Three weird stories from very different games.
F1 2021
It took EA buying Codemasters to finally get a cheesy story out of F1 and EA's story writing history is very much the same as every bad motor racing movie which is most of them; tell me if you heard this before, a young promising driver joins a team and immediately falls out with the veteran old guy teammate, both are manipulated by a perfect prick who ends up losing when the teammates make up and win, what makes this a little more bearable is that you play both the rookie and the veteran and at no point you are ever expected to win, god forbid F1 would actually allow a fictional character to steal the status quo off it's stars Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, that's what your nameless career mode driver is supposed to do. Because F1 is a yearly release it will never get a decent score and a cheesy story mode isn't going to change that.
C-Tier Game
The Fairy's Song
Join Marnie, a disgruntled teenage girl from Grimsby, that's a Northern British port town for all the American readers, forced to go to the go no where quiet village of Fenchapel to visit her grandmother, she ends up encountering a lady knight out of time Leofe, who takes Marnie on a journey to Fenchapel's past as Leofe finishes what she started a 1000 years ago in Fenchapel. Surreal to hear a story where I actually understand the setting references and writing is rare and shared by only one other game, ebi-hime really brings the best out of it's British writers and Fairy's Song is a joy to read.
B-Tier Game
Long Live the Queen
A remake of a PC game from a decade ago, you are in charge of the crown princess Elodie as you develop her schedule to keep her alive for 40 weeks until she becomes Queen, and I do mean keep her alive as any slip up will result in her death if you fail to develop a stat high enough for her to cope with the situations she finds herself in, the game encourages you to be whatever ruler you want to be as decisions can make you look like a sinister bitch when you can order murders and executions if you so desire, no two playthroughs are the same, this also leaves everything up to RNG a bit too frequently.
B-Tier Game
