Child of Light has gorgeous 2D visuals (complete with great use of parallax scrolling of multiple layers), a beautiful and very non-traditional musical score, and fun strategic combat heavily inspired by the Grandia series. (zeboyd.com)
If you're interested in understand more of the specific down - sides of using parallax scrolling check out this post. (jurisdigital.com)
Molten Chasm and Twilight Forest have much more detailed backgrounds with parallax scrolling and beautiful skies and moons. (iamericm.com)