Can you tell me a bit about this Slime Forest Adventure game? Looked at some screen shots and… - Feed Post from Kakka_rotSRL to mog86uk

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  mog86uk

  Slime Forest Adventure http://lrnj.com is just pure awesome.
  
  At the start of the story it teaches both hiragana and katakana (which can be skipped). Then the rest of the story you are taught kanji meanings through very effective mnemonics.
  
  You defeat the slimes by typing the meaning keyword for their kanji. In the forests you do training battles which have the mnemonics to teach you, and then in the dungeons you have testing battles where the slimes keep attacking until you answer correct (or die!). The game does involve a lot of typing, however you only need to type the first few letters of the English meanings and do not need to type okurigana for the readings. (I still always type the full thing though because I think it's better that way... and I like typing, as you might already have noticed!)
  
  The story is extremely basic and is currently 8 episodes long. There's different islands to travel to and spells to learn. Each dungeon floor teaches a different set of kanji and by the end of the story the player will have needed to learn 1,972 kanji meanings to have been able to survive that far.
  
  The free version used to only teach the meanings for the ~200 kanji but was recently changed to ~1000 kanji and has the first 4 episodes of the story. I'm not sure whether it has any readings training though, and it only has one grammar subgame. Also has a kana keyboard layout touchtyping side game.
  
  The $10 grade school kanji version has the same number of kanji and episodes as the free version now, but it also has training for kunyomi words, best guess readings (one most likely reading for each kanji, usually onyomi) and compounds. There are more storyless sidegames, such as a mode which tests you only on kunyomi, onyomi and compounds, and two more grammar subgames "verb forms" and "grammar patterns".
  
  The $20 common use kanji version is what you want though, 13 quid is barely anything for something which taught me so many kanji. It has all 8 episodes of the story and teaches the full 1,945 kanji from the pre-2010 常用漢字表, plus a few extras. It also has Easy mode for playing through the story without kanji to learn lots of useful categorised vocabulary. And has Hard modes, where you can play through the story with only the kunyomi words or onyomi readings or compound words even in the dungeons.
  
  I've donated quite a bit more than $20 anway, as the game is worth a lot more to me for how much I've learnt from it. I can now easily recognise 1,972 kanji and their meanings, and have just finished the 1,385 kunyomi word readings.
  
  (I knew I'd struggle to keep this reply short. Hopefully I didn't advertise it a bit too much...) ^^

  January 6, 2015 at 11:37am
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  mog86uk

  Using what you learn in SFA when you come back on JCJP to do practice is a really neat experience. And encountering the stuff you've learnt on JCJP when playing SFA makes the game a bit smoother, as you know some answers already. (There's my advertising for JCJP done.) :P
  
  That said, if I'm on here at the moment, it is usually because I'm slacking off from the more rigorous SFA. JCJP is nice and relaxing, just swinging the mouse around answering multiple choice questions at your own pace. Much easier to do other stuff like eat or watch TV when on here.
  
  SFA doesn't have any sound ingame by the way, so, like JCJP, you need to have some decent fast loud music to listen to. Once in the flow, you can answer questions on JCJP and SFA much quicker and easier, with less stressing your brain out on each question, with music playing. ^^

  January 6, 2015 at 12:00pm
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  srmagura

  I was wondering about SFA too, thanks mog

  January 6, 2015 at 11:58pm