Shadow Hearts: Covenant It's the second one, it got really good reviews. And it's my 2nd favorite PS2 JRPG to FFX.
It's also developed by a large of the amount of people who co-developed lost odyssey. Nauhtilus or something like that they changed their names like 3 times.
I actually found the Lost Odyssey battle system, a worse version of the judgement ring that's in this series.
Persona 3 FES (though this had only control 1 character like FFXIII, great story), and Persona 4 (doesn't have this issue, but worse story and characters imo)
I didn't really like many PS2 JRPG's.
PS1.
Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve (Make Sure 1, 2 imo sucked). Parasite is probably my favorite story from the PSX generation.
and Suikoden II. Those are kind of staples that everyone recomends though.
I thought legend of dragoon was like power rangers. It entertained me, but don't really ever want to touch it again. I find it's talked about too hightly here even though it was more hokey, and had a decent battle system for back then, but it's been down way better since.
