Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography

This is very helpful for people learning to read, write, and speak Japanese. I would recommend this as someone trying to learn Japanese. The various options the game has will be helpful for most, letting you learn in ways that work for you. It provides a variety of materials to learn vocabulary about, and can be useful in everyday settings. One critique I do have is that there's not more of this game. I know that in most cases, this is not a real complaint, but in this case it is. I would love it if you could explore more settings in order to include even more words into the vocabulary. Overall, This is a great tool (I'm not sure if this counts as a game) for learning Japanese, but I want there to be more of it.

I've only put 4 hours into this game and I believe I, personally, can put a LOT more into it by memorizing phrases and words. If you're already studying with Anki or other methods for studying Japanese, you might enjoy this as a cute, low-stakes way to practice Japanese vocabulary and memorize words in a unique way. It provides good supplemental material and the added benefit of having the hiragana/katakana charts is a nice plus. The environment is super appealing to walk around in and I love the transitions from day to night, as well as the weather shifting from clear blue skies to cloudy rainfall. Would have loved to have more to work with, but it's still very charming and there's enough variety with the focused learning and quiz flash cards. I've spent roughly 30 min to an hour a day in this little digital sandbox, and I can say that not only has it been calming but I've mastered words and recognized some Kanji for phrases, which I did not think would be possible. The developers also included some introductory dialogue for basic conversations and additional phrases, which is nice, but compared to the core gameplay, it's less successful at pushing me to remember things versus the flash cards or other study methods. I'd love to see more from this developer or more of the game expanded to different areas of Japan. I think its a great little game.