Zelda is also considered an action game. It's in a subgenre of RPG called Action-RPG and action-adventure. FF7R is also an Action-RPG and action-adventure. Devil May Cry is an Action-Adventure. All 3 games fall under the category of Action-Adventure.
zelda is not considered an action game its an adventure game, you spend most your time traversing the environment and solving puzzles in zelda, not combat, even the boss battles are just puzzles where you have to solve how to beat the boss, and once you know the answer the best is easy to beat lmao because you already solved the puzzle, it has nothing to do with your skill at playing the game just knowledge of how to beat the boss, just like you can spend hours trying to figure out a puzzle or just youtube the answer and make it look easy
I didn't say The remake game isn't a good game, I'm saying its not an action game
Final Fantasy XV was the step in the right direction, it was innovative game only game like it, that luminous engine needs to be used more, the unreal engine is why the texture pop ins are a problem in the game
Problems with XV were weak story, not enough towns, and couldn't travel freely between continents on the boat, which was obviously intending because Tenebrae, Altissia, and Nibielhem are all on the same map as the main continent, if you break the boundary on debug mode noctis can fly over to them, so they obviously just couldn't finish the game before the dead line.
Also some of the original team in VII were involved in making this game so the overall game design is just tighter, simply thinks like open doors and picking up items, which were sloppy in XV because the jump button was the same as the pick up item button and when you need to access a ledge or crawl space, and it was annoying.
But the combat was fine in the game, tutorial was thorough, the Artimger Unleash made me replay the game again just so I could do a bunch of crazy ass combos which feel good to pull off
I thought this game was gonna be a more refined version of that system, which I was excited for the potential, but instead got a hybrid turned based system, which is still a good system but it wasn't the action game people were expecting when the game was revealed
the OG fans gonna complain regardless, should've went full on action game with this