Maybe the visual novel comparison highlights that the game won’t let you do something that your character wouldn’t do themselves (taking away freedom in order to stay in character). Whether you’re telling a character’s story, or letting the player set their own story, differs between RPGs (final fantasy vs skyrim, for example). To me, letting the player experience things themselves is the greatest difference between novels and games. But switching from writing prose to the video games isn’t easy (I’ve only just started doing that myself). (About your first paragraph) That is where the art, music, voice acting and gameplay help: the player gets to see/feel from the point of view of the character, rather than read about it. Have you played any visual novels? How does your experience compare to an RPG? What are some virtues of both that you think could cross over? Still, the open-world format makes the repetition a small cost, don’t you agree? But in the end, you will run out of conversation options, and Taya will end up just repeating “That sure was nice of you” just like Riku and Yuna and Rinoa and Tifa before her. We can map out an entire conversation for each day, or at least for each area you end up playing, planning it by which areas we will guide you toward chronologically. However, due to a lack of an open-world, with visual novels, the creators can completely limit the conversations of each scene, and in many cases, this is very effective in driving relationship development. After running out of new conversation options, Carth always ends up just repeating “Can I help you?” Even in Harvest Moon, which is completely relationship driven, the girls or townspeople always end up just saying “It sure is a swell day!” (or whatever HM characters say). It’s a constraint that, to be really honest, I haven’t found it avoided in any RPG I’ve played. Many RPGs will have only a certain number of things that each character can talk about.
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However, a plus side to the visual novel is that since there is one story line and because of the audience understanding of the game play (read: limited freedom), it’s much easier to avoid repeating the same exchanges day in and day out. The conclusions the protagonist reach seem to be mere plot devices to advance the story in the direction the author needed, rather than true, natural responses to a situation. And it makes me feel kind of stupid for playing the game. It makes me feel like the protagonist is stupid. That, I feel, is one of the short-comings of some visual novels: sometimes, they go in a completely different direction than what the player is thinking. The goal would be, then, to try and think of the most natural responses a player may have to a situation, and utilize them ourselves.
Now, as I keep saying, Ren is a pretty developed character. Ideally, we’d put your character in a situation – and therefore you in a certain mindset – and you can fill in the thoughts behind the protagonist. So we don’t want to exactly spell out everything that’s running through the protagonist’s head. RPGs hope to tell a story that happened to you. Perhaps one of the differences between a novel and an RPG is that a novel seeks to tell a story that happened to someone (at least in many cases).
Maybe it’s also a little carry over from all the poorly-translated, ultra-girly otome visual novels I’ve been playing. I want to tell how her eyes looked, or how he felt about them, or why they were feeling that way. I find myself wanting to narrate moments in the game. As someone who has favored writing for my medium in the last several years, it has been an interesting adjustment to making RPGs – especially since we have limits on the type of “cut scenes” we can produce.
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