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WHAT IS JAPANESE GAME?

I think perhaps the first experience I had with Japanese video games—and I imagine that I am not alone in this—was with the almost-legendary Final Fantasy VII. Final Fantasy provided me, and thousands of other overjoyed Playstation owners, with something American developers had either been too cowardly or too unimaginative to produce: A world on a truly epic scale, characters that the player could emotionally connect to, and a story that still requires a minute or two to wrap my head around. In many ways, Final Fantasy VII encapsulates quite well what makes Japanese games exciting, and what keeps them flying off the shelves in the United States: They provide deep characterization, and a sense of the exotic—Japanese games give the western gamer the opportunity to peer behind the curtain of another culture.
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