College Kings: Act 1

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.

This chick gonna make you nut like a mofo, watch out.

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

Being A DIK [SEASON 1]

There are games you play because they have great combat mechanics, some because of the vast, beautiful environments you can explore and some others which have excellent storytelling. Being A DIK isn’t a game you’d play because of any of those things. Not at the outset, anyway. Because it’s an 18+, adult VN. Basically, you play BaDIK to, you know, relieve some stress, if you know what I mean. All thanks to a friend of mine who played BaDIK first, then let me know it was a must-play.

The first season of BaDIK comprises of the first four episodes released by the creator DrPinkCake, who has another VN to his name called Acting Lessons [which I’ll cover in another review]. BaDIK is his second such work. And you can really see how much effort has gone into rendering the characters in the game, which is apparent almost immediately upon getting into the game. That is, unless this is your first adult VN, in which case a lot of the effort might be lost in translation. At the point of writing this review, I have played a few such games, and I must admit that BaDIK has the absolute best character animations and rendering.

The game starts off with the protagonist Nomad [that’s what I named him] just getting accepted into the B&R College. Nomad is equal parts nervous and excited about this new phase in his life, and he goes and shares this news with Josy, a co-worker at the grocery store he’s working part-time at. Unfortunately, Josy hasn’t managed to get into the college, but you still do go out with her to celebrate your acceptance. Due to certain circumstances, Josy rejects your advances [plot spoilers which I won’t reveal], and you leave dejected from your town, to enroll at college. And this is where the whole shitshow begins. You get into a fight with the jocks, you make friends with a crazy shirtless guy called Derek, and start meeting new girls at college, starting with Maya, a hot blonde. And this is just the beginning. TLDR: Crazy shit starts happening from hereon, with everything on overdrive.

For a game you start up just to jack off to, the plot is surprisingly good here. Granted, it is a somewhat exaggerated college-life story where you get to bang a load of hot chicks day in and day out, but putting the self-gratification aside, the effort that went into the story is quite telling. What starts off as a simplistic college-life plot begins to turn into something more, with the players rooting for certain characters and hating some others quite soon, a sure sign of getting into the game. Meanwhile, the gameplay is basic but gets the job done. It’s mostly a whole lot of clicking through conversations and narration, with some epic soundtrack blasting away in the background.  You can scroll back to get to a previous part of the conversation, and depending on how far you scroll back, that far backwards you can go. There are also some optional minigames you can play on the protagonist’s cell to unlock extra lewd renders, as well as some minigames as a part of the main story too [Math and English tests, beer drinking etc.]. But then, you do have to make certain choices which influence how the story progresses. For instance, Episode 4 of BaDIK can play out 3 significantly different ways, depending on what choice you make.  As such, there is incentive to save often, just to try out different choices to witness new outcomes in the story.

But yeah, enough about gameplay and plot. Now for the real shit: girls. As I mentioned already, the animations are the best I’ve seen in any adult VNs. And of course, this translates to really well-animated, lifelike characters. AKA totally hot/cute girls all around [not to discredit the animations on male characters]. The still images are really well-drawn, and the sex scenes are done well too. Well enough to get you off, at the very least. Meanwhile, the hair effects especially look like Tomb Raider games’ TressFX on overdrive; that’s how well done it is. You may consider me delusional for that statement, but whatever. Here’s a sample right below, for you to be able to confirm/deny my claim. Maybe it is easier to draw hair in pre-rendered scenes, as opposed to programming its movement in a dynamic game like Tomb Raider. I don’t know for sure, I don’t design games after all.

And not just that, each character has their own mannerisms and quirks, which make them all memorable. For instance, there’s Quinn, who’s absolute bonkers to deal with, Jill [the girl on the main image] is this super-rich girl who’s down-to-earth and Arieth… well, suffice to say she’s just Arieth. You’ll know what I mean if/when you start playing the game and get well into it. And Derek. He’s the absolute madlad, probably the best character of the game. What a guy.

All in all, I absolutely recommend this totally family-friendly game which you can play on the main TV with your parents and sibling and have a bonding time together. Well actually, don’t do that. That is, play on the main TV with your parents and siblings around. Unless it is totally fine in your family to jack off in presence of other family members. In that case, you got some bigger issues to resolve, you sickos.

But yeah, do check this amazing VN out. Season 1 is a good 8-10 hours long, so suffice to say there is quite a bit to look forward to when you pick up this game. It sells on Steam for around $5 last I checked; the game is a total steal at this dirt-cheap price, especially when we get those same old recycled AAA games with fractionally improved graphics for $50-60. It also has some of the sickest background score I’ve heard in a game, with the score shifting from melancholic blues to aggressive rock/metal depending on the scene playing out.

In case you haven’t received the message I conveyed above, it’s this: just go buy the damn game already. You’ll be doing yourself a favor. Also, do support the guy DrPinkCake if you can on Patreon. He’s presently busy making the Season 2 of the game; Episode 5 is already out, with Episode 6 soon to release, if my calculations are correct.

RATING: 9.5/10

PROS:
– best animation/renders of all the adult VNs
– background score
– good plot
– memorable characters
– great sex scenes

CONS:
– sometimes the soundtrack switches up jarringly upon scrolling backwards in time