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

Exceptional game. The renders and animations are top notch. The writing and humor are both great. The only thing that could mess this game up is if someone dies pointlessly in a fire.

I'm a little bothered by being forced to choose who to be with at the end of the last update, so now I'm going to have to play a bunch of different paths. But considering how good this game is it doesn't matter. I'll gladly play all the routes. Just don't kill off any of my favorites.

Such a fantastic game! I was as hooked playing episodes 5-8 as I was 1-4! The story, music, visuals, and mini-games are top-notch. I can't believe this isn't being created by a larger studio. Each of these characters has a life of their own and you can feel the emotional binds each one creates.

The best 3DCG adult visual novel on the market. Character models are fantastic, story is pretty good, scenes are well animated and mini games are OK. Also the game is very big and not even close to being done, so I'd say this 5 star is deserved.

Great narrative. Few roots with their diffrences.
Audio, animation and visuals also great. Some grinding exist but avoidoble I assume.
And most important -- this game fun to play.
Perfection if spell it simple.
With each episode, game just become better.

I just wonder where this game can go.

Reviewing v0.8.2

Surprisingly deep characters and fun story twists along the way. Also, good looking character models and animations. The mini games are fun and mostly well done too. The mansion rebuild one is probably my favorite in any adult game. I however have a couple of major gripes. One, the story takes itself way too seriously and reacts for your character in a way that really breaks immersion. Just to give you a quick example, right at the beginning two of your 'potential' romantic interests turn out to be dating each other and the MC freaks out like someone he's been in a relationship for years broke his heart. Or reacts to the same sex relationship like it's the 1990s - I'm not sure which. Second gripe is about how tedious and long the free roam sections are. Navigation is a nightmare with the arrows not showing up consistently and no visual clue as to what is interactable and what isn't. And the final one is simply the lack of enough raunchiness in the game. The sex scenes are sparse and far apart and while it's padded by dream sequences and other lighter stuff, it just feels cheap. Deliberately being a a tease way too often. I understand it's probably going for a more realistic take but unlike most games where you have an unrealistic amount of sex, in this you have an unrealistically low amount of sex, especially for a college setting. You know it's lacking as an adult game when your dick's hard to soft ratio is 10:90.

Still recommended though if you have the patience, it's a good general visual novel.

High tier story, fantastically written and loveable characters, many great branches, super high replayability, room for both funny and serious gameplay, great music, solid mini games, great and unique mechanics, hot models and more. Probably the most hours I have in a porn game.

Really Good game. I played this game since the begining and until now is amaizing. I really like the idea for being a Dik in my life I'm always very relax and this game allow me to see what happen if you are more dik.

the game hast brilliant 3d character and surrounding artwork. There is an exciting story packed in different styles of narration, like vn or sanbox. The gane shas funny and entertaining quest. Being a DIK is the most enjoyable adult-game i played so far and sets standards.

WARNING, IF YOU'RE JUST LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO FAP TO, BE READY TO HAVE OTHER EMOTIONS WHILE YOUR DIK IS HARD

My first Visual Novel. Do you even know how much time I spent spending my time playing this game? 54 hours within 3 days. that's 18hrs of playing, 3hrs of sleeping and 3hrs of wasting time not playing this game EVERYDAY

And I'm not stopping till I complete those sweet gallery. After I get my first paycheck, I'll definitely pledge to be at least a Mini Dik.

In terms of the gameplay. As I said, it's my first game and I'm already hooked. Good Narrative, Great Storyline, Great Chracters, Great CGIs and even I dream of getting some gwak gwak 9000 from Sage.

What more do i need to say. This game was one of the first vn's i had ever played and got me into the world of avn's.
- Good music and lots of it
- Good LI's and lots of them
- Story gets kinda boring in later chapters.
worth a play.

The best AVN, period. It's an amazing dating sim with very impactful choices. and strong writing. Hell, it's not just a great adult game - it's a great game, period.

The only bad thing about it is Dr.PinkCake's reluctance in hiring help. Updates are WAY too rare.

The only reasons we don't forget about this game is because it's the best one and DPC is a romantic genius and amazing writer. But going 6 months without thinking about the game is not a great to keep an audience engaged and, really, a missed business opportunity regardless of how well he is doing (he's doing VERY well).

I've personally forgotten about the game for like 2 years before going back to it. Didn't even really miss a beat.

Seriously, hire a some staff, bruh...

First VN type game for me, saw it was popular on steam and decided to try it.

Some people say "Came for sex scenes, stayed for the story", I dont know why I came for, but I definitely stayed for the story.

This games story is actually very very good. I mean way better than some games from big studios. Didnt expect that at all.

It's really impressive that it's coming from only one person.

Had a very good time playing it, looking forward to the next season.

The renders and scenes are good, but the story is also very engaging and it's hard to play without getting invested in the characters. Even the side characters get a lot of personality in this. There are also scenes where I laughed my ass off.

Amazing game!

Best game ever!
I've played many dating genre games but this is a masterpiece, from the artwork, sound, to the animation, the storyline is not yet completed but it has so many twist and path for you to chose, your choice will make the different. This is the best game I've played so far in this genre.

This Visual Novel has absorbed me for the past 3-4 days, the timing of reading this amidst the pandemic, and me missing my own college life has truly made me feel this akin to something filling a little void in my chest that the goddamned covid shit has left there.

The story, despite it being of-course having inevitable sexual relationships that I would have strived to have if I were to have a normal college playthrough irl by myself, has really left an impression in me, to the point of me leaving this review here. Taking time out of my day to write this.

