ふふふ〜 Today both FMA 1 and Okami arrived. I actually managed to understand… the gist of what was going on in Okami? Though first it played the intro as a movie sequence and just scrolled through the text and I was like oh god, if the whole game is like this I will understand nothing, because this is going by way too fast for me and my sad first-grader reading speed. But then it turns out no, once I finally figured out how to operate the controls to start a proper game, I can click through line by line.

At first I was using a dictionary to look up stuff I was unclear on, but I think after about five dialog boxes of that I gave up and just sounded things out and if I got it, cool, if not, I clicked through anyway. So kind of more back to tadoku-style, because I have no patience. But it was nice that I have, in fact, improved my vocab enough that I can do that and still get something out of it. Though it took so long to get through the opening text that I got to the save point and was like fuck it, so I haven’t actually really done any game play yet.

Found a transcription of the English version which is awesome, so I can use it to check my understanding after I play through scenes, too.

Though why exactly have Izanagi and Izanami turned into Nagi and Nami?

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