r505Matt on 22 March 2010
Fundamentally, there's an issue with the genres JRPG and WRPG. Some believe that a JRPG is merely an RPG made in Japan, while a WRPG is an RPG made in "the west". Others believe JRPG is an actual genre, quintessentially defined by games like FF and DQ, whereas WRPGs are more defined as a sort of action RPG.
I'm in camp with the former, mostly because there are other, easily defined, sub-genres of Turn-based RPG, and Strategy RPG, and Action RPG that cover most of the grounds of what the latter camp refers to with JRPG and WRPG.
