The problem with AL, IMO, is lazy writing. Suddenly a character with little prior development turns out to be a psychopath who whatever you do, decides to burn down a house with people in it. And that ends the story, making everything that happens previously trivial. It is no longer the story of MC helping two girls and falling in love, of his friendship with a buddy with a disease, of his flirtations with other girls.... Suddenly it's the story of a random crazy woman who commits a crime out of nowhere. The illness of the protagonist's bro might not be there, just as half the characters and situations might not be there, and the story would be the same. It only matters to the story that MC meets the crazy girl and any other girl, the crazy girl gets jealous of that other girl, whatever her story is, and burns down the house with her rival in it. That's not how you write a good story.
Regarding BaDIK, it's true: it's a mix of "National Lampoon Animal house" or "American Pie" with soap opera with excessive drama. It doesn't seem to have focus. It's a pastiche of too many things. It's as if DPC doesn't know what kind of story he really wants to tell. A silly teen comedy with asses and boobs with any excuse? A melodrama soap opera? Just porn for the sake of it? A Brokeback Mountain-style story for gay audiences? A crime thriller? There are too many elements. Too much cheap drama for such a story. Too much exaggeration and nonsense. Too many clichés. Cartoonish antagonists that no one can take seriously, like Tybalt. And seeing what DPC did with his previous game, I'm pretty sure he's going to somehow ruin the characters and the game. He's already ruined several characters by needlessly making them prostitutes, or adding stupid dramas that are supposed to move the player, but don't, like Maya's or Chad and Troy's. For sure, I don't give a shit about none of them. In the end, the only thing that interests me about this game are certain scenes with certain characters, which can be fun (I'm not talking about porn, exactly). But not the main story.
Of course, this game is better than the vast majority of the ones here. But it's not because this game is good, it's because most of the others are terrible.