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Switch eShop
3rd Sep 2024 — $20.00
3rd Sep 2024
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News Take Snapshots And Learn Japanese In This Cosy Switch Photography Game, Live On Kickstarter
Lens of languages
Autumn Pioneer has been working on a rather lovely little project over the past few years, and now the game is on Kickstarter. Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography is a chill, fun, and accessible educational game that combines photography with language learning, and if the Kickstarter is fully funded, the game will be coming...
About The Game
Explore bright, fictional Japanese streets filled with details and interesting objects to capture with your camera. Each photograph you take will translate the name of the content into Japanese and English so you can learn with your surroundings.
Features:
- A stylised, approachable 3D environment
- In-game photography system
- Japanese audio
- Photo album to store your flash cards
- Game modes that test your memory
- Beginner phrases and grammar lessons
- Day/Night and weather cycle
- Display romaji, kana, furigana (recommended) or kanji
- A lo-fi soundtrack perfect for studying with
Create Stunning Photography Based Flashcards
Every photo flash-card you take will be unique to you. The idea behind this is to strengthen the relationship between a word and how you see its physical appearance. In the real world, you can then see such objects and make connections to the Japanese words you've already learned while playing Shashingo.
Track Your Progress in the Photo Album
Your photo album is where you keep your collection of Photo Flash-Cards. If you remember them well in Find Mode, they'll be separated into the 'mastered' tab and shown with a gold star sticker. However, if you're struggling to remember a word in Find Mode, they'll be marked with a purple exclamation mark sticker, so you know which words you need to practice more.
You can also mark your favourite words & images with a cute little heart sticker to add them to your favourites page.
At the back of your in-game photo album, there are numerous pages of Japanese lessons designed for beginners that will teach you how to speak Japanese and use the vocabulary that you learn in Shashingo. Also included are some key words and important phrases that can help you in your future conversations.
Comments 1
OK so I purchased this game and have buyers remorse. Imagine if Mario was just 1-1. You play it, think "hey wow, what a cool concept", but then wonder where is the rest of the game.
This had potential for walking around multiple areas, interacting with locals and having basic conversations. Instead there is a single deserted area where you take photos mainly of select inanimate objects. And the translations arent always useful.
There is a small dictionary of words and it does attempt to teach you hiragana / katakana. But nothing compared to what you can get in abundance online for free.
This is a demo and I can't see anybody playing it for more than 15 minutes. The biggest insult is they have already decided to add a paid DLC for additional camera filters when they haven't even made enough content to justify the cost of the initial offering.
How do you say "I want my money back" in Japanese?
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