| JRPGfan said: Tone down the anime likeness abit and most JRPGs will probably do better in the west by that 1 move alone. |
Pretty much, JRPGs are too anime. A lot of people say the western AAA industry is doing too many sequels but really the japanese console JRPG industry is just as risk-averse and focused on what works as the west is. They just seem to have put their focus on small, cheap games made for the anime fanbase that they can survive on without selling a lot of copies and have thus increasingly worked themselves into a niche of anime tropes, fanservice and uninspired game design.
There would really need to be a good amount of money coming into the market vie investors that are willing to try some more risky projects for developers to be able to try and make something more globally appealing as I believe that, also quite comparable to modern anime, studios do not necessarily want to only make those games and may want to be more creative.
