| Mad55 said: Alot of jrpg's do what you have mentioned like monster hunter and Phantasy star portable. What makes it a Jrpg is the fact that its from japan. Also demon souls is not open world...maybe open coriddor though lol. |
Some methods of doing rpgs were developed in the west, some methods were developed in Japan. Games that lean whichever way are placed into one of the two subgenres. Demon's Souls is much more akin to an rpgs developed in the west, thus it's a wrpg. I'm not saying it makes sense to oversimplify things like this, but it's how genre classification goes when it comes to rpgs and looking at influence.
I understand you're saying, "It was made in Japan, thus it's a jrpg!" But that's just not how people look at it. Following this train of thought, jrpgs don't do what I said. (I wouldn't consider monster hunter a jrpg and I haven't played Psp so I don't have an opinion of it!)
Think of it this way, SE=jrpg, Bioware/Bethesda=wrpg, and their respective games plus games like them are placed into the simplified wrpg/jrpg subgenres. I think that will make much more sense reading this thread.
