Looking at my blog analytics, I noticed that most of my views come from my Being A DIK review, which proves that I’ve somehow captured the attention of an audience of horny wankers who are trying to figure out if BaDIK can do a good job of getting them off. Goddammit y’all. As such, it is now my duty to get you up to speed on how good/bad the other fap games are in comparison. And that brings us all to this review of College Kings: Act 1 [just gonna be abbreviating it to CK from here on].
College Kings is an adult VN designed by Undergrad Steve, a Patreon creator. The game begins with the MC Nomad [standard practice of naming my MCs “Nomad” shall never change] getting admitted to San Vallejo College, and the game begins on the first day of college, where we get driven to the college by our mom, Julia; because apparently she isn’t going to miss out on her chance of embarrassing us in front of the entire college. Thanks mom. To throw in a bit of backstory, Nomad has been cheated on by his ex-girlfriend Emily and as the chad we are, we have broken up with the cheating ho. But now, she hasn’t been able to make it into the Ivy League colleges, and so we’ll be seeing more of her at SV. Not a happy turn of events [or is it?].
Right as Nomad gets off at his college and is lugging his suitcase up the staircase of the main building, he knocks into Cameron, who wastes no time in being an absolute prick and threatens to beat Nomad up. Thankfully, a girl Autumn comes to our rescue and tells him off. On the way to our dorm, while in conversation with her, we find out more about the college frats and sororities; the Deers and Chicks for the sororities and the Frogs, Apes and Wolves for the frats. Also, Autumn is the president of the Deers. Nice. Moving on.
We attend our first class, and make our first friends in Lauren, Riley and Ryan. Lauren is a pretty girl, if a little on the plain side, and happens to be Autumn’s younger sister. Meanwhile, Ryan is pitching us the possibility of joining the Apes, however Nomad has no interest in fighting anybody; girls or not. Lauren agrees, as she is not one to like the idea of fighting. Overall, the only good thing about the opening class is the teacher who’s hot. That’s about it.
We get to our dorm and meet our roomie, Imre, who’s already super stoked about pledging the Wolves. Apparently there’s a huge rivalry between the Apes and the Wolves with the Summer Showdown events: both frats have won 5 each in the last 10 years. And his elder brother was the winner of the Summer Showdown twice, back when he was still in college. Or “Fight King” as people refer to the winners. But why does Imre really want to pledge the Wolves? Cuz obviously, fighters get girls, duh. Honestly, seems like a pretty good reason to pledge either of the frats. And Frogs is the nerd frat, so no way we’re getting in there. Not when there’s pussy on the line.
I’m not going to reveal too much more of how the plot progresses, but Nomad does have the opportunity of joining either the Apes or the Wolves towards the later section of the game, and that would change the storyline entirely from one track to the other. Pro tip: save on the screen before you make your frat choice. This choice also affects the girls you can pursue later on in the game.
The gameplay is quite similar to how Being A DIK works, with you clicking around on the free roam sections, and choice-based dialogue. An extra thing here is how the dialogue you choose alters your KCT [key character trait] status between Popular, Confident and Loyal; these statuses can affect how you’re perceived by the girls, and help in furthering your relationships or make them impossible. For example, to pursue Lauren in the game, you’d need the KCT Loyal status, while if you wanna bang Chloe, the hottest chick in the game, you’d need the KCT Popular status ideally [even though it’s not 100% necessary].
Another special feature to CK is the fights: you’re there to be Fight King after all! The controls for the fights are quite simple, but on the hardest difficulty you’d have to be super quick to defend and attack the opponent effectively, depending on their motions. In case you want to avoid the exercise of fighting, you can choose to have the fight auto-complete via simulation, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
The plot of the game is pretty good overall, it has a fair amount of “Never Back Down” vibe to it [the 2008 movie in which Amber Heard was hot as sin, way before all the bs with Johnny Depp] which fits right in with the game overall. The character animations are top-of-the-line, on par with BaDIK I would say, except for the MC himself. Again, it’s just my opinion here, but I believe the MC could have been designed better. The hot girls look HOT, what else do we want? Meanwhile, the sex scenes are decently animated, but not the best. Some of the animations end a bit jarringly, but overall I was satisfied with them [in more ways than one]. Great fap material; Aubrey is crazy as hell, always bang her. See? Another pro tip for you guys.
The game length comes to around 4-5 hours, but then there is tremendous replay value here, especially with the Apes/Wolves choice we have to make, which adds an hour’s worth of gameplay easily, if not more. It is especially a great deal, considering College Kings: Act 1 is free.
FREE.
Let this sink in for a minute, before you storm their Steam page and install the game off there. Also, Act 2 of the game was just released a couple days ago [June 4], which costs like $4. It’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s the sale of the fucking century. This is how a character from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels would put it, if he came across this info. Sick film by the way, but I digress.
RATING: 9/10
PROS:
– interesting KCT implementation
– really well-drawn characters, on par with Being a DIK imo
– Never Back Down vibes
CONS:
– sex scene animations are sometimes a bit off
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