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I'm gonna give this on 10 on the grounds that it's virtually the only game to ever make me care about the plotline as I was playing it.

I don't play a lot of single player games (well, I guess I do now more than I used to), but of those that I play, they're usually the "endless" type, like arcade style, etc. In the cases where I do play progression-based games, I don't care about the story at all. When there's dialogue, or new events happening, I watch it, but it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm in it for the gameplay in between plot points, whether it's the platforming, or the adventuring, or whatnot. Link's Awakening was the first game that made me feel like "wow, I actually care about what the game is telling me". The way that the mystery slowly unravels as you discover new areas, the very oddly behaving characters that make you wonder why they are the way they are, and the "big reveal" 75% of the way through which was more impactful due to the very abrupt way which they present it. The game really did move me.

Even now I don't think that any other game has been able to grip me the way that LA did when I played my first full playthrough. I've gotten engrossed in games for other reasons (Splatoon 2 has really deep lore that's fully unconnected from any of the gameplay or the 1P modes) but this is the only game that was successful in telling me a story that I wanted to hear.