HoloDust on 31 May 2024
| LegitHyperbole said: Does 13 sentinals Aegis Rim count as a JRPG is what I wanna know. And for that matter is Horizon forbidden west actually an RPG or is it an open world game with more nuance. |
Can't say about Aegis Rim, but Horizon is good example of this breed of modern games that are action-adventures that flirt with RPG mechanisms (so, quasi-RPG, or maybe RPG-lite). Personally, Witcher 3 has become my go to example of the game that sits on the border between proper action-RPG and quasi action-RPG, so it's easy to determine, by comparing some game to it, which side of the border said game sits on.
Being open world doesn't really matter in determining whether or not a game is an RPG.
