Another interesting article on Gamasutra talking about the main difference between Japanese and Western developers being realistic animation.
This is of course very simplified, at least I think so, but I do have to agree that if there was just one simple thing that can be pinpointed as the difference, it would be something like animations. I look at games like Kingdom Hearts what has really crazy and rapid and farts in the face of realism, while similar hack and slashes like The Force Unleashed is pretty crazy but with a lot more realistic animation. It’s just something to think about.
