Why are these ‘ancient’ devices so futuristic?

Graham Linehan posted this up on his twitter account a few days ago and I thought it was worth posting up again. A flowchart of every Japanese RPG plot.

Sadly I find it funny and quite accurate as I can think of at least a dozen JRPGs that I’ve played that follow these story-line formulas. Don’t know what that says about me.

If clicking on the picture doesn’t work, the he full size chart can be found here.

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