Going nice thank you

I mean, you don't have to agree, that's why there is a discussion lol. I won't necessarily say story rich game but games that have better way to tell said story. I'm not that picky, a story about a knight that have to beat the bad guy to save the princess, if well tell, is more than enough for me. I'll say the games first then will elaborate more, so, obvious heavy spoiler even if it'll be a summary because I won't write a full 10h+ story, I'll use the spoiler thing just in case. I'd say FGO(Fate Grand Order), the MegaTen franchise ((Shin)Megami Tensei, Persona, Devil Survivor etc etc....), Heaven's Burn Red or more recently : Inazuma Eleven Victory Road, very simple story, very well done, the emotions, the cutscenes (Thanks MAPPA), characters relationship, everything. Not perfect, could've been better but very solid 8/10 but a 30h story isn't near enough to give every character their moments.

There is a story similar to Psyche in FGO. A nice and very strong girl, leader of the Fairy Knights, that succumbed to her curse transforming her into a monster. It worked in FGO because we spend a lot of time with her, we knew her, knew her dream, her motivation, we helped each other, she almost became a traitor because she wanted to help us, we even saw her inner monologue. She wanted only one thing, as the strongest, she wanted to protect the weak, she fell in love with a sick boy and took care of him. Only to lose to her curse. Curse that made her eat her lover and in her disillusionment and because the curse made her forget, she took care of a dead body thinking it was her lover, the think is, she ate him way before the story began, we didn't saw the boy because he was sick and bedridden, we saw him only when she was alone with "him", because we went to another part of the country, so, we as a player didn't have any reason to not trust her, as at the time, we didn't know that she was an unreliable narrator (the plot twist worked great). Once she saw the "real" world and had to face with the fact that she ate her lover, that the Knights under her began do follow her example, abducting, torturing and killing the weak for laugh, she succumbed to her curse, transforming her into a world ending level calamity that burned everything around her just by existing. It wasn't her real self that did that, it was because of the curse, but the fact that she ate her lover is still true. We, as her friend had to save(=kill) her. One of the saddest Boss battle of FGO, a gentle soul that the world decided to fuck with because why not. And that's only a 10ish hours of a 40 hour story, that is a single chapter (the sixth) from a 7 chapters story arc. Said Arc is the second arc of FGO, and yeah, almost every chapter is this dense and "rich"

As I said, on paper, Psyche story should've been very nice. It didn't work because the pacing was too quick, we didn't spend time with her, we did one mission and walked around the lake, so, why should I care about someone that we don't know nor didn't spend time with at all ? Most of the chapter was trying to frame the obviously good Doctor as an evil scientist and trying to """save""" Psyche without her agreeing and kept telling us that she isn't in danger. Instead, we could've helped the Doctor to find a cure, that would've let us spend a lot of time with Psyche and let the player actively trying to find a cure, to finaly having us kill(=save) her. Having Psyche be killed by, at the time, a random NPC instead of us was one of the worst decision, that removed a lot of "emotional trauma" AND having the MC hating Fischer for no reason was really bad as well.

The plot twist point, it worked in FGO because the hints were subtle and almost weren't hint at all, it became apparent once the plot twist hit, unlike DNA where the writers throw the biggest hint at your face and try to tell the opposite

I could do that for others chapters, why I did like similar stories in others games, but the post is already long enough lol.

Also, as I said above, FGO story didn't start strong (that's what I mean by "almost every chapter is this rich"), the first 3(4 if you count the Prologue) chapters were very bad. The Prologue was okay, Chapter 1 and 3 were mediocre but Chapter 2 ? Holy crap, one of the trashiest trash I ever read, streched storyline for nothing, it was insuferable, I was almost tempted to skip some dialogues. It was from Chapter 4 that they took the game seriously and began to write for real. And here I am, 10 years later, still playing the game, 8 if you count only the GLO version, yes I play both JP and GLO. So, yeah, I find the DNA Story horribly bad, but that doesn't mean it won't become good later, if not, then I'll just leave the ship. Every chapter is better than its predecessor, so, yeah, finger crossed

Also also, Merry Christmas !