What "person" works best?

[Havenstone]

As a sampling of previous discussion on this issue:

First Person vs. Second Person

So with the recent release of Samurai of Hyuga 2, I went ahead and played the demo for the for the first one. And for some reason, I was unable to connect with the protagonist. No matter how hard I tried, the protagonist felt like a separate character rather than an extension of me and my thought. This was new to me since, in all the games I’ve played on this site, this has never happened to me. And for the longest time, I couldn’t understand why. I was fairly confident that it wasn’t due to th…

First or Second Person?

Does an interactive novel have to be second person? Or can you write it in first person? I’ve only ever seen them in second person.

Must a cs game use the pronoun "you"

I have read a few stories using third person and it didn’t cause any issues on my side as a reader. It’s not done often but there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. As for first person, I’ve never seen a choice story written using it. I admittingly prefer second person in choice games. But if you feel using a different perspective would help develop the story, why not?

How does everyone feel about a first person perspective?

There are advantages and disadvantages to both second person and first. What I’ve come to learn is that the one that suits the writer best is always best. That also goes for tense. @Lordirish When reading something in first-person perspective, the reader is essentially roleplaying the protagonist. Like the suspension of disbelief, the reader agrees to play along in order to experience a perspective that isn’t like their own. It’s not a trade-off everyone is willing to make. The largest ad…

3rd person, present tense

I say write whatever comes easiest to you. If you find it easier to write in third person, present tense, do that. Personally, I find second person so very difficult to write in. It just seems completely unnatural to me to do it. I don’t like that omniscient narrator of the ‘yous’. I prefer first, (or even third), but both of those have their own limitations. That said, when playing, ‘you’ does often just become invisible.

The repetitive use of "you" in second person

I’m currently in the middle of writing my own game and I’ve run into a recurring problem. I’ve started writing it in second person and practically every sentence I use where the player’s character is doing an action involves me using some form of the word “you” repeatedly. An example would be: “After you’re done extending your legs, you check the clock to see you’ve been stretching for an entire thirty minutes!.” I’m unsure whether a reader would notice the repetitive use of it or not, but it d…