I've been playing Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door lately and it's honestly kicking my ass more than I thought it would simply because it rarely uses kanji. It's geared toward younger players so it's primarily in kana. That's made it way more challenging when looking up new words to figure out which meaning they're going for and makes reading overall just take longer. Luckily they do use spaces otherwise it would be a complete nightmare.
I recently finished Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which uses kanji with furigana and was much easier as a result (also because there's so little dialogue, just a fun game). Similarly, I'm also playing 謎の物語 which is geared toward adults so there's kanji + furigana and the biggest challenge there is just the pixel font for the low-resolution Nintendo DS.
My question then is just… should I stick with Paper Mario or focus on games with kanji? Obviously it's a useful skill to be able to read without kanji, so I'm not trying to run away from a challenge, but I wonder if I should drop it for now and come back to it when I'm more advanced and not as concerned with picking up vocabulary and such.
by Big_Description538