In a way, you're making sense. Let me show you what I think.I'm wondering why you're not allowing naming of the MC in this game?
Would it not have been a thing to name the MC from LoI and also name the MC here?
As it is, I don't get much of a sense of actually playing as the MC, particularly because you actually also play from the other MC's perspective starting from that interview and that MC has a name the reader picked while the "real" MC just has some generic name that no one gives a shit about.
Its very disjointed.
It feels like this is actually written as a multiple protag VN but not being "sold" as such because multi protag is actually reasonably unpopular.
For me, when I'm playing through a VN as the MC I'd rather not be playing from multiple character's perspectives but rather see it from the MCs eyes, so to speak.
I would rather have seen the antagonist's interview on a TV or something while watching as the MC.
Seeing it from the antagonist's perspective didn't really make any sense, how would our MC know any of what went on behind the scenes?
Does what I'm saying make sense?
You'll get a better sense of that as you get to make more choices while playing as Luke. Well, even Lord of Imagination almost consistently had you seeing the PoVs of other characters, doesn't mean it was a multiple protagonist game. Out of the 9 or so scenes, we play through 8 of them with Luke as our PoV and James has one scene with his PoV. So it's clear who the actual protagonist is.
Yeah, in novels it makes sense to stick to one guy's PoV but Visual Novels are, well, a visual medium. You don't need to stick to one guy's PoV. Even then, there are plenty of novels that do show you the PoV of the antagonists. Take Dune for instance, it repeatedly jumps to Baron Harkonnen's pov but that doesn't mean Harkonnen is one of the protagonist. It's obvious that Paul is the protag and Harkonnen is the antagonist.