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

One of the best games here on f95zone.
I'm impressed of the game as a whole.

The grafics are magnificant and the character design is really nice.
The story is based on the "typical" american college/university (not exactly sure where you have to draw the line, because I'm a german PhD student and nothing like this happend to me - don't know if I would like to have this experience myself ), you see in many american college/university movies. Therefore expect horny students wanting to join a fraternity and bang as much girls as possible, slutty girls banging students for fun, money or influence and professors/decans/teachers feeling attracted to students. Nontheless the game impresses with complex main and stereotypic side characters, funny moments and some serious topics. At some points I was really amused by the funny moments of this game, especially with Derek (who maybe isn't that stupid at all ), while in other situations I was a bit sad about how the storylines move on (not because it was bad at all, but sometimes you just wish it would develope somekind different - maybe because I would act differently ). The highlight of this game is not the setting on an american college/university and the story about a guy comming from a poor family, going to college and tries to find true love or a as many sexual adventures as possible, the real highlight of the game is the development of the characters itself, mostly the relationship between the main character and the possible romance interests / sexual encounters. Not every interaction moves directly to a sexual encounter, whats quite nice, instead there is a distanced introduction phase, a phase of confrontation or slutty sexual interaction and the development to something more friendly/romantic relationship alongside with the development of trust and revelation of the characters background story.
In a nutshell: I really like this game for it's pathing, it's funny moments mixed with some dark scenes, the funny character Derek, as well as the more complex characters with some backstory and the development of characters relationships from strangers to friends/partners? Personally I would prefere a less sexual development of relationships (like with Maya, that's one highlight) but it's american college setting so it has to be like this.

Thanks for reading, I didn't plan to write such a long review
All the best and have fun playing.

Probably the best VN/Dating Simulator on this website and out right now. Dr. PinkCake has really outdone himself this time. Beautiful renders that look crisp at a high resolution, and amazing character design. They're not your cookie cutter Daz 3D Models. Each character has a unique personality and you can chose who you like/dislike and who you want to get with. The story is nice. It's your typical college dude frat story but it has some nice twists from that which make the game more wholesome instead of just fucking everything in sight. Overall I cannot wait for more content! Simply amazing game.

Pros:
- Beautiful High Definition Renders
- Gorgeous Character Design (Isabella )
- Great Free Roam/Story Progression (Doesn't Feel Forced)
- Amazing Scene/Animation Quality
- Immersive(ish) Story
- Great Choices w/ Great Consequences
- Good Humour

Cons:
- I personally prefer more emotional attachment to characters, but that's just personal preference. This game is amazing and I hope Dr. PinkCake builds on emotional attachment to characters!

Is a really good game. Must play. All models are stunning. Story is relatable to real life of course except you do not get to sleep with so many girls at once. Renders are of really great quality, It has a music playlist which I do not use though. Playability is great without bugs on my slow pc. Only problem I had was with the minigames which were not playable(my game crashes).

IS A MUST PLAY!!!!
Being a DIK is one of the best games i have played ever. Every character model is just remarkable. The characters are like able .Character back story very well though out. One of the best things about the game is its animation very smooth, high quality renders and the MUSIC selection. Its not the same as other games where sometimes they reuse music this game has it all.

One of the best games this site has to offer in terms of story, renders, girls, soundtrack and overall sex scenes.
-Lots of free roam and in general good story progression.
-Lots of different girls to choose from, that actually have personalities and not just some random girls you have sex with.
-Lots of scenes to satisfy pretty much everyone's desires/fetishes.
-Extremely good rendering quality that makes some renders almost like real photos.
-Has choices that will lead you in different stories with different characters
and how they see (treat) you.

Overall an awesome game 10/10 would recommend

I have never played a western porn game before and it completely blew my mind! The models are definitely top notch and will keep you dreaming about them for nights on end. Kudos to the designer for sculpting, bringing the soul into these creations. Scrumptiously epic

Best adult game for now, it had good story telling , humor , lovable character (y'all are gonna attach to them) Best adult VN you gonna play, the Renders and Animation is damn really good also a mini game a icebreaker to not get bored

- the game are similar to telltale games so this one is for you (every choices has consequence)

Reminders

- Dont put your shoes in this game it makes you feel bad
( I think thats the thrill of game)

I think it is the best thing I have read and played, the plop twist in chapter 3 is brutal, I did not expect it at all, the characters that are well done and what to say the lewd scenes, hopefully they will take more caps

The best porn game I have every played!!!! It actually has a good story, with interesting details and fun moments. The grafiks are beautiful and so are the girls. And the attention to details daaaammmn

10/10 story

Fapabilty 7/10 (but stil really good)

10/10 grafiks

Overall this is a game I would pay money for! (but free is cool)

Very beautiful and interesting game with great story, nice and deep characters, a lot of fun moments and much more else.
The author really takes it seriously and trying his best to keep the quality of his game at very high level, and so it's still one of the top-rated games among all.

