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Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to 'Mixed' Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Why did this society, which otherwise seems completely alien, just happen to evolve a conspicuous element that’s uncannily similar to an element in human history?"

The game was designed to include gothic architecture and medieval society, rather than those elements evolving within the game.

It's natural that the game would be designed with elements of human society and history given that humans designed the game around the character of a "knight", calling to mind swordplay, castles, legends and chivalry.

If the story was all about food delivery in Adelaide in 2011, the setting and language would be very different.

Since the HK stories focus on fantasy swordsmanship, fallen castles and knights, strongly associated in the human world with chivalrous poems of legends(King Arthur, for example), the descriptions and dialogues of HK reflect that.