However, since Japan is much smaller and not infected with cuckoldry and soy
Made by a Japanese company for a Japanese publisher. This perception is not accurate.
Atlus seems to be mostly sitting on their asses these days and just shoveling out remasters and remakes. On their front page, there's three new games, and 7 rehashes. Persona 5 came out 8 years ago.But Fromsoft titles and the Persona games seem to both wildly popular and well regarded.
Final Fantasy Tactics was probably my favorite PSX game. It's definitely my favorite non-fighting game for that console. I even got the GameBoy Advance one, but that one just wasn't nearly as good. It was goofy.Couldn't get enough of Niggas on a grid ever since he tried Final Fantasy Tactics?
Don't forget the plethora of "mystery dungeon" games. Japan was pumping out rogue-lites for quite a while before they caught on here in the West, despite originating here in the West and the smashing success of Diablo.They make new Fire Emblem games every other year. Even first person dungeon crawler fans didn't have to wait more than a couple of years between major releases.