Well, basically all of the genres and series I play are known for being story heavy, so that's clearly important to me, particularly with characterisation and dialogue. I place a lot of value in a strong, memorable soundtrack, even more so if it's listenable outside of the context of the game, and a distinct visual style is a pretty nice hook. These three core appeals are present in almost all of my favourite games.

I don't need the most graphically impressive title but I do definitely struggle with anything pre-PS2, because my first console was the Wii. I hate buggy games, and games with poor UI or onboarding/tutorialisation. It's pretty rare that I can get super invested in games without caring much for their writing, and most of the exceptions are games with fairly unique gameplay systems such as Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, and NEO: The World Ends with You. Final Fantasy XIII-2 is fast entering that tier as well because wow the writing is... there's issues, let's put it that way.

I hate randomness, and I tend to dislike games that force you to play them multiple times to see everything. Fire Emblem is the bane of my existence because of all of the randomness involved, the limited exp on top of random stat growths, and worst of all, Three Houses making you play the game 4 times where the first half is nearly identical on all of them. No thanks! It doesn't help that I think 3H also has really poor onboarding where it overwhelms you with tons of options without sufficiently explaining why you should care about any of them, and why any of them are valuable for different reasons or situations. Plus every other series-wide critique I have for FE.

idk this was kinda rambly but eh, hope that was interesting!

Judging by the cringey and hateful trolling, you're probably my ex-boyfriend and you're just desperate for attention. Normally I'd just ignore you, but given it's been months and I've had to block TEN TWITTER ACCOUNTS, I feel like you're so lacking in self-respect and self-awareness that you legitimately might not ever stop if I don't show other people how desperate and deranged you are. Have you told your friends and family that you've tried to force your way back into my life via 10 accounts, after I've told you multiple times that if I ever saw your face again I would call the police? Truly embarrassing.

Whenever you say anything new to me, my reaction is half laughing at how pathetic and desperate you've become, and disgust at the blatant emotional manipulation and refusal to move on. I'm not interested in talking to you, and I never will be. Fuck off out of my life and stop harassing me. Please don't make me go to the police. I'd really rather not.

I have not sunk any significant amount of time into most Final Fantasies and for a long time I thought I just didn't like the series, but I adore XII The Zodiac Age. One of my two favourite combat systems of all time, it is a crime that we've never seen the Gambits system revisited, and I like the License Boards a ton too. I played XIII to completion for my boyfriend and while the start of the game is just as bad as people say, if not worse, it does eventually get better, and I found myself really enjoying the later chapters. I'm also a crazy person that sunk nearly two years into completing almost everything in XIV A Realm Reborn before finally reaching the Heavensward expansion very recently. It took me nearly 1000 hours and a lot of it was painful but getting to experience almost everything patch by patch, level by level, was worth it. Good game.

I've tried Final Fantasies I, IV, VIII, X and XV and most of these I've not sunk more than a couple of hours because they didn't grip me. XV got over 20 hours from me before I started realising all of the problems it has, it's one of those games where it's a lot of small things that creep up on you over time.