Have Valkyria Chronicles or Ni No Kuni been mentioned yet?
VC was pretty sweet. i didn't get far in Ni No Kuni, to be honest the story was even more childish than my Nintendo-dulled brain could handle. Both games had their alternative art style to gawk at. VC held so much promise... the battles don't ever get all that huge like I wished. And that's mostly true for the rest of the franchise, the battles never get larger than semi-puzzle skirmishes. Kind of a bummer but I still like the games.