Listening Practice 🎧 What do you listen to for Japanese practice?

@Todd_A Unfortunately the Ace Attorney games don’t have much voice acting outside of cutscenes as far as I know. They’re still great games though!

Hmm I’m not as familiar with Steam since I primarily play Japanese games on my Vita. It’s hard to find ones with both English and Japanese. Umineko has both and you can get voice acting to work if you install the third-party PS3 version patch but it’s not exactly an easy read. Most Japanese visual novels are PC-only and I have a Mac so I don’t have access to a lot of stuff.

I haven’t played Dramatical Murder but it’s too bad there isn’t a Japanese-text Steam version out there. There can be mismatches like that sometimes based on licensing and ports. Typically, if you buy the Japanese version of a game, especially if it’s originally in Japanese, it will only have Japanese language options. English ports of Japanese games are typically English text translations with Japanese voice acting, although there are more options on Steam. If you want both Japanese and English text with Japanese voice acting, that does narrow it down.

Hmm, I mostly play historic fiction, otome games, and mystery novels so my slice of life knowledge is rather lacking. It’s too bad you don’t like samurai stuff because I would have otherwise recommended Hakuoki (which is both English and Japanese and has voice acting) but it’s about the Shinsengumi

It’s a bit hard to think of anything that hits all of this criteria. Steins;Gate is another one that comes to mind but that’s more a sci fi time travel thing.

Ah, I thought the link I shared had the “voice acting” tag on it but maybe I messed up somewhere. I can’t speak for a lot of indie JP VNs since I don’t have said PC to play them on so my experience with VNs comes from stuff that gets released on handheld consoles which is almost always voiced. As far as stuff on Steam goes, it probably depends on if it’s a port or not.

By “fully” voice acted do you mean including the narration? Or just that all lines of dialogue by non-protagonist characters is voiced?

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