Do you ever play games in a language you don't know, without help from a guide?
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To be honest back when I was a kid I played half of my games in English (a language I could somewhat grasp, but not fully understand) and half in Japanese (as a kid I couldn't probably tell it apart from ancient Egyptian TBH).
Because you know, back in the day (late 80's/early 90's) in Argentina, you could probably get games in anything but Spanish.
Because you know, back in the day (late 80's/early 90's) in Argentina, you could probably get games in anything but Spanish.
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I played and completes few japanese RPG on SNES (before internet).
I also played some english games when english wasn't a known language to me (NES !) and lot of them on Snes (but I started learning english when playing snes, and it even taught me a lot of vocabulary.. Thank you video game!)
So, games I completed without understanding anything:
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (english, Buuuut I used a nintendo magazine to know where to go, so it's not fully blind)
Zelda 1 (english)
Zelda 2 (english)
Shadow gate (english)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (JP)
Tales of Phantasia (JP)
Star Ocean (JP)
ranma 1/2 (JP)
that's only the one I completed, I played lot of japanese SNES games thanks to emulation. I never had any issue understanding what to do next.
It's usually not difficult to progress in a japanese RPG, most of them are obvious and you just follow the road and dungeon etc.
some were even easy to understand (tales of phantasia) thanks to nice character animation (knowing you are in the past, that you meet the girl's father etc.)
I also played some english games when english wasn't a known language to me (NES !) and lot of them on Snes (but I started learning english when playing snes, and it even taught me a lot of vocabulary.. Thank you video game!)
So, games I completed without understanding anything:
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (english, Buuuut I used a nintendo magazine to know where to go, so it's not fully blind)
Zelda 1 (english)
Zelda 2 (english)
Shadow gate (english)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (JP)
Tales of Phantasia (JP)
Star Ocean (JP)
ranma 1/2 (JP)
that's only the one I completed, I played lot of japanese SNES games thanks to emulation. I never had any issue understanding what to do next.
It's usually not difficult to progress in a japanese RPG, most of them are obvious and you just follow the road and dungeon etc.
some were even easy to understand (tales of phantasia) thanks to nice character animation (knowing you are in the past, that you meet the girl's father etc.)
[2] here xDEnglish is a foreign language for me, so about 99% of the games I play fit your description
non action games like pokemon or zelda where really a pain not knowing english, playing in japanese would not make that much difference XD
But I think I used guides a few times with oot and majora's hmmm pokrmon chrystal was pretty linear so not much a problem over the usokkie/sudowood part on start :v
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