EGG: Elemental Gimmick Gear (Dreamcast, 1999)

Like many RPGs, this one starts a little slow. You are the main character who was found buried asleep for a thousand years in an E.G.G. suit. Now you have awakened in a science lab where you have been studied over that last 100 years. During that time your E. G. G. has also been studied and copied to the point of being the main mode of transportation for people. Your awakeningjseems to coinside with the awakening of huge tenticled machine plant creatures that have spread out from ancient domes.
Predictable is: ONE - you don't remember who you are or what you are to do. TWO - you are the only hope to restore order back into the world.
Most of your travels are visually in good quality Japanese two dementional drawings. Fight scenes seem to switch to 3D but with the 2D backgrounds. It is all in third person perspective.
This is an RPG so you must walk around, gather clues, talk to whoever you run in to, collect things, fight beasts, save people and always upgrade or advance you stuff or skills.
I have a bunch os little kids so I can't put more than 20 minutes into a game at one time, so I have not played all the way through.
Bottom line: Full scale RPG in 2D drawing style animation. Good English translations and good story. Light on action - at least in the beginning.