Is Valkyria Chronicles a JRPG?

[Jumpin]

lestatdark said:

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

J stands for Japan

W stands for Western

These are not based on style, but rather the location of where the game was developed. These are not true genres since, while there are different trends (WRPGs are straying from the typical turn based system and becoming more like action-adventure titles, as well as adopting a more sandbox environment) there are no characteristics which fundamentally separate them. The "J" was added later by pro-Xbox magazine writers who wanted to bash Japanese developed titles because they were focused largely on PS2 and not Xbox; this term did not occur before fairly recently. The same thing could easily happen with Sci-Fi. You wouldn't call JSci-Fi and WSci-Fi different genres, just different locations of production.

The S stands for Strategy, which indicates a sub-genre. An S-RPG can be made as either a JRPG or a WRPG; but typically this is a Japanese thing.