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The ‘JRPG’ label has always been othering
(www.polygon.com)
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Seems kinda whiny. I've never heard jrpg used in a bad way.
I'd like to see a poll or something to hear if most japanese devs feel this way. I bet it's just a vocal whiny minority.
I love jrpgs, chrono trigger is one of the best games ever made, and I've put a big chunk of my life into dragon quest games.
You're calling Yoshi-P, a very famous and influential Japanese game industry vet, "whiny." Surely he's earned enough respect for us to listen to his thoughts on what he considers derogatory!
i mean, beyond the fact that you're calling a very established Japanese developer a "vocal whiny minority"... the article literally touches on how opinions aren't homogeneous (because obviously they won't be), and provides a link to how the Xenoblade Chronicles X developers feel about the term. here are their thoughts, for context:
it just also thinks the balance of evidence supports its claim, even if some Japanese developers embrace it or are ambivalent to it: that the term is primarily used to other the genre. you can take or leave that claim—it's not wrong to not agree with it—but this specific point is something that makes me assume you didn't read the article, just the title or maybe a paragraph.
Eyes narrow for fuck's sake what is this