Gaming

For me it was FF16. I avoided all the obvious traps like Gollum and Kong and Starfield, but was blindsided by my abject lack of care about the characters in FF16. The lead guy doesn't remember the main instigating event of the story, then fails to believe it regardless of all the evidence. You can't walk 5 steps without a 3 min long cutscene that does all the cool shit for you. It's like watching FF7 summoning knights of the round every single fight, except now with 1000% the diarrhea christmas lights. Then after it happens, the lead fails to understand what just happened. Once he changed his name I noped out.