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Personally, I feel that video games are not easy to play unless your Japanese is good enough.
Otherwise, gameplay grinds to a halt as you painstankingly translate each kanji, word, and sentence.

Also, there is the time pressure to progress in the game, but your lack of vocabulary is slowing you down.
If you're playing on a console (i.e. not an emulator), you often can't save anything until you reach a save point.

With manga, light novels, or books, there is significantly less time pressure.
You can go at your own pace and pick up right where you left off.

If you have an Amazon Kindle and read Japanese books, there is a built in dictionary with English and Japanese definitions.
So if there are books or light novels based on anime or RPGs, that could be another option.

Here is a Youtube video about reading Japanese books on the Kindle:


Another option is to download Japanese subtitles for anime and study them.
I wrote a Python script to take a text file and list all the RTK1 and RTK3 kanji in that file.

I don't know if they exist, but if it is possible to download all the text for RPGs, you can
figure out all the kanji that appear in the RPG.

Anyway, don't get discouraged at all.
If you have no problem learning Japanese via RPGs, go ahead and have lots of fun.
Edited: 2016-06-03, 10:20 pm
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Making Learning Japanese Fun - by maxwell777 - 2016-05-23, 1:02 am
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