Разработчик: Sleepy Duck
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About the Game
Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle is an educational game that is the ideal introductory course to the Japanese language!You’re reading this page now because you have more than a passing interest in learning Japanese. Maybe you’ve tried learning it before, but never had any luck? That’s completely normal, so don’t worry! Learning a language can be daunting. And with a language like Japanese, full of strange and wonderful written characters, you might not even know where to start.
You need a learning tool that’s going to keep you interested, challenge you at the right pace, and most importantly, keep you coming back for more.
That’s why Learn Japanese To Survive! Hiragana Battle was made! This isn’t just educational software – this is a full-blown RPG specifically designed to keep you engaged. By playing along, you’re going to be introduced to the Japanese language like never before.
Learn how to read and write Japanese characters (Hiragana) at a steady pace. There’s a new set of characters to learn each chapter, and your revision takes place on the battlefield! If your knowledge is up to scratch, you’ll claim victory in exciting strategic battles. If you’re falling behind, you have the opportunity to revisit specific chapters and brush up on your knowledge.
As a bonus, you’ll also learn common Japanese words and phrases and important grammar points!
What is Hiragana?
Hiragana is the basic writing system used in Japanese. Japanese actually combines 3 different sets of characters to form written works – Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. This game focuses solely on Hiragana, the foundation. By learning Hiragana, you can write and pronounce nearly any Japanese word.
Features:
- An exciting story based on the concept of learning Japanese. As the characters in the story learn Hiragana, you learn along with them!
- Learn every single Hiragana character, with detailed instructions on how to read and write each character.
- Visual animations displaying how to write each character.
- Audio speech examples demonstrate how to pronounce each character.
- Exciting gameplay with familiar RPG elements – collect items, complete quests, engage in battles!
- Earn experience points and level up your characters.
- Revise completed lessons to brush up on your knowledge.
- In-game quizzes to test what you’re learning.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1280 x 720 or higher display
Mac
- OS: Mac OSX 10.10 or better
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Compatible OpenGLR
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1280 x 720 or higher display
Отзывы пользователей
Eh.. It's a good idea, but the ui is clunky, and it's a pretty slow way to learn Hiragana. Mnemonics work much better
Hiragana Battle is language learning game hobbled by the limitation of the RPGmaker system more than anything else. It's a noble effort, but system mechanics get in the way of being an exceptional and effective learning system.
The way this game works is that if gives you 5 (usually 10 actually) Hiragana letters per lesson and uses those letters as monsters to battle NES Final Fantasy style. Where you need to have each character select from the menu of learned options and pick the correct one to deal damage based on the character's strength and weapon. As you learn more hiragana, this menu becomes quite cumbersome.
Additionally, the player has to gauge how much health of the 'hiragana warrior' has vs. the damage each character inflicts. Because a character targeting a defeated warrior will just attack the next one. And is almost never the correct letter. Thus a wasted attack.
Honestly, I think a game like this would work better more like the original Dragon Quest/Warrior game. With only a single character. I found myself lower areas trying to get more practice to familiarize myself with earlier hiragana only needing a couple of the characters to attack to defeat all the hiragana warriors. Yet, I had to navigate the menu for the whole party.
Fortunately, the game does have each character stay on the previous option they picked. Which is handy when the player miss judges the amount of damage needed. As well as each area tends to focus on a particular group of hiragana.
The game part is standard turn-based RPGmaker fair. The music is nice. The characters and gear are bare-bones. Which feels more like a feature to focus on the educational aspect. The game developers did a good job fitting the square peg of of learning hiragana into the round hole of RPGmaker. But it is clear the the limitations of that don't offer more effective learning than flashcards.
Which is where I ultimately can't recommend this game. If you enjoy retro turn-based CRPGs and want to learn hiragana, this game is okay. If you just want to learn hiragana. Just make some flashcards instead. I think your progress will be much faster.
Learn Japanese To Survive - Hiragana Battle is a good effort, but is too limited by mechanics to be a highly effective learning game.
I love the idea of gaming while also learning <3
I had difficulty continuing too far in this game as the game itself isn't very fun or engaging. The waiting times between learning are also quite tedious and if I remember correctly the chatting can't be sped up.
My issue with the game though is it is too slow and only teaches hiragana which is only one of the three alphabets the Japanese use. For a child this game is ideal but for adults I would recommend something else.
like this series. if you are the type of person who needs something to learn and do drills that isnt just reading Qcards this is perfect. i only wish there was a button to skip the writting parts after youve seen them
Good game for learning japanese. It plays just like your usual RPG except you take notes of characters and words that you learn. You will encounter hiragana, katakana and kanji along the way. Soundtrack is nice and story might grab your attention. Just take your notebook and learn some japanese!
