Are you attracted by this new action puzzle game tunic that combines Zelda and the old man ring style, but you can't understand the language in the game and are afraid to play it.
It is said that some foreign players have translated the mysterious rune language in Tunic.
Throughout the game, instructions, signposts, and game manuals from the characters are written in a fabricated rune language. Players don't need to translate it, instead, it adds a sense of mystery to the adventures of the cute fox protagonist, forcing the player to analyze visual cues.
However, some enthusiastic players have begun to translate runes diligently, including Reddit user oposdeo.
Oposdeo is a programmer, not a linguist, who has only played a few bosses in the game so far, but has successfully determined the grammatical structure of vowels, consonants, and fictional languages, and is now ready to translate all the manual pages.
Oposdeo said in the comments: "The text on these pages usually has a lot of nice legend flavor, as well as a specific explanation of what the pictures suggest. You don't usually learn much extra about the game, but you'll certainly be able to spot clues earlier than other ways, understand the game better, and find some secret answers. "
In an interview with the media, the game's developer, Andrew Shouldice, discussed the original intent of creating the language.
"Tunic is very much about secrecy and mystery, and it's kind of like really feeling like you're surrounded by something you don't fully understand," he said. ”
"Tunic glyphs exist to make players feel like they're in a place that doesn't belong to them, and what does that mean, the important thing is that it's not a simple alphabetic code of letters."
"In this day and age, if you see a set of glyphs in a game, you might think it has some kind of meaning, maybe we'll try to dig it up, and if it's just a letter-by-letter cipher, that might be less interesting." People who have done a deeper study of the Tunic language seem to have a good idea of how things are going."
He added, "There's a theme in the game, which is hexagons. There is a strong hexagonal style everywhere in the game, so even the language has some structural similarity with the layout. "