Watching someone play through a text-heavy video game is great because you can hear professionally-written text being read by a native speaker, and then hear them say what they think about it. Written and spoken language are different, and hearing both together is good for learning.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40hKSmr4mXk&list=PLbeCHMvOjpIHbKThgpiAiBfCs0-mjHUs9&index=1) is a really good example of what I’m talking about. It’s a Japanese guy playing through Paper Mario. He voice-acts all the characters and reads clearly. Paper Mario is particularly easy. I definitely know the pronunciation and kanji for “star” and “princess,” having seen them 100 times now. I don’t have all the kana 100% memorized yet but the text has lots of “taisetsu ni taisetsu ni” and “nokonoko” and “kamekame” and “hahahahahahaha” which helps a lot.
Does anyone have any other good examples? Doesn’t have to be YouTube. Thanks!
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[レトルト](https://www.youtube.com/c/retokani/featured) is one of my favorites, he plays a good mix of older or RPG Maker games that have no voice acting and newer games that are fully voiced.
[ã‚ヨ](https://www.youtube.com/user/KIYOisGOD) often does text heavy games
Someone asked about Japanese let’s players (for visual novels):
[Any entertaining Youtube let’s players for visual novels?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/xd5p1k/any_entertaining_youtube_lets_players_for_visual/)
I’ve replied with video links if you’re interested, good luck!