Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
Sleepy Duck · 2018 · RPG, Adventure, Indie, Education, Strategy
PC
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About Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat is an educational game, designed to be the ideal introductory course to the Japanese language! It's the third game in a smash-hit series, following Hiragana Battle and Katakana War - but you don't need to have played those!
This new game teaches you a separate part of Japanese: the Kanji writing system. Everything you need to start learning Japanese is contained within the game!
Japanese is a language that can be very daunting to begin learning. It contains a unique alphabet of intricate symbols that can be very confusing to newcomers. How do you write these symbols? How do you even pronounce them?! If you're asking yourself these questions, don't worry - that's completely normal!
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat is your ticket to easy Japanese learning!
Learn over 200 Kanji characters! With this knowledge under your belt, you can begin reading and writing Japanese!
At the start of each of the game's chapters, you'll learn a new set of Kanji characters. Following that, you're free to go on adventures and explore. You'll encounter dangerous enemies that have taken the shape of Kanji. To defeat them, you'll need to correctly translate them! If you give the wrong answer, your attack will be reflected and used against you. It's a learn & live situation!
Much like the other games in this series, you will also have the opportunity to learn some Japanese vocabulary! You'll see how words are constructed using Kanji, and learn the translations of useful words and phrases.
This new game teaches you a separate part of Japanese: the Kanji writing system. Everything you need to start learning Japanese is contained within the game!
Japanese is a language that can be very daunting to begin learning. It contains a unique alphabet of intricate symbols that can be very confusing to newcomers. How do you write these symbols? How do you even pronounce them?! If you're asking yourself these questions, don't worry - that's completely normal!
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat is your ticket to easy Japanese learning!
Learn over 200 Kanji characters! With this knowledge under your belt, you can begin reading and writing Japanese!
At the start of each of the game's chapters, you'll learn a new set of Kanji characters. Following that, you're free to go on adventures and explore. You'll encounter dangerous enemies that have taken the shape of Kanji. To defeat them, you'll need to correctly translate them! If you give the wrong answer, your attack will be reflected and used against you. It's a learn & live situation!
Much like the other games in this series, you will also have the opportunity to learn some Japanese vocabulary! You'll see how words are constructed using Kanji, and learn the translations of useful words and phrases.
Features
- Learn over 200 Kanji characters, with detailed instructions on how to read and write each character.
- Learn useful mnemonic techniques to recognise each Kanji.
- Audio speech examples from native Japanese speakers demonstrate how to pronounce each Kanji character.
- Follow along with the exciting story that will see you travel to Japan to defend the country from shape-shifting monsters!
- Exciting gameplay with familiar RPG elements - collect items, complete quests, engage in batles!
- Build a new town from the ground up. Customise your town with different features!
- Form new friendships and get to know each of your companions with unlockable story sequences.
- Earn experience points and level up your characters.
- Review completed lessons to brush up on your knowledge.
- In-game quizzes test what you're learning.
- Original soundtrack, including opening and closing themes with vocals!
Ready to learn Japanese? You bet you are!
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What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
Learn Katakana serves as an effective and straightforward alternative to flashcards, with players praising its simple, practice-focused approach to character recognition that makes language learning feel more manageable and less overwhelming. However, the game is plagued by technical issues including framerate desynchronization, freezing battle result screens, and increasingly poor performance as progression deepens, which significantly detract from an otherwise engaging learning experience. Additionally, the RPG system mechanics—particularly the enemy scaling system combined with preventing n
In comparison to Katakana Wars, I think this installment was neither creative nor useful in learning kanji. Among the three writing systems in Japanese, kanji is definitely the most difficult and grueling. One character does not simply have one reading. As such, reusing the same mechanics as Katakana Wars seem detrimental almost. You now have this whole block of text for many different words and it can easily get confusing after a while. Instead of the convoluted multiple choice options, a type-based answer system to a vocabulary question would have worked wonders in reinforcing both the reading and meaning of kanji. After all, learning the readings of one character would be alright if not for the fact that these readings have to be combined with other characters. Who knows... maybe future levels address which character combinations have this specific reading and meaning; I'm still in the early stages of the game so it might surprise me and then I have to redo this review all over again. I also heavily dislike the removal of the queue feature, why'd they remove it in the first place? If you really want to learn how to read kanji in a text, you're better off watching YouTub…1 found this helpful
now i understand why i should hate katakana more than kanji1 found this helpful
I learned what a bunch of Kanji means in English but their pronunciation is not reinforced well. As a GAME it is better than the previous Hiragana and Katakana offerings. As a LEARNING tool it is not quite as useful. Some game mechanics are odd but not detrimental. idk why I was upgrading weapons, I felt like i was going through the motions rather than doing it out of need as I never didn't one shot the enemies. Still a fun supplement to actual learning tools.
Katakana and I had beef. Some of the characters looked just similar enough that my eyeballs started filing complaints, so having a game force me to recognize them repeatedly actually helped more than I expected. Learn Katakana is not trying to be some massive, fancy learning experience. It is simple, direct, and built around practice. That is exactly what I needed. Instead of flashcard jail, it gave me a way to drill the characters through gameplay and slowly get better at recognizing them. The best part is that it made the process feel a little less overwhelming. Language learning can get frustrating fast when everything looks unfamiliar, but this made it feel more manageable. I did not come out fluent, obviously, but I did come out more confident with katakana. And considering how much my brain wanted to fight me on it, that is a win.
A good replacement to flash cards
Great game, just wish there was more of it. It's been almost 8 years, so I don't think they'll make a sequel, but I really wish there was one. Could be about more advanced stuff.
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