Looking over the list I'm intrigued by the Valkyria Chronicles 1 and maybe 4?
Valkyria Chronicles is an anime WW2 SRPG. You move soldiers around on the battlefield, and when you attack an enemy, you aim with your mouse/controller thumbstick at the enemy to shoot (rather than doing a menu command to attack). The game aesthetically looks pretty great and still holds up today. The story and characters are nothing to write home about but is executed decently well (don't expect any moral greyness in war like Tactics Ogre; this is firmly a lighthearted JRPG/anime adventure about good guys vs evil empire). For a 20-40 hour long game it was fun.
After VC1, the suits at SEGA thought that they should order two sequels to be developed... and that the sequels should be on PS Vita (instead of PS3) and should throw out the stuff that made people like VC1 in the first place. After the failure of VC3, the series was put on ice... until Valkyria Revolution happened, which is a mediocre Dynasty Warriors-esque beat em up game not even set in the same setting as the first three VC games. After that, it seems like the suits at SEGA finally learned their lesson, so VC4 was pretty much just more of VC1, which everybody wanted. The only real problem with VC4 is that, well... they played it too safe. It's literally just a rehash of VC1, down to the plot and characters. I guess VC4 would've been received more if the devs had improved upon the writing, or did a perspective flip where you played as the Empire.
The music of the VC games is by Hitoshi Sakimoto, who you might know from Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, and FF12.
Looking over them though, so many of these games are big whoosh in my knowledge. Like what's Tales of Vesperia (and Zertiria & Berseria etc) even all aboot?
The Tales Of games are action JRPGs. They mostly became famous during the mid 2000s, when there was a drought of JRPGs coming over to the West, so for many people the Tales Of games were their first exposure to JRPGs. They're okay. People really like the character banter and the fluffy comedy scenes.
Made by Nihon Falcom, the developers who did the Trails series, Ys, and Zwei. Tokyo Xanadu is pretty much Trails of Cold Steel 1 but with the action combat of the modern Ys games. Is chapter based. The first half of a chapter is about you running around your part of Tokyo talking to NPCs, getting into fun slice of life shenagains, etc. The second half of a chapter has you going into a demon realm and beating up monsters with Ys-esque action combat. The plot is nothing to write home about but the characters were fun, running around town talking to people was comfy, and the music is by
Hayato Sonoda and
Takahiro Unisuga, so the soundtrack is really great.
