The first game that got released, many people were comparing it to Wario Ware and they liked it. I'm not too sure if you can get by without knowing Japanese because I haven't really played through it. What I do know is, if you keep hitting the A button at the first part and pick choice 1 when your first set of choices appears, you're not going to get to your first mini game. You'll have to pick the second choice instead if you want to play the mini game.