Top 50 Steam Games for Learning Japanese (TIER LIST)
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- Join Matt as he goes through his current top 50 games for learning Japanese that is available on Steam (Feb 2022).
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
03:14 - Persona 4 Ultimax
04:35 - Octopath Traveler
06:01 - Valkyria Chronicles 1 / 4
07:17 - Danganronpa Trilogy
08:52 - Cyberpunk 2077
09:58 - Voice of Cards
13:35 - Ace Attorney
14:54 - METAL GEAR SOLID V
16:39 - Assassins Creed
17:58 - Guardians of the Galaxy
19:01 - Persona 5 Strikers
20:12 - Chrono Trigger
21:28 - Bravely Default II
22:56 - Grand Theft Auto V
24:45 - Disgaea 5
25:50 - Biohazard Village
27:11 - AI: The Somnium Files
28:47 - Marco and the Galaxy Dragon
30:56 - Steins;Gate
33:02 - .hack//G.U. Last Recode
35:30 - The House in Fata Morgana
37:18 - Sumire
38:55 - Zone of the Enders
39:30 - Skyrim
40:58 - World of Final Fantasy
43:08 - Batman: Arkham Knight
43:51 - Monster Hunter Stories 2
44:56 - Death Stranding
45:38 - Persona 4: Golden
46:22 - ICEY
48:29 - Final Fantasy VIII / IX
50:14 - Final Fantasy X / XII
52:04 - God of War
52:46 - Nekopara
54:43 - Final Fantasy 14
56:46 - Detroit: Become Human
58:46 - Heavy Rain / Beyond Two Souls
59:41 - Mass Effect
1:00:59 - Witcher 3
1:02:34 - Dragon Quest Builders 2
1:04:31 - FF Pixel Remasters
1:05:32 - Okami
1:07:07 - Kotoba no Puzzle
1:09:02 - Ni No Kuni
1:09:57 - Nier Replicant/Automata
1:12:47 - Shenmue
1:14:50 - Tales of Arise/Vesperia
1:16:48 - Dragon Quest 11
1:18:25 - Yakuza 0 / 7
1:19:46 - Zero Escape
1:21:38 - Summary / Outro
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1:16:48 - Dragon Quest 11
0:45:38 - Persona 4: Golden
1:19:46 - Zero Escape
0:19:01 - Persona 5 Strikers
1:09:02 - Ni No Kuni
0:09:58 - Voice of Cards
0:56:46 - Detroit: Become Human
0:54:43 - Final Fantasy 14
1:09:57 - Nier Replicant/Automata
*Highly Recommend*
0:28:47 - Marco and the Galaxy Dragon
0:30:56 - Steins;Gate
0:27:11 - AI: The Somnium Files
0:13:35 - Ace Attorney
0:21:28 - Bravely Default II
0:50:14 - Final Fantasy X / XII
0:20:12 - Chrono Trigger
0:48:29 - Final Fantasy VIII / IX
0:43:51 - Monster Hunter Stories 2
1:14:50 - Tales of Arise/Vesperia
1:18:25 - Yakuza 0 / 7
*Recommend to Play*
0:03:14 - Persona 4 Ultimax
0:37:18 - Sumire
0:40:58 - World of Final Fantasy
1:05:32 - Okami
1:02:34 - Dragon Quest Builders 2
0:07:17 - Danganronpa Trilogy
0:33:02 - .hack//G.U. Last Recode
0:24:45 - Disgaea 5
0:35:30 - The House in Fata Morgana
1:12:47 - Shenmue
0:58:46 - Heavy Rain / Beyond Two Souls
0:06:01 - Valkyria Chronicles 1 / 4
0:04:35 - Octopath Traveler
1:04:31 - FF Pixel Remasters
1:07:07 - Kotoba no Puzzle (NOTE region locked)
*Fun Immersion*
0:39:30 - Skyrim
0:22:56 - Grand Theft Auto V
0:25:50 - Biohazard Village
0:43:08 - Batman: Arkham Knight
0:52:04 - God of War
1:00:59 - Witcher 3
0:08:52 - Cyberpunk 2077
0:17:58 - Guardians of the Galaxy
0:16:39 - Assassins Creed
0:38:55 - Zone of the Enders
0:44:56 - Death Stranding
0:14:54 - METAL GEAR SOLID V
0:59:41 - Mass Effect
*Depends*
0:46:22 - ICEY
0:52:46 - Nekopara
Thanks, dude!
