Welcome to another episode of Kotaku's split screen.

It's July 21st, 2016, and we're very glad that you're here with us listening to us talk about video games.

Today on the show, Jason and I are going to be talking

about JRPs, which stands for Japanese role-playing games, not Japanese rocket-propelled grenades.

We'll be talking about what makes a great classic J-R-PG and what the individual attributes of a classic

J-RPG are. We will also be talking a little bit about Pokemon Go because it's July 2016 and you're

not allowed to do a video game podcast if you don't talk a little bit about Pokemon Go. It's going to be a

really fun show, so we hope you stick around. Hello everybody and here we are.

We are back in another week in this extremely boring, dull July where absolutely nothing happens.

It is July.

I mean, so we're two weeks away from the worst month of the year being finally over.

And it's definitely, it's definitely been boring. Certainly no big video game news, nothing exciting happening.

Are you being sarcastic right now? Is that what you're doing?

Yes, a little sarcasm. Toss on a little sarcasm your way.

A little of that snark that Kirk Hamilton is known in love for.

The trademark Gawker Media snark that we all love so much.

Of course, everybody is playing a single video game that nobody will stop talking about.

Right. I am Sitsuna.

I am Sitsuna, the most popular game in gaming history.

No, Fahey and I already did this whole stick.

Oh, you did?

Yeah, with 7th Code.

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