Is Valkyria Chronicles a JRPG?

[lestatdark]

g-value said:

lestatdark said:

g-value said:

lestatdark said:

g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  

Yes, that is correct. There is no such thing as a genre called "JRPG". There is only "RPG". People put the W or J in front of the "RPG" because it tells where it was made.

I wish that separation wouldn't be used in a derogatory way, unfortunatedly it's not so. That's why I think it's more correct to use the actual gameplay separations between genres and not localizations.