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>Earthbound and Mother 3. I rest my case.
These are the absolute pinnacle, the zenith of Japanese RPGs, and they're still not as good as something like Disco Elysium (a mid-tier western RPG made by a handful of broke communists in Estonia).
I think we just have to accept that while the Japanese certainly have their strengths (maintaining stable societies, women, having four seasons, creating strange flavours of Kit-Kat,etc. ), video games are simply not one of them.