[PS2] Must Own PS2 Games, or how many middling JRPGs can you suggest?

Okami: Really what can I say that others haven't? It's a work of art. And an amazing game too. If you have a PS2 there is no reason not to have this game. It was stunning when I first got it and it's still amazing even now. One of my friends who never had a PS2 got the Wii version just because of how much fun he had with it when visiting friends who did have it.

God of War: I personally don't usually enjoy this genre of games. But I had a lot of fun with God of War nonetheless. It really says something for a game when it's not a type that you'd normally play and you play all the way through it nonetheless because you were having fun.

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES: A fun RPG with memorable characters. Don't bother getting Persona 3 since Persona 3: FES comes with Persona 3 plus a bunch of extra stuff. I liked all the Shin Megami Tensei games for the PS2 but Persona 3 was my favorite of them.

Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts: Covenant(aka Shadow Hearts 2), Shadow Hearts: From the New World(aka Shadow Hearts 3): I had a ball with this trilogy. And it seemed each one got weirder. The first Shadow Hearts isn't quite up to the standards of the following two but it's a fairly short RPG and Shadow Hearts 2 takes off from where Shadow Hearts ended. You should still have quite a bit of fun with 2 and 3 even if you don't play 1 though and Shadow Hearts isn't a bad RPG by any means, it just does't quite have the charm the later ones did.

Disgaea: A turn based strategy game where you're a demon out to take over the Netherworld after your dad died by choking on a pretzal. Aided by your not so loyal vassal Etna, a ditzy angel, THE DEFENDER OF EARTH!!(and his sidekick Jennifer, and super robot Thursday), and demonic exploding penguins among other things, this game has a wonderfully twisted sense of humor.

Honorable mentions: All the Shin Megami Tensei games, Radiata Stories, Suikoden V, Tales of the Abyss, Odin Sphere, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, and Gradius V.

For compilation disks(listing these seperately as they aren't so much PS2 games as a bunch of games from older systems on the same disk) I'd highly recommend Capcom Classics Collection v1 and v2, Sega Genesis Collection, and Megaman Anniversary Collection.

Jam it back in, in the dark.