My wife really enjoys narrative-heavy games, like the Telltale games and Life is Strange, where I play and we vote on story choices. We actually spent one of my vacations playing the original Mass Effect trilogy all the way through, in the same way, and it was a lot of fun.
As for games where she has an active role, Diablo 3 is pretty great on consoles. Despite some difficulty coordinating movements, Guacamelee and the new Rayman games can be fun in co-op, too.
If you have a love for the licenses, the Lego games can be harmless fun, but the charm of the series (awkwardly mimed Lego versions of popular films) was kind of lost once the characters started speaking and they began creating their own original stories. The gameplay's never been all that compelling, so once the novelty was gone, I couldn't slog through them anymore.
Fable 2 was another one we tried, but player two is limited to being a henchmen, so the lack of any meaningful progress made it less interesting. If I recall correctly, they made it so you can play as your own character in Fable 3's co-op, but then you had to play Fable 3..
When they announced Marvel Heroes, I was interested to try the co-op, but all player two contributes to is leveling an additional character for the same account, so no achievements to unlock or account-level progress for my wife was a bummer.
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