⟳ Репост от Ogre Run

I’ve poked at this prevailing trend in a few articles and posts here now, so here’s a thread on some reading I can recommend on the subject! One of my first ever articles in which I take aim at E33’s growing reputation: ogrerun.com/2025/12/14/a...

“Anime RPG Trash” or Clair Obscur and Genre TroubleThere is a specter haunting Japanese Role-Playing Games.ogrerun.comLuckiest Mage

I think both titles came around a time of opposed forces - the PS2 was known as an era for large scale experimentation with Japanese RPGs but it was also during the height of critics being EXTREMELY biased against JRPGs (outside of popular IPs).