games with multiple character perspectives on the same events
i was going to title this "Rashomon" but that would be quite incorrect as most of these games do not have unreliable narrators and most present a definitive "correct" narrative. still, that was the inspiration!! recommendations are welcome
btw this is a bit arbitrary but these have to be the same events and not just different things happening in the same world to different protagonists, so stuff like Octopath Traveler doesn't really fit here, but RE6 does because it's all the same crisis. Also will not be putting games like Romancing SaGa where the protagonist choice doesn't really make much of a difference.
btw this is a bit arbitrary but these have to be the same events and not just different things happening in the same world to different protagonists, so stuff like Octopath Traveler doesn't really fit here, but RE6 does because it's all the same crisis. Also will not be putting games like Romancing SaGa where the protagonist choice doesn't really make much of a difference.
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special note for this one because yeah you're always playing Byleth but honestly the 3 kids are as much of protagonists as they are and so is Rhea. they also are probably the most unreliable narrators in this list because each route presents wildly different takes on a lot of the same events (morally and so on)
Chapters 2 and 3
basically all of them really
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@archagent that's true but it's the linearity of it that gets to me a little, doesn't feel like it belongs as really being different perspectives and more like these characters meeting for a bit. but I guess that would also disqualify Breath of Fire IV, so I might actually remove it too...
@archagent actually you know what i'm gonna include both in the list and make a note for Mother 3 i think you're right
Good list, I believe Scarlet Nexus, Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut, and Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir fit here as well.
TLOU II
You probably have enough Sonic but Sonic Rush is another one. Tales of Xillia too.
Alan Wake 2 has two protagonists who influence each other’s story. One, Alan, is writing their way out of being trapped in a lake while the other, Saga Anderson, is written in by Alan to be the story’s protagonist and has to navigate the reality changing effects of Alan’s writing
@daymannightman i'm avoiding spoilers for AW2 but i feel that's quite different, like a bit why i won't put Dream Drop Distance in this list because the world mechanics do not really make what they experience the "same events"
Archagent
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