Elden Ring is "maybe not quite" a JRPG, but Ys and Trails head says it's "difficult" to define the genre in general: "It can't really be described"

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DoesElden Ringcount as a JRPG?

“There was this initial reaction against it.

But gradually, it feels like it’s almost begun to mean the opposite.

I mean, take something like Miyazaki-san’s Elden Ring.

I’ve asked myself, ‘Is that a JRPG?’

Well, maybe not quite.

Japanese people can kind of come together and rally around this specific thing and make it our own.”

Does that mean it counts, then?

“There’s action RPGs can those be JRPGs?

Are only turn-based games JRPGs?

Well, no, not necessarily.

“It can’t really be described.

But it’s the core and the essence of what a JRPG is.”

So that people can continue to love them and to get involved with them.”