grats, what was your path to getting to that point? i can never fully motivate myself into a concrete disciplined strategy to learning japanese, it lasts for maybe a week or two then i trail off and stop.

>>12547763
afaik there is nothing that uses only (or even mostly) N5. Some stuff can get pretty close, though.

Retro games are contentious because they either stick to kana only (which is bad if you're learning, because you absolutely should NOT neglect kanji) or the kanji are so pixelated it's actually unreadable for a n00b. Sticking to kana only isn't too bad an option though.

imo play some old Pokémon, the vocab isn't too hard if you don't mind looking things up from time to time. Could really use some kanji, though. Gen 4 onward is great because the text no longer requires a pixel font

if you care about just games in general, there's this guy on youtube - game gengo - that pretty much does game reviews of how accessible a game is for a learner. Some of the top picks are the 12-sai series for 3DS, Famicom Detective Club and Yokai Watch. You can find his google spreadsheet in the description of most of his ranking videos

>>12547763
>I passed the N5 with a perfect score
what a waste of money
>I’d prefer games that can be set mostly to kana
>as long as it’s not so much that I have to constantly check a dictionary
what a horrible mindset, you should be challenging yourself not stifling your learning. You suck at japanese and you need to be devoting all your time to getting better.

>>12547763
Once you've learned around 2~3k words, you start to see sentences that aren't just a wall of new vocabulary. And even then, you'll still be pulling out a dictionary non-stop.

>>12547825
>if you care about just games in general, there's this guy on youtube - game gengo -
thanks for the tip in the right direction, I’ll take a look!
>>12547870
>waste of money
>what a horrible mindset
>you should be challenging yourself
With the due respect that you haven’t had for me, go fuck yourself. I challenge myself every day studying Japanese in the free time my job leaves me, after having completed the degree, master’s, and PhD required for my work, so fuck you giving me lessons about challenging myself WITH FUCKING VIDEO GAMES, RETARD. I only HUMBLY asked for retro game recommendations to HAVE FUN while reinforcing what I’ve learned, a level that I ALREADY HUMBLY DEFINED AS BASIC. I DO NOT use FUCKING TOYS to study, you moron; for that I use books like any normal person who intends to take something in life seriously. Fuck you useless piece of shit.

>>12547870
lol poorfag
>>12547763
>>12548089
>I don’t mind new vocabulary, as long as it’s not so much that I have to constantly check a dictionary
you NEED to build a mental library of few thousand vocab words or else you're not getting anywhere
use srs like core6k or wanikani, it's way easier than you think you just gotta do it every day
i work full time and its totally manageable just 30 minutes a day

>>12547763
you're not good enough to play games. games are an inefficient waste of time when it comes to learning a language. read a book nigga. or watch anime with jsubs if you can keep up

>>12548175
>lol poorfag
I say its a waste of money because testing before N2 is pointless. Theres a reason why the Japanese permanent residency point system only considers N2 and above notable.

>>12548181
Why cant i read an rpg or adventure game?

>>12548278
You can learn however you wish. It just might not be "efficient" enough for autism-anon.

Digital fonts are hard to read.

>>12547763
Keep at it. At N3 and 10k words vocab and you'll only have to open up a dictionary every other sentence.

Lol nerd