Разработчик: Sleepy Duck
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About the Game
Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is an educational game that is the ideal introductory course to the Japanese language! It's the sequel to the smash-hit Hiragana Battle – but you don't need to have played that!This new game teaches you a separate part of Japanese: the Katakana writing system.
Compatible with PC & Mac, Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War launches you into a journey full of learning, action, adventure and intrigue. All you need to start learning Japanese is contained within the game!
Japanese is an exciting and interesting language. It looks a bit complicated to learn, right? After all, there's all those weird and wonderful written characters to memorize. Where do you even start to learn them? How do you remember which is which? If you're asking yourself those questions, don't worry – that's completely normal!
The best way to learn a new language is with 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. Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is your ticket to easy Japanese learning!
What is Katakana?
The Japanese language combines 3 different sets of characters to form written works: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji.
This game focuses solely on Katakana, which is frequently used to write words with a foreign origin, as well as names of people, places and things. That makes it incredibly useful!
With this game, you'll learn to read and write every single Katakana character! You'll master pronunciation and be able to write words in no time at all.
How does the game work?
At the start of each of the game's chapters, you'll learn a new set of Katakana characters. Following that, you're free to go on adventures and explore.
You'll encounter dangerous enemies that have taken the shape of Katakana. To defeat them, you'll need to correctly translate them! If you give the wrong answer, you won't deal any damage. It's a learn & live situation!
On your adventures, you'll also learn Japanese vocabulary! You'll see how Japanese words are constructed with Katakana, and the translations of useful words and phrases.
Luckily, you're not alone on your adventure. You'll make friends who will study with you and join you in battle. If you bring them along on lots of adventures, your friendship will strengthen and they'll unlock powerful abilities.
Game features
An exciting story based around the concept of learning Japanese. Save Japan from an invasion of shape-shifting monsters!
- Learn every single Katakana character, with detailed instructions on how to read and write each character.
- Visual animations display 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!
- Form new friendships and get to know each character with unlockable story sequences.
- Earn experience points and level up your characters.
- Review completed lessons to brush up on your knowledge.
- In-game quizzes to test what you're learning.
Ready to learn Japanese? You bet you are!
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
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32bit/64bit)
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Mac
- OS: Mac OSX 10.10 or better
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Compatible OpenGLR
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- OS: Mac OSX 10.10 or better
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Compatible OpenGLR
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War is a turn based rpg educational game that uses katakana characters as the monsters with the player 'attacking' with the romaji or English sound of said katakana character. This game features a number of refinements over the Hiragana version.
One of the refinements in the katakana game over the hiragana game is menu layout is much better and easier to locate the command the player wishes to use laid out in a, i, u, e, o. Which greatly speeds up the player's ability to locate what they are looking for. Although at the time of this review (I'm at na, ni, nu, ne, no), I have not reached ya, yu, yo or wa, wo to figure out how the game handles them. I'd still prefer keyboard entries over the menu, but this game is not nearly as frustrating in menu navigation.
Additionally, this game has the party members execute their 'attack' individually instead of the player forced to select all party member's actions before starting 'combat'. This change made the game quite fun for me. Even if I haven't reached any katakana characters i didn't already have memorized before playing. This alone is a huge improvement over the hiragana survive game.
The game also features swappable party members. Which actually had me wanting to grind/practice areas I've cleared. Not a bad thing in an educational game. The 'monster' encounters are done more like Zelda II instead of like Final Fantasy/Dragon Warrior if you know those NES games. And I found that to also be an excellent quality of life improvement. I could seek out harder or easier groups of katakana character monsters for more or less practice. Rather than them just sprung on me.
As mentioned, I've already familiarized myself with most katagana before starting to play this game. I would recommend prospective players to do the same. At the time of this review, I have hiragana memorized and about 75% of katakana. The game is more about reinforcing and finishing memorizing last little bit. I think using flashcard and spending time writing each character daily is still fundamental with the game as support in learning.
I actually couldn't recommend the hiragana game in this series. I found it a little too frustrating with too much time spent navigating menus to be effective even for support learning. However, this katakana game fixes enough of those issues as well as some things I didn't know I had an issue with for an enjoyable game. And in fact, there is a bit of traditional turn-based rpg here as well. The player needs to use party/monster turn order, character damage and monster hit points (katakana monsters become more powerful further into the 'alphabet' you get) to dispatch them with minimal harm to your party.
I do recommend Learn Japanese To Survive! Katakana War. With the understanding the game is much more enjoyable if you study away from it.
### Overview
Fight katakana as you try to save Japan, again!
### Gameplay
- It has the same controls as the previous game, and it felt like it probably used the same game to some extent.
- They added alot of spells that I did not end up using because I wanted to learn and practice my katakana memorization. You also get more health now so the enemies don’t two shot you.
- I’m not sure if it really works for me, but the game makers really tried to make this like a visual novel, woo your companion kind of thing and I really just wanted information. The voice acting took me out of my element sometimes and they had scenes in between that were just trying to be funny? I do give them an A for improving on their previous game!
- I appreciate that they put alot less enemies in the game. It used to be like pokemon with random encounters, but now you see the enemies drifting about and they don’t respawn when you kill them. That was a great improvement.
### Graphics & Art Style
- This still has the same style as the previous game, but they definitely hired people to make actual characters this time!
- I didn’t really care to have companions and that is on me, I am seeing this game as more of an educational supplement.
### Overall Impressions
- *What did you like most?* I liked that they made the enemies less OP, and that it was a good balance of repetition. They made grinding more into quests so that felt better than just wandering aimlessly through an area. Having the pseudo companions definitely made the game feel more robust.
- *What didn’t work well?* Needing to essentially have those random dating sim-like encounters in order to unlock spells that I didn’t use. That may be a ME issue tho.
- *Would you recommend it?* I would definitely recommend it to someone who just wants to learn or brush up on their katakana.
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**Final Score:** 4/5
日本語上手
I used to know the japanese alphabets but mostly forgot them. Probably makes the game much easier for me. I don't think it's for anyone other than complete noobs though, it won't do you any good unless you don't know any japanese whatsoever. An English version would be like this: Monsters in the shapes of English letters that you attacked by recognizing what those letters are. They'll also teach a random word or phrase here or there, such as "good morning." I have doubts about a significant improvement in speaking Japanese after finishing this game. That said, I still like it. Good way to learn the Japanese alphabet.
best game in the series in my opinion but still very flawed, teaches Katakana mostly well enough but has a bunch of features that have nothing to do with learning Japanese(like the bond events) and glosses over or entirely skips some things such as the katakana for "vu" that wasn't even mentioned at all(ヴ, though is very rarely used anyway so it's not an issue) and the concept of small vowels that was only briefly mentioned at times(and unless I'm remembering wrong the game even says we'll go more in depth on them later just to never really do it, maybe it does as some side quest I missed but not in the main quest)
This game achieves well what it sets out to do - helping players memorize katakana in a way more entertaining than flashcards. Stroke order and pronunciation are included with every attack.
The downside is the game is extremely unstable and crashes constantly. Make sure you save every time you do anything. The interface to change the control scheme also seems to be glitched, leaving you without the ability to switch to WASD controls.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Sleepy Duck |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 94% положительных (312) |