The BEST Pokémon Games for Learning Japanese

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Find out which are the BEST games in the Pokémon series to play in Japanese to help you learn the language and have fun while you're immersing! In this video we will take a look at the first hour of each main Pokémon game and analyze the both the text and language options, as well as the Japanese language and kanji data to see exactly which games are the easiest and hardest for Japanese learners.
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►Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Red / Blue / Green / Yellow (Gameboy)
06:59 - Gold / Silver / Crystal (Gameboy)
09:17 - Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald (GBA)
12:27 - Fire Red / Leaf Green (GBA)
15:03 - Diamond / Pearl / Platnium (DS)
19:30 - Heart Gold / Soul Silver (DS)
21:44 - Black / White (DS)
24:50 - Black / White 2 (DS)
25:50 - X / Y (3DS)
29:18 - Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (3DS)
31:23 - Sun and Moon (3DS)
34:22 - Let's Go Pikachu / Eevee (Switch)
38:20 - Sword / Shield (Switch)
41:46 - Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl (Switch)
44:22 - Legends: Arceus (Switch)
49:18 - Scarlet / Violet (Switch)
55:14 - Time to Start Playing
56:43 - Text Analysis
58:42 - JReadability Analysis|
1:00:46 - Kanji Breakdown
1:03:33 - Which is the Best Game?
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@Zaurthur 14 дней назад

This week, Game Gengo figures out how to make spending $100s completing his pokemon collection a business expense.

@GameGengo 14 дней назад

Haha true story, it was actually really expensive getting the games/consoles to get all this footage legitimately recorded from Nintendo hardware, absolutely nothing was emulated :) BUT! Good news is, now its much easier to make videos for a bunch of retro games now haha

@Epiphanetic_ 14 дней назад

@@GameGengowould you ever consider a video for Dragon Quest 8?

@jesus042 14 дней назад

Babe wake up, new Game Gengo video just dropped and he sunk HUNDREDS OF HOURS into it again... seriously dude, your work deserves all the credit in the world. ありがとう❗

@GameGengo 15 дней назад

Wooo! That was a fun one! Sorry for my video occasionally skipping, was a problem with my new recording setup but I've fixed it now so shouldn't be a problem again! Hopefully you guys enjoyed the video! What do you all think about using Pokemon games to learn Japanese with? :) I had such a blast playing these games and would love to cover more on the channel! Let me know in the comments what you want to see more of on the channel!

@GameGengo 15 дней назад

Shout-out to @littlered6340 for asking about Pokemon games in Japanese that led to me making this breakdown for you all!

@FallOnFridays 9 дней назад

This might be a wild ask but would you consider content on Pokemon TCG as an entry point for learners?

@papasmurf789 15 дней назад

Just started Legends Arceus in Japanese for reading practice. Cant wait for this list!

@Kanji101 14 дней назад

With legends Arceus, I bought it day one and I took a very long time to get through the introduction because I read it all, looking up what I didn’t know and taking notes in what became my legends Arceus language specific notebook… I got overwhelmed with the language and had to come back to it later on, a year later on actually. But with my notebook to help me through the intro and knowing more Japanese at that point. It was a much nicer time. I find that one you are into it there isn’t too much to read unless you want to find it

@alxjones 13 дней назад

As far as weird fonts go, it's a good exercise to get practice reading them! There's a ton of fonts and writing styles used in _any_ language, and you don't want to go from reading expert to practically illiterate just because something is written a little funny. Besides, when you're reading words and sentences rather than just characters, the context will help you fill in gaps until you get used to that font/style.

@Epiphanetic_ 14 дней назад

Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been doing a sparse playthru of Omega Ruby in Japanese and I’ve been able to get decently far with your help! Also taking into account that many of us have been playing these games since we were children so even if you don’t know Japanese it’s easy to get into these cause you simply know pokemon well enough lol. I appreciate your hard work and effort you put into making these so much I watch you almost daily and I feel like slowly but surely I’m getting somewhere with this. ごくろさまでした!

