I hope I’m posting this in the correct forum!
I've finally began writing my visual novel and have two questions that have been on my mind.
1) How should I show the MC’s thoughts?
In most of the visual novels I've seen, the Main Character acts as the narrator and protagonist, however that's not the case with mine. I’m planning on having my narration in third person and only using it to describe what’s currently going on in a scene.
What I currently have coded and written is the following:
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k "{i}(You're kidding!){/i}"
Is this an effective way of representing their thoughts? Or should I switch the narration from third person to first person so that I can have their thoughts show up with no nametag?
2) Cutting away to other scenes?
There are certain scenes that don’t involve the main character that are very important to the story, and I was wondering if it was alright to switch to these scenes at certain points in the game.
Each of these scenes are only introducing the characters/bringing them into the story since the Main Character doesn’t meet them face-to-face until later in the game.
Should I omit these scenes and find a way to only reference that they happened, or is it alright for me to include them?
I apologize if my questions are confusing. If you need me to elaborate more I can.
- May