Im a pretty big RPG fan, needed help learning the material, and it was pretty cheap anyways so I figured Id pick this title up and give it a try.

On the other hand, most people who choose to play this game do so for a different reason.to attempt to learn a bit of one of the hardest foreign languages, Japanese, in an interesting, entertaining way.

Learn Japanese To Survive Hiragana Battle accomplishes this by giving the player an RPG Maker title where they aim to help the player learn one of the basic Japanese writing systems as well as a bit of Japanese vocabulary.

Hiragana and katakana work sort of like our alphabet in that you can use these phonetic systems to create any word in the Japanese language.

Hiragana is used to represent native Japanese words while katakana is used to represent words of foreign origin.

Learn Japanese to Survive Hiragana Battle sets out to teach you this system of characters.

In the battles your enemies will be Hiragana Warriors and the only way to deal damage to them is to identify them.

If you dont give the right answer you wont deal any damage and will have to try again next turn.

Throughout the game the player will slowly be taught the hiragana characters and, after each lesson, they will be sent on a mission that both progresses the storyline as well as gives them an ample opportunity to practice their newfound knowledge Outside of the unique answering system everything else is pretty standard for an RPG Maker title.

Expect to see turn-based combat with the player being able to level their characters up and buy new weapons, armor, and items.

There are a couple of side quests on top of the main storyline as well.

If you strip away the learning aspect, Hiragana Battle is actually a pretty lackluster title.

The storyline is pretty uninteresting without any real surprises.

The characters are not developed very well and wont really get anybody really invested into them or the game.

The music and game mechanics are both serviceable but not much more than that.

Additionally, there are some annoyances when playing the game.

Perhaps the worst one is that the battles menu system gets really cluttered as you advance through the game.

You have to choose from a larger and larger pile of answers as you learn more which can quickly become a bit cumbersome.

It only focuses on the hiragana system and a very small set of vocabulary.

Fast learners will be able to burn through this title relatively quickly and find themselves without much else to do.

With all those negatives you may think that Hiragana Battle must not be a good title.but that isnt really true.

There may be flaws with the game, but none are so glaring that they kill the game experience.

It accomplishes its main objective: make learning hiragana fun Incorporating an RPG system into something highly repetitive, like learning to recall and identify foreign characters, works well together like peanut butter and jelly.

The story and characters may not be very intriguing on their own, but they work just fine when the players main focus is to learn more.

You may even want to grind out some extra battles as you struggle to learn hiragana because, hey, at least then you can afford that new shiny armor or get your next level Domo Arigato (Mr.

Roboto) As chance would have it, I was actually taking Japanese 101 in university when I saw this game release on Steam.

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