Grandia II
Sega is or has been many different things over the years – a console manufacturer, a game development studio, a publisher, and a company that endlessly chased PlayStation’s success with RPGs. It made a very successful first attempt with the Sakura Wars franchise in Japan, but that was more of a strategy game/visual novel hybrid. Sega still needed a more traditional party-based RPG to challenge the likes of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Grandia fitted the bill
