Third set of hints:

#45

-Gather the party one more time, in a different dimension called Phantasma

-The third game in this series of JRPGs (The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 3rd)

#44

-A thousand years of life can be a heavy burden, even for one without memories

-The main party of playable characters is a mix of immortals and normal humans

-Over the course of the game, you can collect short stories that recount tales of the main character's past

#43

-If she dies, you die (Enslaved: Odyssey to the West)

#42

-Travel to another world, to find the soulmate of your mother

-The soundtrack was composed by a famous anime film composer

-The visual style was heavily inspired by that often used by a famous animation studio

#41

-The other half of the first game's villain leads XIII (Kingdom Hearts II)

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver?

Didn't I guess your #44 right with Lost Odyssey a few hints ago?

43 and 42 have been figured out. But no one has guessed 41 yet. 

42) Well I haven't played it, but sounds like Ni No Kuni (Wrath of the White Witch?)

Did you? Sorry, I must have missed or just completely forgotten about it then. Yes, that's correct.

That's correct.

Nope, not Soul Reaver. Good game though - I should revisit it.

Looking at my list so far, you might think I haven't played a video game in 25 years, lol. I promise games from this century are coming soon! Here's my brief look at my first few games:

50 - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - 1988 - People love to hate this game, but this to me started my initial love for metroidvania games (along with the original Metroid). My favorite Castlevania on NES, a big reason I loved it so much was because I had the issue of Nintendo Power that featured this game. Thus I knew a lot of the secrets that are quite obscure to those who play the game without it. Also, one of the best soundtracks on NES.

49 - Warlords - 1980 - My first console was an Atari 2600, and I have fond memories of quite a few games from that console. The only one to crack my top 50 was Warlords, a 4-player game with each player protecting their castle, one in each corner. Each castle was protected by a wall and the player piece that would slide around the outside of the wall. Basically, it was like 4-player Breakout.

48 - Star Wars: X-Wing - 1993 - I always loved Star Wars, so a few games from that license appear on my list. First up is X-Wing, a PC flight-sim where you performed missions for the rebellion. Occasionally janky, but I loved the various ship types that were true to the source material and the use of the original soundtrack.

47 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - 1997 - I never had a Playstation, but I first saw this game and briefly played it on that console. But most of my time with it was actually on an Android device (not the greatest way to play, I know). Not much else to say about this game that hasn't been said before, a great classic metroidvania title.

46 - GoldenEye 007 - 1997 - I also never had an N64, but a good friend did, and a bunch of friends spent many evenings/nights playing this in 4-player mode. Obviously hasn't aged well, but still some of the most fun I've had with a game.

45 - Baseball Stars - 1989 - A big part of my early gaming was sports games, so here's the first to make my list. Baseball games were plentiful on NES but what made this stand out to me was that it had a pseudo franchise mode, where you would pay players, sign and trade new ones, and move your team up to higher leagues.

44 - The Secret of Monkey Island - 1990 - When I was younger I loved PC adventure games, mostly ones by Sierra On-Line (King's/Space/Police Quest, etc). It wasn't until I got a bit older that I discovered Lucasfilm/LucasArts adventure games and my favorite of those is Monkey Island. Great humor, great music, great story.

Great list!

But I wanted to comment specifically on Warlords. I've been playing a lot of this via the Atari 50 collection, on both arcade and 2600. It's really fun, despite the simplicity. Looking back, it's pretty impressive how Atari was able to take the Pong formula and expand upon it to make several games. Single-player Pong? Here's Breakout. Four-player competitive Pong? Try Warlords

#45

YoY: -5     My Rating: 9.0/10

I never quite expected the impact The Legend of Heroes games would end up having on me when I was looking around for some new JRPG to play on Steam almost a decade ago now. I stumbled upon the first Trails in the Sky, played it, and absolutely fell in love with the characters, story, setting, and just about everything else the game had to offer. Since then I've played through seven different games in the series, it has become one of my favourite video game series of all time, third only to Final Fantasy and Dark Souls as it happens, and every new game in it is always high on my most anticipated games list. They simply struck a chord with me in a way that very few other games have ever done, and this is the weakest game in the series in my opinion.

If I'd have to pick what makes this the weakest game in the series, it probably has the most to do with its setting, being more confined and restricted than in other the other games, as the characters are trapped in a separate dimension within a magical object. As a result, in a lot of ways this game has the least overall impact on the grander story that runs through all these games out of them all, though there are still a lot of details and information you learn about important events and people that build up the overarching story. Still, even with all that, this is still a continuation of a story that revolves around some of my favourite video game characters, with great gameplay and music to go along with that. Not much more I could ask really.