Appreciate your patient, thank you profoundly
Thank you!
You rock!
someone give this man head
The amount of work you put into the channel is just insane. This channel is gonna grow more than you expect, I'm sure
DISCLAIMER: The following games and recommendations are all based from the perspective of someone living in Japan. Unfortunately as Japan tends to region lock its language options this makes it a nightmare to figure out what is/isn't available. Some of these games won't be available in your region, some might require importing/JP account/playing on another platform. I am terribly sorry if there is an amazing game on this list that isn't available for you, and hope you manage to find a way to play it regardless! :)
I think Steam has an option to change the game to japanese (text) if the game does not have it built in. It worked for me in Valkyria Chronicles 4
Check the "Languages" panel carefully before buying. The biggest tragedy outside Japan is Dragon Quest 11 has Japanese audio but no subtitles / interface.
@@Metrionz That's cause Japanese version is a bit different from worldwide release. Japanese version has a more classical oldschool DQ looking UI that apparently wasn't cool enough for the rest of the world and few other minor differences.
With that being said. It's possible to download Japanese version from Microsoft Store if you set your Windows location to Japan(no VPN or dummy accounts needed) and search for ドラゴンクエストXI 過ぎ去りし時を求めて S
PS It's currently on the GamePass!
@@user-ky9qn4pg3w do you know how to make sure if you buy it from steam that it is the Japanese version? I’m in Japan right now with an NA steam account but the language section says it only has Japanese audio as mentioned above. Funny, the demo has audio and Japanese interface, I tried it last night.
Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan Encore isn't available outside of Japan at all, but the Switch version is on the Japanese eShop, with a demo, so... there's that.
You'd have to look up the JP title though so, for those wanting to check it out, here you go:
ことばのパズル もじぴったんアンコール
Dude this video absolutely RULES! I know you've had some recommendation videos before, but to hear your reasoning and comparison between them really puts things into perspective!
To sum it up: any game can be good to learn Japanese if the community is passionate enough to write a game script.
Not on Steam yet, but there is a mod for the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Remake that has it show both English and Japanese subtitles on the screen at the same. You can freely switch between languages for voice acting without modding the game.
That's awesome, let me know if you come across any other games with similar mods.
amazing! looking forward to checking out a couple of these
Oh yay the video is back \o/
Let’s see if I can roughly recreate my comment.
Perfect timing! I’ve just been talking to people about how to get into Japanese gaming which included linking to a bunch of your content, so I’ll definitely be passing this along.
It’s been amazing watching your channel expand and grow, and your work is such a huge boon to the Japanese language learning community. Thanks for consistently making such high quality content!
What a fantastic video this is, thanks so much for all the info!
Great video as usual! Thank you!!
Oh man, I'm excited. I love Steam, I love learning languages, and I love tier lists
hahaha then you'll love this video
@@GameGengo Already loving it. Man, the amount of work you put into these videos is insane. Even a complete timestamp list, thank you so much!
@@thejuiceweasel TILL ALL ARE ONE
Just discovered your channel, but I really appreciate all the work you put into this list and everything else you do here. This really helped me with some Steam Winter Sale decisions!
Great content as always, thanks for sharing
Gengosan, I would LOVE to get more and more reccomendations of great games to play on different platforms (such as Switch, DS, 3DS, Vita, PSP and so forth).
Even though some of them are dead, we can always try emulating them or sth. Thanks in advance, GREAT list!
You’re very inspiring Matt!
