Although some may debate whether the Zelda series are true RPGs, I'd have to say Link's Awakening as that was the game that drew me in to the Zelda series and from that my love of RPGs. I have many of the classic RPGs that I really enjoyed and loved playing, SNES era that is.

This is a really hard question as I have lots of fond memories of many SNES RPGs, however I think that the two best classic RPGs, wait make that three are (in no particular order) Chrono Trigger, Terranigma, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. I was originally only going to put Chrono Trigger and Terranigma in there, but then I remembered the game that for me started it all. I'd come back from the UK in 97 and dad had bought me a silver GameBoy Pocket duty-free in Heathrow airport. I'd got Mario & Yoshi with it, at the time not knowing much about what games there were on the system. When I got back to Australia I borrowed Link's Awakening from a school friend and as soon as the title screen of the game started showing I knew I had something special in my hands. Soon I was off wasting Moblins and on a quest to wake the Wind Fish, spurred on by the sheer fun of the game, the great music, and the intriguing story. Chrono Trigger is there as it has to be one of the greatest RPGs ever made: the depth and breadth of the story, the amazing score, and the way right from bumping into the princess at the Millennial Fair it captured me into the game. Terranigma is a game that I stopped playing quite soon after starting, as while initially impressed and hopeful after having fun in Crysta, thought that the underworld was the whole area of the game. I got stuck in one of the towers and being impatient and slightly disappointed with the different style of the game (all I seemed to be doing was stabbing monsters), left the game for a number of months. When I picked it back up again, I somehow got past whatever I was stuck at, finished resurrecting the land, and lo and behold the elder sent me to the overworld. Wow I had no idea that this was only the beginning. Memorable moments such as rescuing Liam the lion cub, the secret Quintet headquarters in NeoTokyo (no I didn't have a walkthrough) with the guy who loved Mac® computers, the way your decisions affected the development of the towns, to the funny extras such as tanning and the increase in macho rating. Terranigma also had some of the best music I'd heard in a SNES game, the resurrection theme when you go into the starry platform in the underworld towers, and the bird flight song being some of my favourites. Also the incredible length, depth and variety of the story were real winners which includes the different locations and time periods making for an amazing variety of gameplay and experience. Finally right at the end where you're left hanging about who has just knocked on the door, while being on one hand annoying, on the other hand put the cap on the mystery and aura of the game.

I could write for a long time about all three of these games, but instead of me raving on about how good they are, if you haven't played any of these I can't urge you enough to do so. It'll be worth every cent finding old copies of these games. If you can, find the original B/W version of Link's Awakening, the colour enhanced version while good, added these extra helping owls into the dungeons removing any difficulty there was in the original game. I enjoyed, although it was frustrating at the time, getting stuck in a dungeon and not knowing what to do, maybe putting the game down for a while then coming back to it with a fresh mind and eventually solving the puzzles. A bit of difficulty is a good thing. Go have fun.

Deerstalker

HIa

My point is simple
DS games > PSP Games

Simple as.