Fresh off a successful Kickstarter campaign, studio Strawberry Games has partnered with Gamepedia for the Official Koe Wiki! Koe, a JRPG based on classic games, not only aims to give you a good adventure, but it will teach you the basics of the Japanese language as well. The game is slated to be released on Windows, Mac and Linux, with future support for Playstation Vita. Your story begins when you visit Japan. Rather than finding a world to get lost in from a tourist perspective, you end up in a story filled with monsters, bosses, fights, and most importantly, learning Japanese.
Throughout Koe, you collect Japanese words and syllabaries to form new words. In combat, you put together syllabaries to create combat cards to use in battle. For example, putting together ka, ta, and na means you can now have a katana to use in battle! You can also find avatars to fight for you. You will also need to use their syllabaries and level those up so you can level your avatars in turn. Koe aims to take someone unfamiliar with the Japanese language to where they have the ability to read and understand the language. Anyone who already understands the language has a chance to either brush-up on Japanese or just have a fun time immersed in a beautiful game with an engaging story.
Due to community requests, Koe will be translated into a large variety of languages so that more people have the opportunity to use it to learn Japanese, including, but not limited to: German, Dutch, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Korean and Russian. To help translate Koe, or request your native language, please see their Translation Request page. To help out with the Official Koe Wiki, please have a look at the Help Wiki for ideas on getting started, which also includes translation efforts!