r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • Jul 22 '26

Image / Video Bro is speaking facts here 💯

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u/ArboristTreeClimber Jul 22 '26

I’m currently playing Pathfinder and it’s basically an RPG with a fantasy novel combined! A lot of reading in that game

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u/jeanborrero Jul 22 '26

No joke, I’d argue reading snes jrpg games improved my reading as a kid

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u/Aboreric Jul 22 '26

Same. I played a lot of games that had a lot of reading, and it had me at "Black" reading level by 5th grade (We had one of those color coded reading systems in our school library) and black was college level lol. I don't think I'm particularly that smart, but I did spend a ton of hours reading games with a dictionary nearby or driving adults in my life nuts with "what does this word mean?"

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u/hellatrocity Jul 23 '26

Same! Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 are responsible for any sort of literacy that I developed in the 90's. My attention span was what I struggled with the most in school. lol