also pokemon :D
i don't remember not knowing pokemon, and i just really adore how far the game lets you take your favourites from one game to the next- my first pokemon i ever raised from egg to lvl 100 went through three name changes purely to ??? signify his growth??? <- child brain i suppose, but endearing to look back on now. i haven't moved him or anyone else from the 3ds to the switch because i dont have a switch of my own and they just feel more secure that way <3
it's so easy to make your own idea of team dynamics purely based on who faints when and who gets switched out to replace them and that's always been one of my favourite things; how you can make a story of your own on the journey while there is still a 'main story'
a newer (as in more recent- the game is not very new) comfort video game i've found myself endeared with is mother 3, despite how kind of. not reassuring? it is, but i love the story elements and characters to an such a degree. it's more of the kind of comfort that makes you cry in relation to the State Of Things In Life and the game itself but it's comfort anyways