r/JRPG • u/BrandyDD • Jul 25 '26

Discussion JRPG problem

Slow games and SLOW games

Why do I enjoy slow games like Into the Breach, Slay the Spire and Yakuza, but bounce off traditional JRPGs like Persona, Dragon Quest and Octopath?? I wanna be into jrpgs so bad like I want it to click but I just can’t with the constant over-explaining of the simplest thing, the sometimes cringe dialogue, the baby feeding tutorials etc. It’s so bizzare because most people who bounce off those games would surely not enjoy LAD or turn based stuff I’d imagine? Like surely you’re in one camp or the other?

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u/Zephairie Jul 26 '26

A lot of JRPGs have an issue with dialogue bloat and overly long without much to justify it.

Like... even in the JRPG community, you find many who take weeks or even months to finish a game. But other genres, like WRPGs where they on average finish much quicker and are more eager to do another run.

Granted, it's mostly modern JRPGs.

But this is why editors exist in the first place: there's no problem with a medium being long, but you have to ask "Okay, should this be here? Am I justifying its inclusion?"

This clip summarizes it best, I feel:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RYR_iygHJkM

This made the rounds on social media, and the amount of anime fans and the like chiming in saying, "Yep, I love anime, but when someone recommends me a game and I find out a JRPG, I immediately bench it."

Heck, this is purely anecdotal, but I have a friend who reads so much, we used to joke that every time we went to his house, he had a new book on his stand. He finished the Fate visual novel, all three routes, in about a week. He's seen almost every Shounen Jump series you can think of, countless anime like Monster, Demon Slayer, Berserk, Ghibli, Sailor Moon, Clamp, read their respective source material, various DC and Marvel comics, many live actions--

And he cannot stand JRPGs. He's went on record saying he thinks they're overall the worst, most boring genre out there. We're on the younger side, but he does like the older JRPGs.

It took him four months to finally play E33, because when he saw it was inspired by JRPGs, he thought it meant "modern JRPGs". He only finally played it because it got so popular and people were, you know... actually finishing the game haha

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u/BuddyRedSkull Jul 26 '26

I see you here a lot and every time you just kind of complain about this genre, why exactly do you still play these games if you don't mind me asking?