Zero Escape I could also understand because it's within the plot. Like I could see choices being useful in stuff like a story like steins gate cuz that story leads with multiple dimensions or universes. Although I'm happy people like them all in all.

Personally I don't care much for them just because the personality of most of them feel very clichéd and full of stereotypes that I've seen in other anime or light novels. Alot of dating Sim do this and to some degree I can't fault them because clearly they know their audience and I'm content with leaving it there. Like cool, I can make different choices but why do I care? How does this enhance the story in any way besides just adding it in because its a vn and we can do that. If you add multiple choices into the story just for the sake of it, it feels very finicky. Most times when a story is kinetic it has the time to grow and build into something more. Sometimes choices in visual novels also kinda feel not like it leads to a conclusive story of its own beside some standouts. So read alot of moe blobs and it feels very by the books.

Or maybe say that the vn is soo good because the girls are cute. Like most times in visual novels I hear that people say that such and such route is so good and if it gets an anime adaptation I'd become shit because they would adapt it. I remember liking some slice of life romance choice based novels back in high school and college mostly cuz it felt new but the more I did the more bland it got for me. Although something clicked in my brain years passed and made me appreciate kinetic visual novels more. So I've had this question for quite a bit and personally I used to be on the band of choice based visual novels because I liked to self insert myself into the story feeling like I mattered in the plot.

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