The narrative objective is the stars chenguo4. Look is it more satisfying in SMG to earn a star through a serious of challenges? Yes, there is a narrative in the game play itself. Im not going to argue this point because you wouldn't play it if there wasn't a progression of events in the level that rewarded you at the end.
Narratives are a sequence of events, whether it be 2 or 3 events it doesn't matter, followed by a conclusion.
A story can be anything, it doesn't need to be what you think a story is. As someone said earlier poems and shit, they are stories, limericks are storys, commercials tell stories.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
