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

  1. 5.00 star(s)

    VaderExMachina

    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.
  2. 1.00 star(s)

    Deleted member 6628651

    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.
  3. 3.00 star(s)

    Sunzuut

    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.
  4. 5.00 star(s)

    RK - Milf

    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.

    Keep up the good work. Patreon support here lets go!
  5. 5.00 star(s)

    sleepingkirby

    This might be a porn game, but it's more a game than a porn game. Good story, good characters, long and impactful. Ironically, a lot of times, I'm more interested in the story than the porn part because these are rich and feeling characters. It's not a perfect story, no story ever is. But it is really, really good.
  6. 5.00 star(s)

    PatrickNoxn

    There is no doubt that the full score works, if it is not no nfsw can reach, multi-route choice network narrative, three-dimensional character shaping, good use of bgm, this is the ceiling level works, I cleared more than ten archived routes, accumulated 200 hours, never tired
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    yeetermcgee123

    The crown jewel of adult games. Graphics are top tier as is the writing. Perfect mix of sandbox and VN. If mini games are activated, they aren't repetitive and "grindy" - nor do you need to play them at all. Even side characters have fairly flushed out plot lines.

    Only knock on the game...30+ gigabytes and counting! Development has slowed a bit since the game first came out (updates are now ~yearly) but its understandable given how much content each update packs. It is also because the developer is actually finishing each path the player can take rather than rushing to the finish line.


    5 stars do not do this game justice
    Likes: Kpyna
  8. 5.00 star(s)

    Cumpuddle

    I feel this game consistently does everything to a high level. The game doesn't do any of the stuff that's foundational to an AVN badly it does all of it well. That's not something you really see there is usually something whether it be visuals, sex, story etc that's just not that good. Here everything is genuinely done well. I've not played a an AVN where consistently every single aspect is done to a quality level it is in this game and that's what has made it stand out for me.

    The only real bad points is the minigames and sandbox parts and I can forgive the sandbox because Ren'py is a bitch to do big events in with branching if you don't have it laid out like that. While minigames can be turned off. Some optional minigames or sandbox just really just didn't have an impact on my enjoyment especially since I was having fun even in the sandbox parts. I was surprised when I realized I was having fun since I usually detest sandbox parts.

    So you essentially have a game where there's 10 episodes where everything is done to a high standard with a bunch of choice and hot girls and fun characters. I don't know how long it can keep the title but right now this does feel like the best AVN I've played simply because it manages to do everything well across the board consistently.
  9. 5.00 star(s)

    WhamBamKam

    Still the gold standard for AVNs, especially school setting dating sims. It's very clear DPC takes this very seriously and is very proud of it;as he should be.

    Top notch dialogue and characters compared to other visual novels.
    The game does a great job making you care about even the most minor of characters. As the story progresses the characters get more depth and it's been looking good so far. As the episodes go on we get to truly explore the nuances of our relationships, although we're in the baby stages for now.

    The renders have come a long way-not just sex scenes but the look of the free roams has gotten more polished with each episode, and I thought he peaked in the latest episodes party free roam.

    The overall story is obviously the highlight. Constant events to keep the ball rolling. Just the right amount of mystery to keep the player engaged. A clear driving force in the story. I think the amount of discussion and theories speaks for itself. The amount of pathing makes it feel like every decision counts.

    Lastly, the attention to detail in this game is everything. Dialogue, decisions,
    or even just people in the background-they all come together to make the world a whole lot more immersive.

    Yes, it's not perfect. Development time, the # of mini games, etc, we all have our gripes with this game-but nothing really does come close. It will be interesting to see where DPC takes these characters and their relationships.
    Likes: Kpyna
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    dezokokotar

    This game is missing a lot of my fetishes - it's relatively vanilla (to me) - and it's still my favorite game on this site.

    That's how well written, interesting and likeable the characters are. They all have very distinctive personalities and backstories, even the side girls and male characters. Though there are 5 "main girls", many of the side girls also have a lot of development and content and most of them are interesting in different ways.

    The story itself is very fun and well done. Good balance of drama, humour and sexy - and depending on your choices you can tilt it more toward one or the other as you like. Its a classic, spicy teen-comedy type story but since it's a porn game, it's turned up to 11. Despite that, the writing still feels believable. One thing in particular that i've noticed several times is how well edited the scenes in this game are - something i've never considered noteworthy in any other porn game. At some points the editing, along with the writing and music choice feels like a legitimately good "serious" game.

