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Originally posted by Unicorn:
Maybe, I should once again act like a fanboy and call it a new-year-present (ack, forgot the japanese word for the new year celebration).
I'm sure that you'll remember it [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]. Let's see, perhaps I should look in the Kodansha
verison of Love Hina and see if it's there... Hmm... anyway, do you use just bishoujo gmaes for your "training" when you are trying to learn the Kanji? The Kenshin manga, which uses kana to explain various kanji, makes things so much easier... But I need to boost my vocabulary badly, since there' so many words I don't know, even if I can read them... and, yes, the BBS is really addictive, sin't it? [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img].
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That depends on:
a) how fine-tuned-story-driven the game is
b) your knowledge of Kanji at that pointIf you know all of the Kanji, you should have not much dificulties in understanding the game and playing it successfully, regardles what setting is used.
Since you used our favourite example, "Dokusen": This is a game that is story driven and understanding most of the sentences is crucial (that's why I always get the same ending, I suppose).
Of cause, a RPG would also be quite difficult, if you don't understand the objectives of your current subquests and get stuck because of that (I once played a RPG and didn't understand for some time that I had to capture the monsters instead of defeating them for the current subquest).
I think, starting with the usual "multi-choice"-adventures would be good for practicing japanese in playing games and start with SIMs or RPGs later.
I see, so what you're suggesting is that I rather should play a multi-path game like TCI is my first game, then? Hmm, Okay... Then, is there any game you'd suggest, then? I'll have plenty of time to decide what game, of course, but having some suggestins would be good too - if so, I could keep those suggestions in mind until it's time to buy the first game [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].
I don't really know how much knowledge of the Kanji I'llh ave at that point, through. Of course, ther'es a few kanji I'm alreday soemwhat familiar with, but that's not much comapred to the "big sea..." ^_^;. Still, I'll start learning about 250 kanji around Christmas...
You're right about RPG's, Gurra omce told me that he fgot some problems with a quest in a RPG bdcuase that he didn't know where he was supposed to go [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img], so I'll avoid RPG's for mow. But as for SIMs... i don't really know, but those are, or so it seems, not necressiary very story-driven ^^;. Isn't it usually the multi-choice gmaes that gets praised for their excellent stories?
BTW, what was that RPG where you had to "capture monsters" as you said?