>>47715858>What? This is literally the essence of a jrpgIs Final Fantasy the only other JRPG you've played?
>If you don't like it, go ahead and play "muh western open world rpg"JRPGs literally started out open with less emphasis on plot and more on exploration before they got overrun by plotfags, and even then there are still JRPGs with less emphasis on plot and more focus on other aspects.
>JRPGs must have a storyEven if this was true there are better ways to execute plot rather than constantly string the player into events and cutscenes with little agency of their own. If cutscenes and forced dialogue are your only means of "fleshing" out characters and story (like in Sun and Moon) then you have poor game and story design.
Just because there are other games that do it doesn't make it ok.
