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KCF0107 posted...

It doesn't check all of your arbitrary boxes, but Donkey Kong is about love/rescuing your loved one.

Yeah, that was something I realized I hadn't conveyed very well when I posted the topic, that I mean to draw some kind of distinction between a game being "about love" and games about rescuing your girlfriend, like Donkey Kong, River City Ransom, etc. I'm not sure I can explain it too well even now, but I'd say River City Ransom is about punching people even though the goal of the game is related to love, similar to how DQ is "about" fighting monsters even though rescuing and marrying a princess gets in there somewhere. Mother is "about" love because the whole story can be interpreted as being about witnessing/discovering different types and expressions of love, I guess.