I guess you got a lot of disagrees because everyone else forgot just how many coomerbait garbage JRPGs were pushed front and center on the PlayStation storefronts back then, many of which were from Idea Factory and NIS. There were so many, they just ran together, and how can you remember games like:
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and all the other countless anime games with names and box art so generic, they seem like AI came up with them. Yeah, no wonder I thought the genre was just completely dead until Yakuza: Like a Dragon reminded me that JRPGs can be incredible if done right.