According to Skill-Up's interview of Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14 and 16), the term "JRPG" was actually viewed as a derision in the Japanese game development space:FallenShadeslayer t1_jaeel4f wrote
I can honestly see why. To them it’s just an RPG. Why the need to categorize it that way? I’ve actually never thought about it that way but can absolutely see how that’s detrimental.
RaltarArianrhod t1_jaem9l6 wrote
It's not, though, because a JRPG is vastly different in scope compared to a normal RPG. JRPGs are incredibly linear with no meaningful choices, while RPGs have freedom and consequences. It doesn't make JRPGs worse than RPGs, but they are different. The only thing that is shared between them is story focus and a leveling system. But those things alone don't make a game an RPG, otherwise games like God of War and the recent Assassin's Creed games could be called RPGs, which they are not.
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