Has Nintendo been a bit "stale" lately?

[Jumpin]

Hiku said:

mZuzek said:

That's a big stretch.

Ultravolt said:

Yeah from the gameplay i've seen, it looks more like an action game similar to Metal Gear Rising. Maybe it has RPG elements? But it certainly doesn't look like a full-blown JRPG. At least not from what I can tell.

It's categorized as an action rpg by the ones who made it.
On the game cover.

In the promotional material.

Is it the "J" part that's contested? In that case I guess our definitions of Jrpg may be different.
Though looking up the term on Wikipedia, it lists action-rpgs as examples of notable Jrpgs.

Either way, Ultravolt if you haven't played a japanese action rpg before, then maybe this is something you can get into.

Never been a fan of the trend of adding “J” to “RPG” during the PS2 eras. The J seems superfluous, just because RPG devs outside of Japan started getting bigger.

I mean, we don’t designate JFighter, JPlatformer, JAction, or anything like that.

Just my unsolicited 2 cents :)