I consider the combat in DS to be WRPG-like. It's more involved than pretty much every action JRPG I've ever played, though I admit I don't have the RPG experience that many here do. Honestly, I hope some WRPG devs are paying attention to the combat in DS and take a hint for their own games.
The modern WRPGs I've played all suffer from horrid combat, except Mass Effect. Fable 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc all have horrible real time combat systems. From took the WRPG feel and pretty much owned almost every WRPG dev in the process by having a far better combat system, better atmosphere and better online than those WRPG devs. I guess it took a Japanese developer to revolutionize WRPGs.
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