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The games of course don't call themselves JRPGs; game series in Japan tend to make up their own genre names, and each individual Tales Of game actually claims t
by astrange 3y ago
The games of course don't call themselves JRPGs; game series in Japan tend to make up their own genre names, and each individual Tales Of game actually claims to be a different one they invented for it.
Some of the developers are very sensitive about this term. Recently for FFXVI the director went on a press tour talking about he made it Western by making the dev team watch Game of Thrones and in one interview essentially said JRPG is a slur invented by Western games journalists. Some of whom definitely spent the 2000s saying all Japanese games were impenetrably wacky anime bullshit.
- anthk 3y agoSlur? I doubt it. Series like the Shin Megami Tensei ones were pretty different to AD&D based Western RPG's. And Chrono Trigger it's a mix between Toriyama artwork with Square's design. It's like Poker and 'Mus'. Both are card games, but the mechanics are pretty different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus_(card_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus_(card_game)
- astrange 3y agoWell, talk to him about it. https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-producer-naoki-yoshida-sparks-debate-the-term-jrpg-as-discriminatory https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-producer-naoki-yo...
- anthk 3y agoJRPG's were born in Japan and thus they are called JRPG because they are built on that design/aesthetics. Is not derogatory. For instance, my country, Spain, has lots of comics and books based on slapstick and the society being built on roguery (picaresca) with crude/sneaking hacks to solve issues and backstabbings eveywhere. That's a trope since the 16th Century. And nobody would say Spanish 'picaresca' it's xenophobic even if a Southern French or an Italian writes a novel around that genre. Easier on the Italian because of the obvious reasons.