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Dark cloud 2 is so good (you don't need to play the first one, they're basically unrelated)
It's one of those games where there's so much content but you can do as much as or as little as you want and the game doesn't punish you for it.

Plus it has one of the cooler premises in an RPG. Basically this evil guy from ancient times figured out time travel and went ahead thousands of years and wiped out anyone who would become a threat to him. You go around restoring/ building villages to certain criteria that will be birthplaces of these people that help you eventually beat him