Written by Cooper Marshall, dedicated to JRPGs and its fans
I have not played any Shin Megami Tensei games (unless you count Persona 5), so instead this week you’re getting a love letter to JRPGs by yours truly.
Dear Japanese Role-Playing Games,
Some may say that a 15 hour tutorial is too long. That you’re more cutscenes than gameplay. That the gameplay is just clicking through menus.
But they don’t get you like us JRPG fans do.
You’re more than that. You provide us with fantastical stories with deep characters and deep lore. You provide tactical combat that sticks with you long after the game is over. The music and art is so sublime that it could make even the most hardened of men cry.
JRPs, you have shaped our lives to discover not only the meaning of life itself but how we can shape our own. You give us the confidence for a better future, a better world.
Without you, there would be no HP, MP, levels, EXP, or stories in video games. You make the world go round. And I would not know the beauty of life in everything without you.
Thank you JRPGs, where would we be without you?
Much love,
JRPG Fans
