{"id":1315342,"date":"2025-09-06T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TB2Z5V5E9sNHQfVQ3WzR6f"},"modified":"2025-09-06T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:30:29","slug":"hollow-knight-silksong-sinks-to-mixed-steam-review-status-among-chinese-gamers-over-its-bafflingly-bad-translation-with-team-cherry-promising-to-improve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hollow-knight-silksong-sinks-to-mixed-steam-review-status-among-chinese-gamers-over-its-bafflingly-bad-translation-with-team-cherry-promising-to-improve-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to &#8216;Mixed&#8217; Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>As reported by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/hollow-knight-silksong-is-being-review-bombed-in-china\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a>, Hollow Knight: Silksong has not met Chinese players&#8217; expectations the way it has globally, with a 42% positive &#8220;Mixed&#8221; review status from nearly 20,000 Chinese language users, who say that the game&#8217;s localization was abysmally, uniquely poor.<\/p>\n<p>Team Cherry has already responded to the issue, promising <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/griffinmatta\/status\/1963798473700168146\" target=\"_blank\">to work on the Chinese localization<\/a>. &#8220;We appreciate you letting us know about quality issues with the current Simplified Chinese translation of Hollow Knight: Silksong,&#8221; wrote the game&#8217;s publishing and marketing lead, Matthew Griffin. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be working to improve the translation over the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To our Chinese speaking fans:We appreciate you letting us know about quality issues with the current Simplified Chinese translation of Hollow Knight: Silksong.We&#8217;ll be working to improve the translation over the coming weeks.Thanks for your feedback and support.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1963798473700168146\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The reception among Chinese speaking reviewers sharply contrasts with Silksong&#8217;s reviews in all other languages it&#8217;s available in, with an overall 80% &#8220;Very Positive&#8221; rating among over 80,000 reviews worldwide. Of about 16,000 negative reviews worldwide, 11,800 of them are in Simplified Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Some commenters on Griffin&#8217;s post have tried to elaborate on the specific issues at hand. Tiger Tang, who led the Chinese localization of 2020 RPG Omori, wrote that the main issues in Silksong&#8217;s localization are creative, not grammatical. &#8220;The current Silksong CN translation reads like a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wuxia\" target=\"_blank\">Wuxia<\/a> novel instead of conveying the game&#8217;s tone,&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TigerHixTang\/status\/1963850592595677350\" target=\"_blank\">said Tang<\/a>. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t about effort, but about taste and direction, and speaking from experience likely can&#8217;t be fixed without replacing the translator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others in the comments noted the same bizarre, anachronistic quality Tang mentions, while it also reportedly devolves into total gibberish in places. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/hollow-knight-silksong-steam-review-bomb-chinese-translation-2000623496\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a> cited criticism from translation expert Loek van Kooten, who called Silksong&#8217;s Chinese dialogue the equivalent of &#8220;a high-school drama club&#8217;s Elizabethan improv night.&#8221; Silksong had two people credited for its Chinese localization, versus the first game&#8217;s team of six.<\/p>\n<p>In a final twist, one of those two translators, Hertzz Liu, appears to have been leaking details about the much-anticipated Silksong on social media. A June comment on the r\/Silksong subreddit by user <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Silksong\/comments\/1ldgakt\/comment\/my8a2il\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\">Infinite-Lake-7523<\/a> includes a screenshot of a Q&#038;A on the Chinese site Tieba from a user named &#8220;Hertzzz.&#8221; Infinite-Lake-7523 ironically thought this was a hoax, but said Herzz(zz) estimated a pre-Christmas release date and shared some of their plans for the localization.<\/p>\n<p>Is it still a &#8220;review bomb&#8221; if people are understandably upset over a defective product? The current Chinese translation of Silksong sounds like that infamous &#8220;restoration&#8221; of Ecce Homo. With issues this extensive and structural, I would expect Team Cherry to commit to an entirely new Chinese localization, but that will likely take some time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"a0dc39b0-badf-4451-a24e-642cda2f8556\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Silksong guide\" data-dimension48=\"Silksong guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:354px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"eyHFNYRPybpHUyE5onD6uP\" name=\"silksong square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hollow-knight-silksong-sinks-to-mixed-steam-review-status-among-chinese-gamers-over-its-bafflingly-bad-translation-with-team-cherry-promising-to-improve-it.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"354\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hollow-knight-silksong-everything-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"a0dc39b0-badf-4451-a24e-642cda2f8556\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Silksong guide\" data-dimension48=\"Silksong guide\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Silksong guide<\/strong><\/a>: Home of all our bug-battling tips<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/silksong-fleas-locations\/\"><strong>Silksong flea locations<\/strong><\/a>: Gather the lost fleas<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/silksong-simple-key-locations\/\"><strong>Silksong simple key locations<\/strong><\/a>: Where to use it<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/silksong-hokers-spine-core-location\/\"><strong>Silksong Hokers location<\/strong><\/a>: Support the Seamstress<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/silksong-hunters-march-bench\/\"><strong>Hunter&#8217;s March bench<\/strong><\/a>: Yes there is one<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/hollow-knight-silksong-sinks-to-mixed-steam-review-status-among-chinese-gamers-over-its-bafflingly-bad-translation-with-team-cherry-promising-to-improve-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by Eurogamer, Hollow Knight: Silksong has not met Chinese players&#8217; expectations the way it has globally, with a 42% positive &#8220;Mixed&#8221; review status from nearly 20,000 Chinese language users, who say that the game&#8217;s localization was abysmally, uniquely poor. Team Cherry has already responded to the issue, promising to work on the Chinese localization. &#8220;We appreciate you letting us know about quality issues with the current Simplified Chinese translation of Hollow Knight: Silksong,&#8221; wrote the game&#8217;s publishing and marketing lead, Matthew Griffin. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be working to improve the translation over the coming weeks.&#8221; To our Chinese speaking fans:We appreciate you letting us know about quality issues with the current Simplified Chinese translation of Hollow Knight: Silksong.We&#8217;ll be working to improve the translation over&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hollow-knight-silksong-sinks-to-mixed-steam-review-status-among-chinese-gamers-over-its-bafflingly-bad-translation-with-team-cherry-promising-to-improve-it\/\">Read 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