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| Topic | So, Should We Stop Saying JRPG? (The Jimquisition) |
| streamofthesky 03/11/23 12:07:30 PM #3: | I'd agree. It always seemed like a stupid and pointless distinction to me. But that's because I took it literally: RPG made in Japan. But then people try to say Dark Souls isn't a JRPG b/c it doesn't fit in some dumb little box (that many other JRPGs don't either, like being turn-based). Or Pokemon isn't a JRPG (because it's widely popular), and you realize it's basically used as a racist denigration to dismiss an entire swath of games. It's basically, "this narrow pigeonholed set of things in a game that I don't like, so I'm going to call it Japanese". So yeah, fuck the "JRPG" and "WRPG" dichotomy. It was always made in bad faith by bad people. Jim's video on this is ok, but this one's even better, including more detail on that Phil Fish panel Q&A. What a fucking scum bag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTJ3Ddx5YwE ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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