By far the greatest VN I have played.
With a story packed full of heart and heart ache ,
You find yourself lost within this tale of a journey into human behaviour and emotions.
Excellent writing, design and of course the animations. Can't wait for episode 5.

With help from a walkthrough I got a near perfect ending for season 1 but after finishing I had this strange feeling of emptiness in my chest that lasted for over two days after finishing the season. It felt like I moved away from my friends and family or broke up with someone after a long term relationship. A game has never made me feel this bad before.

10/10 love it, great scenes, meaningful choices, great characters, can't wait for episode 5

A steam sale brought me here looking for similar styles. I think the very nature of virtual novels discourages replayability but you get more profound experience with plot and characterization.
I would appreciate more kink in the game but what's there is phenomenal. Hard to find this level of quality in similar games. Very beautiful, great variation in music.
I fell in love with some of the characters but i did think a few were a little unbelievable/stereotypical like Derek and Chad. Loved the story aside from anything to do with Derek whom was just over the top and broke the immersion for me a few times.
Lots of content for the price tag on steam really felt i got my money's worth looking forward to season 2.
Aside from my very few criticisms I think it really sets the bar for an adult virtual novel.

This game is gold! Hilarious and realistic. The renderings are phenomenal.

The main characters all display genuine, real emotions. I very much enjoyed it.

It could not have been easy to pull this off, but i am glad you did! Thank you!

Oh yeah and the soundtrack is awesome!

Reviewing v0.4.2, no spoilers.

So my rating for this is 4 stars which is about as low as I can go without feeling guilty about it. But the fact of the matter is, I didn't really enjoy playing this game.

The graphics are truly top-notch, all of the renders and the animated scenes are pretty much flawless, really top-tier stuff and there's also just so much content with so many extremely hot girls, so I can't really say anything negative about it.

I kinda also like the structure with the alternating VN-style and the more sandbox-style free roams in between. It does away with the sort of grinding often associated with sandbox games while also feeling more interactive than pure visual novels.

I also really like the characters and the relationships between them, they are really complex, really human and believable, and you really get the feeling that these characters have complicated backgrounds that shaped their personalities.
The story is very engaging and interesting and gets a lot of foreshadowing in from the beginning, the plot is clearly thought out from the beginning not just made up as you go along.

So why don't I enjoy playing it? Well the reason lies with the branching structure of the game where choices really have a big influence on the course of the story. In general, I sort of enjoy that structure; I'm not opposed to a straight-up streamlined VN that's more like reading a book than really interacting with it, but it can be nice to have your choices matter.
In this case though... the complexity of the branching is insane in this game. You kinda have to give the dev credit for it because it can't be easy to write a general trajectory of a game while also having your choices hugely influence it. But it's just simply too hard to predict anything here, one simple dialogue choice (of which there are myriads) might fail to tip the relationship just over the point where you might have some scene with them later. And you probably won't know the effect until like 2 episodes later or even not at all, you're mostly not made aware of the consequences your choices had, not even in retrospect.
So I played this game at first "only" with the walkthrough mod, which tells you just generally in which sort of direction any dialogue option will take you, but not really to which big differences it might lead in the future. Then beginning somewhere in episode 2 I started noticing I was missing scenes, so I started playing it with the proper walkthrough; even then, I started missing a few scenes in episode 3 (and yes, even with multiple shots at different routes) probably because I missed something in episode 1 and didn't want to play the whole game again just to possibly still miss the scene because no one knows exactly how to get there; I mean, you don't even know what scene you're missing, with which character, there's just a blank space in the scene gallery, so I don't even know which character I'm supposed to be doing something different with.

It just gets very exhausting after a while, and, IMO, really impossible to unlock all the scenes if you don't have the walkthrough which I really don't think should be necessary to take you through the whole game, that just takes the fun out of it, I really generally just want to use walkthroughs if I'm stuck somewhere specific. And even so, going through episode 3 literally scene by scene and dialogue option by dialogue option with the walkthrough, I ended up not being able to unlock everything.

