I'm looking for some new psp or ps2 games to play. I recently beat ZHP Unlosing ranger vs darkdeath evilman and I really enjoyed it. I tried out disgaea but I can't get into strategy type games most of the time. I also have haunting grounds but I'm not feeling it. I want something with a good story with nice pacing and good action. I want it to be like "wow, this game... I've been missing out by not playing this sooner"

I'm considering a few games but I don't know what to pick. One is the kingdom hearts series. Now I'm really biased against using disney characters as partners and a big Key as a weapon but the series seems really popular.

Also as an option is one of the Tales games. I loved tales of symphonia. I tried out Tales of the world but started to hate the map and dungeon setup. Basically if I go with a tales game I don't know what game to chose. I hear tales of the abyss is good.

Growlanser wayfarer of time is a game I'm looking into as well.

I might prefer a more independent game, the tales, growlanser, and such type games span so many games it makes me feel like I'll have to play all of them.

My problem is that I get caught up in research trying to find the best game I can find and end up with a huge list of possible games to play. So I need help, if you can pick and explain why from the few i listed good, if you can suggest an even better one fantastic