Secret of Mana

Secret of mana is an SNES video game initially released by Square in 1993. It is often times considered one of the best games the system has to offer, and has surprisingly only been remade once - for the Virtual Console only in Japan. It is falsely considered sometimes as the first game in the popular Mana series, though this title actually goes to Final Fantasy Adventure, which was released prior to this game on the Game Boy.

Gameplay
The game was so unique because, while an RPG, it was more akin to a game like The Legend of Zelda as it didn't include turn based battles. Nevertheless characters' statistics would increase over time as it would in a normal RPG.