Just finished this.
As pretty much everyone else has commented, the game has some pretty rough edges in comparison to BAD, especially with Jonas' inner dialogue, where Jonas sounds like Tommy Wiseau a lot of the times (Yes, I'm aware DPC isn't American and is believed to be from Scandinavia).
There are a lot of segments that, in retrospect, could have been dropped from the final product as they needlessly pad out the storyline, most notably the entire RV trip and the sequence with Liam horsing around on stage (How, exactly, does that sequence not end with Liam being escorted out of the theater by police and given a trespass warrant?)
For me, what really hurts the game is the final chapter with the protracted sessions with the psychiatrist. Real therapy doesn't work that way, obviously, with the psychologist/therapist declaring you "cured" and saying you never have to come back, but beyond that there are a number of aesthetical choices that hurt the final chapter:
Jonas looks like some sort of hipster wannabe moron wearing the hoodie throughout the entire thing. And Jonas' final character design (which was recycled for "Steve" in BAD) with that awful nose...it doesn't fit how Jonas was initially portrayed/described, where Jonas was apparently intended to be a guy in his 40's, but physically appears to be early 30's at best.
It's as if DPC panicked at the last minute and thought he would get backlash if Jonas was portrayed as a dirty old man who only fucks college girls (including breeding one out).
And that nose...Jesus, that nose...
Compared to BAD, AL is "a good first effort." DPC has obviously improved his conversational English (or at the very least has hired someone to polish his dialogue), and so far there haven't been any annoying padding scenes like the RV trip (although the drunken date with Bella and its aftermath are definitely pushing it).
