Of those games, I've only played Deluca Family, Depraved Awakening, City of Broken Dreamers, and Leap of Faith and I gotta disagree.
All of those stories are richer, and potentially more intriguing. They all want to tell a better story than BaDIK's simply slice of life in college tale.
But in my opinion, they are not written "better":
- Deluca Family is intriguing, but the writing is shit. The characters all sound like one guy writing everyone's lines (they are all fucking crazy). It was enjoyable at first but only the rich potential for the story is interesting, the actual writing is amateurish.
- Depraved Awakening is a typical Film Noir with x-rated sex. It's just one big cliche and by the end I fast forwarded. It's not badly written, but I couldn't bring myself to bother reading any of it again.
- City of Broken Dreamers I thought rivalled BaDIK except when the last episode came out I decided to play the game from scratch. Before I even got to the new content I was bored, because while story is interesting, the writing is not interesting.
- To me Leap of Faith is an embarrassment. It's just one guys wet dream and the characters are all shallow as fuck. And by shallow, I don't mean the character is portrayed as a shallow person, I mean the characters have hardly any depth, and what depth they seem to have feels like it's written by a 12 year old.
Once again, the stories of the above games are more complex and intend to tell something much bigger than BaDIK, which is just a college sex romp with character entanglements. But fuck me if it's not better written than all of those I've just swiftly critiqued.
Every line uttered by each character in BaDIK hits a chord. I have re-played the game countless times and still laugh at the same jokes. The writing is spot on.
People say that even DPC admitted that writing is his biggest weakness, but that's never put into context. He actually said his method of writing plays to his strengths (i.e. writing character dialogue) as his weakness is writing a narration based story and even suggests a narrator ruins the immersion.
So it obviously comes down to personal preference, but I'd prefer a simple story told well compared to a great story told poorly, and I don't believe there's an example on this site of a great story told well.
