Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

This is a good start but I feel like it has a long way to go. I think it needs some kind of conversational interaction. It would be nice to be able to go into the shops and speak with people. It would also be nice to be able to click and hear the pronunciation of the pop ups. Instead of just being able to take a picture of the sign and hear the game tell you how to say "sign". I would not have thought this game has already been live for 2 years. There's so much more that can be done here to really make this a solid learning experience.

Not really a videogame and more so piece of highly interactive software, but I do like the 3D models.

i'm from russia and once i was in Japan. i really want to return and live in this country, but i can't. so when i'd play in this game first time, i cried due to how it looks like Tokyo

Se você estuda japonês, tem vontade de ir à Tóquio, quer adquirir vocabulário extra, gosta de jogos e é completionist, esse jogo é pra ti. Eu curti bastante.

I enjoyed playing Shashingo. It wasn't overwhelming and didn't ask a lot of me to "learn" to play along. I finished it in under 3 hours. What works: + You can choose how you want to be quizzed- I always selected "favorites" and favorited items around me. Then I could take a quiz on the arcade, movie theater, grocery, etc. much like how a text would organize vocabulary. + Praise be, there is a run :) + a fun premise that holds true and is simple to learn + I did actually learn some things :) + humorous/charming, wholesome Improvements: - At this time, I can't think of anything that felt a hindrance to the fun. This was a cozy lil game that I would suggest if you would like a walking simulator where you're a tourist with a translating camera, basically. Pretty fun.

Great tool for learning common words in Japanese.