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Japanese-only games with minimal language barrier
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Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus, Rurouni Kenshin, most fighting games. Like they said, avoid JRPGS as the story is vital to the game. --- Official Praetor of Saber in the Fate/Extra Boards https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saber-FateExtra/286251641405745 | |
Danball Senki (Cardboard War Chronicle) Boost. The developer is Level-5, who made Jeanne D'arc, Dark Cloud, Rouge Galaxy, and Professor Layton, among other games. It's like Gotcha Force in battles, plus Custom Robo's part customizations, plus a system like Mega Man Battle Network's Navi Customizer, plus RPG elements such as leveling up and all. It is amazingly fun. The game is text heavy, but you can pretty ignore it all, as other than one certain moment you can just follow the arrow and dots on the minimap to get wherever you need to go. The first run of the plot is like 30 hours or so if I recall, and now after screwing around with a small part of the post game and getting started on a New Game + (which is basically Hard Mode with levels starting from where the final boss left off), I've racked over a hundred hours and still playing. If you play it and get stuck, you could just ask for help here and I'd probably be able to help. And if you are at least able to read Hiragana and Katakana, the entire game has Furigana, so the Kanji is no issue. And if you want to know the plot, watch the show or something. But I must stress, this game is amazing. Play it. | |
Chaos_Missile posted... Avoid JRPGs. These games usually have kanji in them. Knowing most Westerners, at best you can read is hiragana or katakana. Spells would required ALOT of trial and error. This is the primary reason why I'm (personally) afraid to play 7th Dragon 2020 and Lost Heroes. Kanji's the only thing really stopping me from enjoying JP-only games as I cant read(well) http://www.amazon.com/The-Kodansha-Kanji-Learners-Dictionary/dp/4770028555 --- A Mod/Admin replied on 8/28/2011 10:09:48 AM: http://bit.ly/jJ2ZNS Katawa Shoujo changed my life. http://katawa-shoujo.com/ | |
Monster Hunter and Phantasy Star actually require very little understanding of japanese. The in mission items all have recognizable symbols, and the most you'd need to do is look up part and equipment names once in a while. The menus are also fairly easy to learn by rote. If you get a phantasy star in japanese, get portable 2 infinity. It's the best one currently out. The latest japanese only Monster hunter (on psp) is Portable 3. Macross Ultimate Frontier is even better than Ace Frontier, and indeed requires very little understanding. --- imagineer: 'Next 3DS peripheral: the Spinning Chair Pro. Sit in this spinning office chair and play Face Raiders all day, without disturbing your 3D.' | |
Criminal Girls is one of the most easy to play and understand Japanese game I've played. A majority of the menu text is in English, and the visual novel style makes the plot easy to follow. Oh and no branches. Star Soldier JP (the one where you tilt the PSP for portrait mode) is good as well. Grand Knights History is really simple... making the solo game boring. The meat lies in the customizable army send off AI controlled online battles...which would be moot here given the number of idiotic game hackers these days...so only get it for character looks and music if you want it. Frankly no loss that they canned it. The rest of the games I didn't mention are hell to play if you don't recognise at least some kanji. PSPo2i has some mission requirements that are hard to comprehend (like to love ru) and a crap ton of conversation choices. 7th Dragon 2020 has skills that carry a multitude of effects that require trial and error. | |
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arthur8642 posted... Monster Hunter and Phantasy Star actually require very little understanding of japanese. I will disagree to that about PS especially PSP2. The story's good imo and for me that's the only reason I haven't played PSP2 Infinity yet. I just hope someone fan translate it... --- Official Praetor of Saber in the Fate/Extra Boards https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saber-FateExtra/286251641405745 | |
Language barrier huh? Salamander Portable Twinbee Portable Parodius Portable Star Soldier Ikki Tousen Xross Impact(the menus are JP and so is the story, but you will skip the story this is like Streets of Rage only your special moves can destroy teenage girls clothing, AND the characters are all in lovely 2D... the greatest dimension of all) oh yeah a trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pue_DzDffqU It was the prototype for Senran Kagura Burst on 3DS, made by the same people. --- Can't you see, repetition was all you got. | |
SS_Gokou posted... I will disagree to that about PS especially PSP2. The story's good imo and for me that's the only reason I haven't played PSP2 Infinity yet. I just hope someone fan translate it... PSP2i has all of PSP2 included. It simply rebalances a few things, adds infinity missions, and a whole new campaign on top of PSP2's. EDIT: Oh wait, you meant you think the game needs understanding of the plot. I agree, that's why I read this: http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188224 EDIT2: Oh, and there's a fan translation in the works, but the coder is stuck on creating cheat protection to include in it. --- imagineer: 'Next 3DS peripheral: the Spinning Chair Pro. Sit in this spinning office chair and play Face Raiders all day, without disturbing your 3D.' | |
Like said before, the Super Robot Taisen/War games require zero japanese knowledge to play. The moves have icons to signify what they are (a shield with an up arrow, a sword with a up arrow). If you want to follow the story there's wiki's, SRW games don't have any real deviation among the plots. Also, they are strategy games. The only thing you need to know is a little bit about the robot/mecha your using at the moment. --- iPhone 4S, PC, Xbox 360 G-Tag: TheTrueMoegitto |
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