Video games that play with the way we play video games?

I think its cool how in the end you are kind of the bad guy all because the player wanted to keep pushing forward because its a video game

Again the player willingly moves through Rapture at some guys command and they turn that into a plot twist. It was shocking to realize that you were just a slave.

You keep burning everything they give you because it limits your inventory, you also come in with a video game mentality. But if you save certain items you can get hidden endings.

They both implemented it as apart of the story and evolved it beyond a mere mechanical feature. In Bastion, you would (possibly) go back in time; and in Dragon's Dogma, playing NG+ was basically the world starting anew because of the cycle it's stuck in. In fact, according to what I'd read, when you reach the end boss again, you would face a different Arisen character than the default one, apparently determined by whomever was the last player to complete the game.

Constants and variables, giving a narrative definition for why some decisions are up to the player and some are automated. Usually in a game you'd just have shit that has to happen and then some stuff you're able to choose, but in the case of Infinite it's a core theme of the game why that's the case.

That late-game cybernetics upgrade getting hyped all over the city, then the villains using it to cripple your abilities if you actually installed it. Luckily I took a stray piece of advice from a walkthrough after skimming it because of the game's bosses and DIDN'T install it, but I know for a fact I just would've done so without thinking otherwise.

You're like, on a very specific narrow path the whole time, because like, you're a Bandicoot and stuff so you aren't really smart enough to think about things in a broad way, man. It's cray-cray.