| JEMC said: Oooh, shiny colours. I like them  . Well, all but the PS4 one. That orange ... I don't like it. Other than that, great month. Lots of points and games, and I'm surprised that S-E has passed Sony. I wasn't expecting that. I also like the genre label, although that's something that will give you troubles with some games. X as a JRPG? If it's anything like Xenoblade, it will be more like a mid-point game between Japanese and Western RPG. Lastly, thanks for your job Salnax. |
The shiny colors have actually been a part of this feature since early 2012! They just never left my laptop. Excel 2003 didn't like carrying them over to Firefox. As for the orange, the system was already in place where Blue = Nintendo, Reddish colors = Sony, Green = Xbox, and PC = Yellow. Of the default color options left, orange was the best compromise between being distinct and being a flavor of red available.
Square Enix had a surprisingly good month. Much of it came from a single source: Final Fantasy X/X-s HD on the Vita. That accounted for 17 points of the 25 point increase. Some last-minute hype for Lightning Returns didn't hurt either.
Genres are rarely easy to assign, though I wouldn't consider X to be a prime example of a difficult one. It's an open world RPG, but those were a staple of JRPG's back in the 80's (Final Fantasy 2 being my most loathed example.) And action elements are not exclusive to WRPG's either. Hydlide, Zelda 2, Mana, etc. were all fairly big names early on in Japanese RPG's. Sure, Final Fantasy X and XIII were corridor simulators, but that's more of a Square Enix thing than a JRPG thing.
It was my pleasure!