I love your vids , I been learning Japanese since august and have been understanding a lot.
I play a lot of your vids in the background to help me.
Thanks a lot for making these 👍
Thank you so much for your contents!
DUDE honestly FF14 alone took me from like N5 to N3. Super hard but super worth the effort, and so unique in being able to let you play with actual Japanese people if you elect to create a character in that region. I really hope you find some time to play through it (also because the game's story itself is incredible) :)
I'm legit considering doing a let's play / let's learn of FF14 in Japanese/English just as a chill video series to share how I learn new language. It's very tempting...
@@GameGengo yooo honestly FF14's pretty hot rn, might get a little boost from the algorithm too :) and as the FF fan you are, there's so much fan service in the game from Heavensward on (content-wise, not エッチ) that it's a real blast! on top of that, the quality jump from Heavensward on is also *insane* and just gets better haha
I played from ARR all through the latest Endwalker. It took me little over a year but can confirm it has quite significantly expanded my Japanese knowledge.
There's a very steep learning curve in the beginning not only in terms of kanji and grammar but also being overwhelmed by the multitudes of menus and settings and skills etc.
but once you power through all of that though, the world opens up and it has been the most beautiful experience I've ever had playing games
@@GameGengo i would absolutely love that! I’m a big ff14 fan and it’d be awesome to have that here
@@GameGengo Casual, faster-paced let's play style videos would definitely be nice! Or even streams. :)
Oh yay! Wonderful, great video!
excellent list, couldn't be better!
I've been in such a learning slump after 2 years thank you for some fun immersion outside of Anki for me to sink into!
Amazing video. The quality of information is off the chart
This list helps me so much. Thank you
That's a good-looking and well-explained list! I found many of the complaints associated with Dragon Quest Builders 2 to evenly match up with Doraemon: Story of Seasons, which (I found between the announcement and posting of this video) has furigana -but- also a 4-hour cutscene before you hit its first save point
thank you for this amazing video, I'm happy to discover new underrated games. Thank for your hard work.
This is such an enjoyable video. Hearing you explaining about the games and stuff haha! Also thanks for making me to actually taking a step into learning Japanese.
Currently learning Hiragana, and after that will try to play games in Japanese
How's it going? 👀
I have plenty of games on my Steam account but, from your tier list, I only have Skyrim and Yakuza 0 🤷♂
I just added 20+ games to my wishlist, will buy them when on a sale!
Not Japanese games, but literally games on the Steam store that help you learn the language:
- Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat - very cheap, simple turn based RPG
- Influent - you have to buy the Japanese DLC, also very cheap
The one I was most interested in playing was Kotoba no Puzzle but unfortunately it's only available on the Japanese Steam Store... oh well.
Thanks a lot for your hard work sharing this!
I have Influent and while it's fine, I personally didn't think it was that useful. It's library of words is way too limited to be much use in the outside world and their selection of grammar is about nonexistent.
Its unfortunate because I like the idea behind it and the Dev seems to be a genuinely good guy but the whole game just feels unfinished and is only a game in the loosest sense of the world. It's much more like an interactive flash card deck.
Thank you so much for this list!
I have been replaying Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition on my switch at the gym. The tales of series is great for reading and listening to Japanese, especially because the skit system gives so many voiced text side content. Also I would like to mention that my brain kicks in more while on a treadmill, bike, or just standing. I do this a lot with anki cards as well. When the body moves, so does the mind.
I am definitely going to go through and play or replay some of this games since many are in the library already. Thanks again.
Thank you!!!
I've started with little indie games, mostly from Western developers.
Then I played almost exclusively visual novels for about a year (which worked great)
Then a year ago I branched out and tried some non-visual novel games with hit-and-miss results.
This list will be so helpful!
My new favorite channel!!
Amazing video! I can't believe you reviewed every game on Steam with Japanese as a language option! Absolutely next-level effort! I'm definitely going to check out Voice of Cards! Special shout-outs to one of my personal favorite (and often overlooked) learning games Zero Escape for making the list!
