I've never been a big JRPG person except for Persona, but I fell head over heels for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel port that came to PC back in 2017. I can't even remember the exact circumstances that led me to put 50 hours into a game I'd never heard of before, but its characters, combat, and academic structure really resonated with me.
Since then I've come to the conclusion that everyone is secretly a JRPG fan—it's just about finding the right one at the right time in your life. Over the subsequent years I played all four of the Trails of Cold Steel PC ports as they were released, but it always rankled with me that if I wanted to go back to the start of the series (five games earlier) and experience the story from the beginning, I'd have to play a 21-year-old game.
