Comments on: Shuhei Yoshida advised Expedition 33 developers not to call it a “turn-based RPG” due to negative JRPG stigma at the time

By: BMStriker

BMStriker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:07:11 +0000

I wouldn’t call a game with 150-200ms parry windows turn based either. People who are not good at rythm game gameplay literally can’t 100% the game, due to hard hitting multi hit enemy combos.

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:30:02 +0000

I call it a Role Playing Rhythm Game

By: Noble dawn

Noble dawn — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:05:17 +0000

Well, I think they mean that it was just thag same guy, the director of remakes, who said those comments after e33 came out, when asked about the future of adding turn based into the ff games in the future (explicitly because e33 did so well)

By: Niggy

Niggy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:36:17 +0000

Mention e33 and the schitzos appear in droves. You “people” are the lobodomites of gaming lol.

By: Xious

Xious — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:23:26 +0000

In reply to Azaxious. Its a Frenchrpg

By: FifthCircle

FifthCircle — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:13:50 +0000

What an out of touch and foolish thing to say. Explains the last two decades of disappointment from Square though.

By: proudly woke

proudly woke — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:50:16 +0000

In reply to Julius. cry about it pussycat

By: DudeManDude

DudeManDude — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:28:01 +0000

Isn’t this the same dude that told FromSoft that Demon’s Souls was a shit game and wouldn’t amount to anything?

This guy seems thoroughly out of touch.

By: ZXXZ

ZXXZ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:41:11 +0000

In reply to TurnBasedHeretic. Are you buying FF Resonance?

By: Cloud

Cloud — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:53:42 +0000

In reply to Julius. Define woke lol

By: Julius

Julius — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:19:11 +0000

They should have advised Dustborn to not make shitty game with woke propaganda.

By: ClemCa

ClemCa — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:04:59 +0000

JRPG can be understood as “Japanese-style RPG”. From the moment it became a genre and not just a denomination the country stopped mattering, only the mechanics.
It’s just like how Japan does a lot of western fantasy yet is an eastern country.

By: Kavenoff

Kavenoff — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:32 +0000

In reply to Blu. Both FF7R1 and R2 released well before Expedition 33 did lol

By: Vee

Vee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:21:44 +0000

In reply to Azaxious. It's clearly a Je-RPG

By: Blu

Blu — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:06:02 +0000

In reply to Cyberserker. They don't seem to take failure well and at times seem not to like to learn from them. If fans point it out and they still do it, fails, seems like pride enters and becomes harder to admit. The FFVII remake director when he deliberately ignored what made E33 successful where SE openly refuse to bring their RPGs in line again.

By: Blu

Blu — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:02:49 +0000

It’s increasingly clear this stigma came from the game industry itself. Primarily Square-Enix failing with it’s JRPGs led to thinking that including ‘Japanese’ somehow changed the distinct differences between how the West makes their RPGs and how the East does.

Atlus was succeeding, Falcom was succeeding, Namco Tales Studio was succeeding. They never said it was a problem.

Besides, E33 isn’t a JRPG. It’s inspired by them, but from French developers. It may be categorized as that in a online store to find easier, but there is enough about the game besides inspired approaches that make it very much Western-minded in execution and aesthetics.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:54:17 +0000

There always has been people playing chess while others were playing some more action packed physical games prior to video games. Turn based VS action games is just the same thing, but in video game format. Tossing one away because some people like the other is a proof that they completely miss the point.

By: TurnBasedHeretic

TurnBasedHeretic — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:00:28 +0000

They were so ashamed of their own turn-based JRPG roots that they spent the last 20 years moving Final Fantasy further and further away from the FF1–10 formula and calling whatever came after “innovation.”

And now they have the nerve to lecture Sandfall about the stigma around turn-based RPGs? Meanwhile, fans have been begging Square Enix for a proper turn-based Final Fantasy for decades.

The audacity is almost as impressive as the irony.

By: Scorcher64

Scorcher64 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:21:55 +0000

The opposite is more likely true – there’s nothing wrong calling an RPG turn-based, or whatever other mechanic it has. It’s just a combat mechanic preference; some prefer turn-based, some prefer hack n’ slash.

It’s the lack of acknowledgement that put Squenix in the position they’re in now. They took a staple mechanic Final Fantasy was known for and why gamers played it, changed it as they pleased, and lost sales over it.

By: Cyberserker

Cyberserker — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:37:10 +0000

Where do developers get these bizarre delusions?! They’ll make a couple of horrible games, pick some random completely irrelevant aspect of those games to blame for the failure, and then we won’t see that type of game again for a decade. It’s happened so many times.

By: Azaxious

Azaxious — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:26:48 +0000

Also stop calling it a jrpg, it’s a wrpg.

By: JOHN

JOHN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:06:04 +0000

Lol the stigma is not from japanese turn based ita from Japanese turn based moving away from turn based