- May 9, 2020
- 625
- 2,303
I can really appreciate heavy-hitting drama and have watched and really enjoyed plenty of movies and shows where I cry my eyes out in spots. It's cathartic. The problem with AL, for me, was that I was playing the game as porn. I was looking forward to some Megan-Melissa sandwich action, not leaving one of them to die in a fucking house fire. Subverting expectations is one thing, but switching up genres is what upset me. I didn't rage about it or anything, and I did play a few more variations just to see different endings, but for me the game ultimately disappoints because I thought I was going to enjoy one type of experience and I was instead provided with an entirely different type of experience.Man, DPC even had death threats. Basically what he did was get everyone hooked on the game, and then ruin it. There were some people so die hard fans that liked the game until the sad end? Sure. But most of the previous fans hated it and stopped being fans, as you and I. DPC seems to be a stubborn and full of himself guy. He probably says he loves AL because he doesn't want to acknowledge that he fucked up big time that game. And precisely because of that, he may try to tie the two games together by, as I say, making the crazy redheaded bitch from AL the biological mother of Sage. It would ruin the character, but he doesn't care about pissing off fans at this point. The fucking idiot thinks he's George R.R. Martin. Proof is he's still hellbent on developing Maya's character, which almost nobody loves and a lot of people literally hate. Or that he insists on not hiring anyone to shorten game development times. He keeps everyone waiting a year and doesn't gives a shit. That's why I think the guy is going to ruin BaDIK at some point, the same way he ruined AL, but worst because BaDIK is bigger than AL and has even more people hooked.
In hindsight, I shouldn't have been so surprised. Plenty of things in the game were dark--how the MC met Megan, Melissa suffering abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Liam and his cancer, etc.--so for the ending to have included such a dramatic turn should have been seen as the natural climax to the plot. But the lewd scenes had me so enthralled I didn't see it coming. With all that in mind, my view now is that the ending was just a bit too heavy-handed.
BaDIK, so far, is serving up an "American Pie" or "Porky's" type of experience, largely, with some melodrama/soap opera elements thrown in. If something seriously horrible happens in this game--and I think the chances of that are not inconsiderable--I will be less shocked, mostly because after AL I won't let me guard down again and because I'm paying more attention (it's helped by my having played through so many different routes several times now). While DPC has said BaDIK is going to be a much different experience than AL was, and I'm confident he won't want to repeat himself, at this point I think we can expect some truly dramatic events to unfold.
So far, events that I thought would be dramatic have actually been underwhelming. For example, Tybalt has always been a pompous windbag, but in that scene where he eats watermelon and coerces Jill into dating him, he showed genuine malice and I thought he was going to be a serious threat. But episode 8 turned him into a complete laughingstock. Before Tybalt, Chad was also been neutered as a serious threat to the MC or any other character, as he appears to be a level-headed guy who's main reason for being a jerk earlier is his fear of being discovered as gay (or bi or whatever he is).