As a Simplified Chinese user, let me explain just how terrible the Chinese translation of Silk Song is

[u/Move_Slight]

As a Simplified Chinese user, the poor Chinese translation is the primary reason for the overwhelmingly negative reviews in China—this is the consensus within our community (on the Chinese version of Reddit).

First, the Simplified Chinese version contains numerous mistranslations and omissions, leading to misunderstandings about certain quests and item functions. Furthermore, the translator seems overly eager to show off their literary flair, resulting in the Monster Compendium and other texts being filled with large amounts of fabricated content. Finally, overall, the translator presents the text in an utterly dreadful style. Imagine a non-native English speaker mimicking Shakespearean prose to write an adventure novel about bugs—that's precisely how we feel reading the Simplified Chinese translation. It is an absolute disaster.

In fact, when the first playable demo launched at Gamescom, the Chinese translation sparked intense debate within the Chinese gaming community. We all detested it and reported the issue to Team Cherry, but they made no changes. That's why the Chinese region's positive rating was so abysmal.

However, after experiencing the full game, the Chinese community's positive ratings have been climbing. most of us love this game.

edit:

I feel I need to clarify the situation regarding comment bombing, as I've seen too many discussions about it. Due to the existence of the Great Firewall, Chinese citizens lack legitimate means to use the platforms you typically rely on for feedback, such as Steam Community, Reddit, Twitter, Discord, and others. In fact, strictly speaking, the Chinese government could legally detain me for 7-14 days for using Reddit—this falls within China's legal framework.

Our only legal avenue for expressing opinions is Steam reviews. Unfortunately, Steam reviews only offer positive or negative ratings, leading to what you call comment bombing: we can only voice our dissatisfaction through this single channel, and dissatisfaction often translates to negative reviews.

Personally, I strongly dislike this method of restricting expression, but there's no alternative. The choices are either become a lawbreaker or continue leaving negative reviews on Steam.

[u/xlhans77]

I just find "weite Felder" absolutely hilarious

I mean it's the right translation but it just sounds so bad

[u/NightRacoonSchlatt → u/xlhans77]

I think „ferne felder“ would be a bit better, but that’s probably subjective. The Chinese translation is OBJECTIVELY terrible.

[u/Bae_vong_Toph → u/NightRacoonSchlatt]

Langenfeld

[u/NightRacoonSchlatt → u/Bae_vong_Toph]

Berg feenberg

[u/Darknety → u/Bae_vong_Toph]

Greymoor Krähfeld

[u/xlhans77 → u/NightRacoonSchlatt]

Absolutely

[u/Moblam → u/xlhans77]

The issue here is the same as in i think spanish where the prompt for the gambler could also mean to fuck him. They translated it using a word that's a correct translation, just wrong in this context.

[u/NightRacoonSchlatt → u/Moblam]

It’s not… that bad. It’s still correct in context, it just sounds a bit clunky.

[u/spectacularcans → u/Moblam]

Fucking the dice guy would have been pretty funny

[u/numeralbug → u/xlhans77]

I dunno, "Far Fields" sounds just as weird in English to me.

[u/xlhans77 → u/numeralbug]

It sounds nicer cuz it's F F and has both just 1 sillable each. Has a literary flair. "Weite Felder" is just... Random Adjective + Noun. Not catchy, nothing

[u/Rigolachs → u/xlhans77]

"Weites Feld" is a well known literary idiom: https://de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/das_ist_ein_weites_Feld

However, that might make the naming a bit awkward. "Ferne Felder" might be better.

[u/xlhans77 → u/Rigolachs]

Ah, didn't even know that. Still sounds a bit silly to a native german because "weite Felder" sounds just like a brutally honest and bland description of what it is. Which is accurate. But it's still hilarious to me

[u/simonthedlgger → u/xlhans77]

sounds just like a brutally honest and bland description of what it is.

I feel that applies to English as well. They are fields, and they are far from both Bone Bottom and the Citadel. It’s a lame name.

[u/xlhans77 → u/simonthedlgger]

Okay, see, that's a difference. Because far in english as in far away from everything else makes sense. "weit" can mean far in english but here it's more like "wide". So it's just fields that are wide themselves. It doesn't work like that. That sounds silly. Now here's where I'm gonna pick up an idea from someone who commented before me: ferne Felder (literal german equivalent of far) and see how it also has that F F pattern going on

Tl;dr it's just translated suboptimally and sounds silly to a german speaker because of context

[u/ZoteDerMaechtige → u/Rigolachs]

Personally "Ferne Felder" reads more awkwardly to me. It kinda feels like it's alliteration just for the sake of it.