Game of the Anime

Moe can also mean "to burn" or "turn on" in Japanese. Uhr...maybe I'm looking too much into it.

Meh... It wasn't intended to be one. Your skill on "reading between the lines" is really something.

So what non-jRPG provodes the most anime like experience (no prior exposure to a series beong required).

My first thought would be the Legend of Zelda.

I'm kind of liking the idea of a regular game that feels like an anime, but Japan seems to have different ideas about what constitutes a "game".

Huh. Usually it works the other way around, with anime occasionally feeling like games. In fact, I am having a hard time thinking of "games that feel like anime" other than Visual Novels. Anime (and TV shows in general) are inherently non-interactive while games are inherently interactive. That alone (without thinking about culture differences, art styles, etc.) sets a really high conceptual barrier that has to be crossed.

I guess you could argue the other way—that all games feel like anime—because anime can be just about any plot (another barrier), but I don't see that working.

Actually, Mischief Makers is deliberately intended to have a manga-like story if I remember correctly.

And I think it succeeds, but you do have to fill in many details yourself.

I actually rather like it and Zelda (in part because of their quirkyness) so I kinda feel there should be more like that.