
I remember Rogue Galaxy having very floaty jumping and miserable camera. It's more along the lines of Kingdom Hearts in terms of action, but I couldn't get into it because of these things.
Dragon Quest 8, I remember looking really gorgeous on PS2. Cel shading and everything. I also remember it being really hard for some reason. If you are a DQ completionist then you should try it out. Repetitive combat comes to mind. I think if you die you lose a lot of progress which bothered me. I can't remember to much. So long ago.
Have you played DQ 9 by the way?