Earthbound is coming to Virtual Console on the WiiU

[Cshad]

That's not entirely true, games like Chrono Trigger, Paper Mario and the M&L series all had interesting battle systems that made me want to play the game well before the story did. At least at a young age, when I revisited them as I was older I was able to appreciate them better but the initial hook at a young age for me was the battle systems.

That was about Earthbound; not a generalized statement for all RPGs.