I simply have to appreciate the time and effort put into this not being a solely sexual-fantasy adventure, with only females as the cast aside from you ofc, as is with most Games/VNs similar to this style. Really capturing the essence of "to have fun times, you must also appreciate the times where it's not." (Yeah I read it in the game too, or something along those lines.)

I love the bro relationships had by all of the DIKs, especially of course Derek, providing the much-needed comic relief, however when necessary at times, is the guy the protagonist relies upon, giving much more to his character than just being someone to laughed at when given screen-time.

Just a dislike though is Tommy, doesn't have that much redeemable qualities shown through the available episodes the series has, however I think that's just how he just is in service of the story. That unlikable asshole to contrast all the homies in the DIK frat.

On the topic of the female leads, personal two favorites are Isabella and Jill, Isabella for the taboo-vibe, and Jill for that innocent high-school romance (pasted along with sex and shit.) I'm saying this though because I haven't bothered to read through the other three's story plots.

Although Jill's story I just have to mention (and including the whole DIK frat story) have given me genuine laughs and smiles.

I don't do reviews much, but have to say I feel lucky to have played/read through Being a DIK with two seasons out already. And that's it, hope Dr. PinkCake delivers another interesting/intriguing story for us all. Thanks guy.

Amazing game; came for the porn, stayed for the plot. Didn't play it for the longest time because i was turned off by some of the themes and thought i would just bounce off the american frat stuff but it was honestly not a problem at all for me.

The game's called being a dik but all of the 'true' choices and routes, to use VN lingo, don't feel like they focus on that aspect. Good minigames and collectables to boot.

i fallow this game from the begining

it becomes certainly one of the best game ever on this site..In my top 3

intrigue, hummour, good eveloppement constent caractere, and of good sex

renders are more them good and if there s suite after the university college it will be great i fallow the dev

Excellent works goes on, need more

The best writing, the best characters. Just finished Chapter 2 (episode 8) and I can't recommend this game enough. So well done. I had to play the end of the chapter multiple times just to set myself up for Chapter 3 because I don't want to miss where it goes from here. Best game.

Don't get me wrong, the overall quality is good:

• Good renders
• Great music
• Good UI
• Good writing (stylistically)

Though it does have some flaws, I'm ready to ignore them and would not lower my rating because of:

• Character design have some problems: unrealistic waistlines looks ugly and Sage's super long legs also make her look weird, not sexy. Oh, and can't forget Jill's face, which looks alien from most angles! Out of the main girls Maya is most realistic looking one. Maybe Josy too.
• Free roam while useless, is tolerable first playthrough, but when you played once already it is a pain in the ass to repeat it each time.

But things I really can't look past are:

1. DIK/CHIK alignment being useless. The game should be called being a CHIK, since MC is one. Your choice doesn't matter, you will be a girlfriend to main female characters. You basically will friendzone yourself to them for no apparent reason. And if you try to be a DIK, all that changes is that you will get into few fights and will fuck every slutty whore out there (which is turns me off, I mean if those girls are SO EASY, what's good about doing them? Unless you want some free AIDS or syphilis, I can't see anything positive about fucking them. Even small sex encounters should have some meaning, but here they are all meaningless.(excluding Jade(never tried Kathrine))) Oh, and almost forgot, as a DIK you'll get blocke out of most girls routes. So there's that. Nowadays, the masculinity is under such a massive attack by mainstream culture, and it would've been good if someone explored theme of masculinity in some positive way, but it seems that Dr. PinkCake is a feminist or just shares their views, since not only MC acts like a girl most of the time (some girls even outright tell MC that they feel so comfortable around him because he's like a girl) but also the only way to be masculine here is to be "toxic" by getting into meaningless fights and fucking every whore you can. No meaningful conflicts(for social status, for example), no "spinning plates" (cause last episode MC is like: "I need only one!"), not much in terms of brotherhood. I think it is because either Dr. PinkCake is a girl or an effeminate man.
2. Writing, story-wise sucks. Beside what I mentioned in previous point, story in general seems to go nowhere. All the drama is pretty girly and soapy, and consist of all kind of "ass pulls". Two (forced) main LI just happen to date eachother (and you can be the third girl in their relationships), Derek happens to be Maya's brother, Sage happens to be adopted by Jade, Jade happens to be the mother of Tybalt, who happens to force Jill into dating him despite your choices. Everyone seems to be connected and all that by accident. And in the end of season MC's first GF comes to his home by an accident. Some many fucking accidents and no meaningful conflict (the one with jocks pretty much dead), MC has no plans, no ambitions, just goes with the flow, like a good little girl. He just reacts to things. He made only two somewhat manly things: Made guys restore the mansion, and decided to date just one girl and let go of the others (while I consider it manly, it is still forced on player, true DIK (the way they portrayed in game) would've spin dem plates). Other than that it's just reactions.
3. Love interests: Josy and Maya not only forced in the begining, which is a turn off by itself, but also you can only have them together. So if some fucked up lesbo relationships (and it is not a harem by any means, they're just two lesbians and you're just third wheeling) are not your thing, then they're off the table. Bella is too old, plus I can sense that her hubby will come back sooner or later, and there will be some more stupid drawn out drama about that. Sage is good, a bit slutty probably, but great. And Jill, if not for her ruined face, is good. But she doesn't like DIKs. It seems that most girls here are lesbians and don't like daring men, they prefer touchy-feely guys. So what do we have? Something like 1,5 love interests? If you're a massive DIK it is only Sage, like it or not.

So in general, this is my opinion of the game. It is not to shit on Dr. PinkCake, it is mostly due to feeling personally attacked by game telling you do what you feel like and then punishing you for feeling not the way it wants you to. Why give a choice when one is discarded? You can make this pretty much a kinetic VN called "Being a CHIK" and no meaningful content will be lost.

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