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jrpgs are japanese. crpgs are western. Both have stylistic differences best understood by playing two games of each genre from different franchises.
Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Pokemon games are more alike than they are similar to Disco Elysium, Fallout 2, or the shadowrun video games.
I mean... annoyingly a Japanese developer can make a W/CRPG and a western developer can make a JRPG because the genres are defined by gameplay styles, core engagements, and tropes not actually the region they come from.
Extra Credits did a whole three part video series about this back in like 2010 thats worth watching. Video game genre names are BAAAAAAAAAAAADDDD.
I mean, yeah that's true, just hard to explain the tropes to someone seemingly unfamiliar with either genre.