Picture this: you’re trying to explain what a jRPG is to someone who’s never heard of ’em. How would you define it? I embarked on a quest to find out exactly that, and I ended up in a pickle. There’s no single answer. You ask ten different people, you’ll get ten different ideas. Even Wikipedia doesn’t have a definition or even a page related to it. The closest we get is a comment from a Wikipedia Editor in the “List of Best-selling Japanese Role-Playing Games” article: For the purpose of this article, a JRPG is defined as a franchise which: (1) is considered a role-playing game by reliable sources and was made in Japan, or (2) made in another country, but otherwise the franchise would be difficult to differentiate from a JRPG due to having common traits found in JRPGs such as: anime/manga character designs, RPG elements, fantasy setting and widely considered as being inspired or influenced by a JRPG.…