Showing posts with label huh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label huh. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Can Someone Please Explain This Silent Marshes Puzzle To Me?

Because I have no idea. Alright, so here's a picture of the puzzle.

Clear enough what you're supposed to do, right? Hit the keys in order, matching the image next to the number to a related image on a key. Couldn't be simpler, right? So let's go over them-

1 - Match the Sun to the Flower.
2 - Match the Spider to the Fly.
3 - Catch the Chicken to the Egg.
5 - Match the Wave to the Boat.

Which brings me to '4'. By process of elimination, I know where the bat goes with key number 2, but what the hell is that? An onion? A fist of garlic?

That's the closest I could come to, but I'm still baffled by it - you know that garlic has no associations with bats, right? It's just vampires that are afraid of garlic, not bats. It's just puzzling, especially since there's no trend making them clear.

Suns feed flowers. Spiders eat flies. Hens lay eggs. Boats ride on waves. Bats... are afraid of garlic?

So strange.

Saturday, 30 January 2016

The Amazing Mistranslations of Insane Cold: Back to the Ice Age, Presented in Ascending Order of Absurdity

There's no denying it - Insane Cold: Back to the Ice Age features some terrible attempts at presenting a game in English. So I've collected three examples of just how bad it is - there are many, many more, but I think these illustrate just how crazy things get.

This one borderline makes sense to me. It's a pipe, run that through some kind of translation program, I can see it winding up as 'tube'. That's fine. This next one makes a little less sense.

How? How does one go from 'Bow Tie' to 'Butterfly'? Are there similarities to those two words in Russian? When they're spelled phonetically in Cyrillic? This one is just bizarre. But not as strange as-

Yeah. Baffling. An electrical shock warning sign becomes 'ZIPPER'. This is so nuts it doesn't even seem like a translation thing, more like someone associated the wrong word with the wrong file. Just crazy.

Thursday, 28 January 2016

How Did This Happen? Insane Cold: Back to the Ice Age Edition

Please take a look at this picture and see if you can spot what I found so bizarre.

Yes, that's it. The bucket of fish. Can we get a closeup of that, please?

Wow. How did that end up as a finished part of a game that was released for sale? Did someone forget to replace a temp image with the actual one? Is this a 'take your daughter to work day' thing, where a 4-year-old wanted to get a picture in her parent's game?

That last option would be the only way I would find this acceptable.