I personally prefer Japanese games over Western games. I love Twisted Metal, Crash back in PS1 was great, etc... But outside of a few selected franchises... I don't get any appeal from current and recent Western games.
Of course, there's more than JRPGs to the Japanese gaming business... Remember that yes, Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger are Japanese... But so as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Metal Gear, Sonic, Megaman, Metroid, Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, Tales, Pokemon, Persona, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania... And tons of other well known franchises with extensive legacies.
And while I believe there's fields in which Japanese designers and developers could improve (always room for it, right?), I also believe many western counterparts could learn much more, specially when it comes to actual care and polish, some games really feel as if they were made with $$ signs in the eyes of the publishers.
And both could learn to vanish those shady tactics that keep growing and becoming standards in the industry, on disc DLC? Microtransactions? Rushed and glitched products that need day 1 patches? Stop it.
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