Hacker News Reader

Yeah, not a fan either. Netflix has done at least a couple 'choose your own adventure' style films. The idea itself is...fun. Maybe I'm boring, but I just don't like it. I want to be told a story, not decide the story myself.

View on HN

Something made to be a choose your own adventure is a different experience to a film - it's a lazy video game basically.

With Bandersnatch at least you are still being told a story.

One of the central themes is how you are controlling the character, making the character feel a lack of agency. It's far far too Charlie Brooker to be as simple as you describe.

That Bandersnatch went (spoilers?) meta, while being one of the first of its type, really highlights the limits of a very simplistic CYOA medium like that, I think. What else do you do with it now? Bandersnatch already said the only thing that medium had to say that's worth a damn. And hell, that exact thing had already been explored by "real" video games, many times over.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com