FranTic91 on 23 March 2010
If it's an SRPG and it Japanese, doesn't that make it a JRPG?
What most people aren't paying enough attention to is the fact that genre boundaries have always been pushed and even crossed in many cases.
Just because an RPG plays differently from another doesn't mean it's not an RPG.
Resonance of fate is one of the only games that I can think of with a similar battle system to Valkyria.
Is ROF a JRPG? Of course it is.
You don't have to fit a strict set of rules to be an rpg, and no, you don't need towns to be an RPG. To be honest the bare minimum is just a few RPG elements that recur very often in your game is enough. Look at Borderlands for example.
Pen and Paper Role Playing games are still rpgs despite the lack of towns or story.
