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In Izrand Allure, instead of a Chemist class, I've got the Bartender. And you get effects by mixing ingredients to make cocktails!

I've got a lot of the classics, but I thought it would be fun to come up with some named after RPG Maker games. I've already got "Paradise Blue" as it already sounds like an awesome drink name, and I've got "Soma Spirit" as a powerful ingredient, but I'm having trouble thinking of others. Uhhhh... "Hero's Rum" maybe?

If you have any ideas for more, feel free to let me know here! :D And for bonus points, what effect would the drink have?

EDIT: Just realized an obvious one was starting me right in the face: Wine and Roses XD

Let the joy of spriting lift you higher

Love it! And yeah, like GRS said that icon is awesome! :D

Glad to see this game getting some much deserved love :D

author=Roden
I'd definitely like to hear other Japanese devs opinions on it before I made a sweeping decision. It seems like he was talking about solely the past based on all the quotes of the interview, not that it was a current problem, but something that reminded older devs of how it felt back in the day.

This is a good point. Rushing to redefine everything after hearing one person's opinion may be a bit hasty (tho I don't doubt his claims that other devs felt the same).

I would also be very curious to hear what other Japanese devs think, but not only that, Japanese fans of the genre who aren't devs themselves. Do they just call them RPGs? How do they differentiate something like Final Fantasy 7 from something like Skyrim or Dark Souls? It would be interesting to find out.

author=Darken
Console RPGS would be apt until Bioware enacted a very simular trend but even started taking out a lot of the strategic aspects of RPGs. Which... is the same for the latest FFs not even bothering with turn based. So idk I think JRPG is still as useful as "anime" even if the animation industry is becoming more and more international. Genres are really just marketing terms. Some millennial weeb might not appreciate Warhammer 40k looking stuff but if you say JRPG its like oh okay I know exactly what youre talking about. I can see just Anime RPG since that includes in the Tales of franchise of games easily but term proliferation is everything.

Yeah this cuts to the heart of it. It's a useful term regardless. It's going to be very hard to find something to replace it with that will be widely embraced. Not ruling anything out, I just want to restate that once these things become solid terms for decades, it's unlikely that something new will replace them.