arcelonious on 17 July 2013
For me, a JRPG is simply a Japanese Role-Playing Game (i.e., a RPG developed in Japan). There is a tremendous amount of variety within RPGs developed in Japan, and trying to filter out titles just because they don't fit according to a particular stereotype doesn't seem right to me (and the same could be said for Western-developed RPGs). I think that it is better to classify games according to their gameplay design (i.e., Turn-based, Turn-based Tactical, Action, Sandbox, etc.).
Honestly, I think the role-playing genre itself is rather nebulous.
