Give Tales a chance Bodhesatva. It is easily the best mainstream JRPG series I know. Try Tales of Symphonia or Phantasia at least. The plot of these games have some interesting philosophical bits (small ones, but interesting).
Satan said:
"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."