Arcana SNES

Arcana is HAL Laboratory's 1992 role-playing game for the Super NES. You play as Rooks, the last of the Card Masters, who sets out to stop the court magician Galneon after he seizes the throne of Elemen. Rooks fights alongside human companions and summons elemental spirits of earth, wind, fire and water to join battles.

Its biggest twist is the presentation: dungeons are explored in first person, and characters and monsters appear as illustrated playing cards. Combat is turn-based, in the style of Japanese RPGs, rather than the real-time action of Western dungeon crawlers. That unusual card-themed look makes it one of the SNES's more distinctive cult RPGs.