If you respond to an extreme position with an extreme one, you are not doing yourself a good service.
are all sluts at BR? is this really your answer to the fact that Jill has friendship only with a teacher? and that she makes friends on the fly with the only girl (who would also answer to the generic identikit of slut... but in the positive sense) towards whom she knows the only boy she has ever been interested in has feelings?
BADIk is an extremely light story, with no particular clockwork mechanism that makes people cry out for a miracle, where almost every situation is handled according to emotional outbursts that justify any outcome (they all run away for the least believable reasons ..)
but there is only one point on which I don't agree with you at all: the fact that there is this extreme attention to detail, DPC takes great care in creating "verisimilitude" especially in the dialogues, where he tries to take into account everything that happened, but then blatantly ignores certain situations, which would have their own importance, but would complicate his work.
so we have Chad's shoes in Troy's room (how many times did it happen to you to leave your shoes at the house of a girl with whom you had a clandestine relationship? did you come back barefoot?), and at the same time Josy is punished by her parents for having dinner with a boy (if Mc stays it makes sense, otherwise not at all. or do you want to tell me that Josy's beloved father is more bigoted than Maya's father?) and many other intersections that for simplicity DPC has decided simply not to handle
BADIK is an exceptional entertainment, which is light years from the average of the games of this genre (mainly because of the very low average), and probably will also have a positive effetot as an example on other productions. but it is a soap opera, a telenovelas, not the Murder on the Orient Express
If you judge the artistic value of something before its even halfway complete, you are not doing yourself a service.
We have a daughter, whos mother either due to sickness or drug consumation is so far gone, that she doesnt recognise her own daughter anymore.
We have a daughter, who is so controlled by her religious father, that she retreats more and more into her own shell, risking her relationship.
We have a boy, who lost his mother during childbirth, and recently connected with her via a diary that she left behind.
We have a boy, who doesnt know how to cope with beeing born into a rich and powerfull family and the expectations that come with it.
We have a boy, who never managed to make sense of his parents splitting up, so now hes loud, volatile, excessively uses drugs and sex to escape something he just doesnt understand.
We have a neglected Wife, whos husband only cares about money and the power that comes with it.
We have a boy, who is terrified how his friends and family will react to the fact that he is gay.
And on and on and on. Now if all of that is soap opera level to you, fine - I dont know what country you come from, but in the US, if you could adress the entire population and ask who has or had similiar expiriences, a LOT of hands would be raised.
Does that make it a masterpiece just yet ? No, because we dont know how any of these life stories resolve, but there are most definitely a lot of foundations in place that could make it one. And thats how any work of art thats less than 50% complete should be viewed. Imagine Merry and Pippin beeing capture by the Uruk hai and everything ends there, nobody would call it a masterpiece.
Your nitpicking about josy parents/chads shoes ( dude wtf is wrong with you ??? ) is the same as nitpicking where the horse all of the sudden came from, when Gandalf reunited with Legolas, Gimlie and Aragorn and he whisteled as if thats the normal thing to do. Art can never be a true representation of realitiy, because it lacks the passage of time. There will always be flaws, and in something like BAD with ... what ? 20-30-40 hours of playtime there are probably dozens, but that doesnt make it less good or a "soap opera" ( like ... seriously ??? )
Now is BAD a pr0n game masterpiece ? HELL DOUBLE YEAH !!! Best anything else can hope for is 4th place, because BAD occupies 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
