bro HUGE love for the Lost Odyssey addition, it was actually on the original draft for my list by got replaced by FF9!

You see how I put whole franchises down lmao, not enough room if I started naming each individual Metal Gear and Final Fantasy. But yeah, Lost Odyssey was peak JRPG at the time when it seemed every other one was so EASY. Plus the heartfelt story, got me crying on my replay a few years ago.