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by tmtvl 756 days ago
Japanese also doesn't have casing or spaces, which can make text written solely in hiragana (like some Famicom games) hard to read. I don't know enough about Chinese and Korean to opine on how difficult they are to read and comprehend, but by using the four writing systems (hiragana, katakana, kanji, and western script), Japanese is easy enough to read.
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I've seen a few Famicom games do the clause spacing though, so it's easier to read. You can almost hear the emphasis tone on all the particles haha.

And yeah in Japanese it's fine, there's a clear visual situation between the Kanji and Kana.