>>17344693It's not just FF, she hasn't played any other genre classic either, no DQ, no Chrono Trigger, etc. whatever.
>>17344783If that's "gatekeeping" then so what, it's not like she'll ever read it and cry about it, or that I spam her chat about it. Also gatekeeping is good and we should do more of it. If she wants to be honest and say "actually, I'm (just) a Tales fan", that'd be an improvement. There's a difference between "I'm a fan of some games that are classified as JRPGs" and "I'm a JRPG fan", as the latter implies a wider appreciation and knowledge about the genre in general, which she clearly doesn't have.
If she really thinks of herself as "the JRPG girl of EN", she's in for a rude awakening and another existential crisis if there's ever going to be a new talent coming in that actually knows their shit about the genre and plays the good ones, just like she had to cope with no longer being "the only one / the one who spoke japanese the best out of all EN" after she staked so much of her identity and self-worth on that being the thing she uniquely contributed
