Sometimes i feel like i'm playing a different title than you guys. I'm playing a college setting disney-level soap opera..
..while you are, apparently, playing one of those insane japanese visual novel games where you at the end of the first playthrough end up failing horribly and everyone dies.. only to realize that you have to replay the story again because its a cruel game that is set up so if you replay then further secrets will reveal themselves and after like 14 playthrough (witnessing horrible deaths of your loved ones each time through various tragedies) on the 15th one you can actually manage to get away without watching your lover's mangled corpse eaten and instead finally dares to reveal she loves you too, kiss kiss, congrats 'the -true- end' and "oh we hope you don't mind that 14 suicide-inducing horror trip to get here, hope you had fun, love, Dev."
I'm trying to figure out why do you guys think this holds more than what it actually shows and what makes you think there are complex secrets lurking behind every tattoo, every conversation, every look, every classroom door, every picture on every wall that has one, every smile, every smirk.
Have it ever crossed your minds that maybe there are simple answers behind mysteries here? Like.. two person wearing the same tattoo, why?.. just because. One had it and the other liked it and wanted it too. Out of childhood promise. Out of accident as both just picked one out of the tattoo catalogue.
Maybe there isn't a hidden reason behind every single miniscule detail of the game. The pictures on the wall are props and not keys to a hidden universe. Drugs and money aren't ties to international crime syndicates.
Maybe, just maybe, the characters in this title are 18-21 years old kids who just overreact the importance of college years and act like young and stupid true to their age-range stereotypes. Unthinkable? What if this is just a simple story, with just a bit more depth to it than usual, instead of a mystery novel.
2 things; this is certainly not a "disney-level" story, and if you view this as a "soap opera" then by that very definition it is going to have twists and turns, and mysterious intrigue, and characters holding deep, dark secrets, and relationship drama, family drama, inexplicable coincidences, outlandish plots, and emotional highs and lows.
DPC is not writing a straight-forward, cookie-cutter story, it's more of a mystery drama series like "Secrets and Lies" where, on the surface, BaDIK may seem like it's just a simple teen rom-com, but it isn't. Just think about the number of characters that were or are hiding secrets; Maya, Josy, Bella, Jill, Chad, Melanie, Sarah, Quinn, Riona, Camila, Burke, Tommy, Cathy, etc. There's mystery and intrigue everywhere in this story, and something that might seem coincidental likely isn't because it's all about building that intrigue by including hints and clues about how certain dots are connected.
This tattoo/symbol, for example, is simply too distinctive for it to not have some kind of significance not just because it's the same symbol, but it's also in the exact same spot. It means something, even if it's just as simple as being some sort of gang sign, it's still significant and not something DPC would include without a reason.
BaDIK is far from being a "simple story" with more depth, it's a deep story that presents itself as a simple story.
). Her proportions feel natural. I wish her to be more present in future releases.
