have you ever beaten a game in a language not your own?

[aaron]

strange way to word this question, i guess... basically i'm wondering if you've ever beaten a japanese or other foreign language version of a game, either by fudging through it, using a translation guide, or just being knowledgeable.

i've beaten willy wombat and clockwork knight for saturn (NTSC-J), and i managed to fudge my way through front mission: gun hazard before i got the translation patch. i need to beat more games.

[ShadicChao]

Pokemon black and white

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Sin and Punishment for the N64 and Zero Gunner 2 on the Dreamcast.

[jeffesaurusrex]

Back when I was younger I managed to get myself through Dragonball Z: Hyper Dimension on an emulator in Japanese.

[Mendoza]

SDF Macross Do You Remember Love for the Saturn.

[the7k]

Yeah, plenty of times.

Sengoku Basara 2, Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes, Sengoku Basara X, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra, Namco X Capcom, Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, Both the Rurouni Kenshin games on the PS1 and the the one on the PS2, Berserk on PS2, Various Narutimette Hero games, Persona 3, Battle Stadium D.O.N., Jump Super Stars, Jump Ultimate Stars, KOF: Days of Memories Collection, Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!, Cotton 2, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Vampire Savior, Guardian Heroes, Valis 3,... yeah, I could go on for days.

[hashiriya1]

When I was a kid most of my games were JPN games, but I did not speak a lick of Japanese (Family did business in Japan and Hong Kong at the time, so I got a lot of Japanese games/systems and bootleg carts whenever they came home). I was playing blindly as I had no idea wtf was going on. Now that I have no problems with Japanese-language games, I went back to play those old games just to see what I was fighting for. Somehow the magic of some of the games was lost after being able to understand the story. I felt "Oh, that's it? How boring" Sometimes your imagination is better than what the game's developers conjured up.

[the7k]

When I was a kid most of my games were JPN games, but I did not speak a lick of Japanese (Family did business in Japan and Hong Kong at the time, so I got a lot of Japanese games/systems and pirated carts whenever they came home). I was playing blindly as I had no idea wtf was going on. Now that I have no problems with Japanese-language games, I went back to play those old games just to see what I was fighting for. Somehow the magic of some of the games was lost after being able to understand the story. I felt "Oh, that's it? How boring" Sometimes your imagination is better than what the game's developers conjured up.

I've had the same feeling at times. When I'd play certain games in Japanese without knowing anything, it was somehow more fun - then, when the game would actually get translated, it just lost something. I guess I lost that sense of exploration and discovery.

[synbiosfan]

I beat Shining Force III's Scenario 2-3 and a few other JP Saturn games.

[swiftzx]

Jump Super Stars and Ouendan 2 on ds.