    There is a "morality/dominance" mechanic where you can make choices to be either a confident frat fuckboy on one side or a more subdued, polite nerdy guy on the other - and a good amount of overlap between them. The girls reactions toward you are affected by this mechanic and at some point even up to you being unable to have a relationship with some of them if youre too far or not far enough on either side. (a nice shy girl may not date you if you're a huge DIK, for example).
    There are many different minigames throughout that you can choose to disable at the beginning. Most will probably not love these but they're not terrible, some are decent and they may offer a little change of pace here and there - though i'd prefer if they were less frequent. Besides them, the game is a pretty standard Visual Novel with reading and choices plus "free roam" sections where you have free movement between screens and some small "sidequests" which amount mostly to optional conversations/sex scenes and the like.

    While the story and emotional connection to the characters are the strongest points of the game, that doesn't mean the porn isn't good - its great and plentiful.
    Visually everything looks great. Most characters are very sexy (some incredibly so). A little technical/art jank here and there, especially in the earlier episodes - some clothing that doesnt fit perfectly etc. - but overall very high quality. Sex animations are relatively simple but nice and there is a lot of them. Particularly, there's a lot of kissing in the sex scenes that i don't see animated very often which i like here. The enviornments look really good too, clearly a ton of work went into them.

    Great music choices for each scene, many are actual licensed songs and are very fitting. Other audio besides music is minimal. One thing i wish the game had was voices - though i get that almost none of these games have them, and if they do they suck. But everything in this game feels so nice and polished that sex scenes without some moaning noises feel a little incomplete.
    Thats just a minor nitpick, i get how difficult it would be to give the characters unique voices that don't feel out of place.

    The game is unfinished as of now (December 2023) but it's well worth playing - it has a lot of content, both story and sexual.

    I can't wait to see the endings, hopefully not too much later than in a couple of years.
  11. 3.00 star(s)

    Kryapa

    The king is dead.

    BaDIK used to be the best game in literally all aspects, but instead of finishing it on a high note, the dev started artificially postponing updates, adding completely unnecessary minigames and events. And now, here we are, left with just another average game.

    Models: 9/10
    This where the game still actually shines. A lot of beutiful and memorable girls. Sage, Jill, Bella, Lily... you name it. A few years ago it was absolute top, but now there are already numerous games that have reached the same level and even surpassed it.

    Plot: 6/10
    Just a typical college setting. Not really annoying, but there's no depth in it.

    Gameplay: 3/10
    A LOT of stupid, completely unnecessary and unavoidable minigames. And so for free roams. The first ones were quite decent, but the last ones just plain bad.

    Sex scenes: 4/10
    Mostly boring. It's actually kind of disappointing to see such well-designed models with poorly animated and not memorable slideshow-like sex scenes. Bella is being the main disappointment.

    Writing: 7/10
    Again nothing special. There're some good moments and a few amount of humor here and there, but it's not even close to the top level
  12. 1.00 star(s)

    laliandra

    (As of 0.11)

    DISCLAIMER: If this was a review for the first episode that came out eons ago (early 2019!) it would be 5 stars.

    The early episodes showed a lot of potential and frankly it was easy to overlook the bad parts of a new game. Back then the graphics were among the best in this site, the storyline was intriguing, there was at least one model that caught each player's attention and the promise of an interesting story to unfold with them.

    Fast forward to 2025 (yes, this game now takes a more than a year per episode)... and oh how the mighty have fallen. The game now tops the site in likes but in itself it is unrecognisable for what it was.

    Let me be blunt, this genuinely feels like a scam.

    Let me explain, this slumbering gigantic mess never again reached the level of those first episodes in terms of story, it kept all and added tons and tons of bloat on top and added countless NPCs that have little development so no one really cares about them but take away a huge chunk of screen time from the main characters.

    The initial storylines go nowhere or are abandoned. they get replaced with boring, nonsensical new plots revolving around characters we don't even know. The original characters we were attached to return only for mechanical and repetitive sex-scenes that lack the proper ground work that made them special before.

    Other games (good ones) tend to get better, not BaDIK. let's take the graphics for example. BaDIK remained frozen in time. sure, there's more renders and more animations, hell they are in 60fps now... but they are most of the times much worse than the old ones. before every animation felt unique and meaningful. now they all look the same, just with different models and backgrounds and the same speech bubbles for every single character.

