I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl. In it he fights a Spanish speaking boss. The Spanish is not translated (so far) and if you can read it, it really changes the mood and impact of the entire scene.
Are there any other books that hide significant plot points behind the use of foreign language?
Not a book, but the Norweigans at the start of The Thing literally give the whole plot away desperately trying to warn the Americans what the dog is
Is the audiobook available anywhere but a horrible megacorp that sucks ayyyse?
spoiler: what was said translated.
Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace as a kid was... weird. It had whole sections in French which I didn't understand at all at the time. They were not very important to the plot but re-reading it later with a help of Google Translate they did change the vibe a bit.
I was actually thinking of DCC because they give him a skill which is translates to Jai Alai.
Yeah, that was not something I wanted to understand.
Not a book, but I immediately thought of a point and click game that does something similar. In A Date in the Park, you play a guy who moved to Portugal, but doesn't speak the language. He goes to the park to meet up with the woman he has a date with.
There are several key moments where the language barrier ultimately works against you. I first watched a let's play of the game, where several viewers translated what was being said. Really changes the mood of a seemingly cozy game.
Any tricks to read litrpgs and not cringe the entire way through? I couldnt get five pages into that thing
Yeah that is what makes the games so fucked up, they couldn't settle for xenocide, they had torture the people they killed for the rest of eternity 'I have no mouth and I must scream' style.
Reminds me of Chicago (1975)
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