EVER ever is mario & luigi: bowser's inside story, the first text-heavy game i ever played... it's so whimsical and fun with a bunch of different minigames, puzzles and mechanics to proceed in the story rather than just grinding for EXP like most other RPGs (although you can still do that if you want, it's just that battles aren't the main focus of proceeding).

some other favourites that are also worth mentioning are literally any other game in the mario & luigi series, super paper mario, paper mario: the origami king, pokémon black/white and their sequels, persona 3 (any version), pokémon scarlet/violet... Yah i like a lot of games