The accessibility to the cheat codes is due to the fact that the old password system required access to a keyboard with arrow keys, something the Android community had to buy bluetooth keyboards for if they wanted the cheats. Imo, it's just slightly below the "cheat security" of games like Skyrim and Fallout 4. Even so, you don't HAVE to activate cheats, no one is forcing you (except maybe a lack of self-control).
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Games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 bore me to tears so I have never play them. 95% of my gaming is Visual Novels., with the other 5% being old console retro games. Yes, I could easily ignore it, but, come on, no real sane person is not going to want to cheat. I guess the other option is for me to hack the game and delete it which is easy enough. Maybe I will do that one day, but for now I am playing Being A DIK and it's AMAZING!
I suppose it's a matter of taste, I personally don't like DAZ based games and prefer hand drawn artwork (like Space Rescue: Code Pink for example) as the girls in DAZ look lifeless and plastic imho.
As for content and gameplay BaD and LoSe are very different games as BaD is truly a visual novel (you have very little freedom outside of choices) while LoSe is a dating/life sim and VN hybrid.
Anyway, I am happy you found a game to your own taste.
Yes, and to be honest with you, it's not the artwork that is an issue for me. It's that actual story. Even if Being A DIK was more "cartoony" and not "True To Life" it wouldn't matter to me. Most of the Visual Novel I play are "Cartoony" types. As I said, the graphics do not really bother me one way or another, it's the story. My favourite types are girl/girl visual novels and I have never yet found one that is not in the "cartoony" style artwork. My Top 5 are Kindred Spirits- On The Roof, I Can't Believe The Most Popular Girl In School Is A Lesbian Just Like Me, Heart Of The Woods, First Snow, and Love Cubed (though Love Cubed is not a girl/girl.) I liked Highway Blossoms, too, but hated the Next Exit D.L.C. It killed it dead for me. All of them are hand drawn and beautiful stories (except for Next Exit.) In fact, First Snow characters look like cardboard cut-outs but is just perfect! And I am not a big fan of too many choices. I do like some, but not too many, it kind of kills it for me. The other thing I love about Visual Novels is the music. And Kindred Spirits, Heart Of The Wood, Being A DIK and Love Cubed have such amazing songs, I have them on my phone and listen to them when I go out on my phone. I do agree that DAZ based games graphics can look like Barbie dolls sometimes, but, then again, some of them look really great. City Of Broken Dreamers comes to mind. The game is mediocre, but has some of the best realistic graphics I have seen in a Visual Novel. So, swings and roundabouts, really. Thanks for the reply.