I’m not sure if you’re just joking, but it’s… a collection of study materials that happens to be available on a game system… It’s not intended to actually be a game. It’s like saying the Shin Kanzen Master books aren’t interesting novels.
Well, are they?
Edit: Actually, the game seems pretty fun to me.
I’m trying to get enough kanji ability to prove that I could survive in a Japanese University so I have a pretty high stake in learning enough to be able to pass the kentei level 2. So it’s certainly not like I think this game is interesting, Spiderman 2? no thank you, I’m playing Kanken Smart Taisaku.
But for a study game I think it has enough going on that I legitimately find it fun when I remember something I was struggling with, or just scribble something out, cross my fingers, and I was right. I think if you added too much more to it, it would take longer to learn less. It’s good at what it does, which is give you kanji drills, along with the kanji in native context which wanikani doesn’t do as well.
Those other games sound like they could be fun too though. Idk, we all need different materials for different goals.
Yeah I have to play something that has characters with plot to it or else I just can’t. If it had that I totally would try it then.
In the “game” in the drilling part when you choose 書取りthere are several options and one of them is 苦手. Does anyone know if these are the Kanji that the USER has made several mistakes in the past, or perhaps, it is a subset of kanji (for that level) that are considered harder to write in general?
yes. they are ones you specifically failed before, but they disappear once you get them right.
I started using it recently on the switch but i feel like it keeps prompting me on the exact same questions lol. What has been your experience?
It’s a little confusing to use if you don’t understand…
There’s the testing section and the practice section.
In the test section you will get 5 questions, these will not repeat but there are a lot of questions that are very similar to each other. The ones you get wrong will be selectable in the practice section. You can either practice all 1000+ questions or only the question you got wrong in the test side. (you can tell which one you picked because it will either say 0/1300 or like 0/23 at the top.
I don’t know which section you are in to direct you though.
Does anyone know if it comes with the 2020 reform?
I’m studying 7級, but I haven’t seen any new questions, for example: 縄、城、熊、奈良。。。what are the new kanji for this level.
I have tried the 3DS version and I think I prefer it, plus 3DS has more options for studying kanji, the problem is that these options are not updated.
But I like this version too, don’t get me wrong.
Even when those kanji were in higher levels, I had never seen a single place name question on Kanken ever. So I have my doubts that they’re going to be asked about on the new lower levels either, but I guess I could be wrong.
My hunch is that those are more for students’ social studies lessons, but I haven’t looked into it much.
I recently bought this game, but I’m having problem with the handwriting recognition.
I’m finding impossible to write 早 or 草！it’s so バカ！
It is a bit depressing considering the price of the game.
Have you guys had the same problem?
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/25_-A2oQpjs
I’ve had issues where it (the 3DS version) won’t recognize certain things, like it loves to think that 厳 or 譲 are their old versions (嚴 and 讓 respectively, which coincidentally share a similarity in having two 口 shapes in their old forms). I do wish it would more strongly weight stroke count in its process of taking guesses at what you wrote. That would prevent a lot of these types of issues… but then I guess some natives who don’t write with proper stroke counts would get frustrated too.
But I haven’t experienced anything specifically with 早 or 草. Though, to be fair, I haven’t tried the new one that much, just the 3DS version mostly. If I have time I’ll try later.
I would recommend trying to exaggerate or skew the elements when trying to get it to stop acting dumb. Or, try to move the position of the elements. I noticed all of your attempts were very similar in proportions to each other, for instance the 日 part of 草 was sitting with its lowest line on the horizontal center line each time, pretty much. Try moving its position lower, making it bigger, etc.
What mode was that, by the way?
Ok I’ll give it a go, but god it gets frustrating at times, even with simple kanjis like those.
That’s in 漢字の書き mode
I managed to write one single 早 out of 20 attempts and drawing a super deformed absolute monstrosity 
Not a chance to get 草, and this is just for level 10!
This game had to do one thing well, just one, and it doesn’t.
I just gave it a try on Switch and it didn’t have any issue recognizing 早 or 草. I just jumped into the 10級 漢字の書き problems.
I did like 25 questions in addition to just trying to write those two kanji for other questions just as a test, and I only had one case of misreading, where I attempted to write 金 and it thought I wrote 舎, but the next time I tried it worked fine.
So, I’m not able to replicate the issue on my end, assuming I understood what was going wrong on your end.
EDIT: I figured I’d try a higher level as well, and in level 2, it took me 3 tries to get it to recognize 践, but it doesn’t seem to be as bad of an error rate as you’re experiencing with 早 and 草.
Then I really need to understand what I’m doing wrong, Thanks for the feedback!
Can you send me a video of you writing 早 by any chance?
I managed to get 草 although I have to be super careful about the form!!
I find that confusing because with other kanji you can be a bit sloppy and it will still recognise it.
Although I’m trying to be as precise as possible I can get it to read 早 
I recorded myself writing 早 three times and 草 three times, and it went 5/6. The first 草 turned into a kanji I don’t know, but the other times everything worked fine, even though I wasn’t taking care to be especially deliberate or neat.
Apologies if the kanji that appear on the left-hand side are a little tough to read after they get recognized, just know that I did confirm they were accurate, save for the one I mentioned.
Thank you so much, your video helped a lot!
I noticed my 日 wasn’t tapered enough, and also making the bottom 十 more like a square is critical.
Now understand what kind of variations I need to play with.
I have to admit it is a bit confusing having to draw the kanji with different proportions than the one showed in the game.
I think it could have been better, but it’s all good as long as there’s a work around!
Btw you’re write fast! 漢字忍者みたい🥷🏻
Oh, did it help improve the recognition rate? I honestly wasn’t sure if it would (I thought maybe there was a screen or software issue).
I’m glad if it helped though.