Dismissing something experiential as "flashing lights" is rather silly. Do you think music needs characters and story to influence people? Of course not, because it's not a novel or a movie, it's its own medium. Games don't need to be movies, even though some get close
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Depends on the game. Interactivity absolutely deepens your connection with a character - you are leading them on a 20+ hour journey. And in many games you are explicitly the character and make narrative and mechanical choices for them. You're immersed as them in a world
Additionally using Crash Bandicoot as a repeated example is a little silly. It'd be like me arguing films aren't meaningful because I felt no connection to the talking cars in the latest Transformers - they serve different purposes, simple entertainment versus deeper narrative
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In that case I was using it to point out that just because you’re controlling a character that doesn’t mean you care about them, it’s silly to say that. Clearly characters & good writing are what makes you care about the decisions made in game or about characters on film.
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I didn't mean to imply that control = deep connection always. But in narrative-focused games "being" a character, physically moving around a space, framing the scene yourself using your "camera" / perspective, maybe picking objects up - this definitely immerses and connects you
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