What a fantastic video, ranking the games live like that is such a great idea. Plus gameplay footage as well!
And happy to see FF XIV being discussed, I recently switched to Japanese myself despite still being beginner/intermediate. It's exhausting lol but really fun and it's so useful that during quest lines the same words get repeated, kinda like a lesson!
頑張って光の戦士よ
Thanks so much for this video! I think it will speed up the learning process so much, because you see so many kanjis. I'm now a few hours into Chrono Trigger and loving it! It's such a fun way to learn!
Fantastic video! Looking forward to trying some of the games I had missed before out soon. One game I would toss in the list is Stardew Valley set to Japanese. It isn't voice acted, but if anyone wants a chill game with a ton of vocabulary, I highly recommend it.
Hi Game Gengo! Thank you for this very in-depth list of games to help me learn Japanese. I have been studying 日本語, for一半年ごろ, and have taken two university-level Japanese Classes. I have done two, online exchange programs with 東洋大学 As well as studied the first 3 levels of WaniKani Kanji Study. I recently purchased Persona 5 Strikers based on your recommendation for learning Japanese. However, have found myself struggling with the kanji. Due to the lack of Furigana and Japanese game scripts available, (as well as sections that do not have Japanese voice-over), I have resorted to using an inconsistent onscreen translator to attempt to translate the kanji into kana so that I can then read, recognize and study from it. Is there anything you would recommend I do, when approaching these kinds of kanji with no voice-over and no furigana, so that I am able to better learn Japanese through my gaming experience?
Have you heard of "Go, go, nippon"? It's a VN that is all about discovering real places in Japan, it has dual language text and really is low on the amount of "pervy stuff".
It doesn't have voice acting, though. But I think it qualifies as a pretty decent game for learning japanese on steam.
This is actually pretty remarkable that you’ve done all this work.
Great list!
FFXIV is a super difficult game to learn Japanese with, even with JLPT N1. A lot of fantasy language, made-up language, intentional use of difficult kanji, etc. But with the help of modern OCR software dictionaries, it's definitely a good challenge for intermediate to advanced Japanese learners.
For non-beginners, I highly recommend watching Let's Plays of the Yakuza/Metal Gear Solid series by Japanese streamers! They will read all of the non-voiced text for you. 🥳
I wouldn't be able to do it without OCR for sure. And yeah I mean, I now know words like "heretic" and "beast tribe"! But still, I can't bring myself to go back to english somehow even if it takes ages to get through. Listening to japanese VA I just HAVE to see the japanese text, reading english makes me mad ^^'
@@t00thr0t OCR is a godsend. It would take me 10 minutes to get through one quest dialogue before I found one.
Yeah, never heard of those words before this game! My Japanese friends can't even understand the アシエン language without the voiceovers! 😆
@@micchii3366 What OCR do you use? KanjiTomo? Game2Text?
@@zombieshavebrains I've been using KanjiTomo, but haven't tried the other one!
Thanks a lot for the recommendations!! I’m probably still a few months away from being able to play any of these (almost done with n5 grammar and around ~250 kanji). Funnily enough, I started learning Japanese because I love visual novels haha. I do get why you might not like (most of) them though!
I also have to agree with your FFXIV and addiction comment. I had to quit it for that reason (but it helped me SO.MUCH with English, so there's that).
Thank u for take the time of doing this this help us a lot
Thank you for the video! I've been wanted to know some interesting games that have Japanese text/translation in it. I watched the whole video and it's really a good and detailed review.
You should become a Steam Curator. This is a good list, it'd be easier to browse on Steam though.
Also as far as newer releases go, Star Ocean Second Story R has been pretty enjoyable for my skill level, though I've played the original PS1 game in English. (Rena playthrough) I'm doing a Claude playthrough and I've never booted this remake in English.
Upsides:
- Kanji is big, detailed, and easy to distinguish from other kanji
- Cutscenes are (with scant exception) fully voiced.
