Quote Originally Posted by Squall Leonhart Loire View Post
I mean, ultimately JRPGs aren't RPGs since you don't role-play in them. You just assume a Japanese anime character.
That's exactly the kind of sentiment I was talking about in my criticism above. First - how are we defining 'role playing' here? If it's strictly the pen and paper approach, than western RPGs are hardly better. If the only requirement is to develop the statistics of your character then Japanese RPGs are just as good.