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# New PBS Game/Show asks if JRPGs necessarily have to be Japanese
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/new-pbs-gameshow-asks-if-jrpgs-have-be-made-japan/
- Published: 2014-04-25T17:14:03.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:34:39.000Z
- Description: With a name like Japanese role-playing games, you’d think the genre would be geographically bound to the land of soba noodles and adorable lucky cat shrines. But recently there have been a slew of games that play more or less exactly like JRPGs, but with one major difference: they’re not made in Jap
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, pbs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

With a name like Japanese role-playing games, you’d think the genre would be geographically bound to the land of soba noodles and adorable lucky cat shrines. But recently there have been a slew of games that play more or less exactly like JRPGs, but with one major difference: they’re not made in Japan. To name a few, *Citizens of Earth* takes cues from *Earthbound*; *Celestian Tales: Old North* has *Suikoden* written all over it; and Ubisoft’s *Child of Light* is an homage to the JRPGs project director Patrick Plourde played on a CRT in his youth.

This week Jamin looks at this new wave of non-Japanese JRPGs alongside our old sweethearts and asks if we should consider them canon.

Check out the episode on YouTube, and let us know what you think in the comments!