Absolutely agree! I was so disappointed when the industry as a whole moved away from the mishmash of gameplay styles that tried to fuse the narrative with gamep

Absolutely agree! I was so disappointed when the industry as a whole moved away from the mishmash of gameplay styles that tried to fuse the narrative with gameplay, to generic play with narrative only as decoration. Fortunately we've had indie games reintroduce experimentalism in play types in more recent years. I suppose it's in the nature of game development and programming itself that things become essentialised and iterated, but for me the - somewhat clumsy - creation of something new is always more interesting than a perfected abstraction. Especially when storytelling and gameplay are so interlinked.