r/JRPG • u/Marinebiologist_0 • Apr 27 '25

News Clair Obscur has achieved the highest concurrent player rate ever for a JRPG on Steam.

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Incredible numbers, this doesn't even include the Xbox Gamepass player count. The last time I remember a JRPG getting this level of attention was Persona 5 and NieR Automata in 2017. It'll be interesting to see how massive Persona 6 will be, if it launches day 1 on all major platforms.

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u/BighatNucase Apr 27 '25

The issue is that a sad number of people here think that JRPG as a word has any credible definition other than just "A Japanese/Japanese styled RPG". If you put the original Ys in front of any of these people they wouldn't call it a JRPG.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

I've never seen a Ys game called a JRPG outside of this subreddit either the wiki called it a "action role-playing game" and the blurb on the back of the box mentions Adventure or Action combat same for Zelda or the Mana series out side of this bubble they don't get labelled JRPG

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u/BighatNucase Apr 27 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

Literally the first review I looked up for a Ys game uses the term JRPG "Ys IX is a pretty quick game by JRPG standards as a consequence". The issue is that you think the term "JRPG" means anything but "Japanese RPG" so when you read "action RPG" you don't immediately clock that it's just a more specific label being applied to the game. You wouldn't call a Ys game "Just a JRPG" because that doesn't mean anything - it's not the standard formula expected of a JRPG, but it is a JRPG.

Edit: Here's another for a different Ys game by a different writer and much further in the past.. How fucking weak is your research that a second of googling proved you wrong.

Edit 2: If you go on steam, all of the games are tagged with JRPG.

Edit 3: Here's a Gamefaq thread asking why Ys is considered a JRPG showing that this is not exclusive to this sub