Earthbound

Also known as Mother 2. Up to you if you want to try English fan translations of Mother 1 and 3 as well. 2 is the only one with an official English translation. It does a good job as a stand alone game, I played it long before I knew any of that. Back when renting a snes game from a physical store was a thing.

But I have since played part of Mother 1/earthbound 0, and all of Mother 3/earthbound 2.

If you haven’t heard of it, we’ll that sucks. Everyone should hear about it. Definitely a must play at least once in any gamers life. It is the very definition of a traditional non-traditional RPG. It uses as well as breaks every convention. It’s exactly what you expect, except totally not what you expected.

Basically, it’s a type of parody of the genre, while also being one of the best games of the genre.