VGChartz's Evan Norris: "Thanks to Shujinkou, I know more Japanese than ever before. I have a basic understanding of sentence structure and logic, and can call upon a limited vocabulary. More importantly, though, I can say I've played a legitimately great RPG. Thanks to its lovable characters, addictive dungeon-crawling gameplay, meaningful side-quests, great music, and inventive syllable-based fighting mechanics, it's both an outstanding video game and an effective teaching tool. Now, not everything is perfect. Some of the menus are clumsy, the Kanakae system can be overwhelming, and there are rare instances where the language-learning and role-playing aspects fight for control. But, in general, the game accomplishes its very ambitious goals. Julian Rice should be immensely proud of what he's achieved here."
MonsterVine: "Shujinkou blends dungeon crawling with Japanese language learning, but frustrating design choices and overwhelming tutorials make for a rough experience."
Shujinkou is now available digitally for pre-order on the PS5. Release date also announced! Three launch editions announced for the brand new IP in the JRPG space. Shujinkou offers innovative gameplay for casual and hardcore gamers alike—check it out in the new trailer released on the official PlayStation YouTube channel!
Rice Games announces development of a game that will teach players to learn and use Japanese while also enjoying an epic role-playing adventure.
Thats nice, I tried from a app once I just couldn't do it. Maybe this can help for a person like me.
For speakers of languages that use the roman alphabet, Asian Languages are very difficult. It's time-consuming and requires great discipline and study skills. Apps such as Duolingo don't work well for learning languages that use a different alphabet. I wonder what approach this game will use...
Learn Japanese To Survive:Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji on Steam all helped me start to master reading Japanese. Really basic rote rpg learning for the most part but still helped out.
Thanks for that l never heard of it before. I'm interested to play just to see whats it like. Is the game side of it actually any good?
They are essentially Cliche rpg maker games. I wouldn’t call them good games but they did the trick. Essentially the bad guy uses Japanese alphabets to try and conquer the island/world and you have to learn the language to stop them. Small bits of vocab are learned each chapter of the story. Each chapter represents a set of phonetic sounds like Sa,shi,su,se,so and you learn what symbol represents the sound by attacking it with the matching romanji(our letters). There is gear to equip and items which control how much grinding/learning you do. Each of the three games does get a little better but they are still basic rpg stories to be a vehicle to learn from at heart.
Get a notebook ready to practice and write vocab in if you get it.
There are also a few smaller endless runners and rhythm games on Steam you can practice with but I didn’t give them much time.
Thanks. I will look it up. I started trying to learn Japanese a few months ago and my greatest difficulty is finding the motivation to keep going. I think learning in game format might help.
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Ill have to get this