I've been looking at IGN's list of 25 best JRPGs of all time https://www.ign.com/playlist/igneditorial/lists/the-25-best-jrpgs-of-all-time and regardless of the quality of the list I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to attempt to go through and more importantly how you would go about actually playing everything on there?
Some of them seem very obvious (I count 6 originally released on either this gen or last gen hardware) but with older games sometimes the fans have strong opinions on certain remakes and the differences they introduce. I personally believe KH 2.5 and the Switch version of TTYD are the way to play but would tell people to avoid the Steam Chrono Trigger release if they could get the DS one instead. But there are a number of franchises here I have no experience with.
Like is the new remake of Star Ocean: The Second Story preferred to play? Do the Grandia II and Suikoden remasters do the originals justice? Are Lost Odyssey, Xenogears and Trails in the Sky stuck to original old hardware? And this isn't getting into the questions of which of these games are and aren't playable before you've played the games before them in the series.
Regardless of your opinion on the quality of the list itself, do you have any specific knowledge or opinions on a series entry included there and how someone interested in playing t would go about it?