A Nintendo action RPG, good idea or bad?

[sc94597]

Materia-Blade said:

sc94597 said:

Can you explain why you think it is? Everything is done in menus in Xenoblade. That disqualifies it as an action rpg. While some menus are used in some action-rpgs (see: Kingdom Hearts), the core gameplay has button-mapped attacks. Just because an RPG isn't turnbased doesn't make it an ARPG. The Last Story is different from Xenoblade in that it has 1:1 button-mapped attacks. If I press a button in the last story, an attack is enacted by my character corresponding to that button press. If I press a different button, a different attack is enacted. 

In Xenoblade, you have to move a lot and launch attacks continually. It is an action rpg for me, albeit different than The last story.

Fair enough, but most people don't qualify all real-time RPGs (you move around and attack without turns) as Action RPG's, so that might be why the OP didn't include it. I personally make said distinction myself.