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Mine is Dark Cloud. It was a PS2 launch title (or near enough to it) that was sort of a PlayStation answer to the Zelda franchise. Along with the original Spyro trilogy, Dark Cloud was by far my most-played game back in the day. It had an absolute banger of a soundtrack and a few pieces of really interesting unique gameplay including an RPG element where the primary progression system was not in your characters, but in upgrading your weapons, and a city-builder where you have to place all the people in each village near or away from various other elements in the village to meet their needs.
I almost never hear anyone talking about Dark Cloud, but extremely randomly one of the like four Twitch streamers I actually watch (all of whom are Age of Empires streamers, because that's basically all I watch these days) happens to play its soundtrack frequently on her stream as background music. So that's been really fun.
I played Dark Cloud and it’s sequel like crazy. I loved the fishing element. It was one of the first games I got with my PS2 and I had no idea what it would be about. This is probably first time I have seen anyone else mention it.
I've just recently downloaded an emulator and started replaying it. Going quite slowly through it, but I hope eventually to actually finish it.
As a kid I got up to the Dark Genie twice (on two separate playthroughs), but I never actually managed to beat him.
Dark cloud! I remember buying a PS2 from my cousins in 2012 and it came with Dark Cloud. It was my first introduction to Rogue Like games. Managed to scratch the Zelda itch while having an entire identity of its own
I played the second one before the first, I really liked the mix of action RPG and town-building. Still need to finish the first.