Jrpg vs. wrpg

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So basically WRPGs are soulles and artless because they lack purple hair, emo teens and lolis. Gotcha.

Now seriously: jrpg storytelling is very, very basic - typical anyme-ish. It's just the way they dress it with the whole "mysterious-trascendent-philosophical-religious-magical" shebang that makes people susceptible to such deception go "ooooh". It's the anime/jrpg equivalent of technobabble. From a narrative point of view, there's zero difference between the tirades about human nature and the trascendent so common in anime and JRPGs and Data blabbering about the antimatter gravity ripple interaction pressuring the ionospheric quantum barrier.

Then there's a bunch of deranged claims you make like tackling adult issues, changing the way videogames are orchestated, etc etc. Bunch of drivel. Why? One word: Richard Garriot's Ultima. Ever heard of it? It's the blueprint used by japanese developers to make their games.

Does this look familiar to you?

That's Ultima III field view. 

What about this?

That's Ultima III combat screen.

Ultima III is a 1983 game, that's 3 years before Dragon Quest 1 and four years before Final Fantasy 1. Ultima games tackled adult issues, amongst those allowing the player to steal and murder allowing a quicker yet inmoral path to richess.

The difference between JRPGs and WRPGs is that (most, including the two premier franchises Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy) JRPGs are basically still this but with prettier graphics. WRPGs have gone beyond.