Brave Story's the earliest one I can think of that operates explicitly on video game logic and it suffered for it. Wasn't terrible though. But video game logic is creeping into general narrative art more and more. I think Liz from TrueAnon was mentioning that, or maybe it was Matt Christman lately, I can't remember.
It's by Patlabor writer Kazunori Ito and while it's a video game Isekai, it actually does not forget about the fact that the characters are real people and that it's a video game where there are odd mechanics, specific playerbase behaviors because it's a game (and not IRL) and no cheats.
Brave Story's the earliest one I can think of that operates explicitly on video game logic and it suffered for it. Wasn't terrible though. But video game logic is creeping into general narrative art more and more. I think Liz from TrueAnon was mentioning that, or maybe it was Matt Christman lately, I can't remember.
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.hack//SIGN (2002) is pretty good.
It's by Patlabor writer Kazunori Ito and while it's a video game Isekai, it actually does not forget about the fact that the characters are real people and that it's a video game where there are odd mechanics, specific playerbase behaviors because it's a game (and not IRL) and no cheats.
Great soundtrack too.