Last Post: 11:29:57am, 08/08/2021
Ace Attorney comes to mind. I bought the 2nd game first. I was kind of intense about the whole story/gameplay and remember deciding I should only play the game on weekends, to give my brain a chance to calm down during the week. I can't say I've had that with any other game since then, including more recent Ace Attorney games. Nothing against them it's just the whole idea was new at the time, and also it had been awhile since I'd played any sort of adventure games.
As far as recent examples, Super Mario 35 is one that I wasn't sure what to expect but ended up playing a lot of.
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"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images" - Romans 1:22-23