I'm a few hours in and I like it! The combat is of typical RPG Maker kind, but it works pretty well with learning the signs.
I think it'd be nice if there would be an internal counter that tallies up how much a certain glyph has appeared to make it more effective - on my third kana set I started forgetting the previous sets.
This game did in a few hour what months on language apps could not do
fun and easy game to supplement hiragana instruction
I recommend using a save editor though, it's far too grindy to get money for equipment
over the weekend type game to learn and memorize the entirety of hiragana
skill issue if you can't desu
So I probably have way more hours than a person who would only complete the game normally would. This game does NOT have cloud save, So if you lose the save, you have to restart. I think there is away around this but all I could get to is modifying the save to make my people strong and have custom names. Also since I finally beat this game on an arch-based linux distro, this game suuuuucks for linux where needed PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% in the launch commands to even run it, was laggy, bugged out, and even crashed sometimes entirely. On windows it was fine. Overall: 7/10
Cons:
-Not linux Friendly, more so linux hostile, but can play through
-No cloud save
-No steam achievements
-can be annoyingly slow
Pros:
-kind of enjoyable
-decent learning pacing
-some variety
-teaches all Hiragana, and multiple words
-has some post game stuff it seems (haven't tried, and likely won't, 100% won't if I lose my save again)
-good additional supplement for learning
You will not learn japanese with this game, but it will supplement your education in a fairly enjoyable way of playing an RPG. I'm not sure what I paid for it, but I recall seeing these games are ~$11? I personally would value it less, but nothing wrong with that price. The way I see it, a book is $10-$60, and this supplements part of that so it's fair. However at same time, you can use a library (but library won't teach in hiragana in and RPG!
When I bought this, the other 2 games didn't exist (and for a long time) but I am strongly considering buy Katakana Warriors then Kanji Warriors to even though ~$11 because though a little high for the limited learning, you still learned a good amount here, in a good way, and in a turn-based RPG video game!
Hope this helped! Sorry for rambling as I do.
Edit: Just saw these games are actually $7-$9 (at least now), definitely trying more since liked this one and spent good amount of time!
decent enough to start learning Japanese if you can't stand more traditional ways of studying, you won't be reading Japanese just playing this game but you'll have a start at least
the main issues I have with it are the vocabulary lessons obscuring hiragana that weren't taught yet but never revisiting the lesson to show you the ones that were missing previously(you will forget to revisit those words on your own) and that the game is a bit grindy at times
My Japanese Journey:
1月30日：One night I laid in bed feeling like a loser and said to myself "What am I doing with my life?" because I literally just played games, went to school, repeat. I then thought about it and was like.. "Wait, I'm totally going to learn Japanese." I hopped out of bed and instantly bought this game and it really kick started my journey.
今日：To be honest, this game didn't really help me much at all because I ended up using Tofuguu's guide to Hiragana and Katakana but it all worked out, because here I am, going to study abroad in Japan within a month. I already know about 2k words, can read articles without furigana and feel confident having small conversations with native speakers only about 6 months after starting! Now, if you're at this point and still feel behind (compared to me) don't worry. I put in a crazy amounts of hours some days and one week I remember I studied like 5 hours a day the whole week. Anyways, thank you game dev for starting my journey because it's the perfect mix of cultural knowledge and fun gameplay I needed to transition into a real study routine.
Japanese is the most beautiful language so if you're new, which you probably are if you're reading this, don't give up. Seriously don't give up. I've met so many Japanese people, made friends (even a special someone) through Japanese and it is by far the most beautiful, well rounded country on this planet. Keep going guys!
頑張ってください！！！！
now i can become a strong saitama gojo anime girl! Thanks for the lessons!
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This game does an excellent job at what it aims to - using turn-based RPG combat to force you to memorize the Hiragana syllabary. If you struggle with using flashcards, this will help.
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I already knew hiragana but surprisingly I still enjoyed the game and its story. (Though it can be cheesy. But if you don't expect the best story ever, it's fairly funny.) They found a very creative and fun way of learning the Japanese alphabet but also vocabulary and a bit of Japanese culture. The game offered more than I thought. Also, the dog's name is Steve.
I loved this game, it helped supplement my learning quite a bit. If you love the older school final fantasies then you will like this. My gripes are minor, as I understand this is a teaching game, I wish there were a few more locations and more side quests.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Sleepy Duck |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 23.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 92% положительных (1312) |