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Knuckles RPG to help you learn Japanese
by Jordan Running Jan 3rd 2006 at 6:45PM
I'm not
sure why this game is called Knuckles in China Land, but it's a learning
game for practicing your Japanese characters--Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji--or your Japanese, Indonesian, or German
vocabulary. The game stars Knuckles from the Sonic the Hedgehog games (unlicensed, I'm sure) and takes the form of a
traditional RPG, except that instead of fighting battles with monsters, you must master characters and vocabulary
words. It comes with libraries which include thousands of characters and words, but if you want more it also has a
Vocabulary Editor to add your own.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Alan Lindsey said 6:40AM on 1-04-2006
Watch out for the nasty surprises when you follow the links to what you hope is the game!!
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Make money king said 8:00AM on 1-04-2006
Don't think anyone would be looking for links to this game. Sounds like this should be today's time waster.
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cuby said 8:53AM on 1-04-2006
we'll see how civilized a place DlS is -- when this got posted on Digg it touched off a landslide of inconcolable whiners, eye-rolling otaku, and the token i-live-in-japan-so-i'm-an-expert
exchange wapanese.
i think the bottom line is, the game is unfortunately pretty poorly done, with no sound, and rather unintuitive gameplay. for people who want to learn japanese but want something that less resembles "study", pick up a copy of the Mangajin's Learning Japanese through Manga. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4889961151/103-1583834-0039851?v=glance&n=283155we'll see how civilized a place DlS is -- when this got posted on Digg it touched off a landslide of inconcolable whiners, eye-rolling otaku, and the token i-live-in-japan-so-i'm-an-expert
exchange wapanese.
i think the bottom line is, the game is unfortunately pretty poorly done, with no sound, and rather unintuitive gameplay. for people who want to learn japanese but want something that less resembles "study", pick up a copy of the Mangajin's Learning Japanese through Manga. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4889961151/103-1583834-0039851?v=glance&n=283155)
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cuby said 8:54AM on 1-04-2006
sorry, absolutely no idea why it did that ;P i blame osama.
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