True enough.

Especially now that western RPGs has taken charge, its absolutely boring. Western RPGs, no offense here IMO they are just too darn boring to play.

Don't put it that way. Because in that case its like saying western devs shouldn't even be creating games in the first place.

As much as I despise western RPGs, you need to give them due credit. What you got out of JRPGs in the first place was all drawn from the very first Dungeon and Dragons board game, which is a western RPG. Western games do get more publicity because of the deep pockets western publishers has. Japan still sticks to their own country, but its a beginning trend now that Japanese devs and publishers has realised they have been overtaken by the west.

The problem with western RPGs now a days is that they tend to think creating your own character and giving him/her the stats you want will make it a very customizable game. Problem is that in order to alleviate leveling up issues, side quests need to be implemented. This does make things very tedious and it makes the story confusing. Something which many JRPG enthusiasts hates, we just want to get along with the story and level up like no tomorow with random battles.

Really?

I think Atlus does a better job. Their Persona series is more than enough to speak for themselves, and I'm not even going to go into their either SMT spin-offs.

At the time of development for Persona 4, Atlus still wasn't sure about the PS3's potential as console. More over, Atlus simply doesn't have that much money to throw around in a development, they either make it or break it. So of course, the easy way out to gain some extra free cash through the PS2.


Valkyria Chronicles is sadly.... too underated and even in Japan it isn't doing entirely too well. Hopefully the new re-release with a lower price will attract more sales, because I think the game is indeed exceptional.

As for White Knight.... well, the media indeed has given it alot of mixed reviews. Many said its bad, some said its as good as it'll get and some says its the best PS3 RPG yet. It sure is doing damn well for first week sales in Japan though.