Learning Japanese

I want to learn japanese in order to play untranslated visual novels. My question is if pimsleur is a good idea for me or not? It seems to be primarily focused upon audio, I am not sure if this will be a waste or essential in developing an understanding of japanese. I would like to learn japanese as fast as possible and this is my first time learning a new language so I am very lost. Thank you in advance.

I take it these posters are coming from /jp/?

I thought /jp/ was one of the image boards that was supposed to understand text boards and condensing threads...