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SilvosForever posted...

But they specifically requested "JRPG". Not "greatest game". Breath of the Wild is no more JRPG than it is Character Action Game.

And if you'd like to be pedantic and argue that some people would call it that - well then sure. Some people would call anything anything and I guess genre labels have no value anymore.

That's part of the issue like someone in here said. RPG elements are basically a given in lots of titles now, & since Japanese developers are by & large putting out better titles than Western developers these days(at least if you want to talk better than EA, Ubisoft is Western but not from NA, Activision or Blizzard or Microsoft,) a lot of the market that isn't indie games comes down to SE, Namco Bandai, Capcom & so on. Or you have perspectives like Naoki Yoshida who considered the term JRPG for many years offensive, & I understand his point of view on that. They're just developing games like anyone else, but when American titles or something make it to Japan or China or elsewhere, they aren't called ARPGs for American Role Playing Games.

I guess due to how we've always imported a lot of games from the East so the terminology just stuck over time. But yeah I can't count on two hands how many times people have been putting Dark Souls or Legend of Zelda titles or whatever into the JRPG category instead of ARPG or something, but because the developer is Japanese people are throwing them all into the same basket & making organization more tedious for genres.