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RaltarArianrhod t1_jaem9l6 wrote

It's not, though, because a JRPG is vastly different in scope compared to a normal RPG. JRPGs are incredibly linear with no meaningful choices, while RPGs have freedom and consequences. It doesn't make JRPGs worse than RPGs, but they are different. The only thing that is shared between them is story focus and a leveling system. But those things alone don't make a game an RPG, otherwise games like God of War and the recent Assassin's Creed games could be called RPGs, which they are not.

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