This
And tbh, if you never bought a Japanese game bitd when you knew there was a solid chance you'd not be able to figure it out or could get stuck at any moment as the internet didn't exist or you knew no other Westerners would buy it or make a guide, then you are a coward who should be shunned🤔😉
even if your JP ability isn’t fluent, you should nonetheless play games in JP before playing LLM/AI-translations
if you worry about not grasping all of the context, meaning, subtext, and nuance from JP text at your current ability, you’re still certainly losing all of that with LLM/AI-translations