First off, Demon's/Dark Souls are closer to adventure games rather then RPGs.
A better example of a JRPG that plays like traditional WRPG would be Etrian Odyssey which is basically a old school First Person Dungeon crawler with the characters drawn in Japanese flavor. Shin Megami Tensai is another example of a JRPG done in western style although I'm sure people will bitch because of it not giving the player the ability to customize the character's appearance it is more of a JRPG.
Really, it is getting ridiculous to try to define RPGs these days as just JRPG or Western RPG because all of them are getting mixed in regards to traits. Western RPGs are having more elaborate and expansive stories that once defined JRPGs. JRPGs are showing up with more customization and examples of real time combat that once defined WRPGs. If the only real difference between the products is the developer and maybe the budget do we really need to keep acting like there is a massive difference between the two philosophies?
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