First AAA JRPG of this generation?

[Impulsivity]

Paul_Warren said:

It could be that the popularity pendulum has swung so far in the favor of Western rpgs and shooters that we might not be seeing AAA jrpgs anymore, and not because of the lack of quality of the games themselves, but because they aren't "popular" enough for most Western game journalists to give them 9s and above.

Now one thing about Lost Odyssey. I haven't played the game, but it is my understanding a substantial part of the game isn't even a game, but reading short stories. That is not what I want to do when playing a game or rpg. The things in the stories are supposed to be acted out on the screen and not read through. I think if this same game had been made for the PS3 with the added disk size and if the budget had been there, then the stories would have appeared in the game instead of having to be read, so I would take off points for that aspect of Lost Odyssey and give it an 8 instead of a 9.

  Actually its kind of ironic you mention the stories.  That was the ONLY bright spot in the game.  The stories were easily A list, they were VERY well written and engaging, far more then the game itself.  Seriously, they were A+ writing and gave a much better picture of what it meant for the main character to be immortal then the game itself ever did.  I found myself suffering through the game just to get to the next story before I gave up on the gameplay because it was just so bad.

 

  Reviews have little to do with popularity, instead I really do think they deal with Quality.  I mean Valk Chronicles was hardly hyped at all and still managed a bunch of 9s, ditto with Persona 3.  Cream from the JRPG world DOES still rise, there just isn't as much of it coming out and alternatives (MMOs and WRPGS) are improving in quality WAY faster then JRPGs have managed.