Yeah, 100% OJ is…interesting.

Though I’d say if you’re beating 25% wins or so you’re already doing above par. (Par may be slightly above that since CPU players tend to be stupid, though they may have improved the AI since I last played.)

I recently noticed that 100% Orange Juice is actually getting a competitive scene, it seems.

It’s a 4-player virtual board game where there’s strategy involved in deck construction (one funny thing is that anyone can draw your cards so you have to choose carefully based on your choice of character and their special abilities), movement choices, understanding probabilities and other tactical decisions, and balancing risk/reward under uncertainty.

I used to be huge into the game but I haven’t been following it for the past couple years or so.

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I suggest trying the various Ys games. Ys I & II use classic top-down view but with a distinctive “bump combat” system that, in the modern “Chronicles +” release, is really perfected to make a very smooth and surprisingly fast-paced experience. Older versions of Ys I and II also work similarly, albeit with less polish.

Some of the other older Ys games may also fit the bill, but they’ve been replaced in the official Ys canon by their remakes, of which I’d suggest a trilogy of games that run on the same engine – Ys VI: the Ark of Napishtim, Ys: the Oath in Felghana (the remake of Ys III), and Ys Origin (a prequel to the whole series). These are technically in 3D but they play in sorta pseudo-2D to some extent because you have a fixed angle isometric perspective most of the time.

By the way, all the Ys games are currently on sale in the GOG Summer Sale.

Also, you didn’t mention Super Mario RPG, so I kinda need to mention it. :P Also, in a similar vein, if you don’t mind the separation between action battle arenas and non-action overworld/dungeon navigation, try Tales of Phantasia, as well as the Summon Night: Swordcraft Story games.