    Without a doubt, the most annoying part is how the same enfuriating features that once looked like the quirks of a game in it's early stages of development not only remain but become more and more prominent, they even get worse somehow:

    - Freeroam, aka getting stuck in clicking hell. a form of torture.
    - The mind-numbing point and click grind of mini-games that no one asked for.

    let's be clear, the mini-games are about 1/4 at the minimum of the content in each episode. Hell, if you want to try another path (because let's be honest if you only stick to one path you'll be playing 10% of the game) you'll be trapped repeating the same stuff in this unnecessary bloat of non-content for an hour until you reach that one new scene that lasts 5 minutes.

    Even if you have a storyline or character you are interested in, you'll find yourself going through dozens of storylines and characters you simply couldn't care less about but can't avoid. At first it was standard gameplay. You meet characters so you read through and decide which ones you are interested in... Well, not in this game because it forces onto the player characters and storylines regardless of your choices. You'll find yourself going through walls and walls of poorly written dialogue just to get to those few storylines you actually care about.

    So I can't score this game at this stage highly. Yes, the first episodes were pretty cool, some of the characters seemed interesting... but it has gone downhill since.

    Bar some exceptions, everything has gotten worse to the point where I wish this game would've ended some episodes ago. My score would've been in the middle: a good game with unfulfilled potential.

    But it dragged on, and now it's not that it didn't reach it's potential, but it's gotten significantly worse.

    If you could trim this game to leave the good parts then I would still recommend it, but as it is, I can't recommend to anyone to pick this up nowadays. Go look up the renders, go to the fan-art thread, you'll be getting the best out of the game that way. But don't play it, it will only lead to disappointment.
  13. 3.00 star(s)

    monk_56

    TL/DR: Well crafted, yet profoundly overrated! Exceptionally annoying free roam system, high reliance on prostitution narratives, hit or miss mini-games, and lack of non-prostitution kinks bogged down this otherwise above par title.

    +The best thing the game does is capture the full on hyperbolic bullshittery / humor of being in a frat. Some of the situations and characters were a riot. Derek (idiot savant) and Aerlith (bimbo- slut) had me laughing out loud.
    + Nice animations with a lot of scene angles ect. I don't personally put much weight on animations- but if you did this would be a big plus for you.
    + Lots of Snappy dialogue
    + Dynamic conversation based on the heroes DIK vs CHICK points was done pretty elegantly. (Though it is hard to appreciate without looking under the hood at the code or without doing multiple play-throughs.)
    + Robust and dynamically updating character profiles
    + The author did a decent job at giving the different characters their own voices.


    - It plays a lot like a soap opera. Most of the problems the characters had were a product of their own poor decisions.
    - A lot of the drama in the game derived from the MC kinda being a sulky whiner- which isn't my favorite vibe of MC.
    - The sex scene writing was not very good. I didn't find it very erotic
    -Prostitution kink and overly libertine chicks shoehorning a lot of content in was pretty unfulfilling for me as a fan of poly romance.
    - Outside of prostitution, the game is very vanilla. Some ENF, some MILF / mommy/son RP, but it is mostly penis in hole or on body part X type of vibes. Even when it lightly dabbles into BDSM/cheating ect, it does so in the most vanilla possible way.
    - Routes are pretty exclusive from each-other. That isn't usually a deal-breaker for me, but the game is so grindy with so many clunky AF free roams that replaying content to see alternative scenes / character flavor is absolutely not worth it. I'd rec playing the game once- on w/e your favorite route is and not replaying it. Shit is annoying. I ran out of steam for it around chapter 5 when the routing started each getting its own unique free roam / there started being like 3 pathings.
    - MC is really not that tall or big or w/e but gets constant praise for it. Kinda a small man's fantasy I guess.
    - Mini games were not very fun as an aggregate. The pattern recognition in the maths one was relatively fun- but a lot of the other ones were really mundane / boring.
  14. 3.00 star(s)

    likepresto

    This game used to be elite but it's been trending downward over the past few updates. The overall gameplay, storyline, and renders are great but the recent over reliance on mini games is getting to be annoying.

    I had no problems when the game had the fighting mini game or the house management system bc the game tended to focus on only one at a time. Now the game is throwing ever increasingly annoying tests, fish tank management, and puzzles at me. Worst of all is this new science class system where I have to mix chemicals and liquids together and I can't just skip it. Seriously a line from the game is "pour the contents of the volumetric flask into the beaker on the stirrer". It has me locked in this annoying mini game with 7-8 drawn out and confusing steps that I need to follow OR I wait for a 400 second timer to click down so I can fail it.

