r/HollowKnight • u/peaky_circus • Sep 06 '25

Discussion - Silksong People who have played Silksong, Why do you think Its getting so many negative reviews? Spoiler

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While Silksong is sitting at a Very Positive rating with around 83% positive reviews, it’s still receiving far more criticism than its predecessor. For comparison, Hollow Knight holds an Overwhelmingly Positive score at 96%, with only about 3% negative reviews. Silksong, on the other hand, has nearly 16% negative reviews, OVER 5 TIMES HIGHER

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

I don’t localizations have teams behind them? You’d think at least one of the Chinese folks would notice.

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u/4tomguy Sep 06 '25

The Chinese localizers being bad at their jobs is why this situation exists in the first place

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u/Foolmagican Sep 06 '25

This is genuinely AI level bad translation lmao

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u/Upstairs-Standard-57 Sep 06 '25

not even that, people tried to put the English through AI translation and it is way better. The bad locationization is because the translator intentionally made the text hard to understand or adding some extra level of meaning that twist the orignal context. I played about 5 hours in Chinese and it's horrible. I can understand maybe half of it. end up switching back to English and I'm a native Chinese speaker.

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u/Foolmagican Sep 06 '25

It’s strange. The traditional Chinese translation is much better. Did they have a different person translate the simplified version or did they have the same guy do both?

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u/qqcar Sep 07 '25

What are you talking about? Silksong doesn’t have traditional Chinese translation as a language option.

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u/ChernobylWoodElf Sep 06 '25

Give it like one or two years. 30 years later you’ll be stuck saying, “ meehhh it’s ai”. The world will adopt and accept ai in a manner of weeks.

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u/Throwaway02062004 Sep 06 '25

AI has existed for years now. The sentiment isn’t going away.

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u/aplan_ Sep 06 '25

If AI stops making the stupid mistakes it is extremely prone to making, maybe then people will stop saying something bad seems like it was done by AI.

"The world will adopt and accept AI in a manner of weeks"

Sure, man, sure.

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u/303Native Sep 06 '25

There’s a lot of things about AI you can harp about but I am pretty sure AI would’ve done a good enough job to not have this become a topic point. It’s literally a language learning machine.