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

I don't understand why people rate this anything other than 5 star. The dev makes amazing content and showed that in his previous game. Overall this game has it all, amazing story, great gameplay and fantastic character development. Oh wait I forgot about the renders those are A+ too

10/10, this game is a masterpiece. The soundtrack of Being A DIK is really good and the characters are gorgeous.

I laughed a lot at this game, and sometimes I was sad. Josy somehow broke me, and Jill & Bella healed me so idk
who I will choose in the future. But so far my favorites are Jill and Bella.

Thanks again for this masterpiece DrPinkCake.

game has nice cg with animations and characters great looking characters. story is pretty good overall with many hours worth of content. minigame/free roam can be tedious but overall pretty happy with the game. worth giving it a try for anyone considering.

Excellent in every way. The world you travel through conveys a thoughtful view of personal motitivations and social incentives for ethical companionship and sexual gratification in a period/setting that is often key for male identity development. The choice architecture implements instructive, if not exactly realistic, constraints on foresight in general and under alcohol-induced myopia. It is brought vividly to life by mature craftsmanship in the dialog, character development, renders, gameplay, music choice, and the extremely arousing sex scenes. Very very impressive.

I like it. Characters are diferent in their personality and interessting. The Story is realy good written and nice to follow. the models are beautiful and the minigames are also nice to play. If i don't have to let someone burn down at the end, it's a perfect game.

Nice graphic, excellent render, storytelling and character development. I love everything in this game and the soundtrack are so good. This game makes me feel sad and horny at the same time. Can't expect a better game than this one. Keep up your good work, hope for season 2

Wow. When the episode ended I said wow aloud. The characters felt real, the writing is excellent and graphics are really good. I laughed, I felt sad and I felt horny. The girls are all hot and different. Excellent work. Wow.

Being a DIK - A seminal classic? (heh)

Second review I could be arsed to write on F95, and I wanted to try and touch on some of the things I think Being a DIK does so well that has allowed it to dethrone some other game I won't mention as being the most popular game on the site. I think a lot of us that play these games consider making, and some of us even actually attempt to make; games of our own. What about this game raises the bar and what do we take from it?

I'll say one thing to start: this game is doing something well enough that I think about it long after my lust for finely-crafted gobbos has expired.

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So we start with a tragic past, a nameable warrior poet for a protagonist on the verge of his coming-of-age story. It's not long before we find he's headed off to college, where numerous impossibly fuckable 3d mastercrafts await him, lusting for the MC's stinky cheese juice. There's nothing in this plot to suggest anything out of the ordinary from every other Ren'Py wank-fest to date. All the while, however, you're being hit with the game's soundtrack.

Soundtrack and Setting

I have no idea who The Friday Prophets are and after several hours I'm still no closer to an answer. What I do know is that the riffs I'm hearing are drawing me back into a circa 2000 pop punk time warp where American Pie and half a dozen high school shows are still relevant. Better yet; I'm not even American, but I seem to know exactly what everyone is talking about.

Dr PinkCake is taking advantage of a pop culture goldmine that anywhere else would seem trite but here is fresh and full of opportunity. I don't need to have it explained to me that the MC is a teenage misfit full of hormones and bursting at the seams to get out there and get some action. I don't need to see the facial expression on Josy's perfect face to know that the
MC is experiencing a fleeting moment of teenage romance; the girl who got away. The visuals inform as much as the music does, and every pop punk banger and acoustic solo is hitting at the right times. The music and the setting and the events on-screen are so well matched it becomes easier to feel for our main man and the people around him. Which brings me onto something else.

Tropes and Nostalgia (if you can call it that)

The educational setting has been used before to evoke memories both fond and tragic and allow players to relive those years through fantasy. Dr PinkCake knows this, but his use of a turn of the century American college setting that's hammed up to fuck is part of his genius. I think Being a DIK hugely benefits from understanding across cultures of what fictional American college is like but also because even if we didn't all have our own experiences like that growing up, we sure as shit have seen so many TV shows and movies and we've heard so many albums that we know what it should be like.

Side note: the relationship between Derek and the MC makes the game worth playing for their scenes alone. I would play a VN that is just the two of them trying to get into the DIK frat and nothing else. That's how funny and endearing their fucking around is in this game.