    That's a big loss in this game. The storyline actually pulled me in and kept me interested. I didn't need non stop wall to wall action and sex, I actually like to watch the relationships of the characters develop. Now the game is making me feel like it's an actual school simulator that might occasionally have some action every 30 minutes or more. I'm all for adding something more to the game to make it feel more complex but the decisions the developer is making at these later stages of development is really making me not want to play this game or explore its updates in the future.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    SoliNami

    Where do i even start, this game is way beyond what any other visual novel has to offer at the moment, it is so complete, the story takes so many hours to see all the branches available and the girls are all stunning and full of personality, i personally love the mini-games that DrPinkCake created for the game, especially the latest ones from the episode 8 to 10, they are really fun to play, the episode 10 in specific is pretty fantastic, we start to see the lore of some of the side characters that were present in the previous episodes and that makes the game feel even more alive when you can tell the background of each character you talk to in the game and how they all connect, with this said I really think anyone thinking about starting playing visual novels or playing a new one should definitely try this one.
  16. 5.00 star(s)

    Krytax123

    Its still simply the best avn.

    It excells in Backstorys, Worldbuilding and Character-building, there isnt a second avn feeling this immersive and characters feeling this real.

    The branching is way more meaningfull than in 99% of all avns.

    The Li's are amazing, unique and very different from each other and have their own motivations and goals.

    The mc is - not considering his horsecock - a very normal and unspectacular guy but his experiences during the 10 Chapters so far really shape him into directions you can influence.

    There are a lot of AVN's which are better in single categories compared to BaDIK but non of them reaches the overall quality so far and none of them have this amount of content yet.
    Likes: Kpyna
  17. 5.00 star(s)

    Nocode

    Since this game goes around college and fraternity I must say Dr Pi nkCake got into another frat:

    Γ gamma
    o omicron
    α alpha
    τ tau

    GOAT !!!!

    Man, this is like the first Rock and Roll. It's not just GOAT also put Visual Novels to next level.
    I played first time long time ago and already was something else but it was so ambitious so many path, side quest, personalities secrets, so much stuff unending, yet.. loooked like a giant maze, but they did it.
    I can't just enumerates items cause they managed to stretch the limits in every spot you can look around.
    Clearly also the storyline navigate through erotic, tragedy, mistery and much fun (greats smalls gags) and never lost the way.

    Dr PunkXake,: Congratulations and thank you for this legacy.
  18. 3.00 star(s)

    vilake123

    v0.10.0
    previous updates were better. :(

    Score for v0.10.0
    Story
    - 8/10
    Characters - 9/10
    Minigame - 3/10
    Sex Scenes - 4/10
    Renders - 9/10
    Content - 5/10

    Overall - 6/10
  19. 5.00 star(s)

    Ghiser

    This game has a really easy gameplay, funny and good story, amazing girls, amazing animations.

    A lot of options and most of them change what you are going to see and experience in the game, so you can make different routes not only for the girls and animations, but to get to know the girls and the world as a whole of the game better.
  20. 5.00 star(s)

    360 Danny DeVitos Later

    One of the best porn games ever made and an argument can be made it's the best. It's not perfect of course but there is very little that is at this level when it comes to AVNs. I've had a lot of fun with it.

    The Good

    - Characters - O
    ne of the strongest casts in an AVN. What it does very well is variety. Sage feels very different from Jill, Jill to Quinn, Quinn to Bella and so on. It means you'll find a character you'll like. It also has other men in it that aren't just there to be cucked or cunts they're friends or antagonists, the frat plays a big role in the game. I mean most are massive pussies but still for an AVN it's an improvement. It even has a Dad in it that's not a complete fucking waste of air he's a good man that loves his kid. There will be some you like some you dislike as it should be, the game nails the characters. Sage, Bella, Quinn, Riona, Lily, Nicole, Josy and more I was genuinely impressed how many characters with this I enjoyed, there are very few I really dislike as characters.

    -The Writing - Mostly I feel the game is well written. It has numerous characters that are enjoyable and when it's just been a college game it does it extremely well. It does have a tendency to be a little melodramatic though. It doesn't necessarily have a main thread. It's more a bunch of individual plots that come together to make a college story. Frat rivalry, inter frat tension, this girls financial issues, a pimps moneys issues, that girl has Tybalt creeping on her etc. You basically pick a girl and the games frat and friends plots moves alongside that. On the whole it works. It'll likely all come together at some point but it focuses on the women, the frat and the main character so far.