@ElMoika01 15 дней назад

As an absolute beginner in Japanese and pokemon fan, count me in chief 🫡

@sacredscythe7979 14 дней назад

I’ve stayed away from Pokémon games because I feel like once you get past the intro the amount of text to gameplay ratio is too lopsided towards gameplay. But I might try it now. Love this style of video!

@GameGengo 14 дней назад

For sure! It really depends on what games you play and how you play them :) If you want a ton of dialogue even after the beginning, then the newer games will definitely have you covered. If you want to play the retro ones though, make sure to talk to every NPC and read every Pokedex ;)

@monkeysonitrousoxide 14 дней назад

The timing on this is great, just last night I was going through my switch case trying to decide which Pokémon game to try in japanese for reading practice, so this breakdown is very helpful

@thelizziemanan 14 дней назад

Awesome video! Thank you for your hard work Matt. Now to go play some pokemon!

@Kekswaffel208 14 дней назад

ありがとうございます Thanks for these recommendations :D

@palacioed17 12 дней назад

Thank you for this video ❤

@Dragona55555 12 дней назад

Hi! I just discovered this channel a few days ago and I'm really impressed by what I've seen so far in terms of production value and usefulness. I'm still N5, only 5 months into self study, but finding resources like yours REALLY helps with keeping up in terms of motivation and variety (especially since I love video games as well)! It's funny that this video should come out now because I had been wondering this exact question just recently - I noticed that some Japanese screenshots of Scarlet & Violet had furigana and spacing in their dialogue which helps with reading kanji. I'm sure you hear this lots, but I'm surprised that you don't have more subscribers! Keep at it, this channel is a gold mine and I've been recommending it to all my fellow learners.

@davidcabreracepeda6105 14 дней назад

Great video, for a beginner in japanese like my self this really helps me in finding other engaging ways of learning the language.

@colonelvector 13 дней назад

Tremendous video, I've wondered which pokemon games to play for learning Japanese before because I'm only familiar with a few. Great breakdown of each too

@clay2889 5 дней назад

You are one of the best Japanese language learner youtubers man.

@TheThrillerJunkie 15 дней назад

This should be interesting! I hope one day you can do one like this for the spinoff games. Anyways, thanks for the great and helpful content as alwayss!

@TanMan97 14 дней назад

What a video Matt. Well done! I also feel like there is a somewhat intangible difficulty element as well. For example, it seems like when I am playing Pokemon X&Y, some of the grammar, or shortening of phrases, or the modern speech/slang is hard to understand. Compared to playing something like Breath of the Wild, where the words may be more rare/difficult, but after a lookup or two it becomes clear what is being said, not as easy to do in some of the sentences I see in Pokemon, in my opinion.

@malfruemulo 4 дня назад

What I really wish you could do in Pokémon games is start them in one language and then switch to another mid-playthrough; would be so cool to be able to wander regions of games I’ve already beaten in a different language, but I don’t think that’s an option in any Pokémon game

@Ozown 14 дней назад

I don't usually comment but I really loved this video and would hope to see more of this on other game series!

@jinjin1156 14 дней назад

Excited for 100k sub sensei🎉

@readone_9718 11 дней назад

Oh my goodness... I learned english through Pokemon games when I was kid and now it's time for another language learningggg

@ph8808 13 дней назад

Been playing frlg and hgss in japanese and its been really fun + a great learning experience

@linceed 13 дней назад

I love your videos! I watch them religiously and I've learned so much from them. I'm moving to Japan for 3 months next week, I'm going to a Japanese school, and I'd like to know what's THE BEST Japanese game to jump-start my learning? I'm currently N4-N3 level!

@TenebraeLux 14 дней назад

I do think a big point against SV is that there are cutscenes in which you do not control the text. So the text shows up, and you better read it fast or else it's going to disappear. This happens toward the end, but also at the very start with the school principal giving his speech. I also think it happens with Rose's speech at the very start of SwSh, though I don't remember that as clearly.

