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w1ngzer0
Sep 23, 2007, 09:48
Couldn't think of a proper title so i used that. Anyway, i was playing some japanese games from the early 90's for the SNES. There is "some" kanji but very few. But, a lot of kata and rarely any hiragana.

But, now. With some of the previews im watching of CG animations and gameplay. A lot of the language has moved to mostly hiragana and once in a while a kanji. There is some kata used like a,e,i,o,u. One of those. But, i could almost translate most of the game play previews shown.

So, my question is. Is it how the Japanese language is that decides whether or not to use hiragana or am i making a useless thread because i don't understand the intricacies of Japanese language? :bluush:

Mikawa Ossan
Sep 23, 2007, 09:52
Are you talking about game titles or dialogue?

I don't think that the dialogue for games has ever been mostly katakana. I think that has mostly been hiragana since the beginning.

w1ngzer0
Sep 23, 2007, 11:11
yah dialogue. Alright thanks for the clearup