Case in point, the antagonist I'm playing from the series (because of course I'm playing an antagonist) is fantastically hammy when he wants to be, actually plans out his plots quite well...
There are a bunch of different iterations of the first game for various platforms (and the events of the game do actually change a bit depending on the version... or a lot in the Sega CD version's case)
...And also Lunar: Walking School, which never got outside Japan, and Dragon Song, which did get localized but is... not as good as the rest of the series.