I still fail to see why people (mostly Sony and Microsoft junkies who think clicking a mouse to shoot someone is an accomplishment- I think it's about as boring as they'd think turn based style is...only fifty times more frustratings) seem to have some sort of bizarro phobia for anything with a well written plot just because the main characters hair is spiky, the main female is a healer with AWESOME TITS (or is just kind of average whatever), and everyone's eyes are three times bigger than normal.
I would say that most gamers that dislike JRPGs are just being general, but I know and hear so many people constantly bitching about "anime gay mo turn based hurr durr" that they seem to think there aren't even SINGLE diamonds in the rough they might enjoy.
Then again I am uncoordinated fuckwit with the primary console of a DS who only has the ability to play turn based RPGs/Strategy games (and vaguely casual games I guess) like Shin Megami Tensai and Super Robot Wars or else I will never beat a game ever (and I have tried to play others, I cannot do it, don't tell me to expand). But even so that doesn't change my point that if you actually bother to look at a genre more closely and see what can be offered you can find something even your nitpicky ass can like.
Then again Yahtzee is a smart man, he probably already all knows this. However I get the feeling the whole "Watch anime, pause DVD every five seconds" joke was just pandering to the people that actually do think JRPG is most craptastic genre ever and nothing good can come out of it. And those people all suck.
Also thank you the guy who's only experience was Final Fantasy TWELVE (which, like most post 9 Final Fantasy games, is a load of ass) for proving my point. Also you are a POOR POOR UNFORTUNATE SOUL. I suggest getting acquainted with Final Fantasy 6 and 4.