>>11769971
I'll freely admit to some nostalgia, and it has a lot of rough edges to it, but at the same time I also think it's still a really solid little JRPG and that's really why it caught on so well.
Again, you can't just conjure up that kind of hype and momentum out of thin air, you need some real substance behind it, and the game was that substance, most people liked it because it was simply good.

It's the same with Pac-Man, Tetris, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, etc. Hell, Minecraft later on.