Zim said:
Kasz216 said:
Zim said:
Kasz216 said:
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
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Yea that's a lot of speech man. Even just getting a vague idea of it would take a huge amount of time. If you just ignored the speech it would be quite doable. With that stuff you are looking at utterly comical amounts of time.
I don't think you are quite grasping just how difficult it is to read a different language you don't know. Especially one not based around the same alphabet. I mean just try and read an article on a Japanese website without copying any text using an automatic translation tool etc. That's what it will be like on a console.
I mean when a kanji comes up without any furigana on it what would you do? The easiest way to look them up is by knowing the radical and stroke count. However neither of those things are obvious if you don't know them before hand. Often some things that look like two strokes are actually one etc.
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Why i asked. With the same alaphabet it's pretty easy. Different letters wasn't sure.
Ah well.... worse comes to worse maybe i'll just try and learn the whole language. Have had awful expeirences with it before, but a different alphabet might make it easier for me.
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My advice would be. Order the game. Then before it arrives spend a week or so learning Katakana and Hirgana (these are basically the alphabet). Learning them really doesn't take long at all. I'm pretty sure it was our first class in university and we were given about 5 days to do it or something. Learning these will make it so you can read the foreign words but also it will help recognizing names, buttons etc that aren't in Kanji. (As an aside if you ever go to Japan then simply knowing Katakana is by far the quickest and easiest thing to do that makes it easier).
Then play the game in the non-story mode to get a feel for how to actually play it, what things mean etc. Then once you have that down I would say try the story mode but just be aware that single pieces of dialogue could take you a long time to understand.
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Sounds like it might be a good idea. Being a sports franchise the "getting a feel for the game" part won't really be needed from what i understand it plays just like the US versions and i have expiernce muddling my way through SRPG games.
I think i may get it, and do like you say, and if doesn't work out, the story mode but with the results seeming random might actually still end up being a lot of fun. Espiecally if they have that weird option most japanese games do that allow you to make english names.
Japanese games are a special kind of frustrating in regards to that. They always have just a little bit of english.
Thanks for all the help.
