I miss my favourite genre

[Faxanadu]

BasilZero said:

Faxanadu said:

For me, there does not exist a clear cut boundary between thos two genres. The line is rather arbitrary and can be drawn on the left or right of secret of mana. In fact, it is a fluent transition for action adventure to RPG, and all those games lie somewhere in the middle. Sure, Zelda and Allundra might be a bit more AA, the comes IoT, then Terranigma, then SoM, but all in all, they are 80% similar at least.

And I can also quote wikipedia:

Terranigma (jap. 天地創造 Tenchi Sōzō, wörtlich: Erschaffung von Himmel und Erde) ist ein Videospiel und Genremix aus Action-Adventure und Rollenspiel in einem Fantasy-Szenario.

Illusion of Time (jap. ガイア幻想紀, Gaia Gensōki, dt. „Aufzeichnungen der Illusion von Gaia“; in den Vereinigten Staaten als Illusion of Gaia erschienen) ist ein Action-Adventure-Videospiel mit leichten Rollenspieleinflüssen,...Die Spielmechanik ähnelt stark den Zelda-Spielen sowie in manchen Aspekten auch Secret of Mana und dem später erschienen Terranigma.

Discrepancies between facts of course 

So let me ask you, are you saying that The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is a RPG like Kingdom Hearts? Clearly they are not the same genre.

One is a Action Adventure and the other one is a Action/Adventure RPG.

What does a horrible abomination that are the 3D Zeldas have to do with anything? They added broken gameplay mechanics like jumping in a 3D world to Zelda when they reinvented / destroyed the series by moving into 3D, totally changing the gameplay. Those broken gameply mechanics didnt exist in the tight to control 2D Zelda universe, where the controls were pretty much identical to games like IoT.

Please dont move goalposts.