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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game

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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game	comment	Some games feature little more than an Excuse Plot to justify their core gameplay. Some games, conversely, feature virtually no gameplay and focus almost exclusively on storytelling. Then there are games which actually put quite a bit of effort into their story, but the story is nevertheless ignored or overlooked by most in favor of the gameplay. This is the Opposite Trope of the latter case: games which significantly feature both story and gameplay, but most players, critics, etc. largely ignore the gameplay in favor of its storytelling, characters, setting and so on. There are many reasons why this might happen: sometimes, the game might have an unusually well-constructed narrative but rather samey, unoriginal gameplay; sometimes the gameplay might have significant problems, making the story superior by default; and sometimes it's purely subjective taste. Story to Gameplay Ratio matters here: just as a game must have a significant story focus in order to qualify as an example of Play the Game, Skip the Story, so a game must have significant gameplay focus to qualify for this trope. Visual Novels, Environmental Narrative Games, and some experimental art games don't qualify for this, as there's little meaningful gameplay to start with (with certain exceptions listed below).note That said, an argument can be made that the ENG genre is the Logical Extreme of this trope, focusing so purely on the storytelling and Worldbuilding that traditional gameplay beyond exploration is outright removed from the equation. Difficulty also plays a role, as this trope most often appears on either extreme. A game that prioritizes story over gameplay may adjust the difficulty so that even an inexperienced player could be reasonably challenged without breaking their immersion in the story, a design choice which would likely alienate hardcore players. Likewise, a much harder game that happens to have an engaging story and/or cast of characters will develop a Periphery Demographic of fans that care about the story or characters, even if they don't have the skills to actually play the game. If the developers realize that many players may be playing the game just to experience the story and don't much care for the gameplay, they may offer a special difficulty setting to accommodate them: a Story Difficulty Setting. See also Play the Game, Skip the Story (which inverts this), Better as a Let's Play, Just Here for Godzilla, Excuse Plot, Story to Gameplay Ratio and the various Interactive Storytelling Tropes. Note: While in principle any game with any amount of story could qualify as an example of this trope, try as much as possible to limit examples to cases where there is evidence that criticism or fan reaction towards the game in question focuses more on the story at the expense of the gameplay, as opposed to just games where you personally thought the story was better than the gameplay. Examples
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_14d341dc	comment	While Star Trek Online's gameplay gets very repetitive after a while (shoot some ships, beam down, shoot bad guys, beam up, shoot more ships...), the storyline gives continuity for Trekkies on what happened in the Prime universe after the supernova event depicted in Star Trek (2009).
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_17bfcf60	comment	Homeworld had this issue with its slow pace, 3D mechanics and tricky interface; but the story in the manual was some really good reading, as was the story in the cutscenes.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_18bc6e09	comment	Gotham Knights (2022) has received a fair bit of praise for the story campaign. A well-done story about the various members of the Bat-Family coming together to protect Gotham after Bruce's death; it features four playable characters that all feel distinct from one another not just in gameplay but also in terms of writing, and a host of iconic Batman villains. However, this is countered by gameplay nowhere as fun as the Batman: Arkham Series, criticized for repetitiveness, padded open-world elements, and poorly optimized performance.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_1944cd13	comment	Spanish for Everyone! has a ridiculous So Bad, It's Good story packed to the brim with implied mature themes, making its cutscenes quite the experience. The gameplay, meanwhile, consists of four bland minigames that don't do a very good job at being fun and teaching you Spanish, which you have to play over and over again to progress very slowly. Watching the story on YouTube makes it a much more bearable experience.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_1c85af95	comment	Darkened Skye is regarded, gameplay-wise, as an underwhelming RPG with shaky controls, poor animation, lots of Hitbox Dissonance, and a significant amount of bugs. The story, however, is the game's highlight, as it's basically the writers' giving a giant middle finger to the executives that told them to make a game about Skittles. Yes, Skittles. They're the source of all magic, didn'tcha know?
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_1e6653ca	comment	The Neverhood is widely beloved by its fans for being a quirky Cult Classic with loveable characters and an interesting world, but the puzzles can get obtuse and most require you to have some sort of guide on hand.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem, despite being a franchise that on average places more in Play the Game, Skip the Story, has the capacity to be exceptionally well-written when it wants to be... even if this usually is at the cost of good gameplay. To wit: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War was released in 1996, and to this day it's regarded as one of the, if not the, best Fire Emblem in terms of narrative power. This is due to how the uncharacteristically dark tone of the game, the Decon-Recon Switch that ties the first-generation and second-generation together, some excellent Gameplay and Story Integration as well as the shocking twist of Sigurd, the main protagonist, being executed at the end of the first-gen make it a very warmly-received narrative as a whole. The cost to this was that the game, from a gameplay-perspective, having not aged well and is seen by some as having too poor gameplay to offset the story, with even fans of the game admitting the gameplay is weak. This is due to a sheer amount of Scrappy Mechanics more than anything: doubling being locked behind weapons and skills, absolutely colossal and unintuitive maps that bias the game heavily in favor of mount-users (which can be seen as a point in favor of the game), a poorly-explained marriage system that can potentially gimp your second-gen playthrough if you don't know what to do, as well as no trading feature (which was done for Gameplay and Story Integration reasons, but it can be deeply uninuitive trying to get an item to another character if they have the wrong item). Combine that with the game being hideously unbalanced, heavily dependent on the Arena for optimization and plenty of Game-Breaker characters that wholly invalidate any use to use any others, and you have a game that is very lucky to have such a well-written story, for it alone is what brings people to play the game even in the present. It's less apparent than some other entries, but Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones often elicits this reaction. The gameplay is considered solid but unremarkable, but veteran players are critical of the game for being too easy, while newcomers might not like the lack of quality of life improvements from older games, such as the ability to see all enemies' ranges at once or the option to turn off permadeath. However, the story, while cliched, has an interesting setting and solid characters, especially the main villain, so fans tend have more appreciation for the story than the gameplay. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is regarded as having one of the best plots in the franchise, particularly the depth of its worldbuilding and how well it sets up plot threads that pay off in the sequel. However, the gameplay is generally regarded less favorably, due to being relatively slow-paced with a high emphasis on the Enemy Phase, and various other Scrappy mechanics. While Fire Emblem Fates is mostly a case of Play the Game, Skip the Story, the Birthright route qualifies for this trope to a certain extent. It has fairly simple and easy maps compared to the other two routes, and is the least challenging route overall, but it's generally considered to have the best story of the three, since some of the more controversial aspects don't come into play in Birthright. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadow of Valentia has received praise for its story, voice acting and characters. On the other hand, some are critical of its gameplay, particularly for the bland map design, outdated gameplay mechanics, and for retaining the more unusual elementsnote As in, unusual for a Fire Emblem game. They're quite common in other RPGs. of the original. Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Even though the story is regarded by the fandom for being some of the best storytelling and world-building in the series, there has been some criticism of the gameplay. The root of the criticisms come from the Monastery grinding gameplay advancement to a halt without participating in it, the homogenous map design and the samey-feeling nature of the class progression system and its balance. It's very easy to simply class every Physical character as a Wyvern Lord and steam-roll the game, which combined with the other mechanics makes it feel for several the story is the best thing about it by a long shot. While the main story of Fire Emblem Engage falls under Play the Game, Skip the Story due to its relatively simple plot, the exact opposite is in effect when it comes to the Fell Xenologue. Many people have praised the Fell Xenologue's fascinating story within the Alternate Elyos, but bash its immensely hard difficulty, especially on Maddening mode.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_23126dc6	comment	Criminal Case is a pretty standard Hidden Object Game with limited search locations and rather generic mini-games. However it has a very solid story-telling that multiple Let's Play channels have been created to showcase the game's story.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_27b84429	comment	The Last of Us: While the gameplay is perfectly functional, it's considered pretty average and doesn't really add anything new most people couldn't find in a different third person action game at the time. It was the plot and characters that really elevated this game to the cult status it has today.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_2c5381b6	comment	While Where the Water Tastes Like Wine was praised for its charming Awesome Art, moody Gothic Americana/Magical Realism atmosphere, awesome original Blues soundtrack, and engaging stories about the plight of the American underclass and non-whites during The Great Depression, it has also been described as a "walking simulator" with several mechanics that are poorly implemented.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_2efce5b0	comment	Deadly Premonition is a 2010 survival horror which critics made sure to point out (even overtly negative reviews) that despite the outdated graphics, bad sound effects and broken gameplay, is worth playing to follow a downright bonkers story with the "Holy Shit!" Quotient up on the roof, be it for hilariously clunky dialogue or just plain weird moments.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_3729373e	comment	Detroit: Become Human
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_3802ca35	comment	The gameplay of Rule of Rose is an intricate, beautifully scored vehicle for the game's story. As a vehicle for actual fun, however, it fails completely and miserably. The protagonist is a young child and fights like one, combat is no more detailed than 'hack at your enemies and try not to die', many of the more powerful weapons are hidden off the beaten track, and most of the gameplay itself consists of unintuitive Fetch Quests which the player will have to delay finishing if they want to find out what the hell is going on. Even the developers seemed to acknowledge this trope: all of the game's climactic moments either don't involve direct combat (such as Jennifer taking down Wendy, which occurs in a cutscene) or combat at all (The Golden Ending path, which is achieved by not responding to Stray Dog's attacks and convincing him to commit suicide).
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_393ab0d2	comment	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream has what is widely considered a great plot (adapted and expanded upon from the original story with direct involvement and chilling voice-acting from the author Harlan Ellison), but it also possesses lackluster point-and-click gameplay, and also relies on the classical Moon Logic Puzzle just one too many times.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_3c9b76e2	comment	Puyo Puyo Tetris is beloved for its story cutscenes and voice acting. Puyo Puyo fans who care more about the gameplay mechanics either "tolerate" the game for being a Newbie Boom or outright dislike it; it's seen as a crossover of two puzzle games whose Player Versus Player modes run on fundamentally-incompatible gameplay philosophies, creating a bias towards Tetris at higher skill levels due to Tetris's garbage blocks not actively disrupting the field like Puyo Puyo's garbage does. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is a Mission-Pack Sequel that gives fans another helping of story and character interactions but, outside of giving Puyo Puyo and Tetris players their own separate online leagues, makes several balance issues worse than they were in the first game.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_3e5be22c	comment	Persona 4: Dancing All Night has been praised for its storyline, but not as many people enjoy its rhythm gameplay. It doesn't help that a good portion of the playerbase, fans of the Persona series, may be more interested in RPGs than rhythm games.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_452aa4f	comment	Tales from the Borderlands demonstrates how Telltale's engine fails at action, as its quick-time-event focus can be compared to three FPS games that came before it. It also demonstrates 10+ hours, 5 episode long story with enough humor to fill a page of examples.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario gets this from quite a lot of players. The story is considered one of the best if not the best in the entire Super Mario Bros. franchise for its deep themes and interesting characters and one of the most sympathetic villains in the franchise. Its gameplay, however, is divisive, with most fans either tolerating it or flat out hating it.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite was similarly received: extensive praise for its storytelling, but criticism for its gameplay, which had been simplified even further from its predecessors. Much like the first BioShock it was also criticized for its Disappointing Last Level.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_476bc61d	comment	Kid Icarus: Uprising is best-known for a top-notch script especially in the localized versions that keeps players entertained the whole way and having one of the most lovably hateable villains in existence, yet has an unconventional and polarizing control scheme that demands dexterity and gives the middle finger to left-handed players, especially during its Land Battle segments.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_4811a5a6	comment	Asura's Wrath is an example of a game perfectly aware that it is just a glorified cutscene. The gameplay's very simplistic and repetitive, but it isn't the main interest of the game, which is essentially an interactive Anime about an overly muscular six-armed god punching planet-sized monsters in space accompanied by Classical Music. Some of the game's DLC chapters are literally anime shorts with no gameplay more interactive than occasional Quick-Time Events.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII made the controversial decision to abandon the turn-based combat system of the previous games, while also introducing a Scrappy Mechanic known as the Gambit System (which can essentially run the game on auto pilot). Playing the game is just tiresome to a lot of diehard Final Fantasy fans. The story however continues to be held in higher regard, especially as the years go on - often compared to Game of Thrones meets Star Wars - as well as the superb quality of the dubbing and translation, especially compared to the poor English dub of Final Fantasy X.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_52f6626	comment	Jak II: Renegade's story and writing are considering top-notch, but the game's notorious difficulty drags it down gameplay-wise.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_55720656	comment	Privateer 2: The Darkening has an enjoyable dark mystery story in a science fiction setting, outstanding visual design with an all star-cast which includes Clive Owen, Christopher Walken, John Hurt and David Warner. The gameplay on the other hand is a clear step down from its predecessor and the rest of the Wing Commander series, with tedious grinding for money and annoying random battles which are virtually impossible to escape from.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_557434b6	comment	The gameplay of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days is seen as very weak, feeling like an extremely stripped-down version of Kingdom Hearts II with a lot of repetition due to the mission structure. The game's strength comes from its writing, with the focus on Roxas's life and relationships being its main draw. In the HD ReMix collections, this is taken to its logical conclusion by removing the gameplay entirely. However, some critics will argue that the cutscene collection is still missing a lot, and that the gameplay at least helps put the player in the same headspace as Roxas.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_568537cb	comment	Murdered: Soul Suspect's investigative, adventure game aspects were considered generally well done; the lackluster stealth combat against patrolling wraiths that regularly interrupted said investigative sections was likewise heavily criticized.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5803e162	comment	Dragon Ball Fighter Z zig-zags this. It's an extremely fun and well made fighting game, and the story mode is largely well-written, with entertaining character interactions and an original plot featuring an intriguing villain. So, initially, it wouldn't seem to be either this trope or Play the Game, Skip the Story - however, the story mode itself suffers from a tedious, repetitive structure, being overly easy, and generally far too long, meaning that even those who enjoy the game generally just go on YouTube to watch the cutscenes.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_59215319	comment	Persona 2 has it even worse. The game's story is frequently called one of the best — if not THE best — plot in the Persona series, and even Shin Megami Tensei as a whole. However, many people are extremely put off by the aged gameplay, to they point they confess of being incapable of getting into it and expressing regret that they won't experience the plot for themselves.