Average This game is fun, but it's loading time is long. The communication part is not very exciting since it's vocab library is not very rich in content.
Good tool with fun practice! I bought this for my wife since she doesn't speak English very well yet. It works pretty well for a lot of basic translations, but don't expect to translate long sentences or anything like that. The tool for showing a list of possible sentences to translate per setting (eg. hotel) is VERY convenient.
The pronunciation and listening mini-games are entertaining and pretty good practice. I question how strict it is on pronunciation (I did well in my Japanese classes in college but it is hard to get an "A" for some of the pronunciations), but it is still worthwhile.
Max isn't the first character design you'd think of when imagining a translator, but actually he grows on you pretty quickly. The Chinese, Korean, and Japanese voice acting is likeable, but the American English speaker is a bit overdone.
I would definitely recommend this to my Taiwanese or Japanese coworkers/friends for use in travel or just for fun. It's a great tool for casual use.
If you really want a full-featured translator/dictionary for ENG-CHN-JPN-KOR, get a BESTA dictionary with pronuciation tool for around $100-250 (out of Taiwan).
For around $60, this is a very reasonable deal; hopefully Sony will release more titles that take advantage of the mic on the PSP in the future (Rainbow Six, anyone?)
