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LOL, it is such nonsense that people insist Dark Souls isn't a JRPG. If a Polish game dev made an RPG and a bunch of people outside of Poland started claiming it's 'not Polish' because it's not similar enough to the Witcher, those people would be told to fuck off, and rightfully so.

But yeah "Wizardry is foundational to JRPGs but only entries made after Sir-tech stopped making em count as JRPGS" both shows how arbitrary and vibes-based it is but also somehow isn't the most bizarre thing I can say about the term

this one is extremely farcical to me lol

Yeah, but most genre discussions (in ALL mediums) devolve into the stupid idea that they are rigid and prescriptive. SO much discourse is poisoned by that mindset.

absolutely i agree but it just gets weird and loaded when people start making broad claims about how ah this genre is stagnant or shallow etc etc

How dare you be sensible and knowledgeable about the topic.

arpgs basically have nobody making barrel bin diablo clones anymore and the ones that are still successful culturally are like diablos shambling corpse and path of exile and yet arpgs as the acronym is still basically only used for diablolikes. its kind of awesome in a sense

Or you could argue that JRPG has become a genre, distinct from ARPG and TacticalRPG, but that the J isn’t strictly geographical but clearly orientalist since it relies on hard to define « Japanese looking » (to us) features. +some gameplay elements are JRPG, i.e battle/exploration transitions

SMT style turn based Mass Effect basically just sounds like operator Might and Magic (or just Dragon Age: Origins)

Final Fantasy RETVRN

Why haven't we gotten an FF Diablo clone?