@claudiafrutuoso 13 дней назад

Great video Matt. I guess it is time to give Alpha Saphire a new try :D

@_Username__ 13 дней назад

Thanks. will you ever do Gran Turismo games?

@HCRAYERT. 14 дней назад

Good timing.

@ultimocredito779 11 дней назад

You can learn any language with videogames, I'm studying English with this method and yeah I'm a beginner but it works.... The best genre for learning is an RPG in my opinion.

@user-hv6vs8mn1w 15 дней назад

Pokémon is awesome! I loved it since I was a child. And I even started playing some of the games in Japanese (for learning practice). But I'm actually also die-hard Digimon fan. Now unfortunatelly there aren't that many 'good' Digimon Games, but one that is absolutely AMAZING is Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory. It's an absolut recommendation and it would be sooo cool if you could play it on your channel. 😊❤

@AnishSubedi-wq8xr 15 дней назад

Do u plan on making more contents on 13 sentinels: AR? Imo, that was the best series of all. And, contents like Nier Automata and Buddy mission bond are great too. Loved all of these. Would love to have more like these.

@potetopancakes 14 дней назад

i haven't played alpha sapphire since i was little so i'm definitely interested in replaying it after watching this!!

@ElekHouselov 13 дней назад

Have you ever done a video about how to setup the Switch (or other consoles) to be OCR-able? I would love to see that video. Also, great content as always!

@GameGengo 13 дней назад

I definitely think an OCR video is something I'll be doing sometime soon! Seems really revolutionary for game-learners for sure!

@mkbest 14 дней назад

17:05 "しょうりゅうけん kinda catch Pokémon on the way there"

@shidoumezawa 14 дней назад

hope to see some pokemon on the upcoming nintendo direct! who knows, maybe some of these finally come to the switch online stuff, would make it a lot easier to play them in japanese! I've been playing some jrpgs on the switch with it, like breath of fire and shin megami tensei on the super famicon app. i hope they bring some pokemon there too!

@5095smf 14 дней назад

I'm sure if they ever release the originals on the Switch they'd do it with a separate release instead of Switch Online. I do hope they come to the Switch, too.

@codybennett2298 14 дней назад

Would have loved to hear how Mystery dungeon and Snap on switch compare, but this was still awesome!

@azsylia 11 дней назад

Dude I always look forward to seeing more Game Gengo... Any chance we can get a Ghost of Tsushima first 30 minutes? 😊❤

@GameGengo 11 дней назад

Thanks for enjoying the channel!

@Kanji101 14 дней назад

Would you consider making a video about how to use a capture card for translating a game as you go. Many people, myself included, have never had a capture card and are a bit intimidated by them as they’re expensive and it makes me worry about getting the wrong thing/ not using it well.

@havingnothingtodobutdothings 14 дней назад

ポケモン ZA Please Be challenging and give us more メガシンカ also ふりがなand Great story while also being 超楽しい

@aris_roth 14 дней назад

your prep work is like you’re about to write a paper on this 😂

@Blaise-- 15 дней назад

Currently playing JP HG on a DS lite... no kanji makes things difficult as a low N4 😅

@gracesiemi 4 дня назад

The ds is not region locked but the 3ds is but that can be fixed by installing basic custom software

@HuntedCupCake 14 дней назад

The DS games are region free so they work in any regions DS or 3DS Just remember 3DS gamer are region locked so if you do important any of the 3DS pokemon games you'll need a Japanese 3DS. But like said in the video american version has the japanese language option

@Rimmer7 14 дней назад

There is a reason for intermediate to advanced learners to play early pokemon games. Reading only hiragana is a decent way to improve your reading speed.

