"Narrative"?
The word implies that a story has been told to me, but I must have blinked or something. Two indistinguishable pixel-humans either wind up at the same point on a two-dimensional plane, or they miss each other and... oh wait. Was that your "narrative", that if you miss a chance it's gone forever? In that case, all right, I get it, but now you're getting NO stars instead of one, because I'd rather my time be wasted pointlessly (like spending longer writing a review of a game than I did actually playing it HEYOOOO) than in the advancement of such a Hallmark-card trite lesson.