I'll go very quickly over my first two before I mention the third, because some people are probably sick of me talking about them lol. 1. Super Metroid. [spoiler]Got a SNES Classic for a birthday a year or so ago, and found myself with a bit of time to play a single player game. Loaded Super Metroid purely because I had heard people saying how good the series was and "the dragon on the front looked cool." Long story short, it became my favourite game, changed the way I view the medium, made me much more particular about the kinds of games I praise/purchase, got me interested in game design, and forced me to rethink what really makes a good game.[/spoiler] 2. Dragon Quest Builders. [spoiler]Didn't really know what to expect, as my only experience with the DQ franchise before this game was an obscure Pokémon-like game from my childhood called Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (another excellent game you should all play) but again, I was blown away. Mostly by its excellent story, and the subtle hints at history, character and lore the game left behind across the experience. DQ Builders 2 is, from a gameplay perspective, superior, but I feel attached to the original for its superior approach to storytelling. If a Dragon Quest Builders 3 comes out one day, and combines the strengths of both games with none of the flaws, it could be a masterpiece, and I'm not exaggerating.[/spoiler] The third game is Dark Souls, specifically its remaster on Switch. I admit, I used to feel like it was just difficult and nothing else, I couldn't get past the Taurus Demon, thought it was the game's fault, gave up, and went back to Dark Souls 3, which at the time I considered a better version of the same game. I was wrong on all points, as I discovered last October when I played Dark Souls Remastered. It was a rough start. I got stuck on the Capra Demon, then got stuck on the Bell Gargoyles, then got stuck on a giant rat I didn't know I could run past, and took a break for a while. When I eventually returned, Dark Souls Remastered was the only game I played until I completed it, and went up past O and S in NG+. There were several more places I got stuck. But I fell in love with the music, the boss fights, the world, the characters. I think it's actually the first time I fell in love with a game's soundtrack. It's definitely the first time a game made me cry. And Dark Souls essentially became my "other favourite game." Definitely a lot more than just "difficult." And... yet again I wrote a wall of text lmao. Ah well, what can I do?