Seeking Looking for games with simple Japanese text as a language option

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Dadaism

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Jul 12, 2020
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Hello,
I've been studying Japanese for a while, and I recently thought to myself: might as well have fun doing it.
So I'm mainly looking for games that support language change (both English and Japanese); Japanese only is fine too but I'll have to look for them elsewhere since they aren't allowed in this site.
The genre/gameplay can be whatever, just go for simple speech, as I'm just over N5 proficiency (so not very proficient at all) :p So a VN would be very time consuming for me.
(BTW I am aware that hentai speech is not great for everyday use, this is just for fun.)

Examples of what I'm looking for (as an indicator of complexity of language more than genre): How to Raise a Happy NEET , Living With Sister: Monochrome Fantasy

Thank you very much in advance!
 
Goeffel

Goeffel

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I would suggest to go after voiced games.

Nekopara has English, Japanese and sth. else (Chinese?). Personally I liked Vol.0 most, but it has no sex scenes.
One review at vndb mentions how Vol.0 has simpler Japanese than Vol1. (which should also not be that elevated); it is also by far the shortest one.
https://f95zone.to/threads/nekopara-extrax-vol-0-4-extras-neko-works.4762/
topic has individual downloads in a spoiler, or alltogether for 20GB.

(Myself I once had hoped that there would be titles in Kana-only, or a page for video subtitles in Kana, or some such. But nope, the Japanese show not the slightest interest to overcome, or at least dodge, their shitty Kanji writing system.)
 
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Dadaism

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Thank you very much for your suggestions.

Goeffel : Yes, studying Kanji is definitely time-consuming and frustrating, insofar that even within Japan there are efforts to reduce and standardize them. The Joyo list was made pretty recently (2010), and soon in the future there will be more limitations to proper noun choices. They are clearly trying to simplify the whole mess without drastic measures.
In the meantime we will just have to suffer through with the help of furigana, dictionaries, and too much free time investment ;)
 
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