“If you love RPGs, as I do, you’ve likely played quite a few of them in your time. Even fans of the genre know that it suffers from a lot of cliche and repetition — finding one with a decent story, characters that you haven’t seen a hundred times before and a truly fun experience to offer can seem really daunting sometimes. For some reason, it didn’t seem that way ten years ago to me. Has the RPG truly evolved thanks to technological advancements, or is it actually just stagnating?”

Colette Bennett at Destructoid takes a quick look at some of the most common problems that seem to crop up with modern JRPGs.  As someone who just purchased Suikoden Tierkreis over the weekend, #4 is painfully relevant.   One very pertinent item she touches on is the over-complication of battle systems in recent JRPGs, and that is something I think deserves some more critical analysis.