I’ve recently started watching more and more videos in Japanese but find it significantly easier to learn and understand what’s happening with context clues, as you’d expect. Just the other day I stumbled across some playthroughs of Unpacking, which is an absoute treat for this purpose – the objects are well designed and are usually obvious what they are cross-culture, the person playing often states the name and comments on where they would put it, or a memory of how they used the item in the past.
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This makes it quite easy to understand what they’re saying from context clues alone if you have some understanding of grammar and basic vocab, so it seems like the perfect genre of game to watch in order to learn more, which led me to thinking – are there other games or pieces of media like this, that have a relaxed, slow pace and plenty of context clues to work off?
by Maddogs1