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Agreed. I wanted to mention Chrono Trigger, but it might be because it does everything at such a high level that it seems like those aspects are 'not great.' The game as a whole might be equal to the sum of its parts.

I feel like when games have multiple attributes that work together, it doesn't feel like an accumulation or sum, it feels like the game's quality grows along other dimensions. So instead of "good music, good graphics" being two points in the games favor, it feels like they amplify each other. I measure the experience along related axes.

So if we take a shooting game, if a gun is fun to control, it looks good and it sounds good, you might say "three points for that gun", but for me it's more of a cube. But the effect needs the game features to complement each other to really evoke this feeling. A game with good controls and a good soundtrack might just be a sum of its parts (depending on the game and player, of course).
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