There is ample documentation on this sort of thing on the official NetHack page. You can shrink it to text-size by removing one line from a text file. I posted about the game in this thread: And a direct link to it on my site: Someone complained about not liking the tile set. Old thread but here I am, the friend Jarvik7 mentioned. The dialogue, imo, is actually better than that of the majority of 8 or 16 bit rpg games that existed back in the day. You walk around for just a couple econds and bam! I just think its kind of neat to have a fairly interesting plot as an incentive to keep you going for a while. Furthermore, aside from the slowness of the game, Knuckles basically IS repetition flashcard software. Not understanding the details of the plot would just be too frustrating for me.

I can't play games like FF 6 or Zelda in Japanese because I have very little grasp on the vocab and grammar. But rather, I think its about what you would expect from a lone individual making a game in his basement on zero budget and expecting no money for it. I don't think the graphics are an 'excuse for poor quality'.

LOL, I didn't expect you guys to be so hard on this game! Its true that it is very slow (I wish you could speed the battles up), but I really do think its more fun than just sitting around with flashcards for hours on end. Playing games IN Japanese is good.īut it doesn't directly teach you anything, it's up to you to look up words and remember them. The member ship was different when I signed up, $2/month. It's not a good game, but it was much better than dry slow flashcards. I finished learning all the kanji meanings this way, in a very short time.

I didn't like the plot or graphics, but the slime battles were very effective for me. I can't say anything about plot, since I didn't get far. The graphics were old fashioned, I don't know why people like that. After a couple battles I couldn't take it and stopped. Get into the Final Fantasy series like some of the guys on the board are doing here or play Zelda for the DS and study like you got a pair!! I tried that Knuckes was sooooo sloooooow. You will eventually put of playing it because it is so stupid. Play a game because you want to, not because you think it will help you with your studies, cos in both of these cases, it probably won't. You'll learn hiragana and katakana better with 'remembering the kana' and you can study words faster and more efficiently with spaced repetition software. Regardless of their relation to japanese, these games should be banned. You two are both talking about the worst RPG's I have ever played.

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