My thing with Ruins of Lore is that is actually did remind me of the second game, just pared down a bit with the puzzles. Lufia 1 ranks third for me, and the GB game ranks dead last. Not gonna stop me from buying the GBC game on the eShop though.

I never played VC3. I did get a lot farther in VC2 than I ever did in VC1, though. The only thing that stopped me from playing it again was losing my save file.....