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Narshe from Final Fantasy VI. The game opens with Terra and her captors marching on Narshe, and the town's atmosphere conveys a wintery town powered and warmed by steam pretty well.

Snowpeak Ruins in Twilight Princess. One of the best dungeons in the entire series. It opens with Link doing a snowboarding stage, and doing it better than Cloud did a few years earlier. The mansion is the dungeon, but it's more organically integrated into the game and doesn't scream "I'm a dungeon!", which is part of why I like it.

Pretty much all of the snowy areas in Breath of the Wild, which includes Rito Village. That captured the exploration aspect of the game pretty nicely and really made you feel lost in a snowy wasteland. And then you run into a Lynel.

Cage Match: 

Going with Revolution-X on this one. I was a fan of Aerosmith, and the game was pretty fun in the arcade. Unfortunately, the SNES just couldn't handle it. That version was incredibly slow and buggy (and I got it for my birthday instead of Chrono Trigger no less.) I did play the PS1 version much later on, and it was a decent port. But with poor motion capture and effects, Area 51 made Revolution-X look like Time Crisis by comparison. 

My man, I will drink a toast to you and your mother. That is fantastic news that the surgery was enough for your mother to beat cancer. I was thinking about you.

Definitely remember Aero the Acro-Bat. And Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel.

Only from magazine ads, though.

My first console RPGs were Dragon Warrior and Ultima: Exodus, which got a JRPG facelift and a new soundtrack for the NES. Two of the tracks were even made into full J-pop songs with vocals. The best NES RPG was Dragon Quest 3. I recently got the first Fire Emblem on Switch. 

Faxanadu, a spinoff of Falcom's Xanadu, and Legacy of the Wizard were also great. The latter is part of one of the recent Namco Museums for the Switch.

I've mostly been playing The Outer Worlds and Octopath Traveler. Outer Worlds is really good. It is the New Vegas successor I wanted. The first expansion pack dropped on Switch today. 

Great game im  the arcade and on the NES.

I didnt play Adventure on 2600. I read about it in a video game guide from the early 80s. I did play a similar and more graphically sophisticated game like it on PC called Dungeons of Shalan that came from a monthly Softdisk subscription. I finally played it on the Atari collection on PS2, and have it on Atari Flashback Classics on Switch.

i did play Swordquest Earthworkd, but we couldn't figure it out. 
 
Fallout Games on Bell Road in Glendale has an Odyssey RPG called Quest for the Rings for sale.

I started with Alternate Reality and Temple of Apshai Trilogy on Atari XE. Next up were games like Dragon Warrior, Ultima: Exodus, and Faxanadu on NES.

Dragon Quest XI S is awesome. I got FF8 on Switch. I have fond memories of playing it while I was getting ready for my first semester of college. I like how they cleaned up the graphics, especially Squall's model. 

The original became a brief meme sensation.

SaGa Frontier was one of my favorite unsung PS1 games. It had one of the best soundtracks on PS1 and I loved the vaguely dystopian neon aesthetic that SaGa Frontier and FFVII employed. It was deeply flawed and a lot of stuff was left on the cutting room floor. 

There is a re-release coming for Switch and PS4 which is supposed to include a lot of the cut content, including Fuse's scenario. Hoping for a physical release since Romancing SaGa 3 recently got one. 

Star Ocean 2 was the first Enix game I'd seen since the NES. Hopefully that one follows its predecessor to the Switch.

Tales of Eternia was titled as Tales of Destiny II in the US. Namco was worried that "Eternia" would expose them to a lawsuit from Mattel, the owners of the Masters of the Universe. There were, in fact, several Tales games released over here. Tales of Symphonia came out on the Gamecube in 2004 with a high-quality localization partially funded by Nintendo. It was the breakout hit of the series. There was also a PS2 version that released later in Japan, but Nintendo apparently contributed enough to the localization of the Gamecube version to keep Symphonia a Gamecube-exclusive title in the US. The PS2 version was worse anyway, being 30 FPS while the GC version was 60 FPS. Tales of Legendia and Tales of the Abyss came out on the PS2 after Symphonia, and Nintendo localized the Game Boy Advance version of Tales of Phantasia. 

Valkyrie Profile was another favorite of mine. I passed over Chrono Cross in favor of Valkyrie Profile and am glad I did so. My copy of VP is now worth a lot of money.