When A Game About English Words Is Released In Japanese

Scribblenauts is a title that is synonymous with the English language. Or, at least, the Roman alphabet. So how does the game look when it gets translated into Japanese?

It’s fascinating seeing the game running like this. To make things easier, while the Japanese version retains a keyboard to enter words with, it also has a “note pad” input, on which players can just write characters in either hiragana, katakana or Roman letters (which the Japanese call “romaji”…the game doesn’t make use of kanji).

[via Tiny Cartridge]

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    Daniel

    Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 11:25 PM

    I wonder what the kanji for “pneumatically powered harpoon” is?

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      Crono

      Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 8:18 AM

      “the game doesn’t make use of kanji”

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        Joe Mama

        Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 2:31 PM

        He was making a joke Mr. “You said something incorrect”.

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    Michael Cui

    Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 1:45 PM

    that’s original scribblenauts, not super scribblenauts.

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