Dark Cloud.
I played it as a kid, twas one of the first games I bought with my own money because I played a demo disc with it on and instantly fell in love with it. I got it preowned and the moron who had it first just destroyed the disc so it never got past the first cut scene...I only ever came across it in a store one more time and I had the same issue, except it at least let me play up to the 2nd 'world' that time.
Bought it on PSN though, so now I finally get to play through it all
