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Open-minded people: Are Symphony of the Night and Terranigma "RPGs"?

IceyD

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SotN walks a fine line, but I personally lean towards RPG. The character levels up and you witness that stat sheet increase, along with equipment that modify those numbers.
 

Pablosdog

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no they are not rpgs. Symphony of the Night is a Platformer and Terranigma is an action-adventure.

Both still have some semblance of player skill>character skill. They might have things that are shared in rpgs, but nah dawg. They ain't it.
 

Jasede

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Terranigma is an "action-adventure" like Zelda: Link to the Past or Secret of Mana.
SOTN is a (or rather, THE) metroidvania platformer/side-scroller with some mild RPG elements.

Neither are RPGs.
 

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Neither are RPGs unless we are walking in "in Mario you play the role of Mario so it's an RPG" territory.

I'd actually classify them as straight "action" games as there is barely anything in either of them that is anything RPGlike, and this is coming from someone that categories the Diablo clones and Dark Souls games as "action RPG" in my Steam account.

If the game is gonna be linear and based on the player's reflexes, the only thing separating it from, say Devil May Cry 3, would be character builds of varying power (i.e. a way for less skilled players to make up for their lack of reflexes by developing a character that somehow makes the game easier for them). How is that different from just setting a difficulty level or whatever? Well, I compare it to playing something like a Gold Box game and using metaknowledge (or just knowledge of D&D rules) to create an optimal party versus just "rolling with it."
 

Grauken

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Zelda: Link to the Past or Secret of Mana.
One of these has numbers, the other one doesn't.

Not sure how serious you were, but that is basically how I see the dividing line between still somehow RPGs and not RPGs. So while neither SotN nor Terranigma are core RPGs, I still count them as part of the genre, while Zelda isn't
 

HeatEXTEND

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I still count them as part of the genre, while Zelda isn't
Agreed, except SotN has it's very own genre to hang on to. Metroidvania covers it very nicely, you could consider it an RPG sure, but why bother? If someone asks you what sort of game it is you answer "metroidvania" and that should be the end of it no?
 

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