- Can press ALT to go through a log of the current cutscene and even replay voices [S-tier feature!]
- Lots and lots of NPC banter which is repetitive, i.e. in the first town a bunch of people ask you to rescue (助ける) Rena in a Claude playthrough. Helps with memorization
Downsides:
- No furigana
- No master log of cutscenes
- Random NPCs not voiced.
- There are some text-only micro skits that pop up, disappear too quickly, and can't be changed to last longer
- (this is not a feature I want but) No push-to-change-languages or anything like that, can only do so when not in a dialogue or battle.
This is exactly the video I needed, than you so much. ❤️
I'm not even N5 (or roughly around that level yet) but I'm about half way there and I'm hitting a burn out slope trying to build vocabulary. It's still really hard and tedious for me to enjoy any media for adults yet, and elementary age kid games/shows/manga surprisingly hard to find.
just run through a N5 and N4 anki deck you'll be on your way in no time.
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w Thanks so much for the advice. 💕
I'm actually using Human Japanese as my learning method at the moment cause I find it's grammar explanations are the most helpful for me, but for pure Vocab I do have the N5 N4 decks loaded on Renshuu. I'm looking forward to when I can apply it more though. It is hard to brute force vocabulary you cant3or don't use yet. TwT
@@Snow-Willow check out cure dolly for grammar, I think shes the best, she has a whole series you can go through and she teaches japanese the way japanese people learn it. Start going through your N5 deck, get your vocabulary up as much as possible and most importantly immerse everyday, watch anime without subtitles, over time you will start hearing the words that you are learning in your decks and After about a year it will all come together. 頑張ってくださいね。
@@user-zb8wb4vi3w ありがとうございます! I've never heard of Cure Dolly before, I will definitely add her to my people to watch. Your help and encouragement is so much appreciated. (´∀`人) Thanks~♪
Great video mate. I have not been looking at your videos for a wile just been so busy but now getting back in to it. Where would you put Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and 2. Those games are really good and thinking of playing them again but in Japanese there is lots of dialog and my copy can change in to Japanese. Plus the beauty is I can take my Switch and Xenoblade cartridges anywhere I go so I can practise any time.
Keep up the great work mate.
Great video. Tier is fun
This was S tier content. Subscribed.
Heads up to anyone buying ff9 on PS4 on the US store, changing the system language does NOT change the game language to Japanese , whereas FF8/7 will both switch to Japanese when you change the system language to Japanese.
すご～～い！ありがとうございました！
Tales series is quite good as well. Finishing Tales of Arise on Steam now, has Japanese voice acting and script which a lot of JRPGs on Steam will give you one or the other due to region locking.
GOAT dude, insane. thank you so much
I absolutely adore the Ookami game! As well as the Persona games! I’m so glad you included them!❤
Thanks a lot, which tools do you sugget to play Voice of Cards?
Amazing work Matt! You mentioned using game scripts to follow along in FF8, Chrono Trigger etc. Can you elaborate on how you would use them? Or was it just have them handy on another device?
Yo, are you a mind reader? I was just in the process of trying to learn japanese grammar by finding some japanese games to play, then I found this video. This is extremely helpful.
Fantastic list, great tier names and selections! I'm not like *shocked* you left this one off the list, but I think the Japanese translation of Undertale is actually a good one for new language learners. No voice acting, play at your own pace. The twist is much of the dialog is Hiragana-only which is its own challenge but I think more approachable for beginners than Kanji-only. Undertale and Ni No Kuni are the two I was able to make the most headway in as a beginner.
Hi! When you started to play Ni No Kuni, what did you know beforehand? Have you done any textbooks or played other games in Japanese before?
@@ShnaffelDaffel For anyone reading this and wondering the same thing: Ni no Kuni is REALLY hard to understand and definitely NOT meant for beginners. If you're just about to learn Japanese or only just started out, then you should definitely pick a game better suited for your level!