A major part of this is also because there's no rollbacks in this game and you can't replay from specific points if you didn't save there or try certain scenes again. So you're probably stuck replaying the entire thing again if you got one or two minor things wrong early on. But, you know, you might not need to do that, maybe it was something recent you did wrong, but again, you have no way of knowing at what point you went wrong or even with which character you went wrong.

I also think that to find the special renders during the free roams may be a bit too hard, which again wouldn't be a big deal if you could just replay them afterward or even had a proper indication shortly afterwards that you missed some, but you're mostly stuck playing until at least the end of the episode to really understand where you might have missed some things.

So you can look at all this criticism and think I'm just a whiny bitch complaining about the game being too hard, and hey, if that's the case, fine. It's still true that because of that, I can't really enjoy playing it normally and I imagine that's also the case for other people. If you don't mind all of this work to try and get to the few scenes you're missing, then by all means. But honestly, at his point, it almost feels like grinding which is kind of weird because I think the dev specifically tried not to have any of that in here.

But I still want to somehow play the game all the way through because of everything else, the great renders, great animation, great story, great characters... but I just can't, it's just too frustrating and exhausting.
I don't think I'll end up playing future updates, depends on how much time I've got on my hands, but it really seems like the game just gets more convoluted with every update, every episode to the point where it's just becoming ridiculous. Maybe if someday the whole thing is finished and there is a clear and obvious walkthrough available, I'll go through it again (even two or three times if I have to, to get everything, as long as I'm absolutely certain, that I actually will get everything) but at this point, I just can't.

Oh and n.b., I realize that you can unlock every scene and render with a cheat mod but that's not really a solution to the problem, is it? If I just wanted to watch the scenes, I wouldn't play erotic games and VNs, I'd just watch porn. I want to be able to get to that point myself, to figure it out. But like I said, just seems too impossible to me, especially if you have no help whatsoever from walkthrough mods or classical walkthroughs.

So take this review how it's meant, I still think the dev has demonstrated true skill here, this could very well be a top-tier game and it might be for some people who are not as annoyed by the points I mentioned as I are but if you haven't played it yet, know what you're getting into.

This game is really immersive. Can seem kinda obsurd at times, but i guess that makes the game more entertaining.. The sex scenes are well made and the 3D renders are great. The CG is very advanced. Being a dik is a very well made and is definitely worth playing.

I feel like this game is one of those things that you encounter once in a million times and you regret nothing about it. Nothing that hasn't been said already, just fucking amazing. The writing, the characters, the music, the feelings, this game just really makes you encounter with yourself in a lot of ways and generates such a special place in your memory. Amazed by the amazing. Can't wait to see this project grow more and more.

Bought the game on Steam (when it was still available here in Germany) because Acting Lessons was one of the best written VN's I read/played.

Love the rendering, love the characters (as an long-time p&p-RPG-player great characters are the salt in every story!), love the impact of the choices in the game!

Great game, and I hope season 2 will be available on Steam in Germany again ...

Almost all of the games on this site are childish and immature... this is no exception... but it's also very good at what it does, because it's consistent. It doesn't try to win over your emotional state with drama that is quickly undone by childish acts of depravity, like most titles.

I can't stand to read some tragic backstory and start to care for a character only to have that up-ended by frathouse characterization. This game doesn't do that. It knows it's "Revenge of the Nerds" and never tries to be "Pretty In Pink". Soo many titles could learn from this.

I generally prefer more grown up situations and more authentic emotion... but if that isn't there, at least be consistent and entertaining, and this surely is. Choices seem to have some consequence, although it could be better. I've played two titles by this author and his side characters are top notch. The comic relief guy in both is very funny. And the dialog has wit.

This isn't trying to win awards... it's trying to entertain. It's confident in what it does, and it does it well. And that's consistent in both titles I've played by this guy... Even though I like to think and care more when I open these, I still look forward to more of their work.

My only complain is this isn't a completed work... it's just one chapter, or so it seems... it ends on a cliffhanger with many unresolved threads. I wanted more, and not in a way that is enjoyable... but still, I will look for the next chapter in this saga.

This game is quite frankly fantastic. There are a lot of beautiful renders and animations. The writing is actually pretty good and It is one of the few games of its type where I don't skip dialogue. It a decent number of choices and the minigames are also surprisingly fun (love the math and english tests).