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3 has one of the most praised storylines in the series, and fans brought in by later entries are often encouraged to experience it. With the major gameplay improvements of Persona 4 and especially Persona 5, 3's gameplay has not aged well, especially its Manual Leader, A.I. Party approach in a game with Nintendo Hard difficulty.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5921531c	comment	While this doesn't apply to Persona 5's base game, many fans seem to feel this way about the added Third Semester content in Royal. From a story perspective, Maruki is lauded as one of the game's best villains, Yoshizawa makes for a great narrative addition, and Akechi ends up getting the Character Development many felt as though he lacked in the vanilla game. From a gameplay perspective, on the other hand, most of the Third Semester's content is crammed into a one-and-a-half month timeframe, which is significantly short by the game's standards, allowing for little to no breathing room to collectively finish Yoshizawa's Confidant and complete Maruki's Palace. The fact that Akechi and Yoshizawa's Tier-Three Personas are relegated to being 11th-Hour Superpowers that can only be used against the Final Boss further adds to the fan perception that the Third Semester wasn't well-thought out in terms of proper gameplay integration.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_59b7f1d5	comment	Love Live! School idol festival isn't exactly seen as an innovation or refinement of the Rhythm Game genre; many fans are in it for the story segments and hundreds of Costume Porn-laden cards to collect.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5a353c18	comment	Super Robot Wars MX received praise for representing a significant Art Evolution, demoting the entirety of the Spotlight Stealing Universal Century Gundam series to supporting characters to make way for Metal Armor Dragonar, having a strong showing of several 1970s mecha series, and featuring RahXephon alongside both of its spiritual predecessors in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Raideen. It also has a trivial level of difficulty even by Super Robot Wars standards. The PlayStation Portable port tries to increase the difficulty by inflating everything's health, which just serves to make the endgame a boring war of attrition.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale may have a pretty unique battle system that combines a turn-based RPG with a Bullet Hell game, but the overworld puzzles are pretty trivial, and even the battles tend to wear thin on subsequent playthroughs. It's the complex plot and characters that keep players coming back for more, along with the one gameplay mechanic the game doesn't tell you about: the game's recording quite a bit more than you'd expect, and this data persists across deaths, soft-resets, and file resets, affecting the course of events. Fortunately, the game's also pretty short, so getting through the more tedious elements doesn't feel as much like a chore, and you can always sit back and watch a Let's Play. Not that the game isn't above actively making fun of you for doing so.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5beb06bd	comment	Downplayed with Iconoclasts. It is a solid title, gameplay-wise (the bosses in particular steal the show), specially considering it was mostly made by one person. The art and animation are also top notch. However, it does feel stiff and simple compared to other Metroidvania-styled games, and even other games by the developer. The game's main focus, and its greatest feature, is the story, filled with complex characters, surprisingly deep and dark themes, and several genuinely shocking twists.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5cbdef93	comment	Deadpool received mixed reviews, with most complaints directed towards the schizophrenic difficulty, short length, and terrible boss battles. The main thing that drew attention to the game was Deadpool himself, at long last making his debut as the leading man outside of a comic book, where your average Joe finally got to experience all the crass comedy and batshit-lunacy that comes with The Merc with the Mouth.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_5ed0217f	comment	The general opinion on Paper Mario: Color Splash is that the writing has high moments of good humor, the setting is creative, and the visuals are Scenery Porn. The gameplay is at best contested, the combat in particular being disliked for being based on consumables, lacking in strategy, and offering little reward for winning battles.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_606e6339	comment	Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is a very short point-and-click that can probably be beaten in about an hour. Maybe three, tops. However, it's a direct sequel to the first Psychonauts and it was the first new story in the franchise in over a decade. It offers worldbuilding as well as new backstory on certain characters.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_629cd094	comment	Like with the above, Dragon Age: Origins is widely seen as one of the best games made by Bioware because of the strong writing, world-building, and the way your player characters race and actions affect almost every detail in the game. Gameplay is seen as one of the weakest areas however, because it uses Dungeons & Dragons mechanics and gimmicks, with semi-MMO elements, resulting in tedious and frustrating gameplay mechanics at times that can bog down many who are less familiar with the mechanics of it. And just like Mass Effect, while the series has improved the gameplay, the story quality has been notably heavily criticized for dumbing down the complexity in favor of just simply being approachable.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_63cecfd3	comment	Batman: Dark Tomorrow had a story co-written by The Batman Adventures scribe Scott Peterson that sure feels like a standard adventure of the Dark Knight, and the cutscenes were the only praised aspect of a game widely bashed for stiff controls, repetitive combat and unhelpful camera angles.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_667fbcca	comment	Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion is extremely basic as RPGs go, and especially if you're playing the Nintendo Switch version with its horrendous loading times and numerous Game Breaking Bugs... but the story and dialog are actually pretty good, giving it the feel of an extended and interactable episode of the show.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_669abdcb	comment	TRON: Evolution has a good script that serves a great lead to TRON: Legacy. But even if the game has tight and responsive controls and no bugs, the gameplay is troublesome, with repetitive levels, overabundance of bottomless pits, long load times after death, and plodding fight segments that slow the pace of the game suddenly. The biggest issues are the frequent deaths and absolute necessity of upgrading your weapons to avoid dragging out combat.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_67ce5a04	comment	While Fire Emblem Fates is mostly a case of Play the Game, Skip the Story, the Birthright route qualifies for this trope to a certain extent. It has fairly simple and easy maps compared to the other two routes, and is the least challenging route overall, but it's generally considered to have the best story of the three, since some of the more controversial aspects don't come into play in Birthright.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_68c8e9ad	comment	It's generally agreed by the Super Robot Wars fanbase that the series is mostly about crossover plots and highly-choreographed attack animations. The strategy gameplay is merely a vehicle to tell said stories and heavily uses balance by imbalance so that players can, for the most part, run their favorites instead of worrying about which units are viable. Super Robot Wars MX received praise for representing a significant Art Evolution, demoting the entirety of the Spotlight Stealing Universal Century Gundam series to supporting characters to make way for Metal Armor Dragonar, having a strong showing of several 1970s mecha series, and featuring RahXephon alongside both of its spiritual predecessors in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Raideen. It also has a trivial level of difficulty even by Super Robot Wars standards. The PlayStation Portable port tries to increase the difficulty by inflating everything's health, which just serves to make the endgame a boring war of attrition. Super Robot Wars W is known for an awesome cast list where nearly every series plays a notable role (the only exception having enough seniority within the series to get a pass), and offers a twist on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by having the characters from the side story Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray become way more prominent than they are in their own canon. From a gameplay front, not only is more than half of the cast outrageously broken by series standards, but the game is glitchy in a way that works even more in the player's favor.