Good Silent Protagonists

[Fynn]

I'd rather have writers make a good attempt (even if it fails) to become better, rather than using silent protagonists as a crutch to avoid having to write a better protagonist

But maybe that's just me

And I'm not saying silent protags are necessarily lazy, but when the argument is "a silent character beats a badly written character", that's a lazy decision

Honestly, I only really take issue with the notion that it's a crutch to fall back on, because I feel that really rewarding silent protagonists really take a lot of knowing exactly what you're doing to write. In the end, though, it's a stylistic choice. I appreciate silent protagonists a lot if only because it's something that can't exist outside the medium of video games, and I am all for diversifying media. Games trying to be movies or books is just so passe.