I am positive you would love the characters in Grandia if you want to see into history's favorite turn-based battle system

The characters in Valkyria Chronicles are also mostly enjoyable, and the battle system is a lot easier to get into than most other strategy RPGs, but it has a hand full of ridiculous difficulty spikes that like to put up a brick wall against your progress. I don't know how much you'd enjoy the game after doing the same battle 5 times and dying each time. But there are nifty how-to videos out there that make it way more tolerable, and when you're not getting your butt handed to you the rest of the game is super enjoyable. And also beautiful. Probably the prettiest stylized game before Ni No Kuni

But realistically I'd have to say Grandia. I usually hate playing as kids, but there's so much character in the personalities, I can't help but love that game. Shame I never got around to beating it