Being almost exclusively a JRPG nerd, I've naturally heard about these games. However I've never played a single one of them and I was curious what posters here thought of them? Are they some of the best examples of the genre? Just kinda generic? Absolutely awful?

This whole thing dawned on me when I was thinking about getting a PSP. it has remakes of a few older "classic JRPGs" and Lunar is one of them. (along with Star Ocean 1 and 2 which i'm interested in) Would you suggest the PSP version or the original?