Here’s my personal Old Man Yells At Cloud moment: I don’t think that D&D should be held entirely responsible for the ‘Americanization of fantasy’ that people ke... (opens in new tab)

Oddly, while mainstream JRPGs do have a lot of Dungeons & Dragons influence in them, many of the particulars that Western gamers tend to parse as "Americanised" fantasy aren't a product of that influence. As near as I can tell, it's really mostly a product of the Dragon Quest franchise being intensely preoccupied with the German Renaissance, and that preoccupation bleeding out into every other piece of Japanese fantasy media that's biting on Dragon Quest. There are a huge number of JRPG trope...