A few months ago I tried this chill sub-two-hour JRPG made by the blogger who made the Dragon Quest 1 “map of meaning”. When I played it I was like… this really reminds me of FFL3 somehow even though there are no specific allusions… and sure enough I found some mentions of it on their twitter.
No spoilers but this little experiment has some interesting dramatic turns and a very particular sense of “purity”, worth your hour if that sounds intriguing.