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The ‘JRPG’ label has always been othering (www.polygon.com)

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interesting article for consideration from Polygon writer Kazuma Hashimoto. here's the opening:

In February, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida sat down in an interview with YouTuber SkillUp as part of a tour to promote the next installment in the Final Fantasy series. During the interview, Yoshida expressed his distaste for a term that had effectively become its own subgenre of video game, though not by choice. "For us as Japanese developers, the first time we heard it, it was like a discriminatory term, as though we were being made fun of for creating these games, and so for some developers, the term can be something that will maybe trigger bad feelings because of what it was in the past," he said. He stated that the first time both he and his contemporaries heard the term, they felt as though it was discriminatory, and that there was a long period of time when it was being used negatively against Japanese-developed games. That term? "JRPG."

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[–] Kwakigra 7 points 1 year ago

This is interesting because I can see where he's coming from, but like others I see it as more of a distinct genre from Western RPG. There is no general RPG genre which a game can be categorized as to represent "the norm" which jrpgs are aberrant from. That being said, labelling western rpgs and jrpgs doesn't indicate the design philosophy which is actually indicated by those terms. The west has produced many jrpgs and Japan has produced many western rpgs, and that doesn't make sense unless you know what those terms actually mean.

I wonder what these genres could be called which would be better indicators? Dragon Quest-likes and Ultima-likes?

[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Really well-done article, thanks for posting.

[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

Dark Souls is a JRPG

https://neverendingrealm.com/opinion/the-new-debate-is-dark-souls-a-jrpg/

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[–] SkepticElliptic 3 points 1 year ago

I disagree, it's the same as distinguishing romance novels from other fantasy novels.

[–] Tamlyn@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Final Fantasy 16 is not really like a typical jrpg. As a dev the dev shouldn't really care about which genre a certain game has, just make a good game and don't care about jrpg, action game or whatever your game is. We player decide the genre to know which group of gamers are maybe interrested in the game.

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