting the story and character development to be this good. The story has its flaws but despite that it is extremely well written, specially considering who the writing of entertainment industry went downhill in recent time this provides great entertainment. And it is possible to get attached to get some characters. A great deal of character variation, engaging side characters.

I had very low expectation in terms of gameplay I will be honest, I am one of those freaks who enjoyes punishing challenge, Dark Souls, Sekiro, Baldur's Gate 3 on hardcore mode sort of person. And the basic gameplay of this game was simple (what you would generally expect from an interactive novel) but to my surprise the mini games and ingame mobile games provided a nice blend for me. I first played this game just when I got into wordle as a result the english test was fun for me, the old math challenge was okay, but the new math challenge is more fun for me, the brawler game is okay.

The graphics is good, but I will be honest, I am past graphics for this game because of how much I am invested in the plot right now.

Music is good, again exceeded my expectation here tbh.

Also a high replayability is a major turn on for me in any game.

Some negative points, mini games might not be a thing for everyone (and it can be turned off), you lose a babe mid game (hope she makes a comeback). MC having a baseball bat between his leg is pretty typical.

I hope the developer(s) still have enough passion for this project to give us a great ending, and not become G R R Martin.

And finally thank you DPC for changing my view on AVN games, which made me try out few other games after playing this.

Like many others, I consider this game to be the gold standard for AVNs. Wonderful writing, excellent pacing, realistic characters, incredible renders, the works! I've already purchased this on Steam and played through what's available there multiple times on different paths. Can't wait to see more from DrPinkCake!

I came for the "plot", but stayed for the plot.

The cons:
- The 3D character models sometimes look uncanny, especially in the earlier episodes.
- The first 20 minutes of the game is kinda dull and it's easy to drop the game when you start.

The pros:
- The sex scenes are very good, the animations are nice.
- Excellent immersion. This game really takes you to an exaggerated college life that you wish you had.
- The writing for this game is top notch. The characters feel very human, even AAA titles don't have such complex characters. It's like a very good drama TV series and you are part of it. I literally laughed out loud at a few jokes in the game.
- the mini games make sense, which is very odd and rare for hentai games.

Although it is one of my favorite adult games, I started to see that the enthusiasm and development speed of the first seasons were no longer there when the developer started to make too much money from this game. I hope that he will give a good ending to this series with the third season as soon as possible. The quality of the episodes in the seasons has started to decline and the development process has become too long.

Not sure why there is hate for chapter 10 unless you despise the minigames cause chapter 10 is clearly the best chapter for me. It's when the game is starting to ramp up and get going from story to relationships. Where the relationships are starting to feel like relationships and there is finally some developments in the plot.

If this was just about the characters then easily a 4.5 or 5 / 5. But as a whole package I feel like somewhere in between 3 - 3.5 prior to season 3 but so far Season 3 is the best for me so I can say with that it's more like a 4. Depending where you sit on the minigames and free roam. For me about 1/2 of the mini are good but I do hate feeling forced to play them to manage my money. Also this game would be so much better without the test. But this game is very replayable and it does a bit of everything good and only excells at a few.
I'll be straight this isn't on my top 10 list atm it's #12 but after playing episode 10 might make it back onto it.

Story : 4/5

I don't get why so many so came for the porn and stayed for the story. It should be more like stayed for the characters. Because other than characters arcs there does not seem to much of a central main story line. As it's all in the setup phase in Season 1 and 2. End of Episode 9 and Episode is where it starts to finally pick up.
With that being said I do enjoy all the character story arc's so far. There isnt one I can say I dislike or wish wasnt in the game. I'll talk about that more in the next section. If I would to judge this purely based on the main story and not the characters arc's it would only be like a 1 or 2 / 5.
Characters : 5/5

This is easily the best part of the game. Very few other AVN's have a good cast of characters that are all well written and have decent or good story arcs. I'll talk about each character in the order I like them best.











