/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Do you anons ever think about how a VN route could have progressed if a side character was the protagonist instead, or if you could just "turn off" the main protagonist and switch to another at some point in a route? Are there any games you feel would be improved by this, or that did something like this worth noting? I was reading a few chapters of an isekai manga recently (I now know based on a LN) called "Magical Explorer", and it made me think about this concept.

The series' premise is simple: guy is a big fan of an eroge game, wakes up one day to find he's transported to the world, but is the side character instead of the protagonist. Side character is originally the stereotypical, goofy pervert best friend of the protagonist. I haven't read the LN, but it begs a question: how might character shifts, and the player's meta knowledge held beyond these shifts, influence a VN where controlled perspectives are changed (either permanently or back and forth)? Would the narrative likely be improved or impaired through this process? What do you all think?