Ogre Battle 64Incredibly deep storyline, and the best turn-based battle system I've ever,
ever experienced. All the graphics are hand-drawn, and the musical score sounds like a symphony orchestra.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskUnique storyline (how many games have you played where the moon is going to crush the planet, and you have only three days to stop it?), and pretty freakin' awesome real-time battles. Excellent boss battles, beautiful music.
Magi-NationA little-known RPG on the Game Boy Color, probably because it is American-made. Pokemon-esque in nature, wherein you capture monsters to fight with, but Magi-Nation's monsters are way awesomer than any Pokemon. Partially due to the fact that Matt Holmberg (
http://www.ghostcircles.com/matt ), one of the greatest artists of our time, illustrated most of them. Pretty cool story and nice music, too, though the battles are a tad lacking.
Mega Man, Mega Man X (all of them) It is physically impossible to place any one Mega Man game above the rest.
Unbelievable musical score, insanely addicting levels and boss battles, hand-drawn graphics in the later games. Often criticized for having godawful dialogue, but the cheesiness and hilarious dubbing are part of what I love (to laugh) about it.
Man, I got to think of one more.... I don't know, let's go along with:
Tales of SymphoniaAmazing artwork!! Kosuke Fujishima has been my favorite artist since way before I even played ToS, and seeing his name among the credits was a major factor in what made me buy it. Incredible real-time RPG battles, and beautiful music. Surprisingly deep and haunting story, though the villain's motives are really stupid. And... ZELOS!! *points to avatar* :-D