As somebody already pointed out, Bully is a pretty damn great game in its own right. For me, it proved that the GTA formula could still work really well in a relatively lighter setting and still maintain the great writing. Plus, as somebody who attended a private school for nearly a decade, I really appreciated the satire revolving around such a school environment.
God Hand also comes to mind for me, as it was almost certainly the one Clover game which got a lot less attention compared to its predecessors. It's definitely their most controversial game when it comes to how good it actually, but I for one really enjoyed the combat despite the high difficulty. That, and the story was so wonderfully ridiculous that I couldn't help but love every minute of it.
I suppose I could throw in Killer 7 since that was also pretty controversial in the reviews, too. Really unconventional control scheme movement-wise, but the fact that the game was just unabashedly insane and did nothing whatsoever to dispel was something I appreciated. I never got around to finishing it, but I also did find the story to be pretty interesting, too, and I actually found it to be comprehensible somehow. Odd.
The only other ones I can think of are super obscure imports that even the otaku circles haven't really noticed yet.
Tomato Adventure was the predecessor to the Mario and Luigi games in terms of gameplay mechanics (same developer, too) and it's probably the only RPG off the top of my head I'd personally recommend for importers wanting an RPG where the language barrier is almost a non-issue. Then there's
Napoleon, which was a pretty interesting RTS experiment Nintendo did on the GBA back at its Japanese launch. And I suppose I'll throw in
Vib-Ribbon, too. I believe it actually came out in Europe, so some people from there are probably familiar with it anyway, but I found it to be a fun take on the music genre and the improvised track layouts are usually pretty good, too.
Hell, let's throw in the very game my username jokingly references:
Pepsiman. The gameplay itself is pretty bad, but the deliberately cheesy voice acting and FMV sequences give the game its own charm anyway.
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