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Knuckles RPG to help you learn Japanese
by Jordan Running Jan 3rd 2006
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.
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, ...
