This one reminds me of Jarinko Chie by Konami, as in you're gonna enjoy it much more if you know the source material. I don't, really, so to me it seems pretty average. Cute graphics though, at the very least. Gotta say, that adventure game well really dried up. (By the way, the SFC platformer is kinda like those educational Mickey Mouse games; you gotta find various 'things' in each stage.)
You know I think these games do have a purpose they’re good for beginners studying Japanese. It may not be a great game but it’s half passable when you’re starting to learn the language.
True, though the best games for that in my opinion are the ones with kanji + furigana + voice acting; like Famicom Detective Club, for example. Then you're getting everything at once and it's easier (at least for me) to remember the vocabulary and such, but to each their own. Sometimes having hiragana only can be kinda annoying to be honest, what with all the homophones.
@@mariusamber3237 yeah I get that I find it easier to read text that includes kanji than blocks of hiragana which can be tiresome but I was more thinking the relative simple grammar also is a big point for learners. You can know a lot of kanji and vocabulary but it can be a high bar to clear sometimes to understand what all the words put together are getting across. But I think your suggestion of Famicom Detective Club is a great one too :)
@@vix_in_japan Oh yes, when it comes to grammar it doesn't get any easier than 8-bit games, I fully agree. At the beginning (years back), I went through the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar to understand all the basic concepts, because many are completely different from Western European languages; unfortunately, this is one thing you pretty much can't avoid in my opinion. You could reasonably learn 'a lot' of Spanish or French through reading from week one, but not Japanese. There's a lot you need to sift through first.
some reason I thought this was a sequel to something else? I suppose the argument could be made for using it to help learn Japanese as I've seen in other comments. other than that I'm not familiar with this series so it would be totally lost on me. aside from that seal anyway he is kind of adorable. had to laugh at the luggage bit I wonder if they bought it, haha.
Leave it to Advance Communication to make a game in late 1991 that looks like it belonged in 1988.
They were retro from the start! 😊
This one reminds me of Jarinko Chie by Konami, as in you're gonna enjoy it much more if you know the source material. I don't, really, so to me it seems pretty average. Cute graphics though, at the very least. Gotta say, that adventure game well really dried up. (By the way, the SFC platformer is kinda like those educational Mickey Mouse games; you gotta find various 'things' in each stage.)
You know I think these games do have a purpose they’re good for beginners studying Japanese. It may not be a great game but it’s half passable when you’re starting to learn the language.
True, though the best games for that in my opinion are the ones with kanji + furigana + voice acting; like Famicom Detective Club, for example. Then you're getting everything at once and it's easier (at least for me) to remember the vocabulary and such, but to each their own. Sometimes having hiragana only can be kinda annoying to be honest, what with all the homophones.
@@mariusamber3237 yeah I get that I find it easier to read text that includes kanji than blocks of hiragana which can be tiresome but I was more thinking the relative simple grammar also is a big point for learners. You can know a lot of kanji and vocabulary but it can be a high bar to clear sometimes to understand what all the words put together are getting across. But I think your suggestion of Famicom Detective Club is a great one too :)
@@vix_in_japan Oh yes, when it comes to grammar it doesn't get any easier than 8-bit games, I fully agree. At the beginning (years back), I went through the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar to understand all the basic concepts, because many are completely different from Western European languages; unfortunately, this is one thing you pretty much can't avoid in my opinion. You could reasonably learn 'a lot' of Spanish or French through reading from week one, but not Japanese. There's a lot you need to sift through first.
some reason I thought this was a sequel to something else? I suppose the argument could be made for using it to help learn Japanese as I've seen in other comments. other than that I'm not familiar with this series so it would be totally lost on me. aside from that seal anyway he is kind of adorable. had to laugh at the luggage bit I wonder if they bought it, haha.