Doesn’t anyone ever win in your games, Paul? 😉

I feel like I’ve had my share of fictional “leveling up” moments: triumphing over adversity, achieving goals, and even personal moments of satisfaction. The father-son dynamics my PC had in the old HERO campaign had a few uncannily accurate (it was long before I was a dad) Courtship-of-Eddie’s-Father type scenes.

I also can’t help but think of games like Golden Sky Stories, or maybe even Chuubo’s…, which are inherently about being charming and sentimental.