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sc94597 on 30 August 2022
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mZuzek said:
Hiku said:
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.

Yeah it's an ARPG for sure. Whereas JRPG usually refers to turn-based games, at least that's what I always thought it meant.

So is Final Fantasy VII Remake not a JRPG in your book?

If it is, then so is Nier Automata. If it isn't, really? 

If JRPG only referred to turn based games then the overwhelming majority of JRPGs released in the last decade aren't JRPGs. That includes games like Xenoblade, Final Fantasy XV/VII Remake, and Tales Of.