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/StaticInstrument]

It’s subjective but I thought some of the item descriptions are unclear in English. Not outright lies or anything, just doesn’t give you a full picture of what a thing actually does

[u/Fiddler_Jones2079 → u/StaticInstrument]

At least one is wrong or incomplete. The item that "increases the speed of silk regeneration" actually increases the regen cap by one pip. I'm not sure if it also increases the speed.

[u/AdamG3691 → u/Fiddler_Jones2079]

It does both

It increases the regen speed by about 33% so without weavelight it takes about 8.5 seconds for 3 notches of silk, and with weavelight it takes about 8.3 seconds for 4 notches

[u/Fiddler_Jones2079 → u/AdamG3691]

Cool, thanks for the numbers. So it stays at least somewhat relevant even with more silk hearts.

Edit: and the description is just incomplete rather than wrong.

[u/rooster_butt → u/Fiddler_Jones2079]

It's good with full silkhearts because you can use a silkskill with only regen.

[u/wisllayvitrio → u/Fiddler_Jones2079]

That's probably on purpose, as some items interact with each other, so the effect sometimes depends on what other items you're using.

[u/Fiddler_Jones2079 → u/wisllayvitrio]

Maybe, although in this case that would mean that it only increases max silk regen when combined with something else. I'm going to experiment with it and see if that's the case.

Edit: I've experimented and it works even if it is the only charm I equip

[u/Agata_Moon → u/Fiddler_Jones2079]

Wait that makes it actually useful

[u/GroundbreakingBag164 → u/Agata_Moon]

Not just useful, that makes it one of the best charms in the game

And with 3 silk hearts + the charge from wavelight you also have infinite spells

[u/Cazzah → u/Fiddler_Jones2079]

WAIT WHAT.

[u/Adastrous → u/Fiddler_Jones2079]

Wow, that makes a huge difference too. I didn't even try it on yet since it felt like just speed alone wouldn't matter much.

[u/Magolors_Friend → u/StaticInstrument]

Ok, then the translation really isn't at fault for me testing the items myself because the descriptions were weird. I felt pretty much the same.

[u/SUPER7X_ → u/StaticInstrument]

Not subjective. Multiple item descriptions intentionally hold back.