>JRPG
>you can fulfill your destiny as hero of light
>you can betray your friends and join the Empire bent on world conquest instead
>you can also join the forces of darkness
>you can also crush them all and carve a path where you alone are the supreme ruler
>you can kill the canon love interest, her last words being how all she wanted was for you two to end up together
How come other JRPGs have yet to accomplish decent branching
>>381147226
Branching is extra work that most players won't even see. It's a waste of time to do splits unless you save it till the very end or make the changes minuscule so you don't spend extraneous resources. Most of the time regardless, split narrative games are pretty shit, because they split the quality between the different routes as well
>>381147226
Effort is hard. Why put in hard work when people will buy it anyways. You only need to try if you're in second place.
>>381147506
Half the fun comes from joining different factions and watching how both they and your previous friends react to it