Okage: The Backtrack King.
Well, I could go into depth like I usually do, but I don't feel like it. So I'm just going to say a few things: backtracking, aimless wandering, standard/slow battles, and a strange sometimes funny world. I say sometimes because whoever translated this really kept in a lot of the Japanese weirdness, so some moments almost don't make sense.
If you've actually played Guardian's Crusade (which is as likely as having played this one) this game is pretty similar in a lot of ways. The battles are typical RPGs battles, and you travel around on map on foot, ala DQ8. Hmm... this was released in 2001. How the time flies, wow. Anyway, I'm sure this was pretty awesome back then, but today it seems pretty tame.
You're this quiet kid and you get possessed by an evil king. Then you go around defeating other evil kings to gain Stan's (the evil king) power back. Along the road you meet a bunch of other strange characters.
This is one of those games though, where you'll basically poke around everywhere several times just to trigger the next event. It gets annoying after awhile. As I said, the game's dialogue is funny but in a really strange, sometimes obscure way, and there's not some GREAT EVIL you're trying to save the world from, at least for a good chunk of the game, so it's sometimes hard to care about what to do next.
Eh, it's okay.