I mentioned an early scene with Josy which isn't really unique in how it plays out, but neither is HELL WEEK with your boy Derek or facing off against the Jocks. Irrespective of their originality elsewhere, they are original for porn games, and experiencing these events in an interactive way feels brand new.

I've already said that I feel I know what's going on without having to have it explained to me, but I also feel engaged without really knowing why. It's true the writing and the characters are top notch, but the game really captures what it means to feel longing for an experience and an atmosphere that had never been experienced (Sehnsucht, anyone?). I think this really helps to drive the plot and the player's desire to progress things with the girls, and I mean beyond the porn scenes. Being a DIK has a few genuinely romantic scenes - and they work well.

Bildungsroman and Butthurt

With all this in mind, the college experience can be characterized in part (in fiction and in real life) by a number of things: getting drunk/laid/high, doing stupid shit and getting your heart broke. This Maya and Josy sub-plot sent me for a spin and I commented on my desire to see an alternative route for DIKs that allowed us to handle things differently and unlock new scenes. My reasons are two-fold: 1) It doesn't make sense for our confident dude-bro to not feel like he's being treated like a chump, and 2) at this point in the game it doesn't give DIKs an event with either or both of them when Josy and Maya seemed to be set up as consistent choices from the start.

Now I have no idea what will happen in the next update(s), so I'm probably moaning about fuck all, but I have noted that this choice of story-line did have an emotional impact, and I have no idea if that is the intent so that it can be expanded on later. I hope this is the case. This entire scene means Bella is my new waifu, so uh, thanks I guess?

I like how the heartbreak is presented as a moment of growth and we see reactions from Derek, Jill and Bella that I really liked in terms of how it expressed them as people with real depth. However, the thing that really confuses me about this game though is that I can't always tell if it's a game about romance or fucking, and sometimes they seem to be at crossed-paths, as contradictory as that might sound. Up until this point, I could suspend my disbelief, that my dude was going around fucking everyone and being only semi-truthful about it. That's the genre. Now I don't know what I should feel and I can't tell if that's genius because it's just like college or dumb because my balls are blue.

One theory I have about this is that it's easier for most people on F95 to accept losing two girls from a possible threesome scenario than getting one girl "cucked" away from them by another dude. This might have been the reason Dr PinkCake went this way for a heartbreak plot, which is basically a must have for a college story. I'm not gunna turn this review into an NTR conversation, but I think it's food for thought that despite the successes of good writing in this game, far beyond the standard, it's direction will always be directed by an audience that is here for wish fulfillment. Which again, brings us back to what the game is really about.

Everything Else

Despite this, I would argue the game is still absolutely phenomenal. The scenes, animations and renders are as good as it currently gets and even the mini-games are fun, excluding the shuffling puzzle because fuck that. I actually looked up a guide for those puzzles and I still can't do it, which might be a side-effect of coombrain. Regardless, the mini-games, render hunting and impact of stat gains all ratchet up the addictiveness and I appreciate that there has been an attempt at "gameplay" here. It feels satisfying to master the combat and see beneficial outcomes. If we're talking about the successes of this game, it's only fitting to acknowledge that the work has been put in here to include everything other games did right, and then more on top. Bugs are minimal and content is overflowing with every installment, so it's worth the wait. The game is so good, I wrote this insufferably long and unhelpful review, and I don't know if that says more about me or about the game.

If you haven't already, play the whole thing in one sitting, it's a wild ride and I'm glad there were a few episodes lined up by the time I started.

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Tl:dr Get your porn game a soundtrack, a good writer and make sure you're capitalizing on what people know and love. Shit, I guess this is all pretty obvious isn't it?

I played it, pretty much on rush mode. Mostly a crap story, did not let you get with the girl you wanted and even when you tried to focus on one girl you find out she is homo.

Why did they even give you any states. Get rid of the stats for girls and Dik so we lose the illusion we have any control. You want to defend the stats to change 6 pictures or some shit.

It has many VN that give pretty much no options(fake options) but many more with somewhat real options that change the story plus the girl you hook up with(ya those are the VN I like).

This game gets a 2 star from me because while its well made(runs smooth, easy to navigate and has a great interface) has voice acting, lots of music and amazing artwork, everything else is so standard.

It has the standard start of going to college story, standard type girls, standard game play(choices are worthless) with nothing being unexpected.


