Silent or talking protagonist?

[Mr. Santanna]

I'm thinking of creating a renpy game with choices, but I haven't decided yet if the protagonist will speak or not.

I'm in doubt if he didn't talk it would be better because the game will have different ways and ways to conquer girls, so you yourself would mold your personality based on your way of playing.

PS: Sorry if my english is not very good, english is not my native language ;P

 

[Living In A Lewd World]

When your MC is not talking at all, this would be much of a characterization of the MC, as it might e.g. characterize him as calm and the girls would have to react on his non-talking accordingly. This would especially apply to a VN, which consists mostly of story.
I think, a non-talking MC would work best in a 2d or 3d-action game. You can just skip any "Talk" at all and primary focus on the action and sex scenes with only showing some short story sequences in between.

 

[ZephyrCloack]

Write them well and most likely won't matter, unless you want to portray a more emotional character or a being incapable of speech.

So as long as you keep in mind the requirements for the expressivity in both cases you should do well.

 

[Jack Madrigal]

Kinda funny to imagine someone communicating with nothing but intense stares.

 

[Glorified_ignorance]

Kinda funny to imagine someone communicating with nothing but intense stares.

 

[anne O'nymous]

I'm in doubt if he didn't talk it would be better because the game will have different ways and ways to conquer girls, so you yourself would mold your personality based on your way of playing.

Too talkative MCs can be a problem, yes, but silent ones would be an even bigger issue in a VN-like story based game. The player would have to imagine everything, and it's a worse situation than having to bear with a too dumb MC.

There's a whole world between the usual MC that lead the discussion and try to answer everyone, in case players forgot that he exist, and a totally silent MC.
If the story permit it, therefore if there's many characters involved (not necessarily girls, and even less necessarily Love Interest one), make the MC just stay behind during discussion. He don't have to intervene constantly, he can just listen what others have to say, just talking when it's been too long that he haven't said something, or when he only can say "this".

 

[Zodiark69]

Is the MC Red?