VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[KАRАMBA]

For a minute I believed that they really killed Roina.

Buddy will pay for this !!!

 

[Hahn1900]

Dude, does anyone have the right choices from the beginning to sleep with all the girls and stay single?

Preference without mod

there is none. Only cheating with mods.

 

[1988Wolf]

Is the puzzle box glitched? I can't get side V to open. I've solved the other sides, but that side is still locked. SUN MOON STARS. What's next?

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Buddy will pay for this !!!
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He also killed Lana (Rox is to blame for it too) with poisoned by fentanyl drugs. Since Rox is already dead, Buddy need to recieve justice

 

[Lagunavii]

No disagreement there; apologies if it seemed that way the case. Just wanted to clarify which scene was being looked it.

Haha I don't even know why I put the Tara call it's obvious that's an episode 11 thing. I blame my dyslexia and the fact I've had a shit day at work.

 

[Chillout1984]

Buddy will pay for this !!!
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Yeah, the way he said "every time * a piece*" also made me think Buddy or his goons either killed or heavily mutilated Riona. Not that it really matters, it only means that instead of a slow death he now gets a quick death in my DIK Others route where I'm only interested in Quinn

 

[Chalk boss]

Episode 11: Dark Christmas
(a little bit spoilers, but not critical)
​

Here comes the end of another long months of waiting for the most ambitious AVN in history. And for the first time I will say – these damn 15 months were worth the result. Episode 11 is what PinkCake warned us about in the intro: “This game is not all about fun and good times”. We still have good times in this episode that give a lot of positive and funny emotions.
But the bad times have come. Game stings us from the very beginning of the episode. Everyone laughed at the cliffhanger of Episode 10: “Lol, another FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK moment, come on guys, nothing will happen to Rio, he’s just hyping up” Not funny anymore, right? The artistically dark renders at the beginning set the tone for “Deathly Hallows” and the piercing on the table, Quinn shocked and crying, tortures that Riona was subjected to throws you into a cold sweat and you realize – that’s it. This is a different game now and DPC is back to making players cry.
For a minute I believed that they really killed Roina.
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And we also saw the moment of Lana's death and I will not post this render here, you saw everything yourself. Once I noticed an analogy in DPCs writing with Rowling's books, where each new book was darker and more serious and DPC continues to follow this trend with new episode, and it scary what he can prepare for season final.

As for the story development, this is the richest Episode in new discoveries and advancement of story arcs. There is a lot to say and you can write a whole book, so in short, we learned:
1. How Lana died
2. Who is behind PsyOP against the Frats and is a shadow evil genius - I can not fully understand Magnar's motives.
3. The culmination of the Sage's family collapse and we learned Sage backstory
(I did not see the consequences of the video leak for now, just did 5 main routes)
4. Escalation among the DIKs reaches the limit and we learned that there is no traitor among them (But Nick is still a cunt)
5. Who was responsible for the leaflets Cathy and DIKs, and this is a separate group
6. Quinn effectively closes the drug ring (until the end?)
7. THE STORY ARC OF MAYA'S DEBT IS OVER! HOORAY! What's next?
8. Zoey makes a move and confesses her love to MC: I'll talk about Zoey in a separate post, since we now have two different versions of her personality with different approaches.
9. All the MGs, MC, and Derek now become a group of friends and it finally looks natural - there was never a feeling of uncanny in this episode.
10. THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS IS OPEN. What's in there? Wait another year and a half, loser!

I was glad that DPC didn't forget about fun as well - episode was well balanced between funny/sad moments, but one - Jill's visit to her sister's grave was very heavy emotionally, probably the saddest ever.
Also, it was just a huge content update - the first run took about 7 hours for me, with mini-games on. Mini-games are not so annoying and don't occur so often due to the size of the episode, still - fuck the math test and puzzle box. There were even fewer free-roams than usual on feels, although the panty party is huge - like 2/3 of a Halloween party. Probably due to the large amount of standard readable content. Great balance.
As for the Panty party, this is a fly in the ointment. The thing is that it doesn't work on MGs routes - you can't have fun if you do not want more cheating points and there are a lot of traps. DPC did the right thing with Bella's alternative party - I had much more fun there. Panty Party works in full glory only if manwhore Others run - otherwise it makes no sense.

Best lewds. I've opened 14 out of 18 so far:
1. Josy/Maya BDSM threesome: hot and funny at the same time, as they studied toys without knowing what they were for (laughed) and poor Josy withstood a nut gun.
2. Sage/Camila threesome (for some reason many wrote to me that Sage would be off after that sex, but in my run she was ok.
3. Both of Bella scenes. Good dynamics and speed.
4. Becky Okay, joking... Sage solo after confession
5. Zoey secret scene

I give this episode 9.5/10 at first glance based on the run of 4 main routes and one Others with a focus on Zoey
Ahead: Lily, Quinn, Nicole and unique routes where I broke girls' hearts. In the future, I will write about each route and each girl in detail.
See you soon!

Very interesting review. As always, at a good level. In my opinion, this episode is too dark and dramatic. I love drama, but I think he overdid it. Literally in every scene you can't relax and you're under pressure. Perhaps it was the idea of DPC to make the player feel uncomfortable, or he did it without thinking. Well, as I said before, DPC encourages players to play in several ways, to replay the game from the beginning. This episode is directed against solo players. Solo players, for example, on the Sage branch, will discover little content, as they will have to leave the party in the midst of it.

 

[bratkoratko]

Now that Zoey has her own path, I want to replay the game again. This time, I want to try being with all the MGs and then choosing Others route in Episode 8, which, if I remember correctly, is impossible without cheats. Has anyone tried something like this yet?