    - Music - I can only think of two other games that implement and use music as well as this it's quality. I've ended up on youtube a couple of times and found musicians I never would have. The music is fucking great and is used to great effect.

    - Visuals - Most of what's there is done really well. The game looks good, scenes are well constructed. Most of the women are hot and look different from one another. There are, however, some horrible mistakes made visually. There's games that are better rendered or more visually striking with how the dev makes the scene but this is still high quality compared to most.

    - Sex Scenes - There are well done. The writing and music often helps elevate them. Biggest issue is the animation, the MC fucks like he's an old guy. It looks like he can barely move his hips. There tends to be good variation in the scene and they're usually well done. I feel the game pulls everything together well for the scenes the chars, writing, music, environment, set up all come together to make the scenes work incredibly well better than the sum of it's parts really. A scene with Bella in the library is a perfect example of it. It is really good at pulling everything together for the lewd scenes.

    - Phone - So there's a phone that has bios, texts and a twitter analogue. It's a small thing but I like this stuff. The twitter adds to the world without having to make a whole scene it's a nice touch. I tend to skip a few episodes so it's nice to be able to look at the phone bios and have some idea who the fuck a character is and what I did in regards to them. Likewise the phone is a nice simple way to have a convo happen that doesn't need a whole scene rendered around it. Not a huge thing but I feel the game is better off with how these were implemented.

    The Mixed

    - Fuckface -
    The games main character is a mixed bag. On one hand regardless of alignment he's driven, attractive, kind, fit, talented (musician) and funny when drunk plus hung like a horse. He doesn't remotely have a why would anyone touch this loser vibe a lot of AVN MCs have. It makes sense he'd end up popular and well liked. On the other hand dear god can he be a fucking drama queen and a bit dumb. I mostly liked him but I have rolled my eyes one too many times.

    - Affinity and Scenes - Considering the importance of affinity I wish it came into a play a LOT more during lewd scenes like it does outside them. It's a bit strange to have an alignment system in a game with porn and then not use it much for the porn. I wouldn't say it's a negative so much as something I wish was used more.

    The Bad

    - Freeroams- The biggest issue is they're just annoying to navigate even with the room list and you have to check the phone to see who you need to talk to. I think if the freeroams had a list of objectives visually on screen, stopped the boring janitor shit and was quicker to navigate I wouldn't mind them. An objective list you can toggle and a clickable map would go a long way.

    - Minigames - You can turn them off but with them on they can get pretty obnoxious especially on replays. I can handle the ones that hook into the story like the mansion and party ones. It's the ones that feel they're in for the sake of having games like tests and fighting that annoy me.

    - Later Episodes- If you are only going to do a single playthrough be aware there has been a shift in episode 9 and 10. The game branched and it actually follows through with that and has separate routes. For the game in it's entirety that's a plus, choice matters and it makes the route and girls matter. The other side is you're looking at 1-3 scene in an entire episode. I really wish the split had come near the end of the game and everything up to that was a free for all. Simple fact is unless you do more than one run or use mods you get less content than before in an episode now. The dev isn't doing less, the branching simply means you'll see less unfortunately.

    - Visual Flaws - When the game has them they're bad and they stand out. One character looks like she has a skin disease on her arse. One episode the chars had chrome teeth. It does spoil the renders when this stuff appears.

    - Anti Mod - The game is deliberately set up to fuck over mod users and modders.

    - Silly plots - While the game on the whole is well written there are some plots that only work, remain unresolved or mysterious because everyone gets hit with the stupid bat or doesn't ask simple questions.

    - Very VERY Vanilla - Think of the last five people you fucked, were they all identical with what they liked and how they fucked? No because women don't work that way. The game has 5 main girls and over 10 side girls. Yet outside Sage and Quinn none really have kinks, get particularly kinky or even really have quirks in bed. Most don't even have preferences when it comes to how they like to fuck. It's a game with porn scenes if you're going to put the effort to make characters distinct outside of sex why on earth not make them individuals when it comes to fucking? Give them some kinks and preferences. You could just swap models and name for most scenes and you'd never no the scene was written for a specific girl. I wish the game was better in this regard.

    No Josy, Bianca or Zoey Anal...yet- This is simply a crime.

    Overall

    Overall the game has been a blast so far. It's well written, often amusing and the majority of the stuff that really pisses me off are to do with the dev rather than the actual game itself. It's definitely one that is worth trying yourself, there is an awful lot here to like.