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>no kanji in famicom games, so words are way harder to identify, making reading comprehension significantly more difficult
In Metroid Fusion they had an option for kanji or hiragana. The kanji mode was labeled for "adults", but really I think it's most useful for people learning Japanese as a second language. Any native speaker knows enough context to recognize that when the character says "kami" they're referring to paper and not god or hair.