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Thank you, Tukkun! You did a great job, making this game. One of the good examples how combining leisure and learning might enhance both. It's fun and useful. I hope you'll keep it up and continue creating those nice little game to help people learn Japanese in their free time
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This is fantastic! I think the only thing I'd really ask for would be the use of different typefaces, just to account for the different ways you might see the text.
Are you usng a third-party program that allows you to type in a different language? Such programs may interfere with keyboard input and make this game work improperly.
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Good game for people new to Japanese.
"Warrior" is one of those funny words in katakana.
It can be ウォリアー or ウォーリア and both are correct.
It's a personal quirk, but I always felt ウォリアー sounded more like "worrier" and ウォーリア like "warrior."
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just 1 suggestion your n looks like an h thanks to the little head of your n , and i make mistakes and get confused because of that
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Sometimes in an obstacle destroy stage I press the spacebar once but it shoots twice, causing me to get a miss when I didn't make a mistake.
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Feature request: option to toggle character/question change on failure for the obstacle destroy mode. I accidentally hit right arrow at the wrong time, so I go to correct it and miss again. Every. Time.
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Nice game, only problem I had that the n and h look very similar (at least to me). But other than that everything is good, a Kanji version would be great.
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No interest in learning Japanese, but gave it 5/5 nonetheless. I hope these kinds of educational games become more common on Kong.
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I learned hiragana a few years ago, this is a great refresher. This is a lot more fun than the way I learned these characters.
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wow... really great game! but i would have loved a feature to practice some of the "words" like a i o u e but then choosing only a i o because sometimes you only get the eample:a once in the earlier game and then it could be nice to practice the others :D otherwise good game for learning 5/5
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The similar font between 'n's and 'h's is driving me crazy... Could could we make those look a little different, upper case, perhaps? =P
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This is a very interesting game. I already know hiragana mostly, so hopefully you can do a katakana one soon! A couple comments:
1. It would be nice to go to the next level without going back to the level menu...
2. I would prefer to press "enter" key after each character instead of "space-bar". If you're typing for real you would press enter anyways..space-bar seems awkward.
3. Maybe after all levels are mastered...you could do bonus levels with hiragana words?
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As immature as I am, a little game helps a lot to keep me dedicated. I had been slacking on the traditional way of learning, so thank you!
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Where was THIS when I was learning?
If you're interested in making one for everyday Kanji, I recommend using the symbols from http://realkanji.com/n4/. This is a list of the kanji that appears on the JLPT level 4 (intro) test. You can pair up kanji that have similar radicals into groups for comparison as well.
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My main gripe with this is that I have to use my mouse to click menu buttons. I'd prefer if I could stick to the keyboard and use arrow keys to navigate the menus.
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Needs better rewards and loot. I did not even get a single blue coin for anti-idling the first three levels, even though I aced them. Should give some cyborg points, too.
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I think this would feel more satisfying if the laser fired when you hit the final letter of the mora, instead of having to hit return all the time. Maybe you could also get a Japanese speaker to pronounce all the characters for you and incorporate that into the game somehow, even if it's just being able to click on the characters and hear the pronunciations at the screen you see before the rounds start. Very cool to see a game like this on Kong :).
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this would have been really helpful my first semester of Japanese in college. Now, in my second semester this is rather remedial (saying this without going through the entire game, maybe it starts throwing in kanji later but otherwise its too easy for me) still I like the idea this game has, just a little too late for me.
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ahh, nevermind, it's the combo ones. I probably would have learned that in adventure mode, but I figured it'd be okay to skip because I only need a little review :/
a tutorial beforehand could be helpful.
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what is it with the free mode? I'm typing the right characters but it's all misses, is it something to do with those swords?
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For Japanese people this game will be such a boring terrible piece of game lol XD
Love it btw. Killing two bird with one stone.
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You could make this game ten times better by saying something like "you were killed by 'cho' (チョ)" when you die. It's kind of useful for practice, but it sucks having to look up the ones you couldn't remember all the time.
Hi, thank you for the suggestion! Actually, you can roll over the level icon in the top left corner to see the recent characters that killed you or characters that you got a mistake on.
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Actually the game became impossible once i hit stage three. once i had to press multiple letters the lag on key entry is so bad the enemy reaches me before it registers.
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This is a very cool concept, but i am getting horrid lag while playing. about halfway through a level my key stokes take a second or two to register. sometimes i have to press the key a few times to register.
Are you using a low-end computer? You should try changing graphic quality to low and disabling background (in the top right corner of the game) and zooming out your browser. You should also try closing unnecessary programs. It could also be the case that you are using a third party program allowing you to type in a non-English language, which would interfere with the game.
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Any chance of doing one for vocabulary (in kana primarily, but maybe kanji too)? I'm trying to learn the N5 list, but finding it quite hard.
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while other country have only use 26 character of alphabet, japanese use those 214 basic character, plus 26 english alphabet, plus gazilion number of kanji word, no wonder most of them really smart.. 5/5
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That's a great game. Putting game in education is the very best idea. Maybe we wpn't have to face exams. Just clearing a game can be enough. I was thinking to make my lessons a game. with imagınatıon and sounds ıt can be easıer to learn somethıng. But unfortunately i don't know how to write games. And lastly; thank you very much! I learned some Japaneese for 2 semı-years. And I dıdnt use them. I memorızed Hıragana and Katakana, and ı was about to forget them.