I've always been a huge fan of the jrpg genre, and despite having played great games like: Skies of Arcadia, Xenoblade Chronicles, Grandia II, Golden Sun....
the only game that I consider up to the level of the Final Fantasy games of the golden era (from FFIV to FFX) is The Legend of Dragoon.
I casually discovered this game in a mall when I was 12 or 13 (good times when the shops have walls covered of videogames), and for me, an avid Final Fantasy player, was istant love.
The Legend of Dragoon have all: a good and engaging story, great characters with interesting backstory and character development, cliffhangers and plot twists, a very good turn based battle system with dexterity elements...
This game even have italian dub, Sony invested a lot of money to rival Squaresoft back in 1999.
The only flaw with the game is that it is owned by Sony, so i will never be able to add it to my jrpg collection for Nintendo Switch ;)