I don't know, SNES/PS1 era JRPGs just felt a lot different to me, technological advancement was not very nice to the genre. At least that's how I feel. It's like they didn't scale up very well. Most JRPGs take you on a journey across an entire world and in most of my favorite PS1 JRPGs you actually get to visit all regions of a world, you get a world map to explore with hidden locations and shit, you open up new ways to travel on the map and so on. Modern JRPGs in comparison feel like you only get a few slices of a bigger picture while the rest of the world is inaccessible. You are teleported from one region to another, if you're lucky you're given a semi open world and maybe some NPCs speak of other regions that you can never actually access in the game. DQ11 actually felt like an oldschool JRPG and not just because it stuck to the 4 niggas in a row formula.