AnGer-donoI wouldn't really call that "ironic" and more "ignorant". To a lot of people, JRPG is equal to FF or maybe even just Square.
I remember ages ago, I had to give someone who claimed they "loved JRPGs" a run-down of games Enix made (back when Enix was everything evil at Square Enix and not Nomura like nowadays) and they were just straight-up dismissive of all of them because they didn't know the games.
AnGer-donoAlso scores are BS, and metacritic needs to be purged by the God of Hellfire.
I remember ages ago, I had to give someone who claimed they "loved JRPGs" a run-down of games Enix made (back when Enix was everything evil at Square Enix and not Nomura like nowadays) and they were just straight-up dismissive of all of them because they didn't know the games.