The dispute over whether or not Visual novels count as Video Games is only in the West, Japan doesn't even use the term Visual Novel that way, they are called Bishoujo Games. And anyone who thinks there is no meaningful Gaming to them hasn't tried to get the Threesome Ending of School Days Blind. Pokémon was one of the core enter level Anime for many Millennial Anime Fans. There are so many Games I only know exist because I fell in love with an Anime based on them. In my heart the Tales of Series is an Anime franchise.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to diss visuals as games, I just kind of meant as the story is mostly told through text and not exploration or other gameplay aspects, it’s way more straight forward to adapt it to anime by just picking one of the paths. Pokémon I put in the Castlevania/Cyberpunk group where they basically just wrote an original story within the world of the games.