Music : 4/5
Most AVN's I don't care about the music however in this one it's either okay or amazing depending on which part in the game you are at. I say it really shines during any of the parties.

Gameplay : 3/5
This is the worst and best part of the game at the same time. There is so much branching the it makes this game really replayable. Most of the minigames are okay and not a big deal since you can turn them off at the start of the game. I just wish you could do it at any point during the game. What makes the minigames bad is the need to play them everytime you can just to manage your money and keep it as high as possible. But in reality you don't even need to do that unless you want to collect everything. But it's enough to burn out and lose interest in multiple playthroughs. The free roams events in this game I enjoy for the most part. There is alot of content playing all paths up untill Season 3 took me about 2 weeks to beat.

Animations and renders :
not gonna give a number but rather just mention how much of an improvement they are in chapter 10 that it makes me really wish the entire game was like Chapter 10 in terms of looks and animation. But it never looks bad but never is amazing either.

BaDIK redefined the AVN genre, and it was daring enough to break the stigma and taboo these types of games had. An enganging story, lovable characters and a intricate connection to the player.
Simply the number one AVN there is.

This game is going from the best to the worst… I mean, who writes this kind of crappy text? Are you an 18y-old horndog? There’s absolutely nothing interesting about the interactions and conversations. It’s all blablabla. Not to mention the road the story has taken. You’re making shit up as you go and completely lost your original blueprint. Episode 9 blew the whole build-up from the entire first two seasons to pieces, and episode 10 tries to introduce a kind of new and interesting story-arch but fails to deliver, instead it becomes boring and meaningless. And btw, whats up with those weird faces? Certain emotions you want to emphasize, look like the person just realized he/she stepped in a giant turd.

I'll start this. off by saying that the production value of this game is amazing. The renders are good, the LIs are largely good, Music and effects are good, and the free roam is actually very well done, if way overused. I genuinely like the free roam but feel that putting long and unskippable fetch quests into a game with many, many paths really decreases the replayability. But overall the game is really good.

However the story is a cobbled together mess where things happen because the plot requires them, are either nonsensical or swiftly abandoned soon after, or are forcefully removed from the story in order to come back 6 chapters later as a "twist". Here be spoilers, though I try to censor the big twists as best I can.

Some examples of nonsensical plot points include:

- No less than three twists that were only twists because the MC was unaware of someone's last name, despite dating some of them for months.
- A character who was being controlled by a parent who threatened to default on a co-signed tuition loan if they didn't do as they said. Doing this would also destroy the credit rating of the parent, but apparently he's willing to do it anyway. Also, that's not how loans work.
- A drug and prostitution (and arguably sex trafficking) ring being run out of the HOTs sorority in which literally every member is involved except the president, who has zero idea. The leader is literally adversing her wares to people who she just met yet the President, a LI who is shown to be very intelligent and also genuinly cares about the members of the sorority, has no idea because the plot requires it.
- One new girl refuses to take part and leaves, and is promptly erased from the story after deciding to "ignore" literally everyone including ones who weren't involved . She would just ruin the plot if she told anyone so she was silenced due to plot reasons.
- Maya's entire storyline revolves around a (true) rumour of free tuition offered by the sorority (as a form of extortion into prostitution), which she needs. This secret is both so secret that the sorority president and the rest of the university is completely unaware, but yet random people outside of the entire university are aware of it. There is no explanation as to how Maya knows about this.
- The main plot involves a certain person who can give or take scholarships to and from students, at any time including during the school year, and for apparently any reason without any oversight.
- On the MCs first day he is given a weggie by the jocks. But he's also a pro boxer and a week later fights 3 jocks at once and wrecks them. So there's some really inconsistent bullying going on because the plot required it.
- A certain teacher makes the MC jump through 18 hoops for a secret sexual encounter, but then allows him to film it that same night without a second thought despite the frat he's in posting a nude photo online of another teacher that very same day.

