That’s the feeling it evoked in me: a childlike sense of wonder and discovery.
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tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
To me, the unspoken premise of the game is that you’re a kid in 1986 with a parent or cool uncle who went on a business trip to Japan and brought you home a Famicom and a copy of the original Zelda - months before the console even launched outside Japan.
The ‘Alien Language’ game manual is therefore supposed to mimic the feeling of trying to read the Japanese manual that came with the game, muddling through as best you can with the pictures, and a few random English words they included just because English is ‘cool’ in a gaming context.
It’s a very cool mechanic, honestly my favourite thing about the game.
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
criticon@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
That was me playing Pokemon red. Got it without knowing a bit of English, took me a lot to realize that dialog was important sometimes and it took me several days to figure out how to teach and use the HMs. Later my dad got me the official guide so I could follow the pictures and use a dictionary to figure out some words
Damage@feddit.it 1 week ago
Eh that was me playing games in English before understanding a single word. Sooo many Amiga games where I went forward just by choosing stuff at random.