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_68ff28c9	comment	As per the page quote, Silent Hill 2 is often held up as the pinnacle of the series and one of the greatest examples of the Survival Horror genre (some have gone so far to say that its story is one of the best the medium has to offer). However, most of its acclaim was focused on its story, atmosphere and visual design, with many critics less impressed by its awkward, repetitive combat and nonsensical, unintuitive Moon Logic Puzzles. Interestingly, the game featured an option that rendered the normal enemies such a negligible threat that just about any weapon is a One-Hit Kill and bosses aren't that much tougher, allowing players to experience the game solely for its story and puzzles.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_696abfe	comment	Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis's gameplay is limited and can quickly become repetitive, while the story has highlights from several of Aquaman's adventures and takes twists and turns before climaxing in a battle between brothers.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is regarded as having one of the best plots in the franchise, particularly the depth of its worldbuilding and how well it sets up plot threads that pay off in the sequel. However, the gameplay is generally regarded less favorably, due to being relatively slow-paced with a high emphasis on the Enemy Phase, and various other Scrappy mechanics.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_75390511	comment	Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII's story is still praised for fleshing out Zack Fair's personality and his relationships with Aerith and Cloud, but is unfortunately dragged down by some frustrating and arbitrary combat and uninteresting level design. The 2022 remaster adds some quality-of-life improvements to make the gameplay more approachable.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect is praised for its deep setting, well-written characters, and extensive lore, but panned for its mediocre combat and poorly-designed inventory system. Many players prefer to set the game to its easiest setting in order to steamroll through the combat without having to pay as much attention to inventory management so that they can enjoy the story and, incidentally, create a save to import into the sequels, which have much-improved game mechanics. The third game in the series even includes a difficulty setting specifically designed to facilitate players who just want to experience the story. Some of the biggest criticisms for Mass Effect: Andromeda revolve around how while the gameplay is some of the best the series has to offer, the story and especially characters feel lacking compared to the original trilogy.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: BioShock attracted much praise for its story, setting and themes, but also received criticism for its radically simplified game mechanics in comparison to the game's spiritual predecessor, System Shock 2, which were widely perceived as having been intentionally "dumbed down" for the benefit of the console market. It also attracted significant criticism for its heavy use of Fetch Quests and its Disappointing Last Level. Edge magazine went so far as to describe it as "an uninspired FPS with inspired presentation". BioShock Infinite was similarly received: extensive praise for its storytelling, but criticism for its gameplay, which had been simplified even further from its predecessors. Much like the first BioShock it was also criticized for its Disappointing Last Level.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_78e12949	comment	SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos is seen as a lackluster fighter especially compared to its Capcom-developed counterpart, Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium. For players, its most outstanding element is the pre-battle dialogue; every possible combination of combatants has a unique conversation to go with it, many of which are very entertaining to read. And yes, the game will even acknowledge Mirror Matches, with the resulting conversations lampshading the matchup. Finally, it's worth noting that SNK must have paid big bucks to get this game localized because the translation of all these lines of dialogue is surprisingly spot-on.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_7901ea8c	comment	The first Mata Nui Adventure Game, commonly known as Mata Nui Online Game, is often said to be the best BIONICLE media for its immersive tone, charming characters, the definitive depiction of the Makuta, fun animations, subtle worldbuilding and cryptic foreshadowing that set up the following decade's worth of stories. No one really talks about the point-and-click gameplay, which is absurdly easy and straightforward apart from a couple minigames and puzzles that might take a few minutes to complete. Most of the game entails traversing landscapes and reading the characterful dialogue. It also has hints that lead nowhere because some quests and plots were cut due to the rushed development.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_791fca44	comment	BioShock attracted much praise for its story, setting and themes, but also received criticism for its radically simplified game mechanics in comparison to the game's spiritual predecessor, System Shock 2, which were widely perceived as having been intentionally "dumbed down" for the benefit of the console market. It also attracted significant criticism for its heavy use of Fetch Quests and its Disappointing Last Level. Edge magazine went so far as to describe it as "an uninspired FPS with inspired presentation".
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic: The mechanics aren't anything special, and handles a lot like a clone of World of Warcraft. The game's primary selling point is the eight basic storylines, the Imperial/Republic storylines from levels 50-65, and the Knights of the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne arcs, which are all but a single-player campaign. All of these having full voice acting, multiple branches of the storyline depending on player choice, and a unique companion mechanic for PvE.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_7e31a540	comment	Compared to the sequels, the first Dragon Ball Z: Budokai has relatively shallow and repetitive gameplay. The story mode, however, is a very admirable cinematic recreation of the manga's story from the Saiyan Saga to the end of the Cell Saga that was Truer to the Text than the original anime series, making it a combination of Dragon Ball Z Kai and Mortal Kombat 9 before they were even made.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_809ea5d6	comment	Enslaved: Odyssey to the West has gameplay that is seen as decent at best and mediocre at worst. However, it's generally agreed that the gorgeous visuals, the smart script by noted novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland, and the performances (especially by Andy Serkis, who plays the main character) are what really make the playthrough worthwhile.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_82d5c9d9	comment	We Happy Few's gameplay is largely just Fetch Quests, gathering tons and tons of useless items, the occasional Stealth-Based Mission, and a monumentally repetitive and clunky combat system, but the story and the characters are very engaging and enjoyable and its themes and setting have garnered near universal praise. Unsurprisingly, Dark Horse Comics and Golden Circle Films have already announced plans to make an art book and a feature length film, respectively.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_84809b33	comment	L.A. Noire almost encourages this, with the game giving the option to skip over difficult shooter scenes if the player has trouble so that they can go back to the Film Noir investigative gameplay that makes the game more popular.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_86061aff	comment	The Neptunia series is known for its quirky characters and parody-stuffed writing that lampshades every RPG trope in the book with cute versions of your favorite gaming console or franchise as characters. The gameplay in the first game was downright terrible, and even with improvements made in the following titles, the combat is still button-mashy busywork with formulaic dungeons and repetitive sidequests. The first game's resounding success came from the humor and characters, and definitely not from the gameplay. While the series gradually got better about this, the lighthearted story is what fans come back for in each installment.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_86814cc3	comment	Final Fantasy II is often criticized for its bizarre design choices and grindiness that results in being either outright broken, or almost unplayable if you make a mistake, and said grinding is worse in its original NES version, with things such as decreased stats if you don't grind one stat enough, and it might have even inspired some games in the series with its clunky mechanics. On the other hand, the story is very complex, especially for an NES/Famicom game, where the characters, aside from the protagonists who are criticized for being rather flat, were praised for being interesting and sympathetic, and the Emperor is considered to be the best villain of the three NES titles for the series, due to his vile nature, and the fact that he won in the middle of the game, before Kefka made it more noteworthy.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV was where the series began to truly find its footing with its story, with Character Development and a plot that's praised for being expectional at the time. A more Downplayed example, though, in which the gameplay is also acknowledged for its improvements there, with a decrease in difficulty compared to the previous games, unique powers given to each of the characters, a more streamlined battle system, bosses with multiple quirks, and the introduction to the Active Time Battle system, which requires players to keep a good eye in the gameplay.