Anime Games - Is "anime GTA" real?

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Anime games are as old as games with graphics. They are usually called jrpg though some differentiate to Action RPG (Devil May Cry) and Tactics RPG (Fire Emblem). There were a ton of them on the PS2, but there is significantly less due to production costs, but gacha became a place for the genre (granted most of it Chink/Korean since Japs destroyed most of their own native studios).
 
Judge Dredd said:
This is what I don't get about gatcha. There is clearly a huge market for, say, GTA that is more whimsical. Saints Row 2 and 3 were proof of that. And others have mentioned games like Code Vien. Yet, as far as I can tell, they keep crippling themselves by being gatcha. It could have a broader audience, and the conversation would be about the game, not about "pulls" are or whatever.
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gacha games are not made for western audiences, or to fill some kind of gaming niche. gacha games are like pachinko machines, they are made for asian bug people whose idea of fun has been massively perverted by their awful work and honor cultures. it so happens that there is also a market for these games in the west, at least enough to justify the expense of localization. however, understand that these games are made for countries like China and South Korea and Japan where the rate of gambling addiction is 3 or more times higher than western countries. you and I might see it as a predatory price tag on fun; for asians, the gambling is a core part of what makes the game fun in the first place. mobile gachas existed for decades in those countries before huge, high-budget projects like Genshin Impact penetrated the western market.
 
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