Rakun

Rakun, 11 months ago

For me it has to be Grandia. This game feels like a pure dose of adventure, and to me it is a nostalgia pill I sometimes take for the trip. That it doesn't get more recognition in the modern day is beyond me.

To a lesser extent, Secret of Mana is also a game I like to redo every other year with different people, and that I know absolutely by heart (can't wait to experience that with my son someday).

Lastly I developed a love/hate relationship with the Trails series back in 2011, and the first game in this series in particular shifted my view on JRPGs forever. It is a bit too recent though to be "that game", but had it be published in the 90's it might have been