Vocabulary will probably be the biggest limiter in most games, but N3 grammar will allow you to understand the grammar of most things you encounter. One of the things of course will be that in order to play games early, you need to be okay with a level of ambiguity in that you aren’t going to understand everything for a while. So its best to be OK with sort of taking what you can understand, and trying to follow along as best you can. Some people have no problem but some people get incredibly frustrated doing that.
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I would echo this, but I’d also go for anything you really want to play. The first two games I really put effort into playing in Japanese were Live A Live and Marvelous for the Super Famicom (did I mention I’m old?). In both cases, I was so interested in the games themselves that I found it easier to push past the frustration.
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