@dacueba-games 15 дней назад

Big fan of these little pocket arsonists! 😁

@Exellocks 15 дней назад

Ooo this might be useful! I tried playing Leaf Green in Japanese a few months ago, but the old man lingo immediately threw me off, still have no clue what "おるよ" means 😭

@Skadel_ 14 дней назад

If you're still wondering, おる is basically the same as いる, but in "old man speech" as you pointed out. And よ is the particle for emphasis. Usually you can almost ignore whatever is in the end of a sentence without missing most of the context lol But don't get discouraged, the beginning of the journey is the hardest, but also when you learn the most! Two years ago I was playing a kana-only game (Monster Rancher on the GBA) and "mining" pretty much every word into anki, with DeepL translations (godawful), while I was pretty much unable to parse a sentence on my own, but I still had some fun, and I learned really fast (a few months later, I was playing Chrono Trigger with a script, and actually understanding quite a bit, one year later I was playing Rune Factory in full JP with no OCR, just immersing). So just take your time, and remember that even if it feels like you're stuck, as long as you're studying a bit every day, eventually you'll try again and Leaf Green will feel a walk in the park ;)

@user-sd3oc5ge1d 14 дней назад

Hey yo Mr I want learn Japanese so bad through pokemon but don't know what's a script and what's an ocr I don't know where to begin what should I memorise do you have any beginner advice

@henry5274 9 дней назад

Do monster hunter stories 1 learning review!

@raguar946 13 дней назад

Excellent video, you do an incredible job. By the way, I wanted to ask you: do you recommend 乃木恋 for learning Japanese?

@Dyundu 14 дней назад

OK, cool, what about Zelda games? 😃

@Rimmer7 14 дней назад

Start with Ocarina of Time, then Majora's Mask, then Wind Waker, then you might possibly have enough knowledge to challenge Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. If the language in BotW/TotK is still too hard even after the first three, try some of the 2D games and maybe Twilight Princess first.

@MadPhoenix 14 дней назад

I had a very bad experience in BDSP in japanese. While I was going home to talk to my mother I found a Shiny Bidoof... but without Pokéballs 💀💀💀 Since that day I've never touched a japanese Pokémon Game ever again, but maybe I'll restart in these days. Great video Mat ❤

@japolskilopata 15 дней назад

遂にヤッタ！

@DianaWanMa 12 дней назад

Damn you’re going to make me spend like 350 dollars to get a 3ds and alpha sapphire 😭

@DianaWanMa 12 дней назад

I also want arceus 😔

@thomasLG2 14 дней назад

In the beginning of the video you say ”Most easiest"、Is your brain thinking 一番簡単 ? :>)

@brunoyudi9555 14 дней назад

YEAH... BUY.. *WINK* *WINK*

@gamering_mx 14 дней назад

wait, conenct a switch catridge to the PC to highlight the text and translate? how??

@paprikayes 14 дней назад

He means run your switch’s HDMI through a capture card and connect that to your PC. You can run Kamui or whatever OCR you’d like on your PC’s window that is displaying the output of the capture card.

@gamering_mx 14 дней назад

@@paprikayes yeah I was googling about it, thanks a lot! already bought the card!

@scrublordzega3613 14 дней назад

pokemon soul silver #1. fight me.

@Nerukenshi1233 14 дней назад

Seconded. Best game in the series. But I am a Heart Gold guy. Ho-oh over non-dark Lugia

@ItsNothingAmazing 14 дней назад

Crystal > hgss

@NPP_1 14 дней назад

What special benefits has Soulsilver for language learning over the other games?

@Zaurthur 14 дней назад

Silver/Gold #1 no need to be hoity-toity with the remakes

@vikkumari 6 дней назад

@Zaurthur I'm a huge sucker for having my pokemon walk behind me lol I didn't like that the gen 3&4 pokemon are in the national dex tho. I wanted to maintain the gen 2 experience. Didn't make sense to me for gen 3 and 4 pokemon to be suddenly in Kanto and Johto.

@henry5274 9 дней назад

How dare you imply negative emotions with Bidoof

@GameGengo 9 дней назад

hahaha im soooory! Please forgive me! hahah