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI is considered by many to be among the best games in the series, due to the unique and complex characterizations of the main cast, and the Character Development that comes along with it. However, the gameplay is considered to be rather easy and broken for it to be fully engaging.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_87056d17	comment	Many of the 3D games, particularly Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, tend to fall here compared to the rest of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. A lot of the gameplay of both games tends to be very divisive due to the Gameplay Roulette making them feel like 3-5 games tacked into one, with even Sonic's gameplay considered somewhat clunky compared to other games. The stories however are some of the most beloved entries in the entire franchise thanks to having significant Character Development, their Darker and Edgier direction that feels like they grew with their older fans, and featuring the debut of several fan-favorite characters. In fact, once the series started to focus less on its plot and characters with Sonic Colors (itself being this trope's inverse), is part of what contributed to the series' Broken Base as some fans feel like the plot and characters should prioritized more while others feel the gameplay should still be top priority with story at a distant second.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_87684a93	comment	Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls has been praised for its character development but criticized for it's janky gameplay.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Persona 3 has one of the most praised storylines in the series, and fans brought in by later entries are often encouraged to experience it. With the major gameplay improvements of Persona 4 and especially Persona 5, 3's gameplay has not aged well, especially its Manual Leader, A.I. Party approach in a game with Nintendo Hard difficulty. Persona 2 has it even worse. The game's story is frequently called one of the best — if not THE best — plot in the Persona series, and even Shin Megami Tensei as a whole. However, many people are extremely put off by the aged gameplay, to they point they confess of being incapable of getting into it and expressing regret that they won't experience the plot for themselves. While this doesn't apply to Persona 5's base game, many fans seem to feel this way about the added Third Semester content in Royal. From a story perspective, Maruki is lauded as one of the game's best villains, Yoshizawa makes for a great narrative addition, and Akechi ends up getting the Character Development many felt as though he lacked in the vanilla game. From a gameplay perspective, on the other hand, most of the Third Semester's content is crammed into a one-and-a-half month timeframe, which is significantly short by the game's standards, allowing for little to no breathing room to collectively finish Yoshizawa's Confidant and complete Maruki's Palace. The fact that Akechi and Yoshizawa's Tier-Three Personas are relegated to being 11th-Hour Superpowers that can only be used against the Final Boss further adds to the fan perception that the Third Semester wasn't well-thought out in terms of proper gameplay integration.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_8f4731fb	comment	The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series is generally considered to have So Okay, It's Average, if not Nintendo Hard, gameplay by both fans and critics, but they developed a dedicated fanbase due to their suprisingly deep plots by PokÃ©mon standards. Some even considering their storylines better than most of the main series games.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_90b916ba	comment	Most of the interest for the Sega CD version of The Adventures of Batman and Robin doesn't come from its rather repetitive and difficult driving gameplay, but for the fact that the game features 17 minutes of exclusive animated footage done in the style and recorded by the actors of Batman: The Animated Series, effectively serving as a "lost episode" of the show.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_90f94684	comment	While the main story of Fire Emblem Engage falls under Play the Game, Skip the Story due to its relatively simple plot, the exact opposite is in effect when it comes to the Fell Xenologue. Many people have praised the Fell Xenologue's fascinating story within the Alternate Elyos, but bash its immensely hard difficulty, especially on Maddening mode.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_9266d91	comment	Consensus on Nefarious is that the game tells a pretty nice, witty story about the classic Excuse Plot of platformers, but from the villain's perspective; but control of the player character is loose, there are a bunch of bugs and glitches, and the stage design isn't that great. To that end, the franchise continued from there on out as webcomics rather than video games.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_93a15df3	comment	Them's Fightin' Herds. Most fans of the game are more interested in the world of Foenum and the backstories of the six ungulate fighters than the actual fighting gameplay, especially since both the world and characters were made by the same woman behind My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. This was actually encouraged by the game devs and one of the main reasons behind the creation of the visual lobby mode, where players can explore the world, watch matches, and other stuff even if they are bad at fighting games.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_93acba01	comment	Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadow of Valentia has received praise for its story, voice acting and characters. On the other hand, some are critical of its gameplay, particularly for the bland map design, outdated gameplay mechanics, and for retaining the more unusual elementsnote As in, unusual for a Fire Emblem game. They're quite common in other RPGs. of the original.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_93fc1d2b	comment	Paper Mario series: Super Paper Mario gets this from quite a lot of players. The story is considered one of the best if not the best in the entire Super Mario Bros. franchise for its deep themes and interesting characters and one of the most sympathetic villains in the franchise. Its gameplay, however, is divisive, with most fans either tolerating it or flat out hating it. The general opinion on Paper Mario: Color Splash is that the writing has high moments of good humor, the setting is creative, and the visuals are Scenery Porn. The gameplay is at best contested, the combat in particular being disliked for being based on consumables, lacking in strategy, and offering little reward for winning battles. Paper Mario: The Origami King, despite the designers going to great lengths to making a battling system better than the one from Paper Mario: Color Splash, wound up with this again, with players and critics alike praising the plot and the new characters, the witty and intelligent dialogue, and the beautiful and creative scenery. However, the battles against common enemies use a mechanic involving sliding rings and lines around a set of polar coordinates seen as out of place, slow, overly complicated, and, like with Color Splash, unrewarding, though opinions are much better when this system is applied to bosses. Hence, the prevailing way people approach The Origami King is to wander around, listening to NPCs and solving puzzles, but avoid as many enemy encounters as possible.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_95818d99	comment	It is widely agreed that the whole point of Killer7 is the bizarre plot, with the shooting, monster killing and inventory puzzles serving as little more than filler between story points.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_9c4054a6	comment	Futurama: The Game is an interesting example, it was well-received by fans of the show, not because of its So Okay, It's Average gameplay, but because of it writing being funny and true to the show, thanks to being written by David X. Cohen, the show's lead writer. The cutscenes from the game were later edited together into a DVD bonus feature on the Futurama movie The Beast With a Billion Backs, entitled "The Lost Adventure", allowing people to skip the gameplay altogether.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_9ed2ca5e	comment	Max: An Autistic Journey is a look into the mind of an autistic boy first and an RPG second, as significantly more effort is put into showing how autism affects one's daily life than balancing the abilities or providing deep RPG mechanics. Many Steam user reviews praise the story, but note that the gameplay isn't anything special.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Over the years, as the stories have become more complex and the world building has increased, the main series has attracted players who play the PokÃ©mon games for the lore, the characters, and the settings, starting with PokÃ©mon Black and White. When the subsequent generation, PokÃ©mon X and Y, dialed back on the story in favor of exploration and competitive play, these fans were not happy. In response, the generation after that, PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, became the most story-heavy main series PokÃ©mon games to date, whose backlash from fans of X and Y made it clear that this franchise has both Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game and Play the Game, Skip the Story. PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet are somewhat unique as far as the main series goes. The games are often considered to have some of the strongest plots and worldbuilding in the entire franchise, but the legion of bugs (fun and otherwise), framerate drops, and general lack of polish tend to discourage fans from actually wanting to play them. The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series is generally considered to have So Okay, It's Average, if not Nintendo Hard, gameplay by both fans and critics, but they developed a dedicated fanbase due to their suprisingly deep plots by PokÃ©mon standards. Some even considering their storylines better than most of the main series games.