Not only is it hard to understand the Kansai dialect used by the character "Drippy", like pointed out here in the video, but there are just sooo many "advanced" words that you won't know about even on N4 level. Heck I'm somewhere on (or really close to) N3 now and I still have trouble getting through the game without having to constantly look up words that are used in conversations.
That being said, the game is absolutely fantastic and anyone interested in Japanese (and Japan) should play it! Simply play it with Japanese audio and turn on English subtitles; it’ll be like watching a Studio Ghibli movie but YOU are in control of the main characters :)
@@ConraDargo found out that after getting to the first village with the lazy guard 💀 switched to english. Wayy to early for my part to try this game
@GameGengo , I don't know if you have done one yet, but a list of good live action TV and Movies(anime as well, but Anime is pretty easy and obvious which ones are good) would be great as well. A bit outside the scope of the channel, but why the heck not.
この動画は日本語の勉強にとても役にたちました。自分が楽しい方法で勉強した方がいいと思います。
Thank you so much for putting this together! お疲れ様でした！！
nice tier list
This list is very helpful for my son who has been learning Japanese for a couple years now. Do you happen to have a list of best games overall including all platforms? Thanks!
Thanks for the support! I will be compiling more tier list videos for other platforms very soon, I just wanted a few special games to come out on switch first before I make that list haha so many amazing games on the switch!!
Do another for this year!
Hey Matt, i would like to add to the list History of Season.
It doesn't have voice acting, but most stuff have furigana and everyday conversation.
Great video, Gengo. How do you feel about Persona 5 Royal and FF7 Remake for learning Japanese?
If you liked bravely default 2 I would highly recommend playing the 2 bravely default games before it! (Bravely Default, Bravely Second End Layer) They’re also really good!
Hey Matt. Have you tried these two steam games?
100%おれんじじゅーすっ! (100% Orange Juice). Just a party board game, like Mario Party. But with chibi characters with cards. Most of the characters have voice replay.
ユーロトラックシミュレーター2 (Euro Truck Simulator 2) + adding a mod called Project Japan (dlc maps does required, for the mod). Perfect relaxed simulation game, where you're driving a truck. It also have voice navigation in Japanese while driving. You can also add your own custom music/radio.
They both okay. I just want to mention them, just so you know it.
I was planning on playing Persina 4 Golden with a real time schedule ( 1 real life day = 1 game day) for learning Japanesee and wanted to see if it was a good game to learn and seeing it on the top spot in your list made me so glad lol
What's your opinion on Persona 5 since you also talked about Persona 5 Strikers?
Damn, you even mentioned Zero Escape. So high tier content you make
I think Story Of Seasons on steam is pretty good! No voice acting but you can play in japanese and it has furigana and a log, simple farm/life sim so you get that day to day vocab, Story Of Seasons used to be Harvest Moon here been having a great time with it even if each text box takes me a while lol.
Do you recommend that you should try to translate every dialog when playing a game in japanese or just continue playing until you like get stuck and force to figure out what to do next? I tried to play Paper mario and I felt kinda overwhelm trying to translate/read every dialog.
Not Game Gengo obviously, but from my experience you get more out of pressing on than you do spending 30 min figuring out the grammar or how a word is used. If it takes you a couple minutes to look it up on bunpro or find it on weblio that's totally fine. Or, if it is something that you feel like you HAVE to know, have at it.
But after a certain point it's probably best to move. You might never seen that word/grammar usage again in the current media you're consuming but might see it later after your gain a better grasp of the language as a whole. It's really up to you how long you decide to spend on figuring out when to call it quits though.
Translation is a completely separate skill imo and shouldn't be the top priority when playing, otherwise you will overwhelm and burn yourself out. It's better to look at bits you don't know and are interested, and if you understand what's being said then move on and keep playing. I personally don't recommend translating every single line of dialogue, instead just get the gist/understanding :)
There is a simple rule for reading books. If you encounter several times some word/grammar in short amount of time, then look it up. So, you will be picking up most common language first.
