But furigana is everywhere - at least you’ll know how to read all this!Īs a game: plot is based on japanese folklore and tales. for divine characters (super-honorific-old-fashioned, yeah…). My personal favourites are (not really a jrpg, but well…):Īs a study material: font is a little scary at first, no voiced dialogues, grammar and vocab are somewhat challenging, esp. SNES FF’s are great for no-kanji reading practice.įrom your list I’d recommend Tales of Berseria because of simple font and tons of pausable voiced dialogues + it’s a good game!)

I consider P4G to be less complicated in terms of langauge then P5R for some reason. If it’s FF and Persona - play them and don’t worry about your level, especially if you’'ll pick up something you already played.

Like Persona you can play with Japanese audio in the English version, but you can also use Japanese text if you change your console language.ĭepends on what you personally like. Hands down one of the greatest JRPGs ever IMO.

It’s fun to listen and try to understand what’s being said and then check yourself with the dialogue box. I’m playing Persona 5 with Japanese audio. There’s quite a lot of voiced dialogue too. It’s good katakana practice with things like レザーアーマ. The original SNES version was only released in Japan so there are a lot of resources to help you figure out a the game specific terms.

Star Ocean First Departure Remake (Nintendo Switch).

Once you get a bit of Kanji under your belt, the following are really good: There’s a fantastic resource available with line by line translations for the entire game: However, there is one game that I would recommend you go with right away: Final Fantasy 6. I actually avoided games for a long time because my vocab just wasn’t there and I wouldn’t be able to read all kana games anyway.īut now, I’m equally comfortable with both but I prefer Kanji ones because they let me work on my Kanji reading.

Tales of berseria steam deck download