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Yes. I know you can just "go on memorise" or find some other random place to study the Hiragana. And yes I know some people only take 2-4 hours to remember all the Hiragana. But that's boring as hell and so textbook. Once you've learned Hiragana and Katakana you're going to be spending most of your time with your face inside of a textbook, so why not enjoy the first few weeks of studying Japanese?

It's been almost two years since I first started studying Japanese and I still remember the fun I had when playing through both Hiragana Battle and Katakana War. Not that JPN isn't fun--because I find it a lot more enjoyable than wasting time in competitive gaming--but you're going to have a hard time finding anything else that hasn't been "gamified" that isn't Hiragana or Katakana.

Anyway, enough about Japanese--lets talk about this game.

It's not that good to be honest, well compared to Katakana War at least. If this is your first Sleepy Duck game then you won't notice the difference of course. If you've already played Katakana War then this game is going to be pretty disappointing because this game isn't even half as much fun as that game. But, it's a start. And it's still fun. So if you haven't played any "Learn Japanese to Survive!" games, then definitely pick this up.

To be honest, even though Kanji Combat's characters aren't memorable at all, I still feel like I remember the characters from there better than here. Though it has been over a year since I've played this game so it's understandable but I still remember characters from Katakana War so then again, maybe it's not.

I mentioned that I still listen to that soundtrack that plays during lessons which I put into a one hour loop and I still use it to this day when I'm studying JPN. I heard this soundtrack in another game but I can't remember which, so I think it's one of those royalty free soundtracks. Either that, or the other game I played stole the soundtrack from this game and used it in theirs. Nonetheless, I've uploaded a one hour edit of that soundtrack onto a site--just ask me if you want it.

I'm going to end this the same way I ended my Katakana War review. If you're looking for the most useful "Learn Japanese to Survive!" game, get this game. If you're looking for the most fun "LJTS" game, get Katakana War.

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So I tried starting the game about 5 times. Either there is a black screen or the game tells me I'm logged in somewhere else. But after I logged out from the website, I encountered another black screen. Not worth playing if I can't even get the game to start.

If you've never heard of this game before then just imagine a bad ass chinese dude in a GTA type game.
- Real free-roam, not that fake free-roam in Yakuza 0.
- Steal cars/Cop rampages/Civilian rampages etc. Pretty much everything you'd do in GTA is here.
- Combat is extremely fun. It's just like the Batman games. The counter system, I believe, is one of the best combat systems in existence.
- Parkour. Though you're limited to where you can actually parkour, you can pretty much use parkour to get around the map. It's obviously not as good as Mirror's Edge Catalyst but at least you can wallrun up a gate/fence and do other various parkour moves to get around or away from cops. Though it's not designed specifically for parkour, so only some parts of the map will allow you to fully utilize the parkour system.
- Guns are pretty rare. I say to think of this game like GTA because it plays almost exactly like GTA but it also plays a lot like Batman. Except Batman never uses guns (real guns anyway). When you do get a gun though, you can do a bunch of cool things that include parkour. Though, if you're one of those people that always has to be shooting things 24/7 then you'd probably want to stay away from this game.
- Gore. I remember the first time I shot someone in the head I was thinking to myself: "What the f***." It felt so realistic. It reminded me how badly made GTA5 was. Shooting someone in the head in GTA5 is boring and besides a big red tear drop and a tiny spot on the person's head, it didn't feel like I really shot them in the head. Maybe the devs of GTA5 assumed that children would play the game so they toned down the gore or maybe they were just lazy. But the devs of Sleeping Dogs were the complete opposite. You're going to be saying "oh sh*t" when you see your first head get popped.
- Cursing. It's funny since instead of bleeping it or removing it entirely, they replace the word with the chinese curse word instead. It's amusing and doesn't feel like it's weird at all.
- There's probably more I could mention but that's all I could remember.

I was honestly disappointed with Yakuza 0. I assumed it was going to be a Sleeping Dogs in Japan but after reading reviews and watching gameplay I realized that it's nothing like it. I'd definitely recommend Sleeping Dogs if you were thinking of getting it.

And it's on discount right now for $5. I promise you that you'll have more fun playing this than paying almost $20 for Yakuza 0.

I only buy games on discount now but If I didn't, I'd say that this game is worth the $30 it's asking for. But it's on discount and for $5 you'll have a hard time finding anything that even remotely resembles GTA, much less find a game better than GTA--which this game is.