Heck, Eon Academy has a LOT of great plot points, but that is an interesting one!

All of these are from games, so there’s that. :P

OMORI – Photographs (MAJOR SPOILERS!)
Spoiler:
When you find out the truth behind OMORI’s/Sunny’s guilt in Black Space, especially with the trail of photographs. Black Space was already a deranged and effed-up place in this game, but the part where you collect the photographs and understand how everything goes together was a very “oh damn” moment (it plays out like a very slow slideshow that shows Sunny unintentionally killed his sister Mari). Provided you were careful with not running into spoilers prior to getting to this point in the game, it’s a heck of a reveal. But overall, the overlapping between what happens in the real world and Sunny’s dream world (headspace) has a lot of very interesting parallels, but this part struck me as the most profound. Plus dang, the different in endings that you can get based on such tiny little choices is pretty insane.


Seasons After Fall
Spoiler:
I was gifted this game as part of a Secret Santa thing and it’s a relatively safe and fun platformer (you can’t really die in it). The part I liked the most about it was being able to switch seasons on the fly at any time. The whole game is based around that and it’s a heck of an interesting concept. You can switch to winter to freeze a lake to cross it where you couldn’t before when it was water. Switching to autumn allows mushrooms to grow so you can reach higher elevations. And there’s a TON of other uses for it but I really enjoyed this nifty game mechanic and arguably pretty cool superpower that affects the entire world around you. And the whole time, you’re playing as a fox (it’s kind of a long story but you assimilate him as a kind of spiritual “seed”).


Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit: Changing Points of View
Spoiler:
Besides having an interesting storyline and some crazy interactive cinematic chases and action/combat scenes, this game has you playing as both the fugitive who doesn’t understand what and why he was driven to commit a ritualistic murder in a diner and as the pair of investigators going after him. The storyline takes a lot of strange and supernatural turns, but the way it allows you to play the game and see both sides of the story is quite unique and there are different routes you can take during the course of the game (some definitely favor one side over another). It reminds me of a TV series called Boomtown where you saw the story play out from the perspectives of multiple characters at different places and times (but were still woven together) and it was such a neat and unique way to tell the story.