2-5 years ago (oh my memory....) my brother bought a game at a flea market. It was a game with a style kind of similar to Untold Legends and Champions of Norrath except (in what he played) you were outside a lot.
It had a top-down or isometric view. He didn't get very far in it because it was so hard. He got to a place that was kind of a big open bright area with not many trees I guess. He had to fight some dudes then cross a bridge over a small river, then fight some more dudes as he went up a small slope. After he got up the slope there were some little houses I think with more dudes you had to fight. That's where he would always die.
I looked through the PS2 role-playing game list on Gamefaqs and looked at the screenshots but couldn't find it. I didn't check all of the games though.