I found a neat repo with JPDB deck lists for a small selection of video games. Seems like a mix of old and new.
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That’s the first I’ve ever heard of Volcano Princess. And somehow it’s also a good game? Wishlisted 
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After a long break I continued playing 逆転裁判, am now in the third case of the first game. I think after the long pause I do feel a sense of improvement, I don’t feel like I have to look up much, I look up maybe once or twice between subchapters (when you’re asked to save). なんか気持ちいい😊
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Okay looks like this thread is super dead, but maybe over the course of the year I can single handedly revive it.
I’m almost finished with ぼくの夏休み 2：海の大冒険. After finishing this I’ll have played 1-3, Natsu-Mon, and the Shin Chan spin off games. All that’s left will be 4 and to replay 3. (as I didn’t know Japanese when I played 3) 2 is probably my favorite of the traditional games so far.
After BokuNatsu 2 I’ll go back to focusing on 妖怪ウォッチ4++, which I’m 15 or so hours into now. I’m not sure I like it as much as some of the other games in the series. In particular, recruiting yokai is a lot more annoying with the whole soul collecting mechanic.
I’ve mostly relied on my own knowledge with occasional help from google translate for identifying kanji, but I recently tried the desktop app for Kamui and I’m super impressed. It’s picked up the text in the PSP version of BokuNatsu2 with auto scan perfectly so far. (and that text can be quite…crunchy) I did try it with a PS2 emulator and it seems to have a lot more trouble with auto scan on that. In that it loses the window for some reason. You can still set the scan area and manual scan though.
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Looks cool, though I think I’ll stick with YomiNinja, since it’s free & (more importantly) lets me use JPDB Web Reader. Tho the Google OCR integration is broken , ever since google updated their signin (the API key thing might work, but I didn’t wanna bother). So I’m just using the builtin one, which is fairly solid, and use my phone if there’s something it doesn’t catch. Notably both YomiNinja and Kamui share a flaw: you can’t merge lines, so if your word breaks over a line, you can’t get it like that
I’m theoretically playing Fate/Stay Night, SeaBed, and/or Fire Emblem: Three Houses rn… but I’m also reading and watching a ton of stuff rn, so my playtime is very inconsistent for any of those rn. Home thread for SeaBed - informal Visual Novel Book Club has a book club here. I’m still early on, so not totally hooked yet.
Fire Emblem I’m kinda mixed on - story is nice, gameplay & mechanics I’m iffy on. Language is pretty accessible for me now though, but still need to look things up.
Fate/Stay Night (which I’ve dropped 3x before) actually feels achievable now, largely due to YomiNinja, and a bit of jpdb - but also the grammar and writing style is a lot less perplexing for me now. Last time I played I was double-checking with translation, but not needed this time around.
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So I played another 3 hours of Dragon Quest, decided reading is hard, and haven’t been back 
I have a huge cache of Switch games that are fully voiced and maybe this is my sign to try out another one and see if it’s a better fit for me right now.
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I have a stack of games with Japanese Voices and text but haven’t played anything in a while. I planned to play 13 Sentinels but still don’t think my Japanese is good enough though it does have full voice over and text log for re-reading/ re-listening to the voices, if I had the patience atm.
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I am currently working my way through some visual novels on the switch and just saw that Root Letter and Root Film are on sale in the Japanese store… But only the latter is fully voiced though, while Root Letter apparently is only fully voiced on pc? (According to vndb) But I prefer playing on the switch now.
I use GitHub - AuroraWright/owocr: Optical character recognition for Japanese text currently for looking up words, I am very happy with it!
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I didn’t know about either of these. I’m cool with Kamui for now, especially since I already paid for a year, but I’m definitely going to keep those in my back pocket for later.
One thing I really want to try Kamui with is DS games. I tried to play one last year called ココロノココロン and in the couple hours I played I learned that kanji on the DS tends to be written a bit differently than usual, because of the space issues. I only realized that from using google translate on my phone at the time. It might make my life a lot easier if I just emulate the game this time though. I hate doing that when I went out of my way for a physical copy though.
Oh aren’t we all.
You speak the truth. RPGs in japanese are an especially hard thing to commit to. I tried playing Yo-Kai Watch 4 around 2 years into my learning journey and it was hard af. It took me 10 hours to get to chapter 3 of the game. It’s when I learned “久しぶり” for the first time, which should have told me I wasn’t ready right then.
Now I’m 15 hours in on Chapter 5, so waaay better time this time around.
See I love these threads. I’m learning about a lot of options I didn’t realize I had before.
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