Updated Jby Michael Llewellyn: The RPG can adapt several genres to make its combat system feel unique, cinematic, or tactical.
Whether fans want a superb action-based fighting system, or something tactical and turn-based, this list has some of the best. At the same time, Western RPGs are streamlining their once complicated leveling systems for something more straightforward like those seen in JRPGs. Japanese developers appear to be looking at Western action RPGs like The Witcher 3, with even the Final Fantasy series leaning toward the action genre.
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