I don't usually like RPG's a whole lot, but if I'd have to choose, I'd pick the select few that are sort of a compromise between the two.
I don't like the general emoness and done-to-death funky-hair, thin-legged, big-breasted and teen protagonist style of JPRG's and their standard stories which are mostly the same 99% of the time.
And I don't like WRPG's for their standard overly muscular burly rugged macho-man and playboy babe protagonists and general lack of interesting stories, as well as their striving to be as much like a movie as possible.
Give me the surprising ones, with original, interesting characters (and by interesting I don't mean looking like Schwarzenegger, being scandily clad or having 6-foot long purple hair, that's all been done to death), genuinely unexpected and likeable stories (not like 'I'm an orphan out to save what's left of the world after an apocalypse, and oh hey my ally just turned out to be a bad guy after all, he was the only one I had left, now I'm so emo and don't trust anyone 'cos all my friends and family are dead' - that sort of thing), and an interesting style of gameplay. Too bad there aren't that many of those gems.
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