The choices for the girls are standard and dont mean anything if the story dosent want you too, i made every "choice" possible to show that i want nothing to do with maya before the pledge incident and that i dont forgive her after it but like other games the story overrides the "choices", why bother with them?
If you want the player to follow your story thats fine so why add choices that dont do anything, if you cant change the MC attidude towards a girl and turn her down then just say that from the start.

The MC cant learn anything he will instantly trust girls again minutes after being used by them and then do it again the next day and the next and the next.

If you are looking for the standard guy goes to college and is nice to all the girls so you get all the scenes type game then this game is the best version of that but there is nothing more to it.

Thank you Dr PinkCake and crew for yet another sublime release.
You leave the competition far behind when it comes to
storytelling, renders, gameplay.
Like its predecessor, this game offers the possibility to choose which path you want to follow.

I've played a..."Fair Bit" of this game. Replayed it. Achievement hunter'd it.

While i'm not "Dik material" myself, and would likely fall more on the chick side if I was being honest, it's fun to play through the game as the party guy. Something i've just never really been.

If you want a well-made game, with thoughtful storytelling, and characters that have well designed personalities, this is a game for you. Or...Visual Novel. It's got interesting mini-games, and a thousand ways to play each run.

While there is no "Correct" way to play it through, i'd dare say there's also no wrong way.

this game has everything. good storyline, musics, minigames and some puzzles. beautiful character with unique personas (especially bella <3), game features like in game insta and tinder apps. i dunno what else to say. its perfect! its really worth ur money if u consider to donate to the author.

Never thought I'd enjoy the writing in one these as much as the "art"(and the art is top notch), but I did. Love the option to be a decent guy, a dick or in-between. Gives the characters their own unique personalities (male and female). Dr PinkCake is definitely at the top of his game here. Again, it looks amazing too.

best game out every was great i didnt even jerk off to every sex scene thats how good the story was
sex scene great
story great
not short like other games
overall a great game
more choices wouldve been good thats my only complain

By far one of the best developers and games on this platform. Is upfront about the time-frame between game updates, sticks to this very well, maintains consistent updates to backers, and always maintains quality during updates or exceeds expectations. As a game, this is by far the highest quality game here with both renders and animations, and has a different storyline that I personally enjoy more than any others that have been done here.

First and foremost, I'm sorry for only now playing this game
Secondly, having the opportunity to play this from the very beginning until now is like watching one of your favourite TV shows and just begging for the next chapter
I had lots of fun in playing this, maybe the theme or the title at first didn't caught my attention and I missed this game, but after seeing that intro, models and how the story develops I was already deep in it
Acting Lessons was great indeed, twists and unforeseen scenes/plots with everything else.
This one, I do believe that you may have a more capable storyline and with a larger capacity to build bonds between characters.
The renders, mechanics, music and more in this one are just awesome.
Isabella is an intriguing and fascinating character (OK, I'm a sucker for this char).
I really hope you can complete this at your own pace and with the story that you wrote (or may still be writing) for it.
Thank you a lot for this Great game.

DrPinkCake, YOU. ARE. AWESOME.

I love everything in this game, the music is really fucking good and matches, the characters, the story, i like the flow of the story and the writing A LOT.

Even though i'm lacked of experience playing adult games before (this is my 2nd lewd game) but STILL though, i know what's good and what's bad, this game is FIRE

DPC, man if you're reading this.. thanks for the hard work, i love this

This game is the best game on this site, period. And it is not even finished yet. In fact, the only bad part about the game is that it will eventually end, in which I hope the author will go on and make a sequel using some of the same characters (Jill, Sage), or make new ones that are at least as good.

You can tell it is the best one because it offers no real fetishes other than maybe feet and domination, is not even halfway through finished, and still manages to be one of the top 3 trending games on this site.

I could go on for hours about every little aspect, from music, to models, character personalities, plotline, minigames, branching, and so on. Truth is there is nothing to say, because everything is perfect.

This game has raised the bar so high that previous games i thought were good seem like shit now, including DrPinkCake's previous work. It is so good in fact that my review is completely meaningless in a sea of 300+ 5 start reviews, despite not even being close to finished. Just play it at this point lmao.

Gosh, just WOW!!!

I cant imagine how a game could be better than this. Keep up the excellent work. This game has made me hard, crying, laughing, in love with one of the girls and totally hooked in two days now.

The story are amazing, and there are so many things to choose of that makes you want to play it a bit different multiple times.
The music, the scenes, the atmosphere, the mini games, everything.