Back in the day you had games like Secret of Mana that were pretty special for this. But it wasn't perfect. Sometimes a character would get caught on something in the background, which would really suck. Luckily that didn't happen so often.

Team Ico's games come to mind. I don't know if I'd say their super smart, but they're very life-like. Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and Last Guardian are all really built around the player character interacting with an AI character.

Resident Evil 4 also did a really good job with Ashley. Even though most of the game is an escort mission, you never really run into any of the problems normally associated with that.

Pikmin is great. Not only are the environments beautifully detailed, but the collectibles and monsters get their own funny entries in a diary / encyclopedia. It's actually fun to read what the characters say about the items collected.

I don't think you can call it a near perfect game when it looks the way it does. Graphics for characters look great but the animations get recycled a lot and the environments are very plain and boring.

@hplanty27: Sounds like a puzzle strategy game to me. Sort of like Pikmin. I guess games like Lemmings would be called a puzzle game, whereas Lost Vikings and Mario vs Donkey Kong would be puzzle platformers. Not sure which game you're talking about.

@cooolboiii: Dragon's Crown?

@code22: Are you thinking of Eternal Darkness on Gamecube? Blond woman, she's in a mansion a bit like RE.

@npiet1: Bad ending for Kara, Alice, and Luther.

Microsoft needs to stop.

The Magic of Scheherazade

Do you work for Ubisoft?