Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle

[h1]Short Review[/h1] I already know hiragana and katakana. I mostly bought this as a refresher and wanted to check it out. Its not a good learning game by any means, especially due to how tedious it feels. I rather recommend the duolingo kana learning system than this game. Not only is the game, aside the kana, completely RPG maker stock gameplay, You fight kana by having them appear as random encounters. They are always in the same formation during an area. Not only do the battles offer no depth, they waste your time by making you grind areas for money to get better gear. Kana wont get one shotted if you choose the correct answer. You get the kana for ki for example and have to find the latin alphabet version of it. Dont forget that there are almost like 50 of those. This is tedium at its finest. If you defeat one of them and your next character wanted to attack the same one it will do no damage. Additionally they only have two sequences where the system is switched and you see latin alphabet kana and have to answer them with kana. The system does not teach you well by not offering for example words to defeat during the whole game. All in all a bad experience.

A Kind Stranger to Never Have Met Yet Rarely Walks.

Within a week it gave me a little kickstart in reading Hiragana. Though I can't say this should be your sole learning experience, it's a wonderful and helpful way to learn some fundamentals. My only criticism lies with the UI, which can make selecting Hiragana/phonetics, and targeting enemies, a little clunky, but at least the game does have controller support. A minor note - the game must be framerate locked via your graphics card settings. On a 240hz monitor it ran at mach 5 for a bit. All in all, I'm glad this exists. ありがとう！ またね！

Bought all three of the games in a Steam sale and regret nt playing them sooner - because if I had I would have been able to return it within the 2 weeks time limit. The plot makes no sense what-so-ever. Game mechanics are SUPER clunky. There is no balance to gameplay or progression. Battle enemies are not randomly drawn from a pool, so battles become repetitive super quickly. The store has a couple options for equipment right off the bat - many of which are insane amounts of in game money, which take hours to save up for. Maps are small and simplistic. Quests rely heavily on reaching one side of the map, finding out you need something, walking as far back to the begining of the map as possible to get said item, and returning to the end of the map. Side quests are based on learning "facts" about Japan and answering questions - however the facts the game tells you are often wrong or inaccurate, while some quests presume you already know the information (and since this game is designed for those who want to learn, many probably don't know said information). That leads to the MAJOR problems with this game: Lessons are often wrong or inaccurate, use different fonts with different stroke numbers, and make incorrect comparisons or conclusions. Statements such as "You only know vowels right now, and you can't make a Japanese word with just vowels" are rampant and horribly incorrect. Additionally, the game VERY OFTEN crashes at random instances - often in the middle of dialogue during main questlines. I will be continuing to play this game and it's counterparts to get moneys worse out of them (if you are seeing a high "play time" that is why), however the Twitch streams are now "Funny tear down a crappy game" streams and not "language learning" ones.

Apparently my brain is more willing to learn when there is a game quietly tricking it into studying. Learn Hiragana actually helped me get more comfortable with the characters instead of just staring at a chart and hoping something would magically stick. Hiragana can feel intimidating at first because everything is new, and my brain initially treated each symbol like a tiny cryptid with curves. The game is simple, but that works. It gives you repetition, recognition, and enough interaction to make practice feel less like homework. I liked having something that made me actively respond instead of passively reading the same notes over and over while my focus wandered into the woods. It is not flashy, but it does the job. I walked away knowing more than I did when I started, and for an educational game, that is the whole assignment. Rude of it to actually teach me something, honestly.

good game to learn basic japanese and i highly recommend it as a bad FF player :P

Thanks to this game, Hiragana was permanently burned into my brain. If you're a newcomer to Japanese, this game is a MUST PLAY. It also teaches some words and grammar. Definitely complete this one and Katakana War before tackling Genki or Wanikani.