- The most egregious example is with the Josy/Maya reveal. You have 3 ways of romancing the girls. 1. You romance them both. 2. You romance neither of them. 3. You romance one but not the other.
The problem is that the game forces your character to storm out and get really angry with them after the reveal. Except this makes no sense for two of the three choices. If you didn't romance either of them, why would the MC be angry that they are dating each other? He would not care at all. If you romanced them both and then get upset, well now you are a huge hypocrite because you did the exact same thing as them. It only works if you only romance one, as then it actually feels like a betrayal. Giving us player agency with a love interest and then yanking it away like that undermines the entire point of being able to romance someone.

Then there's the story straight up abandoning plot threads.
- You meet Maya because you need a new dorm after your guitar was stolen and your asshole roommate was beaten up and lashes out at you. You meet Sage because she is given the guitar (despite not knowing how to play). It is never explained who stole it and beat up your roommate and he effectively ceases to exist afterwards anyways so it doesn't matter.
- The Jock president gets sent blackmail pictures and blames the MC, resulting in him assaulting the MC and getting removed from the leadership of the Jock frat. It is never explained who sent those pictures, why, or what they even were pictures of. And that Jock then all but vanishes from the story as well from that point on.
- A teacher has a nude posted online and feels ashamed, but the MC and others help her overcome it only for her to do a 180 and abruptly resign. She also disappears from the story after this point.

- I'll add in that the photos and alleged blackmail does get revisited in Episode 10 and looks to become major plot point now. But it still doesn't excuse the results. I was expecting the MC to talk to the teacher about why she did a 180 and quit after she has sorted it out. Or why the Jock thought that the MC was blackmailing him (the Jock shouted it during the fight). But both characters simply disappear after these scenes and they are never mentioned again. Plot threads that realistically should have been followed up on were forcibly removed from the story until DPC decided that they were allowed to be talked about again several chapters later. That's not good storytelling. I can guarantee that after 6 in game months the sorority girl who left is going to magical appear again just in time to blow the whole prostitution ring wide open.

- After the Jock president beats up the MC, the frat is on thin ice and are warned that any misstep could result in them getting shut down. This is brought up multiple times and the DIKs even mock the jocks because they know that they can't fight back. Then this whole thing is promptly ignored as the jocks literally destroy the DIK house and both the school and the DIKs themselves don't seem to care and no one even brings it up again.

Are you sensing a theme yet?

The main plot, as much as their is one, seems to revolve around Quinn setting up the drug and prostitution ring because she "needs money". Why? Fucked if I know. 5 years in and we have almost no insight into the motivations of the main antagonist.

In all these cases, the plot required something and it just happened. There was no logic or consequences, the story just needed something to happen so it made it happen and then ignored every consequence that could have resulted from it except the one that it wanted. Key details that anyone would realistically know are hidden for the story, threads get introduced and abandoned all the time because the story requires it, and other threads are forcibly ignored until the plot requires someone to give a shit about them again. The main plot hasn't advanced in any meaningful way since the second chapter and at this point I just don't really care anymore. Quinn needs money. Whatever. Honestly the secondary plot with the photos and the people behind it is far better and actually makes sense, so why didn't DPC just run with that one?

This game has a ton of splitting paths that make for great replayability, but is also chock full of minigames and long unskippable free roam events that make it a daunting task to go through it again. That said, I think that the free roam events are very clever and well done but they need to be used in moderation. Chapter 9 was a single multi-hour long event comprising of 5 parts, and honestly by the end I was just skipping through the tasks wanting it to be done. I really don't want to replay that event but I'm going to have to for every LI path now, which just sucks.

In summary, the game is artistically very good, but the story is a mess and it feels like it's adding small plot arcs one at a time that have little to no effect on the main story.

That said, I still recommend this game. It's good, really good actually, but it's far from deserving of the perfect praise that it receives.

This developer has been doing so well since the first game he release which is acting lesson. Now with BiD i gotta say im in love with content that has been produce by Dev. Great storyline, great dialogue, great renders, animation and yeah especially the girls. I love them all and trying them all.

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