No, but as you can probably guess, I played far more text adventures than I did console games. In any case, I think what we're really disagreeing about is what

No, but as you can probably guess, I played far more text adventures than I did console games. In any case, I think what we're really disagreeing about is what qualifies as novel. In your opinion, new to console games is enough to call a feature novel even when that same feature is familiar in PC games. In my opinion, implementing a standard feature from PC adventure games in console adventure games doesn't qualify as novel. That's especially true when, as you note, saving is a feature required to get nontrivial adventure games off the ground.