Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet are AFAIK the first Gen to feature Kanji with Furigana as its 日本語 option!

I started it tonight as a low intermediate learner (self-taught, self assessed, take with a mountain of grains of salt) The furigana alongside the very simple vocabulary makes it very accessible. The one exception being the few instances of auto-forwarding dialogue.

It has the potential to be an amazing resource for learners looking for accessible content.

In case you’re wondering, I’m team クワッス!

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  1. That’s pretty cool. BDSP has all hiragana and normal Japanese as options, but not normal Japanese with furigana last I checked.

  2. ホゲータ is the best but we can call a truce if you agree that パモ is cute. I like his little barks.

  3. I’m currently playing Link’s Awakening with the furigana enabled. It’s such a great thing to have fun while learning Japanese!

  4. Not Pokémon, but both DS Zelda games (夢幻の砂時計 & 大地の汽笛) had a cool feature where pressing on the kanji would pop up some Furigana for reading. Very handy little learning feature

  5. If memory serves, S&M had that feature, but I may be misremembering with it offering just standard Japanese with no ruby text.

    I would check, but I don’t know where my 3DS is, and I don’t really want to start a new game all that much if I did, yknow?

  6. Didn’t Arceus have furigana as well? It might only be for some kanji though, I don’t remember and I don’t feel like pulling up my Japanese save file atm

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