Japanese or English version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf?

[Kikiyama]

Yeah if you don't have a Japanese 3DS you wont be able to play the Japanese version so I'm guessing you have both :O

I have the Japanese copy and I like the holidays and as another person mentioned I think the names in Japanese fit better. But if you don't understand Japanese what the villagers say wont be funny/amusing.

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I don't have a Japanese ACNL but I do play Japanese Pokemon games. I have always been able to receive Japanese events despite living in the UK, and my 3DSLL gets the Japanese eshop (which FYI has 4x as much interesting stuff as the European one, grr). I was even able to top it up with yen and pay for Pokemon Bank! I'm fairly certain a Japanese copy of ACNL, on a Japanese machine, would be fine downloading Japanese DLC, so that at least shouldn't be a problem.

How is pokemon in Japanese? I still haven't gotten it yet and I'm wondering if it'll be confusing in Japanese or not.

 

[jolokia]

If you can handle Pokemon in English you can play it in Japanese. Nintendo's done exceptionally well making Pokemon accessible - familiarity with the interface will help but I'm pretty sure it'd be possible to play it without knowing a word of Japanese, the menus and interface are so intuitive. There are some kanji these days but you can set it to katakana/hiragana if you cannot into moon runes.

Only downside I've experienced is that after three generations of Japanese games I'm now more used to the Japanese names than the English ones and that makes it a pain in the butt looking things up on Bulbapedia

 

[Wholockian]

English- you need a Japanese DS to play Japanese versions of the game

 

[Locket]

I would get a Japanese one if there wasn't region-lock.

System settings-other settings-region settings-japan-done

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Yeah if you don't have a Japanese 3DS you wont be able to play the Japanese version so I'm guessing you have both :O

I have the Japanese copy and I like the holidays and as another person mentioned I think the names in Japanese fit better. But if you don't understand Japanese what the villagers say wont be funny/amusing.

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How is pokemon in Japanese? I still haven't gotten it yet and I'm wondering if it'll be confusing in Japanese or not.

hmm ill see..

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If you can handle Pokemon in English you can play it in Japanese. Nintendo's done exceptionally well making Pokemon accessible - familiarity with the interface will help but I'm pretty sure it'd be possible to play it without knowing a word of Japanese, the menus and interface are so intuitive. There are some kanji these days but you can set it to katakana/hiragana if you cannot into moon runes.

Only downside I've experienced is that after three generations of Japanese games I'm now more used to the Japanese names than the English ones and that makes it a pain in the butt looking things up on Bulbapedia

dont play pokemon

 

[Boidoh]

It isn't that simple. When I found out Flipnote 3D was released on the Japan eShop, I tried to change my country to Japan. The country only lists the countries in YOUR region, being the Americas in my case (the continent). It isn't that simple .You'd need a Japanese 3DS.

 

[Locket]

nope i "purposely" changed it to umm oh yeah Panama Panama it worked

 

[LindseyKate04]

I definitely prefer the English version. About 98 percent of that is because I speak English and know absolutely no Japanese. But since I have the North American version, I get basically all of the Japanese DLC at some point. They like to share with us

 

[Locket]

Japanese because I don't really care what people say only if it's instructions
and because of better holidays and FAR FAR better DLC

right? cool holidays! and beans