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02.03 / 01:33
Party RPG UPS boxing fishing Nintendo If developers don't like the term JRPG, what do we use instead?
Earlier this week, Final Fantasy 16 director and producer Naoki Yoshida expressed his disdain for the genre moniker 'JRPG,' calling it "a discriminatory term." Genre descriptors tend to be catalysts for endless semantic discourse at the best of times, and seeing one of the most notable creators in one of gaming's most beloved lineages trashing the term many of us use to describe it, I've got to wonder earnestly - what are we going to call these games instead?
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