Ok, i just finished every route. I also was reading some of the comments, trying to follow this mess. I had the feeling there was a lot of negative comments and deception from this episode. It's funny how even if DPC seemes to put everything in this update it still face with so much negativity. We not only got the biggest episode so far but for sure it tried to satisfied everyone, with Bella and Jill scenes, and the good bunch of secondary girls.
Yet I understand them. I had the same feeling, it wasnt as exciting as ep 7, and not even close as the first time I played ep 1 to 6. With his good momments didnt had the punk punch it had the first episodes or the sweetness of the latest ones.
Now, the issue is: a lot of it always comes more from the player than the writer. We waited 7 months to get 1/16 of a story. That's not the natural way to tell a story. A story is meant to be told in front of a fire in half four, to be watched on a tv screen in 2 hours or to be read in a book in a couple days. Thats why shows always have the same problems when it comes to narrative and audience starts to get tired at some point of the little problems that normally overloocked. Just like relationships. So, remember guys that you are not the same guy playing the game than when you did it for the first time.
It also doesnt help that we keep theorising and arguing over the game. Just think about it, pretty much everything in this update was guessed by someone the last months. Nothing was a surprise for me couse every posibility was already considered, not by me but by someone. It's even worst when in the heat of the argument you get stubborn about your ideas and they are proven wrong by the story.
None of this issues are hardly to blame on the story itself. Althought not blame, its on us. That's why art is subjective, couse it's the traits of the subject who defined the way a story will be enjoyed or not. You cannot force people to like a story. Schools try every year and they failed, spectacularly.
Saying this, in my opinion this episode did have a lot of flaws. Worst, some of them are a trend, wich comes all across the first of season 1, at least. So let me point them out.
1) The prose was not there. If something BADIK always had good dialogues. Every conversation in the first season had some lines wich makes it interesting to read. A joke, a good pun, even a well achieved sweet or deep moment. And yes comedy was there, true, but we also got a lot of... "Talking about feelings". A conversation mostly boring for male population, even more when they re not even your feelings. We got this instead of thoose small signs, subtle hints, who feels great presisly couse they are small. Bella smiling for first, Quinn resting his shoulder on MC, Jill finger trying to reach MC dick.
And even if its not feelings talk, still most of the dialogue were simple not as interesting. A lot couse of:
2) The MC is becoming more of a Mary Sue. Now this is always a problem with porn. Porn its a narcisistic activity, its self congratulatory. On top of that, mary sues are a frecuent problem in modern fiction. Yet Badik was different mostly couse it avoided it the first episodes. The joks hated the MC, the preps too, the nerds overlooked him as an idiot, even the DIK's didn't care too much since he was a maggot. Quinn and Sage were just sex no love, Bella thought he was a stupid kid, even Josy and Maya, the cutest ones let it clear that even if they like him he was just one wheel in the tricycle. On top of that he was broken and insecure.
Yet since ep 5 everything started to change. The DIKs become less of a cool gang you want to be with, and more of the group of "beta" male MC club fans. Quinn is less of: "let me show you the dark force, kid, see?, this is weed" and is more of a: "Wow, this is a relationship daddy, show me how it works?". The guy plays the Pachelbell song on a classic music concert and becomes a "Rock Star".
As a result we have line after line of: "Wow MC you are so cool/great at doing X/ big/ handsome/ strong/ intelligent". Sometimes is just ridicoulus and you laugh, sometimes is lame and you feel embarrased, but mostly is boring.
3) The punk punch is as gone as our hopes for a M/J birthday threesome. First Bella scene she hate us, give us a chance and we arrive drunk untill she felt sorry for us. Last Bella scene we had a romantic dinner on her house. First Maya scene we were sleeping, she suddenly start to teasing us untill we get electrocuted. Last one we went to a water park. First really sexual scene we break into an unknown house full of girls. Two unknown girls threat us untill we get naked, then throw us naked into the streets. Last one was a sleepover on our place (best dorm in campus).
Instead we get some emotional strong moments, some quite touching. And that's cool, but we want the punk punch, that's why we are here.
4) Lack of drama (yeah, lack of it) Everything work so fine, everything is so cool. If season 1 was a struggle to remain in college (literary survival), season 2 concerns are girls troubles, wich one of this hotties should MC choose from. It's like one of thoose shows where a guy has to choose beetween girls. Even worst i am picking all in different saves so...
MC status has not been really challenged since he join the DIKs.
5) Porn is eating the story. Now a lot of this I already talk about it. The MC becoming a Mary Sue, the lack of drama... But there is more. EP 8 had the smallest ammount of renders compared to animations and you can notice it. The renders cannot follow the growth on animations. So episodes take longer yet the story goes slower, mostly couse its interrupted at every 5 mins with a long (longer for some people) scene of a random girl being fucked. As long as we enjoyed the porn, the story still pays for it.
This are currently the negative things i saw from last update.