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a2c37f38	comment	Planescape: Torment is noted for its excellent story, characters, and loads of freedom and roleplaying options, but the combat is not the game's strong point. Luckily you can solve most problems with dialogue options rather than fighting (the entire game has a total of three unskippable fights). Its Spiritual Successor Torment: Tides of Numenera suffers from the same issue: the story, worldbuilding, art and atmosphere were very well praised (although agreed that is not as strong as its predecessor). But the combat is still... questionable, noted for begin dull and boring, and just as Planescape Torment you can skip most of it with some good dialogue checks. This was actually a disappointment as some fans expected that with more freedom and less time constrains coming from being self-published by a Kickstarter and coming after 15 years of game design evolution would have developed better combat. Some people joke the other Spiritual Successor Disco Elysium actually solved the problem by not having combat at all, focusing purely on the story.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a4515c7c	comment	The gameplay of OFF is average for an RPG Maker game up through Zone 3 where it starts becoming a lot more frustrating, and almost every boss is a Damage-Sponge Boss with little challenge. However, this is compensated for by the auto option being pretty useful. The real focus of the game is on the story, and to some extent the puzzles. The same can be said about several other RPG Maker RPGs that focus on story, as well as graphics and atmosphere, such as Space Funeral and Ghost Suburb. OMORI, in spite of its well received RPG mechanics, is ironically a downplayed version of this precisely because of fans of the more traditional examples of this trope that get into the game that want to go straight to the more story-heavy segments of the game, where gameplay is light.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a6543322	comment	Most Touhou Project fans don't consider the Touhou shooting games bad, but they are designed by a man who thinks if you beat his games after only 20 hours of trying, it's too easy, so the difficulty can turn them off. To them, it's more fun to indulge in the characters, the lore, the connections to various East Asian mythologies, and the massive universe of fanworks surrounding those elements. Additionally, some fans who do play the games prefer the fighting game spinoffs. This is perhaps why the general scrolling shooter fanbase has a beef with that of Touhou, as many shooter fans feel that stories are completely irrelevant to shooters.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a68c19b8	comment	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War was released in 1996, and to this day it's regarded as one of the, if not the, best Fire Emblem in terms of narrative power. This is due to how the uncharacteristically dark tone of the game, the Decon-Recon Switch that ties the first-generation and second-generation together, some excellent Gameplay and Story Integration as well as the shocking twist of Sigurd, the main protagonist, being executed at the end of the first-gen make it a very warmly-received narrative as a whole. The cost to this was that the game, from a gameplay-perspective, having not aged well and is seen by some as having too poor gameplay to offset the story, with even fans of the game admitting the gameplay is weak. This is due to a sheer amount of Scrappy Mechanics more than anything: doubling being locked behind weapons and skills, absolutely colossal and unintuitive maps that bias the game heavily in favor of mount-users (which can be seen as a point in favor of the game), a poorly-explained marriage system that can potentially gimp your second-gen playthrough if you don't know what to do, as well as no trading feature (which was done for Gameplay and Story Integration reasons, but it can be deeply uninuitive trying to get an item to another character if they have the wrong item). Combine that with the game being hideously unbalanced, heavily dependent on the Arena for optimization and plenty of Game-Breaker characters that wholly invalidate any use to use any others, and you have a game that is very lucky to have such a well-written story, for it alone is what brings people to play the game even in the present.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a68ce50e	comment	Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is generally considered the worst game in the Tomb Raider series, due to its buggy gameplay and overall being an unfinished mess of a game, and it received awful reviews at its release. However, it has been since Vindicated by History, as it has been revealed that Core Design were forced to release the game half a year early, and many fans now appreciate the story, which is now praised as one of the best in the series. In a complete reversal, Crystal Dynamics, who were once seen as the saviours of the Tomb Raider franchise, are sometimes criticised for their weaker handling of darker storylines compared to The Angel of Darkness.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy games have often been praised for both gameplay and story. However, some games are more noteworthy for this for different reasons: Final Fantasy II is often criticized for its bizarre design choices and grindiness that results in being either outright broken, or almost unplayable if you make a mistake, and said grinding is worse in its original NES version, with things such as decreased stats if you don't grind one stat enough, and it might have even inspired some games in the series with its clunky mechanics. On the other hand, the story is very complex, especially for an NES/Famicom game, where the characters, aside from the protagonists who are criticized for being rather flat, were praised for being interesting and sympathetic, and the Emperor is considered to be the best villain of the three NES titles for the series, due to his vile nature, and the fact that he won in the middle of the game, before Kefka made it more noteworthy. Final Fantasy IV was where the series began to truly find its footing with its story, with Character Development and a plot that's praised for being expectional at the time. A more Downplayed example, though, in which the gameplay is also acknowledged for its improvements there, with a decrease in difficulty compared to the previous games, unique powers given to each of the characters, a more streamlined battle system, bosses with multiple quirks, and the introduction to the Active Time Battle system, which requires players to keep a good eye in the gameplay. Final Fantasy VI is considered by many to be among the best games in the series, due to the unique and complex characterizations of the main cast, and the Character Development that comes along with it. However, the gameplay is considered to be rather easy and broken for it to be fully engaging. Final Fantasy XII made the controversial decision to abandon the turn-based combat system of the previous games, while also introducing a Scrappy Mechanic known as the Gambit System (which can essentially run the game on auto pilot). Playing the game is just tiresome to a lot of diehard Final Fantasy fans. The story however continues to be held in higher regard, especially as the years go on - often compared to Game of Thrones meets Star Wars - as well as the superb quality of the dubbing and translation, especially compared to the poor English dub of Final Fantasy X. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII's story is still praised for fleshing out Zack Fair's personality and his relationships with Aerith and Cloud, but is unfortunately dragged down by some frustrating and arbitrary combat and uninteresting level design. The 2022 remaster adds some quality-of-life improvements to make the gameplay more approachable.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_ab3a6a48	comment	Heavy Rain
