Is Valkyria Chronicles a JRPG?

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Son1x said:

lestatdark said:

joshin69 said:
If Sega call it an rpg and it was made in japan, quess what it is?

So if a S-E america's branch ever makes a FF which plays exactly like all other FF's and has similar mechanics, it would be called a WRPG? XD

Secret of Evermore an WRPG confirmed.  

Yeah I'd say that it would be a joke to consider Secret of Evermore a wrpg. Ditto for other wrpgs that play a lot like jrpgs. Pier Solar for one is made by a bunch of western developers (the project lead is Brazilian and most of the rest of his team is European) but it is without a doubt inspired by the 16-bit rpgs that came out of Japan. What good would come from labelling a game like that a wrpg when these games are not targetted to the wrpg audience at all?