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Are most Japanese RPGin Kanji

Sundance - Aug 7, 2002

		Sundance		Aug 7, 2002
			I was just wondering if the standard for most rpg's (especially Saturn games) is Kanji, or KataKana and Hiragana. Thanks.

		emazur		Aug 7, 2002
			Kanji. For kana rpg`s, you`d best look towards the 8 bit portable systems

		MasterAkumaMatata		Aug 7, 2002
			I would say a combination of kanji and hiragana. Just kanji would mean it's in Chinese (since kanji literally means Chinese character).

		mercatfat		Aug 8, 2002
			Generally, it's all 3, but mostly Kanji and Kana. Simply put, Kanji is symbols representing whole words, Gana is japanese words spelled out phonetically, Kana is English words spelled out phonetically, or as close to spelled out as they can be. Names of towns and characters rarely fall into Kanji and as a result are often spelled out in Kana. If you don't know Kanji, it's often easy enough to just follow the kana.