Genres are broken. I argue that the repair broke out. We have to collapse them and throw them away.
Genres were of course always broken. As with any other form of a human categorized categorization, they are arbitrary. The term to mark a certain game as a “type” is naturally nonsensical, all art that exists in an infinite spectrum, the limits of lettering that were drawn completely subjectively. That was the case forever, and it is remarkable that there were growing calls about 15 years ago to give up genre titles as a whole, as they felt so unnecessarily restrictive and confusing. – John Walker Read more