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_ac4fcd09	comment	Solatorobo: Red the Hunter has serviceable gameplay, but the loop can get tedious rather quickly due to the lack of combat variety and the inconsistent stop-and-go pacing (especially in side quests). The story is universally praised as being the best part of the game, especially the second half, to the point where some sees Solatorobo as more of a glorified Visual Novel rather than the action-adventure game it was marketed as.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_af83a9f1	comment	South Park: The Stick of Truth is like a few brand-new quality episodes of the show, with some mostly bland gameplay added in. Most of the fun of the battles comes from the hilarity and strangeness of the moves and environmental hazards. The gameplay itself is choosing attacks by-the-numbers without much in the way of strategy, buying new weapons from time-to-time, and equipping them with strap-ons through a clunky menu system. The easiest difficulty allows the player to blow through battles fairly quickly and enjoy the story without needing to configure equipment too often.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b0544c4a	comment	Super Robot Wars W is known for an awesome cast list where nearly every series plays a notable role (the only exception having enough seniority within the series to get a pass), and offers a twist on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by having the characters from the side story Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray become way more prominent than they are in their own canon. From a gameplay front, not only is more than half of the cast outrageously broken by series standards, but the game is glitchy in a way that works even more in the player's favor.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b11626d	comment	Paper Mario: The Origami King, despite the designers going to great lengths to making a battling system better than the one from Paper Mario: Color Splash, wound up with this again, with players and critics alike praising the plot and the new characters, the witty and intelligent dialogue, and the beautiful and creative scenery. However, the battles against common enemies use a mechanic involving sliding rings and lines around a set of polar coordinates seen as out of place, slow, overly complicated, and, like with Color Splash, unrewarding, though opinions are much better when this system is applied to bosses. Hence, the prevailing way people approach The Origami King is to wander around, listening to NPCs and solving puzzles, but avoid as many enemy encounters as possible.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b178a190	comment	Most reviewers at the time agreed that the main issue with Siege of Avalon was already summed up in its own promotional tagline: "Played any good books lately?" Its main drawing point was the expansive Low Fantasy storyline, filled with political intrigue and conspiracies, but as an RPG it was somewhat underwhelming.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b2e2d225	comment	Puyo Puyo~n is largely praised for going for a more traditional anime artstyle instead of the cutesy art that the series usually embraces, and overall more visual novel-esque presentation. Puyo Puyo~n is also largely derided for being an excruciating, badly-balanced mess of a puzzle game that's geared towards artificially stretching a single-player mode that would normally take 15-30 minutes into a multi-hour affair.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b3309b69	comment	Puyo Puyo has a quite a following of fans who care more about the quirky, charming cast of characters and surprisingly deep lore than the gameplay, which is largely agreed to have peaked in 1994 and, barring a few outliers, is consistent enough from a single-player perspective to rarely stand out for better or worse. Puyo Puyo~n is largely praised for going for a more traditional anime artstyle instead of the cutesy art that the series usually embraces, and overall more visual novel-esque presentation. Puyo Puyo~n is also largely derided for being an excruciating, badly-balanced mess of a puzzle game that's geared towards artificially stretching a single-player mode that would normally take 15-30 minutes into a multi-hour affair. Puyo Puyo Tetris is beloved for its story cutscenes and voice acting. Puyo Puyo fans who care more about the gameplay mechanics either "tolerate" the game for being a Newbie Boom or outright dislike it; it's seen as a crossover of two puzzle games whose Player Versus Player modes run on fundamentally-incompatible gameplay philosophies, creating a bias towards Tetris at higher skill levels due to Tetris's garbage blocks not actively disrupting the field like Puyo Puyo's garbage does. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is a Mission-Pack Sequel that gives fans another helping of story and character interactions but, outside of giving Puyo Puyo and Tetris players their own separate online leagues, makes several balance issues worse than they were in the first game.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b4816c2e	comment	The earlier entries in the Legacy of Kain franchise were widely praised by critics for both their gameplay and their storytelling (especially in the second entry in the series, Soul Reaver), but the gameplay of each subsequent entry was less and less positively received until by the time of the release of the fifth entry, Defiance, multiple critics said that the only reason to play the game was for its story.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b4882594	comment	The actual gameplay parts of 80 Days are so overshadowed by the quality of the story that The Times named the game one of the best novels of the year.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	While the Sakura Wars games have serviceable turn-based strategy battles, they tend to be fairly easy and, much like Super Robot Wars above, serve as another medium through which to convey the games' stories.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_bb7d31a	comment	Eldritch Lands: The Witch Queen's Eternal War's review often praise its story, worldbuilding, and compelling character interactions, but the gameplay is usually considered to be average or worse, on par with a Flash game.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_bcadd7cb	comment	There is a good portion of the Warhammer 40,000 fanbase that follows the game's background and universe through novels like Ciaphas Cain, video games, RPGs, and lore in the Codices without actually playing the wargame. This isn't surprising, as actually building, assembling, and painting a viable army is an expensive and time-consuming hobby, and the universe is very detailed and intricate, appealing to many who may not have the time, money, or interest to invest in the game.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun is known primarily for two things: its setting being an engrossing combination of Cyberpunk and Dungeons & Dragons-esque fantasy, and its ruleset being one of the most complex and fiddly of any RPGnote its rulebooks often being poorly laid out not particularly helping the matter. While the game's complexity is not necessarily bad per se, it's often cited as a major turn-off for prospective players. To cater to these people, Catalyst Game Labs created Shadowrun Anarchy, a lighter-weight narrative game designed to allow players to experience the fluff without the complexity.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_be4aef7e	comment	Cry of Fear has received massive acclaim for itâ€™s story, soundtrack, and top notch horror atmosphere but the gameplay suffers from clunky combat, an extremely restrictive inventory, poorly implemented platforming sections, and frequent Trial-and-Error Gameplay.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_c25b78e4	comment	The gameplay in Albion is... you know, okay. A bit clumsy but playable. But boy can you ever spend a lot of time talking to people to learn about Iskai culture or Dji Cantos philosophy. It's not even the main plot as the world-building that's so focused on. As of this writing, the Wikipedia page for the game consists mostly of a description of the world.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_c5f7c89e	comment	Rainbow Cotton is a seriously flawed shooter whose poor reception would kill the franchise for two decades, but the game features 20 minutes of fully-animated cutscenes which have decent production values and stay true to the funny, light-hearted appeal of the franchise. Indeed, there wasn't much demand to rerelease the game alongside the rest of the series for its 30th anniversary, mostly because Cotton fans agree you're better off just watching the cutscenes elsewhere.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_c686bb8	comment	It's less apparent than some other entries, but Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones often elicits this reaction. The gameplay is considered solid but unremarkable, but veteran players are critical of the game for being too easy, while newcomers might not like the lack of quality of life improvements from older games, such as the ability to see all enemies' ranges at once or the option to turn off permadeath. However, the story, while cliched, has an interesting setting and solid characters, especially the main villain, so fans tend have more appreciation for the story than the gameplay.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_c6a37a1e	comment	Bowser Jr.'s Journey has a well-written story starring Bowser Jr., as he goes through Character Development and his Spoiled Brat traits grate on the rest of his minions, forcing him to change and go on a quest to get them back. The gameplay, however, is pretty simplistic and repetitive, not to mention the amount of grinding you have to do.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet are somewhat unique as far as the main series goes. The games are often considered to have some of the strongest plots and worldbuilding in the entire franchise, but the legion of bugs (fun and otherwise), framerate drops, and general lack of polish tend to discourage fans from actually wanting to play them.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_d194b2db	comment	Death Stranding is this in SPADES. The gameplay is so unique and divisive that it's pretty much a 50/50 on whether you'll find it a satisfying, almost meditative experience, or a dreadfully boring slog. Just like many past Kojima games, almost the entirety of the plot is told through non-interactive cutscenes, codec conversations and supplementory reading like in-game emails and articles, so if you're strictly interested in the plot but not the delivery/traversal mechanics, you can watch a cutscene compilation and read all the extra material on the game's wiki, and not really miss much of the story.