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Hit action-RPG Sands Of Salzaar to get an English translationThe Chinese hits keep coming and they don’t stop coming
The Chinese hits keep coming and they don’t stop coming
Desert-roaming action-RPGSands Of Salzaarhas made a splash among Chinese players since its launch into Steam Early Access last week. It’s an interesting hybrid ofDynasty Warriorsmobicide and a free-roaming light strategy RPG.
Its success has prompted the developersto declarean English translation “one of our top priorities, and we aim to add it to the game ASAP”. I’ve stumbled through it for a while like a monoglot oaf and have some thoughts.
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Just when I thought I was out, they drag me back in. Blasted obscure game devs, with their talent and their ideas and their hard work. I hate them all.
I may have spent most of my battle time fleeing from crowds of horsemen or challenging a boss and getting instantly pasted, but I expect a translation will prevent me from getting into that kind of mess. And I like that you’re free to run off and do your own thing pretty much immediately. Somehow I volunteered myself to represent a village in a two-way warfare mode, where two armies fight to occupy one another’s bases. This was probably not a smart thing to do without recruiting an army first. At least it didn’t punish me with a tedious spell in prison likeMount & Blade.
Diablikes are common enough, but between its sandboxy, strategic feel and larger scale skirmishes, I’m really looking forward to finding out what this one can do. More educated readers than I can get stuck in right now, but I stress again, it will remain entirely in Chinese until Han-Squirrel Studio complete an English translation, which they estimate will come “in the next few months”. The full release is pencilled in for some time in 2021.
As a stopgap, they’ve thoughtfully provided a temporary translation of the most common menu commandson its Steam forum.
