I think it was this 2015 article from Kotaku that first got me interested in The Legend of Heroes series. Jason Schreier sold it as an RPG for people who like to read, and it piqued my interest with that. Boy did it deliver, as a PSP game with a simple, but compelling story and a battle system that was easy at first, but layered depth as the game went on. It was not a perfect game, and it can lean into some problematic tropes as anime-style things can often do, but this was a great jumping-off point to a series that is now spanning I think 11 games in a series of separate, but connected story arcs.