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_d56f8815	comment	OMORI, in spite of its well received RPG mechanics, is ironically a downplayed version of this precisely because of fans of the more traditional examples of this trope that get into the game that want to go straight to the more story-heavy segments of the game, where gameplay is light.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends features the vast world of Runeterra as setting for imaginative characters and stories, but there's definitely a good portion of lore fans who would not care less for the actual game itself. Beyond the game not being strictly necessary (MOBAs aren't exactly a genre built for maintaining complex storytelling), probably the biggest factor is League's notoriety of difficulty and attracting toxic players, making it rather inaccessible to casual newcomers. Following the release and minor Newbie Boom from the widely successful Arcane, one article came out advising new viewers to search for lore from sources other than League itself, at most suggesting the Legends of Runeterra card game and the Wild Rift mobile port.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London has been praised by multiple critics for its great, immersive writing and complex world-building — which is the main reason a number of players get frustrated about having to complete repetitive tasks and wait over 3 real-life hours to get another full candle of actions to read more of the game's writing.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_dddc4aa0	comment	Kirby Star Allies has gameplay that can be seen as lackluster and very easy for the most part, while the story is seen as extremely memorable and possibly the series' best, due to a combination of macabre villains and lore.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_de18b5fe	comment	Most of the fans of Dinosaur Planet are content to watch the story and cutscenes on YouTube rather than play the game itself as the game is a leaked development prototype filled with glitches that doesn't work well with most emulators.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_dfabfce5	comment	While the story of Red Dead Redemption 2 has received unanimous praise for its interesting characters and plot that properly fleshes out events alluded to in the first game, the gameplay has been more divisive. Many players enjoy the gameplay's slow and deliberate pace, which pairs well with the beautifully realized Wide-Open Sandbox and the story's maturity. A few other players think the game is overly obsessed with realism and detail at the expense of being fun to play. Ultimately downplayed, since most critics praised the overall gameplay.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Even though the story is regarded by the fandom for being some of the best storytelling and world-building in the series, there has been some criticism of the gameplay. The root of the criticisms come from the Monastery grinding gameplay advancement to a halt without participating in it, the homogenous map design and the samey-feeling nature of the class progression system and its balance. It's very easy to simply class every Physical character as a Wyvern Lord and steam-roll the game, which combined with the other mechanics makes it feel for several the story is the best thing about it by a long shot.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_e48a9d64	comment	The memento puzzles in To the Moon are pretty much the epitome of "excuse gameplay", doing little other than provide breaks in the narrative.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_e5c5bc22	comment	An interesting example with GURPS: while the game doesn't really have a default setting note what with it being the Generic Universal Role Playing System, its various genre supplement tend to be extremely well-researched and full of information useful for games in that genre regardless of the system used. As such, many roleplayers buy the supplements for the game and use the information therein for their own campaigns using other games, as GURPS itself has a somewhat unfortunate reputation for being a Master of None game that attempts to run all genres of fiction but ends up doing none of them very well.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_e66a25a9	comment	The setting of Rifts, as well as the various other RPGs in the Palladium Games Multiverse, is a very diverse, complex setting that runs on Rule of Cool and being Trope Overdosed. Unfortunately, the game itself is based on the Palladium Megaversal System, a set of rules derived from creator Kevin Siembieda's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons house rules that is a bit of a kludgy, unbalanced mess gameplay-wise. As a result, the general advice from fans is "read the books for the setting info, and then run your campaign using a different system altogether." Finally averted as of 2016 as an official port of Rifts to the Savage Worlds system marries the Rifts setting to an actually playable RPG.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_e9ec19e1	comment	Spec Ops: The Line was widely praised for its story, but most critics were less impressed by its bland, mediocre cover-based shooting. The game seems to be aware of this, even criticizing you if you enjoy playing this kind of thing. It also doesn't help that in order to set up the tropes it intends to brutally deconstruct later, the game spends its opening levels pretending to be a generic brown shooty game where you shoot brown people in brown places. On the other hand, a less intentional example is probably the most poorly-received element of the game: its multiplayer mode, which features no narrative elements at all (and wasn't even designed by the development team behind the single-player mode, who hated the Executive Meddling addition).
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_f349915b	comment	Dragonlance was originally a Dungeons & Dragons setting, but is far better known to the general public for the dozens of novels, short stories and comics that use the evocative characters, mythos and world of Krynn than for the game modules set there, which tend to have a middling at best reputation among D&D players. Some of this is due to the stories fully embracing aspects of the 1st Edition AD&D rules into the narrative, which caused problems when later editions emerged. Some examples were Clerics and Wizards being heavily restricted in their behaviors (Wizards were only allowed to use daggers for weapons by the gods themselves), and thus any class that utilized magic other than a genuine priest of the gods or wizard of the Towers of High Sorcery was either non-functional or a renegade to be hunted. This meant Barbarians, Paladins, and Druids had no magical abilities (which made the latter class useless), Bards, Sorcerers, and Warlocks would be considered renegades to hunt down, and Monks flat out didn't exist. Most of the new player races were used as comic relief in the novels (Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes), and one that wasn't was over-powered (the Irda). Non-player monsters races were heavily culled, thus limiting foes that weren't Draconians or Goblins to be encountered in small groups only if they existed at all. Finally, the original continent of Ansalon was pretty small-sized to fit the narrative of the first three novels and was thus limiting to DMs who wanted to tell original stories. While anything is possible for a creative DM, all of this had the effect of trying to work on a coloring book that was already 75% completed, you only had a small number of crayons to choose from, and half of those crayons were goofy colors you may not want to use anyway.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_f4ba5f60	comment	Blazblue. While tons of fans completely ignore the story for the gameplay, there are a large portion who become immersed in the gameâ€™s incredibly intricate story architected by Toshimichi Mori and its lovable and colorful cast of characters that they end up finding the most enjoyment from watching cutscenes on YouTube.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: While the card-based gameplay itself is contested, the actual story of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is rather interesting with its growing mystery, Sora's All-Loving Hero status being seriously tested at points and introducing several members of Organization XIII that would go on to become highly popular characters. This, combined with the fact that players who dive straight into Kingdom Hearts II will be very confused as to why Sora isn't immediately playable, makes many argue that Chain of Memories' story is at least worth sitting through. The gameplay of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days is seen as very weak, feeling like an extremely stripped-down version of Kingdom Hearts II with a lot of repetition due to the mission structure. The game's strength comes from its writing, with the focus on Roxas's life and relationships being its main draw. In the HD ReMix collections, this is taken to its logical conclusion by removing the gameplay entirely. However, some critics will argue that the cutscene collection is still missing a lot, and that the gameplay at least helps put the player in the same headspace as Roxas.
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_f6e2c23d	comment	EarthBound Beginnings: The story is often stated to be the strongest point of the game, with some even believing it to be better than EarthBound's story, due to the intricate lore, the incredibly close bond between the protagonists, and Ninten's personal stakes against Giygas. The gameplay, on the other hand, is incredibly divisive, with many finding it to be archaic and unforgivingly hard.
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