I get that people remember stories and I don’t. I have them in my short them “work memory” and others have them bleed to long term memory. That’s great! When my ‘cache clears’ in a few months or years I don’t feel sad I just feel… enriched?

I no longer consider myself to be adept to judge stories. It’s just like music. Others might feel strongly about some style but their likes are not yours and might be completely wrong.

This is not to patronize but to recognize your weakness and enjoy entertainment around it. I’m not a native speaker so I have hard time to convey my point but this is a skill to learn not a hardship to bang your head against. All the best :)

I kind of have the same but I taught myself to enjoy the moment to moment gameplay and story progression.

I played through Chrono Trigger and all I remember is that it had an awesome soundtrack, there was a frog dude, cool mechanic visiting the same place in different time period and at one point there was a bridge which probably was important. I spent tens of hours and that’s the story synopsis I can muster. I still can tell you that I enjoyed playing the game. Storytelling is only one part of entertainment.