>>59453The problem with modern japanese games isn't pandering to "the west" in general, it's pandering to tasteless weebs who will eat up literal garbage. Look at what's become of Fire Emblem for the perfect example, anyone who can tolerate more than a couple minutes of this shit deserves a mercy killing. Op has probably never played another SMT game but you can bet he loved every single futaba social link.
They're not immune to the casualization either, I remember when people would call things "Nintendo hard," but nobody would describe anything on the Switch that way. Even Guilty Gear, a franchise known for being fast and demanding, has been dumbed down and neutered so hard that the newest entry is considered a joke by anyone who plays other games.
Still better than western developers desperately wishing they were Hollywood though I guess.