Kagami: An Odyssey in Japanese Language Learning
Two Brain Games · 2024 · RPG, Education, Party-Based RPG, 2D, Cute
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About Kagami: An Odyssey in Japanese Language Learning
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Explore a Japanese-themed world as an RPG adventurer, discovering vocabulary through environmental interactions and minigames, then use your growing Japanese knowledge to overcome turn-based battles against folklore monsters alongside your party. Learn Hiragana, Katakana, and hundreds of vocabulary words from native speaker voice acting and integrated study tools, with your success depending on genuine language retention rather than shortcuts.
Kagami: An Odyssey in Japanese Language Learning (phew, what a long name! That means it MUST be GOOD!) *Ahem* Anyways...
The game is meant to help those who want to learn Japanese in a FUN way! It is a top down RPG-Lite centered around exploration, finding vocabulary words in the world by interacting with objects, playing minigames, and using the vocabulary you learned in each area to gain advantage when fighting enemies! You might unravel a mystery, learn more than you thought you would, and become emotionally attached to some of the characters along the way! Like, who's this cute lil guy runnin' around? YOU'LL FIND OUT!
Fight alongside your party members against monsters that are mostly based on Yokai from Japanese folklore in that classic turn-based RPG kind of way! Level up to become proficient in physical and magical combat to deal devastating damage to your foes! 
If you are new to learning Japanese, no problem! The game starts by teaching you the basics of Hiragana, one of the alphabets of the Japanese language! You also learn Katakana as well! 
You will have access to all the “charms” or vocabulary words you collect to study when outside of battle through your trusty Game-Buddy, who manages everything from inventory to vocab to saving your game file. Game-Buddy also has a Hiragana and Katakana reference guide that include visual representations of mnemonics to help you retain all this new information and a sound clip of the kana being pronounced!Speaking of sound clips, they were made by professional voice over artist Ko Takehiro and cover the Kana, Vocabulary, and Phrases, so you'll hear them as pronounced by a native speaker!
The game is also playable on the Steamdeck!
We do not use romaji, so be warned, you will either learn to read Hiragana and Katakana or you will not have a good time. Though we give you the resources to learn, it will ultimately be up to you to retain the knowledge needed to succeed, and we think anyone who really wants to learn can and will succeed!
Do you think you have what it takes? We think you do!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I bought the game early on with a friend because we were trying to start learning Japanese together hoping to go on a trip to Japan soon. Plans fell through and I kind of forgot about it for a little bit, but started playing it again here and there, and I saw their latest update, so I figured Id throw in my opinion. The Good: -Silly game with lots of heart and lots of dad humor, the animation is also really good (everyone is very bouncy), and lots of cultural references like how not to leave chopsticks in rice and stuff like that -Some of the minigames are actually really fun! The overall vibe is super retro and I love that. I really like the disco one and the driving one. Some of them are just ok, but for the most part, I got what they were going for. -Just a ton of learning content in general (I still haven't used the kanji mode, need to work on that) -I actually like how the tone changes to dark here and there, but thats just me The Less Good (I like the game, so I'm trying to be nice): -Does not hold your hand at all. If you don't explore the area to learn the vocab for that area, you're gonna have a bad time. Just take your time to explore before rushing to fight the bo…5 found this helpful
Amazing game! 10/10 I've always liked learning games, but they are usually very repetitive or they expect you to memorize stuff inmediatly... But not in this one! I'm actually amazed by the creativity and love the developers have put into this! It's not tedious, it's not boring, and it's actually pretty fun! I would still like it even if it wasn't for learning japanese! The RPG approach is very clever imo, grinding is fun and you memorize stuff at the same time so you start to learn very naturally, also is not boring even if you are a little above beginner, cause you can skip some basic stuff Something i would like to mention tho is the save feature... It has no cloud save and no way to sync files, i've lost my saves twice and it's gotten tedious, but other than that it's a pretty good game! I can't wait to finish it! (Hopefully without having to start from the beggining again TvT)2 found this helpful
masterpiece enjoyed playing it
I have admittedly not gotten far, but so far it is fun, with lots of minigames, and if I have only one negative comment it's that the lofi graphics style leaves some of the kanji pretty hard to make out.
The game is a very fun RPG to play and it is a great way to learn Japanese as the way that it is possible to learn is through repetition. I'm currently onto the 3rd yokai boss at the moment.
I’m about 3 hours in and WOW…. This game is so incredibly fun and genuinely helpful! I really love it and can’t wait to play more. It’s so well done and the jokes are amazing 😅 EDIT: 15+ hours and WOW, I absolutely loved the game! Got stuck a few times like a gamer noob but man O man was this fun. I wish there was more and I think I might re-play it soon. It was the most help I've had with learning Japanese so far. Duo get's millions but this is where it;s at for basic Hiragana :D I want more for Katakana now.
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