Also for the Zero ESCAPE Dilemma game can you take it at your own pace? As in click to proceed to the next dialogue.
These are all really solid picks, had fun playing a lot of these in Japanese (although some of the EU editions of games force english subtitles...) I sort of agree about NEKOPARA, I see them more as daft fun if you don't take them seriously! I've only recently purchased Voice of Cards as the trilogy on steam sale, so that's going to be my next hit :)
@GameGengo as a follow on, do you happen to have a list of dual subtitle games? Found those are great for learning to match up English with Japanese text and audio
I remember seeing some vtubers playing kotoba no puzzle (they called it mojipitan?). Unfortunately it seems to be region locked to Japan.
Thank you for the list though! I have lots of stuff to check out now.
I think so. This is what steam shows me:
"An error was encountered while processing your request:
This item is currently unavailable in your region"
Matt any chance you will do one of these for GOG too?
So, I've just been going through my Steam games, looking at the respective store pages to see, if Japanese is implemented - and to my surprise, apparently Alan Wake has full Japanese text and voices, too!
hello, when you buy it from other countries like from the Philippines, can you still set the language to Japanese? because some of the games are region locked right? some games are japan version where the language is Japanese and International version where you cannot use Japanese version.
Any suggestions on how to get your hands on kotoba no puzzle? Steam is not cooperating because of region locking
Thanks you for this list, it conforts me in DQ XI choice ^^ I try with Shenmue long ago and yes it was hard, but if I remember well it had furigana. But that's not sufficient... Also tried Phantasy Star remade in Sega Ages but the same way, no voiceover etc. hard to play.
Amazing content and suggestions here! Really helpful explanations as well, thank you! The only thing I disliked is the fact that you factored in things like the fact that a game might be niche or not. I would rather just focus on how good a game is for practicing the language, not whether a particular setting or theme might cater a bigger or smaller audience.
Switch next?! Amazing video, keep up the great work!
I have a few of these in my Steam library already! The issue at hand is, I'm in the US so if I want Japanese text I guess I'll need to download and apply mods. I can't wait for Persona 3 and 5 to finally launch on PC
Probably one of the best games is “13 Sentinels” since it has a backlog thing and just moving around has convos go, the flow seems extremely smooth for learning purposes. I haven’t played it enough yet.
One I would also recommend is Touhou TOD reloaded 不思議の幻想郷 TOD RELOADED , this one is so cute and has all convos saved too and can even be replayed at anytime , also the rpg dungeon system is very very well thought out. Has an ancient Japan feel to the convos sometimes but it’s so cute. Also fully voiced.
Another good game is レイジングループ horror mystery visual novel, fully voiced too but lots of novel style dialogue between voices too, which makes it better for advanced learners.
Anyhow the Touhou game and 13 Sentinels are S tier to me. Also Kingdom Hearts has somewhat easier Japanese too and I remember my Japanese improved a lot as I finished the 2nd game. Although I was studying other ways too at the time, but it felt like it wasn’t too hard compared to other games.
This is the Best!
I bought the nonari games,I tried to play it in japanese and found out was way too difficult for me,so I proceed to complete the whole first game in english (20 hours in 2 days) and wow those games are amazing but have one of the most complex and difficult story I've ever found in videogame so I don't know about playing that in japanese.
Also the first one (the only one I tried so far) don't have lot of the future u described,I'm sure the later game have that,still thank you a lot for making me play this wonderfull game.
A big thing about this list is how many of the games are also on Switch, even if I have to import them for the Japanese language option, like Great Ace Attorney, DQ 11S, Skyrim... Witcher 3... Final Fantasy IX... Ni no Kuni... Damn.
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I don't know if this will actually be helpfull but that was an AMAZING list. I tried looking through the steam store and I couldn't undestand anything from their reviews and descriptions. I actually tried playing danganronpa but at my lvl it is difficult to play until the point when the game allows you to save and it is really hard to overcome. I don't know how they came up with the idea that the player doesn't need to save for an hour of gameplay (~5 hours of gameplay for me).
