>>92348627I mean, there's a reason they started cramming kanji into games ASAP once they could, the memory for a single line in JP with kanji was like 1/3rd the memory of a line in English, resulting in scripts getting trimmed and dumbed down.
However, I've tried playing SNES games in JP and it's a nightmare to read any complex characters, yet by the time we got to PSX and had hundreds of megabytes of storage, English became much less disadvantageous to write in.