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Other games should honestly take notes.
Madoka did it unintentionally since it likely only recapped things to pad for time, but even non-franchise IPs could do great things for their player retention by telling a dense self contained story as it's prologue before expanding into the 1000 hour full narrative. It gives you an idea of what kind of game you are working towards

I think of how hard it was for games like Snowbreak or Honkai to capture me because it felt like I was doing pic related