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?
This is done with a fictional language in the first Nier game. You spend the whole time slaughtering hordes of enemies, but then new game+ gives them subtitles and makes you do it all again with context. It’s grim.
spoiler: what was said translated.
If that’s all it is, the book more or less covers that bosses and other NPCs are recycled and have their memories tampered with. The book goes more into this later. They could be from any season/planet, too.
Yeah if anything it’s a running theme of the series how the people who are caught in the collapse and the people who are made by the corporation are as abused as the crawlers
Spoiler tag?
EDIT: Thank you
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.
You don’t have footnotes with the translation??
I don’t remember exactly now, but yeah I think I had an edition that didn’t have any footnotes or translations or commentary, just the original text in Russian and French.
Sounds like an absolute torture with that book
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
I watched that movie with some Swedes who were trying to be helpful and told us what the Norwegians were saying :|
Yeah, that was not something I wanted to understand.
I was actually thinking of DCC because they give him a skill which is translates to Jai Alai.
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.
For money no less.
The viewers don’t even get to see most of that.
Is the audiobook available anywhere but a horrible megacorp that sucks ayyyse?
Any tricks to read litrpgs and not cringe the entire way through? I couldnt get five pages into that thing
If it helps, DCC is supposed to be over the top and kind of cringe. The tag line “the apocalypse will be televised” isn’t for nothing, the whole premise of the book is basically Alien Wipeout meets The Hunger Games. Or Twitch chat runs The Most Dangerous Game might also be apt. The dungeon is meant to be the biggest train wreck that the audience can’t look away from.
Taking the five pages thing at face value, you would have quit before any of the litrpg elements, so it’s kind of hard to recommend any “tricks”. Especially not knowing what turned you off the book/ genre beyond just “cringe”. I’m not trying to gatekeep, but if you put the book down within the first chapter, then it’s probably not the book/ series for you (and that’s okay!), as it goes on it just gets more… more off the rails absurd/ gratuitously violent/ chaotic. The point is spectacle; it’s YouTube taken beyond its most logical extreme; Tolkien or Herbert it is not (and that’s also okay).
That said, if you are looking to take another shot at the series, I might recommend the DCC audiobooks, if listening to books is your thing. The narrator (Jeff Hays) is phenomenal and the production is masterfully well done.
It loses its focus on the leveling system after the start. Just skim past those parts, they’re not necessary to the story.
