I'm too much of a lazy fuck/too early in my Japanese learning to learn kanji, what are some JRPGs that I can get away with knowing only hiragana?
JRPGs because of the pace but I guess slow-paced adventure games would also work.
JRPGs with mostly Hiragana?
Alexander Scott
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Brody Thomas
shin megami tensei is kana-only but good luck understanding japanese without kanji
most nes games are kana-only too
I would greatly recommend playing games wuth furigana instead (hiragana is displayed on top of the kanji), some games for kids on the 3DS have this option like Pokemon and Zelda. Either way don't give up OP
Isaac Parker
Likely none. Probably closest you might get is furigana, but I can't even think of any series with that. Problem is JRPGs in particular are text heavy, and kanji is just plain way fucking more compact then pure kana. Part of why it's often hard to fit equivalent English translations in for that matter in a given window/bubble or even game, particularly in very old games like back on the SNES where cart size was limited enough that character count really mattered for big games. Pictographics is just a more information dense system then phonetics, at the cost of significantly higher learning complexity.
And again JRPGs probably one of the worst matches here on top of that. Good luck but you're probably just going to have buckle down and focus on learning some every week. FWIW, only a few thousand are really commonly used, you don't necessarily need the full 12k or whatever it is to make sense of most stuff.
Ryder Hall
Final Fantasy 4, 5 and 6 for the GBA have the option of kana-only writing.
Another game you should be playing is kanji decks on Memrise, bitchboy.
Luis Ross
Undertale.
But kanji’s are cool dood and there’s not as many as you think.
Evan Miller
As said, kanji is used for a damn good reason. The relative lack of spacing in Japanese makes it incredibly hard/tedious to read shit without Kanji. If you're trying to learn nip you'll need to learn Kanji at some point anyway. There might be a furigana program if you're playing on PC.
Brayden Mitchell
literally fucking new gen pokemon. they have an option for you to use hiragana/katana, kanji, and furigana
Noah Allen
Generally if you're pretty good with Japanese verbally then you could play games kana only as in most Japanese kids. So you'd go for kid games mostly intended for toddlers or up. Also old games like from the NES and gameboy are kana only.
Tyler Wright
>There might be a furigana program if you're playing on PC.
I've done this with visual novels, basically set up a text hooker with a jp dictionary to display furigana, but if you're just starting out this is going to be overwhelming and frustrating. Stick to studying and playing games like Pokemon until you can play that without using a dictionary every 5 seconds before doing stuff like this
Aiden Hernandez
For VNs he can insert furigana in hooked text. JParser in conjunction with Mecab does the trick, I believe Translation Aggregator has the holy shebang in a neat package.
Furigana is great, you still have the original text in front of you, it's just that the reading of the kanji are spelled out. It can be a great way to accrue some kanji knowledge if you already know a bit of vocab and are having trouble with flashcards.