* Dragon Quest 8 was a bit of a disappointment. (Oh, and by the way, you can get an ending before the game starts for real.) Unfortunately, the game feels rather unpolished.

Add in some tank combat where the best strategy late-game that I found doesn't bother with the equivalent of tank HP, and you now have a rather unusual experience. Combine this with the way XP works, allowing underleveled characters to gain a level after every victory. Now, take away the barriers that prevent you from sequence breaking in a typical JRPG. * Metal Saga (not a SaGa game) is a bit weird. Disgaea 2 has better gameplay, but Disgaea 1 has the better item world theme (but lacks any way of skipping battle animations, which gets annoying when enemies keep using Hell Pepper, or you find yourself using Winged Slayer hundreds (thousands?) of times).

* Disgaea 1 and 2 are good if you like getting numbers up high. The negative aspects of the game is that fighting too many battles can close off quests and make enemies stronger, as that's how the game measures time (and is akin to enemy level scaling), and that the main battle theme uses electric guitar, which limits how much I can play it. Also, note the unconventional SaGa-style growth system. The game is rather interesting, in that it could be argued to be a WRPG given its nonlinear structure (to start the endgame, the only requirement is to fight a lot of battles, but there's plenty of sidequests to do).

This game, a remake of Romancing SaGa 1, may be my favorite RPG on the system in particular, I like it better than Dragon Quest 8, which came out around the same time (and which I consider one of the weaker entries in its respective series). I don't like to make a top 10 of games, and I'm not even sure if I've played and enjoyed enough PS2 games to make a full list, but here are some highlights:

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