Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War

A Kind Stranger to Never Have Met Yet Rarely Walks.

I went a different route but this will probably work well for those who need it

Great for what it aims to do. I gladly recommend for anyone interested in learning or practicing katakana. The format is effective for motivating students with ADHD especially. It helps to take notes on paper to practice stroke order too, as physically writing things out helps with memory more than just reading or typing. (I turned a regular lined notebook on its side so I could write vertically like you see in comics). New letters are grouped by consonant and introduced in easily digestible amounts, and they always call out the letter you're using so you can hear how each character sounds. I was already somewhat familiar with katakana but now I can distinguish シ from ツ and ソ from ン, and drilling in the challenge tower to grind affection towards that final achievement helped take me from "I can read that" to "I can write that". The characters and story are... there. The main antagonist's motivation was unbelievable nonsense, and the bar was very low since I'm willing to accept that the world is being attacked by roaming letters. Each character is flat, formulaic and forgettable, but nicely illustrated, and the voice actors did a good job too, although every character speaks 100% …

Just like its predecessor, it was a great resource for learning katakana in conjunction with other resources. The gamification of education personally motivates me. However, also like its predecessor, I noticed some minor issues that persisted: namely the fact that battles have set enemies instead of random ones and when in the inverted world, all the Answers are always in the same order, so it's easy to just know what the symbol is, thus not providing much challenge. But overall, I still very much enjoyed the game.

I actually easily mastered reading katakana 2 hours into the game, so it really did help me figure it out. I do think that the vocabulary lessons could have been more integrated into the gameplay; especially as fighting individual characters grew really stale after a while. The affection mechanics were not really interesting and I did not care much for the small cutscenes or the boost it gave. The narrative should have been much more compelling but because the focus was only on katakana, they had a really limited scope. I actually started this when I was in high school, but I grew disinterested in completing it until recently. This game was a useful alternative but it is much more effective if paired with traditional materials and a rigorous study habit.

Way more fluid that Hiragana Battle, faster combat, the fact it shows the katakana used during combat helps to fix knowledge