 

[Chillout1984]

Now that Zoey has her own path, I want to replay the game again. This time, I want to try being with all the MGs and then choosing Others route in Episode 8, which, if I remember correctly, is impossible without cheats. Has anyone tried something like this yet?

Correct. Without cheats/mods you cannot choose Others if you're on the Jill or Throuple path. You can still have sex with Josy and Maya before the meeting in the library though, but that's about it.

 

[Hahn1900]

It's not forced. A lot of MC's automatic actions in this episode hinge on whether you told Maya or Josy that you love them.

yeah ok well... whats the point going J&M route without the goal to gain "love"? So its kinda forced... either way, Maya or Josy will get ILY. And... Jill doesnt mean shit or what? Dont like that "trigger" doesnt make much sense. Of course i will choose to go to Bellas if iam on Jills route or J&Ms route, that is not the point. The point is... i get the choice on Jills path but not on J&M only if the dont love me... thats... just meh.

 

[Hahn1900]

Now that Zoey has her own path, I want to replay the game again. This time, I want to try being with all the MGs and then choosing Others route in Episode 8, which, if I remember correctly, is impossible without cheats. Has anyone tried something like this yet?

As you said, that is impossible.

Jills and J&Ms path rule out the others path.

 

[Bobloblaw1234]

I remember seeing the "preview" image of Bella's trashed Christmas party - I believe it was Ep 9.
Everyone assumed the angle was from the front door looking in. Crazy we had that insight 2-3 years ago!

 

[Geralt From Rivia]

Very interesting review. As always, at a good level. In my opinion, this episode is too dark and dramatic. I love drama, but I think he overdid it. Literally in every scene you can't relax and you're under pressure. Perhaps it was the idea of DPC to make the player feel uncomfortable, or he did it without thinking. Well, as I said before, DPC encourages players to play in several ways, to replay the game from the beginning. This episode is directed against solo players. Solo players, for example, on the Sage branch, will discover little content, as they will have to leave the party in the midst of it.

Thank you. I tried to be short and not give a birth to a wall of text
This is what DPC does, to make the player uncomfortable. In AL it was a sudden blow at the end, here he gradually escalates the situation.
As for me, Sage's path turned out to be very rich, as did Jill. Bella and J/M seemed much less on unique content. I will say that playing this game only on one branch doesn't make sense.

 

[Catsup3227]

It's just you. The DIK MC can be absolute asshole in this episode, to the point even Tommy is left pretty speechless.

Oh, can you give some examples? I only had CHICK affinity playthroughs.

 

[Rehwyn]

Very interesting review. As always, at a good level. In my opinion, this episode is too dark and dramatic. I love drama, but I think he overdid it. Literally in every scene you can't relax and you're under pressure. Perhaps it was the idea of DPC to make the player feel uncomfortable, or he did it without thinking. Well, as I said before, DPC encourages players to play in several ways, to replay the game from the beginning. This episode is directed against solo players. Solo players, for example, on the Sage branch, will discover little content, as they will have to leave the party in the midst of it.

Honestly, the level of drama didn't really surprise me. DPC loves drama, and it's also the penultimate episode of this season before the season finale next episode. Having the dramatic stakes "ramped up" before resolving some of them next episode is not unusual.

As a MJ throuple main branch player, it did irk me a bit that I didn't really have much direct choice in the drama there. But I can potentially see narratively why it was included, even if it's not my preference.

 

[Hahn1900]

Is the puzzle box glitched? I can't get side V to open. I've solved the other sides, but that side is still locked. SUN MOON STARS. What's next?

Side III is next.

 

[Chillout1984]

Oh, can you give some examples? I only had CHICK affinity playthroughs.

You can throw out Kylie and Penny undressed into the snow when they're crashing the panty party, just like Vinny did with Kylie's sister.

 

[ukemi]

I'm going nuts here. I downloaded the episode 11 compressed version, episode 11 start saves and season 3 persistent. The game starts fine on my chromebook and I can see the saves on page 4 but it starts from episode 10 and if I try to play through it I get stuck on Troy fight and can't get past it because it wont let me quit even if I fight with him. What am I doing wrong here? I've been trying to get it to work since it was released but nothing is working. I didn't have problems with my PC but this damn chromebook has slowly been eating my nerves and I might just throw it out the window soon. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chalk boss]

For epsiode 12 i expect a longer DEV cycle than those 15 months though. And we will break the 8000 still renders mark and maybe 450 animations too i guess. So yeah, optimistic guess, late summer 2026. But at least 17 months from now. So... august or september 2026 i think, until then it will get kinda quite here i think, cause there is not much left to create theories out of. Oh yeah... dalli_x wasnt right about a single thing... again, he earned a reward for that i think, i mean... creating theories for about 4 years non stop and not a single one of them were right until now, thats something.

Yes, it's been 6 years. If it keeps the same pace and it has 16 episodes, it will take another 6-8 years. I think he's already tired of the game himself, and that's why many arches close so quickly. I'm interested to know what he has to say in a future Q&A session. Maybe there will be something like 14 episodes. In any case, there's a year and a half left to wait.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

 

[ffive]

DPC did the right thing with Bella's alternative party - I had much more fun there.

I thought that split was a bit of a miss, myself -- i simply couldn't really justify that the MC who's the party organizer and then supervisor would then just decide to up and leave in the middle of it, dumping it all on Derek with zero responsibility. It similarly made little sense for Isabela of all people to try to make him ditch the thing he was responsible for.