the reason this happens for FromSoft is of course Miyazaki, but w/rt Nintendo, it's developed a Bell Labs-esque mythos around it that runs parallel to auteurism—not to mention the individual actors in the company that are ascribed that label to a degree, i.e. Miyamoto, Sakurai, Aonuma
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the tangible answers are Nintendo and FromSoft
the broad answer is that anything that centers an 'auteur' in its promotion/development or has a solo/main developer is going to make a notable amount of people who like it parasocial to at least some degree. I'm also guilty of this, I give a lot of reverence to Toby Fox and I actively follow what he outputs, as his work has earned a level of implicit trust that whatever he makes will likely resonate with me.
gamers debating whether summons are part of miyazaki's vision is like abrahamic sects debating the canonicity of apocrypha but infinitely funnier because while the writers of the testaments are long gone, miyazaki is still alive and he has specifically said that they are