Which is why I think that of Netflix's experiment here the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "finale movie" was possibly the height of the art form. The obviously bad choices are always an excuse for more jokes and more punchlines and opportunities for surprise guest cameos from the show's previous seasons (and weird closure of multiple seasons of strange guest characters). The show's previous seasons already engendered enough of a feel of "anything can happen" that made most playthroughs, even "bad" ones, fun, and especially yielded a strong reason to see the entire play graph to catch all the endings and all the cameos and all the jokes.
It actually had answers for "Why would you want to do that?" and in ways that fans of the show's previous seasons would expect. From my experience, many of the other CYOA properties that Netflix attempted didn't have that multiple seasons of loyalty to wild "anything can happen" jokes and reasons to explore the interactivity in depth, but the UKS CYOA certainly had a lot of charm and fun.
(Aside: one of my favorite gags was the UKS CYOA's gag Netflix Skip Intro button.)
I didn't realize how many of these Netflix had done; the one my wife and I did (what verb do I use; watched? played? interacted with?) was the "Black Mirror" one.
Yeah, it was a big Netflix initiative and they tried a lot of different angles on it. I think the Black Mirror one was the most well known. One of the ones I found the worst was that they paid pre-bankruptcy Telltale Games to convert the first season of their quick-time event filled CYOA Minecraft "Tales" series from TTG's game engine to Netflix's interactive video engine. That was probably a bad idea in general, a combination of an apparently desperate TTG (that Netflix contract was their last project before bankruptcy) and presumably confused Netflix management. (The season was mostly fun in the TTG engine, quick-time complaints aside; the interactive movie form made no sense, especially having already played the TTG season.) I think there were five or six more beyond the ones already mentioned.
It actually had answers for "Why would you want to do that?" and in ways that fans of the show's previous seasons would expect. From my experience, many of the other CYOA properties that Netflix attempted didn't have that multiple seasons of loyalty to wild "anything can happen" jokes and reasons to explore the interactivity in depth, but the UKS CYOA certainly had a lot of charm and fun.
(Aside: one of my favorite gags was the UKS CYOA's gag Netflix Skip Intro button.)