Feature: How Amateur Scholars Are Translating Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Secret Language

Feature: How Amateur Scholars Are Translating Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom's Secret Language

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Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy!


Some people can’t help but translate things. We see languages, and we want to decipher them, like the people who climb Mount Everest just because it’s there. The languages in games like FEZ, Titan Souls, Heaven’s Vault, 7 Days To End With You, and Noita, invite the player to try to crack them to reveal more of the game’s lore, and players are often rewarded for doing so, even if it’s usually just extra story. Translating the Fez language was literally the first thing I did, and it basically revealed the whole plot of the game before I’d even started. Oops!

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