Leveling up in RPG's

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I've found a lot of games that are influence by JRPGs but aren't JRPGs have this easy levelling system. Two examples being South Park: The Stick of Truth and Child of Light. Both use Turn based combat which also results in the characters levelling up but it never feels like an integral part of the part like hardcore JRPGs(NiS games especially). Same with Nintendo; not including Pokemon, like Super Mario RPG or Mario and Luigi RPG series.