vkaraujo on 27 June 2015
JRPG: Aims to tell you a history.
- Less choices, but allows for better character development.
WRPG: Invites you to live a history
- More choices, ways to express yourself (classes, races, hair color, .
- Less interpersonal relations
The truth is that those two things are different genres. The fact that we label them based on where they were made, something we never do with other genres, proves it. One of the biggest problems this generate is making consumers that like one of those two, expect a similar feeling from the other.
Also JRPG has dropped the ball big time in their narratives. The best of them, like Souls series or Monter Hunter, are actually Western RPGs made in japan, not JRPGs.
