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depends for me on how the criteria for this really works out (I'm not actually asking for clarification here)

there's definitely some games and series out there that come to mind where i don't really care much about the story but they're pretty fantastic in dialogue (Paper Mario: Color Splash) or worldbuilding (Touhou series, Solatorobo, Genshin?)

there's some games where i question the need for a story mode to begin with (the ultimate ninja series especially, where it's an entirely different thing to the fighting game it's meant to be) and yet i enjoy that a lot too

there are of course plenty of games with joke plots too, in which case my answer would probably be 200% Mixed Juice because i really like how they adapted pretty much everyone from 10 other games of varying notability into it. But that's still story-oriented really.

and if we just go to the extreme of what my favourite story in a game with clearly just no dialogue or anything... i guess it'd have to be a shmup. right now i'm leaning genetos but i'm probably overlooking something. And in a sense you could still potentially call that story driven so maybe instead like, Danmaku Unlimited 2 or Alexandrite