Hello everyone!
I’m searching for some games that we can use in Japanese (with or without furigana) to practice our reading and comprehension.
I have these:
Pokémon (all games that we can change the language at the beggining: XY, RubyOmega/SapphireAlpha, Sun/Moon, UltraSun/UltraMoon),
Okami,
Stardew Valley,
and some other games, but way too hard for me to understand easily.
I would like to know if you know other “easy-to-understand” games?
Thank you for reading.
Idk how relevant it is anymore, but Animal Crossing Pocket Camp was pretty approachable back when I played it. I’ve also been watching some Bioshock let’s plays (more so for listening practice, but players often have the subtitles turned on), and they don’t seem too bad.
I’m playing Harvest moon 「牧場物語」.
I played alot of subnautica.
I started undertail in Japanese, but didn’t get very far.
WhenI changed my settings to Japanese, I was holding my self up to my English ablity. When I play a game for the first time in Japanese, I’m more curious about what the Japanese means and exicited about passing a level for the first time, instead of frustrated that it’s harder in Japanese.
Does anyone know a japanese flash games site, like kongrate or miniclip in Japanese?
If you can get your mitts on Japanese copies of some of the earlier Pokemon games like RBY / GSC, the language is easier to understand than the later games where the language is togglable. However, there are no kanji.
Pokemon sword/shield, letsgo Pikachu, and brilliant diamond was some good ones I went through
Zelda breath of the wild was way above my level when I tried it last 
but it was still really fun and has full furigana coverage if someone wanted to slog through it
Someone mentioned yokai watch 1 not too long ago. Available for switch. Saw a YouTube review for it and it had everyday life Japanese in it in a very approachable manner
ACE ATTORNEY. I’m super biased because I already loved the series. But there’s a trilogy on the switch for like 20 bucks. Also available on steam where you could use with a textractor for easy look ups. It’s about a lawyer who basically does the polices job for them in order to get his innocent clients off murder charges, while he ends up discovering the real culprit and proving it. Super fun, mostly light hearted. It does have a specific field of vocab though, like courthouse, murder weapon, autopsy report, instant death and blood loss from being bludgeoned by a blunt object… You know the usual
It’s like a visual novel where you choose where to go and investigate, gathering evidence to use later to find inconsistencies in court testimonies. I really like it because you have to have an understanding of the situation to progress. Like the witness testimony is lying somewhere and you have to find which part doesn’t match with the evidence
Recommend having n3 for an easier time. And/or having played in English beforehand. You can change the language at anytime, but the save files are connected to the language (and stay there for whenever you switch back)
just realized this post is 6yrs old but maybe someone else will enjoy our recommendations
well it is alive again now.
I too am playing harvest moon. It’s pretty approachable for a mid-late n3 person. at least the n64 and AWL are. The DS games are often very difficult because the kanji is quite advanced and there is no furigana. (According to my fiance, it is about grade school 6th grade kanji used) as opposed to AWL on switch is about a 4th grade level kanji. but the words and dialects between the games are about the same. get used to everyone adding わ at the end of their sentences.
edit: sorry icy, i responded to the wrong person. lol