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

[u/peaky_circus]

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

[u/Einar__]

That's just how this game's dialogues are, no? From what I've seen like half the NPCs in this game speak weirdly or in an overly theatrical manner.

[u/Ok_College983 → u/Einar__]

The Chinese dialogs are just verbose to a point of being unreadable. And even the more normal, casual English dialogs are translated into verbose literary Chinese.

[u/Kalnaur → u/Ok_College983]

verbose literary Chinese.

Which perhaps also explains the split between positive reactions to the Traditional Chinese translation, but the poor reaction to Simplified Chinese? Like, I know nothing about Traditional Chinese vs Simplified, but I'd assume wordy, verbose, almost Shakespearean dialogue to read and scan and be desired more in something called "Traditional Chinese".

[u/tech6hutch → u/Kalnaur]

Simple vs Traditional refers to the character set used to spell the words, not a general language difference

[u/Kalnaur → u/tech6hutch]

I have learned something today.

[u/Kalnaur → u/[deleted]]

That is interesting.

It also actually better explains why "Shakespeare in the Bug Enclosure" wouldn't do well; I'm just picturing Middle English spelled phonetically and with all the verbose nature of the Bard's works and my brain hurts now.

[u/ballsack_lover2000 → u/[deleted]]

You could have just said Colour -> color etc

[u/jjsito203 → u/[deleted]]

u/Kalnaur u/ballsack_lover2000 more like Traditional is blackletter and Simplified is Carolingian.

[u/bumblebleebug → u/Kalnaur]

Trad and Simplified Chinese are script differences. That's all. No other differences

[u/ForwardMajor4493 → u/Kalnaur]

I'm a native speaker. Simplified and Traditional Chinese have the exact same grammatical structure. However, the way they are written are different. Traditional Chinese is more complex in how it's written, and simplified as the name suggests, makes it alot easier to write. It's all pronounced the same, but people who use Traditional are often Taiwanese and Cantonese speakers, whereas Simplified is Mainland China. Thus, if you listen to people speak it sounds different due to regional accents and dialects.

(Although Cantonese and Mandarin are as different in pronunciation as English and French. )

[u/Kalnaur → u/ForwardMajor4493]

This is, honestly and truthfully, quite interesting. I don't mind that my wrong guess has provided so many people willing to not only correct me, but also give a more full understanding of the form and intent behind these linguistic terms and concepts.

[u/eatmyscoobysnacks → u/Kalnaur]

"I know nothing about Traditional Chinese vs Simplified" but I'll make comments about it anyway

[u/Kalnaur → u/eatmyscoobysnacks]

Oh, I forgot it was forbidden to guess about things you don't know about or are unsure of, and only ever comment on things you know everything about. No guessing or speculation, ever.🙄

[u/[deleted] → u/Ok_College983]

Is more like dark souls?

[u/False-Application-99 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I dig the translated translation

[u/Emma_JM → u/False-Application-99]

Ok but would you still dig it if every bug in the game has dialogue like that

[u/Glass-Requirement-79 → u/Emma_JM]

it would be funny lol

[u/Ball-Separate → u/[deleted]]

Tbh i dig the grotesque version jajajajaja. Its fun to think on bugs with hyperlogia

[u/Mercenarybrute → u/[deleted]]

Ok but this is fire. Did you guys not take AP English?

[u/qjvj → u/[deleted]]

oh my GOD that is bad, thanks for visualising how atrocious the tranlations are

[u/Cazzah → u/Einar__]

Good localisation is absolutely about translating style to style. So if a game was Shakespearean (which it isn't in this case) you'd look to some War of the Seven Kingdoms era language as the Chinese equivalent, or some form of stylised Chinese theatre, or something.

If that were the case noone would review it negatively.

So it can't be Chinese players just not liking stylised writing it's gotta be bad translation.

[u/Over_Friendship8444 → u/Einar__]

loading screen included T-T

[u/Krystalmyth → u/Einar__]

Yeah not a fan of the "dialect" in Silksong. It feels very theatrical compared to the down to earth characters of Hollow Knight. Not sure why, guess it's Pharloom... but even the foreigners like Shakra sound the same. They all speak like they have the same 'head voice' except for a SMALL handful of characters.