Tales of Phantasia is one of if not the best JRPG on the SNES. I knew Tales of Phantasia existed but nothing really other than that. I had no real expectations for the game but it quickly left an impression with it's beautiful spritework and lovely music, not to mention the voice acting that is presented right from the opening scene. It is a crying shame this did not come out in the west because it and Chrono Trigger would surely be mentioned together a lot more. Realistically the only issue is that by end game there is a decent amount of magic pausing, similar to secret of mana, but for the most part, you can turn off spells (which you likely will in dungeons to save mp) so if you are used to random encounter legacy RPGs, this still feels like on of the best.