Is Valkyria Chronicles a JRPG?

[lestatdark]

Jumpin said:

lestatdark said:
It's not a JRPG.

It falls in line with common SRPG's like Fire Emblem and Shining Force, albeit the more action oriented layout when you're choosing the actions (which made the game much easier than the referenced SRPG's)

Fire Emblem and Shining Force are both JRPGs. Strategy RPGs like that are a sub-genre. "JRPG" is a term used to distinguish the Japanese made RPGs from the non-Japanese made RPGs. There is a difference though between games like Fire Emblem and games like Advance Wars (which is not a JRPG).

 

Some games from Japan, though, are listed as RPGs when they are in fact not. The most common of these is Zelda.

SRPG's are as equal a Subgenre as JRPG's and WRPG's are. There are intrinsic differences between the subgenres that put them completely apart from one another. That's like saying that Demon's Souls is a JRPG as well, when it has nothing in common with an JRPG.

I haven't seen Zelda being called a RPG, but I wouldn't find it odd that someone did. Heck, i've seen someone saying that Far Cry 2 was a RPG XD