Gameranking's Top J-RPG's of All Time

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MDMAlliance said:

KylieDog said:

adriane23 said:

KylieDog said:
Demon's Souls isn't a JRPG.

Yes it is.

No, it isn't.  J/W RPGs are not determined where they were made, but the style of the game.  It is modelled on the WRPG game type.

Honestly, you can't say that it isn't a JRPG.  No matter how much you want to say it, given the shaky definition of a JRPG, it is by some form a JRPG as it is made in Japan and still retains elements of Japanese culture.  To try and define JRPG or WRPG by its style, you'll find MANY games that break apart that definition and to that effect, that way of defining holds no water.  The only one that does is where it was made.

In that case, why do we even refer to these games as Japanese or Western? We don't usually refer to Mario as a J-Platformer. :/

Perhaps this whole line of thinking is outdated, as both Japanese and Western RPGs increasingly branch out, try new things, and overlap.