Zim said:
It would be an utter nightmare. Don't do it.
I remember when I had only been learning Japanese for around two years or so and tried to play some rpgs (Tales of the tempest and A.S.H) in Japanese and it was such a hassle that instead of enjoying the games it simply turned into a laborious work exercise.
Firstly you won't just need a dictionary. You will also need a grammar dictionary. As simply knowing what the main words in a sentence are could still mean you get the opposite meaning.
If you don't read Hiragana/Katakana or any Kanji then looking things up you are simply going to have to go by how they look which will take an eternity.
I don't know how extensive the story mode in that game is, how much dialogue etc. However if there is even a reasonable amount and you want to actually understand the gist of things then it will be less like playing a game and far more like work.
If you do decide to go ahead with it then I would recommend downloading a program called Wakan. It's an utterly brilliant free Japanese - English dictionary for your computer.
EDIT: Am watching the video you posted. Kinda hard to tell how much dialogue etc is in the game from it. If most of it is just set menus then you can probably manage it as learning a limited amount of words is quite easy. I would strongly recommend learning Katakana though. You can learn it in a few days and it will allow you to read the foreign words put into Japanese. For example power becomes pawaa, Slide becomes suraido etc.
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It's pretty much ALL dialog, but it's like a short scenario of dialog... essentially I can play through the mode I play in a single day. Most of it repeats, but there are some random events that happen rarely... and differet sideplots.
I figure it'd take about 8 playthroughs to get everything down, so about 16-42 hours in already translated time.
As an example I played that mode enough times to fill about 6 baseball teams in the last english game.
It'd be more "suffering through it" the first couple weeks to enjoy it for the next few years. (Still playing power pros 2008 today.)
Example of a lets play, so mostly text, but done to set the groundwork, if possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOZutu3POpU