World of Final Fantasy has an English game script. It won't help you while the cutscenes fly by, but you can check it out after the fact and see how much you understood. Kind of neat.
To see people typing in Japanese in FFXIV, do you have to play on the Japan data centers? Or can you connect to Japanese text channels even on American data centers or something like that
Have you heard about 428: Shibuya Scramble?
I wanted to play it since it came out on wii A Long time ago, but I don't know if it's too hard to understand. Have you played it? Let me know what you think about it, please
Awesome video
I completely agree, that was my experience also
Most of these AAA American games are simply not so good for language learning, it’s only good for advanced learners as side fun
The true learning lies in these visual novel type of games where you can do a lot of pausing, reading etc
Personal recommendations: Persona 4 and 5, FF7 remake, Tales games
Hey Game Gengo, all Yuzusoft visual novels like Marco and the Galaxy Dragon have the Neko Para language features. If you make a new tier list be sure to include them
Do you recommend Detroit also for beginners/intermediate learners? it seem hard to play with at this level when trying to pick up words as yomichan couldnt be used for this game, and the game is not waiting for us to go to the next line everytime
I haven't found any game script for it
Hey there 5 months later, did you play the game in Japanese? I did a bit, I’m fluent but it has some hard vocab and I don’t think it’s beginner or intermediate friendly. But if you’ve already played it in English and remember most things then maybe it’s easier to lookup in Japanese for you. I remember going through ff7 20 years ago and I played it on two PlayStation2’s at the same time, Japanese one and American one and was comparing convos as I went along. That bilingual experience helped me a ton! It was hard looking up blurry kanji back then tho.
@@phen-themoogle7651 No I didn't played it
I played it once in english though. I won't play it right now then, thanks ^^
I think I'll do AC valhala subbed in my language, I don't think I can handle the frustration of understanding only half of the game
Can you do this for 3DS? for how easy it is to jailbreak the 3DS and be able to download every Japanese game, a list of 3ds games to go with the kanken style games would be amazing
Your pronunciation of shenmue gave me an existential crisis for a moment so I had to look it up. It actually is pronounced like Shenmuu rather than how the title would suggest in Japanese, it doesn't use the え sound. It is worth noting the name is derived originally from Chinese instead of Japanese, but also supposedly the decision to spell it like Shenmue was to emulate English words like "Blue" for the sound at the end.
Just started AI Somnium File. I’m around N3 level and omg it’s hard. The logs are a blessing but it’s really chock full of tough vocab, it’s gonna take me ages to get anywhere.
Hey Matt! Any idea on how to purchase FFVIII and IX in Japanese out of japan? VII too would be nice, but none of the original ones are available on steam, Japanese is included in the VIII remaster edition but that's it... Thanks for a great video!
Even though IX doesn't mention Japanese in the store you can select it from the Language options
Does someone have an overview which of the higher ranking games are available for MacOs?
Thanks for the recommendations!! I just put a lot of games on my wishlist, if only I had the time to play all of them (or most of them, looking at you nekopara hahaha)
Has anyone played far cry in japanese? I assume it would be in the fun immersion category?
This should be good. There are various lists out there like Jo-Mako's but I haven't seen a Tier List. I encounter the same problems you do with the North American version doesn't have japanese audio or only the switch version have furigana. I still hold to my FFX/X-2 remaster being God Tier though :P
I hope you enjoy the video! It's certainly fun trying to see how you'd place games against each other!
FFX really is god tier hehe
@@GameGengo yo is there some way i can message you? I live in Japan and am going to be in Kyoto this week if you want to grab a beer or something. I'd love to pick your brain about learning japanese and even video games in general if possible. Not sure how i can prove i'm not a serial killer. UA-cam and Twitter don't allow private messages i guess.
@Game Gengo what is the ゲーム in the intro???? THAT game looks nice because of it having both English and Japanese displayed at the same time :)
This is Marco & The Galaxy Dragon :) if you are still searching for it.