Whoever told you that should be slapped in the throat. If that was the case, then I guess the Penny Arcade RPGs are JRPGs and games like The Granstream Saga and Dark Cloud are WRPGs. And what is the "WRPG game type" exactly?

He's not completely wrong about Demon's Souls, though. The game was something of a spiritual succesor to King's Field, which was very much inspired by WRPGs like Ultima.

Every time someone uses J/WRPG as a genre classifaction tends to cause confusion. :P And it's inheriently flawed, as all JRPGs ever released have been inspired by WRPGs down the line, back to the original Ultima and Wizardry. So, you are right - JRPG should mean "RPG developed in Japan" as opposed to a certain style of game divorced from its WRPG cousins.

Besides, I'm seeing more and more gameplay commanalities between them recently (see: Xenoblade). And I like it.

     Mario RPG and SuperStar Saga are easily in my top 10 RPGs of all time.

I need to finish FFIII. Excellent game.

Persona 4 without the Golden content is like...a cake without filling. Don't do it Basil!

Maybe I'm exaggerating a little. Not including handhelds either, as Persona 4 Golden and Fire Emblem have already easily cracked 90.

No console JRPG will score 92 or higher though.

Can you battle Margaret or not?

Yeah, there's your filling. And good luck with that.

That's part of the cake, and it's only available on the 2nd playthrough anyway.

The problem is that there is so much variability within both Western- and Japanese-developed games that trying to isolate a "style" for each region's RPGs ultimately ignores that variation.  Western franchises like Fable, Diablo, World of Warcraft, or Jade Empire have cartoon-styled visual design, Japanese franchises like Demon's Souls and Monster Hunter focus on character building and armor/weapon customization, some Western franchises have set player characters like Geralt in The Witcher, and some Japanese games feature a lot of dialogue choices like Persona.

The entire RPG genre in general is this massive collection of different types of games, where if you asked ten people what makes an RPG, you'd likely get ten different responses.  Thus, I don't subscribe to the idea that WRPG or JRPG are distinct genres.  To me, when someone says JRPG, the only objective way to use that as a classification is to simply denote the game's region of origin.

Without any Suikoden at all, especially 2 or 3, I don't really have a lot of respect for this list.

At least FF VI is the highest Final Fantasy, though I personally would have it at the top of any RPG list, period. FF VII, though probably the most important RPG ever in terms of the impact it had on the industry, was a step back in almost every way except for graphics.