Elden Ring’s message translations: Software games use multiplayer uniquely and especially, and Elden Ring keeps that up. It doesn’t matter if you summon symbols for co-op or accept an enemy invasion to get rich rewards. Many of the Dark Souls franchise’s most notable features have brought back.
There’s also the message system, which players of the game Elden Ring have used for years to give each other tips, point out secrets, and send dank memes all over the world. There is, however, a problem when it comes to translating Elden Ring memes into other languages.
A Japanese player of the Elden Ring, E.T.C., only recently tweeted about their hilarious struggles with English messages that didn’t make sense. They talk about a time when they came across letters in Japanese that said “Fort, night.”
In English, it’s clear that people who make jokes or puns about Fortnite are sharing this message. It’s not the same in Japanese, though. There are two Japanese words that readout: to ride and you.
This means that E.T.C. only sees these messages the same way any Japanese player would see them. He thinks they might give him a clue when he sees them, like many messages from the Elden Ring. He says that he’s been looking for a Fort because of these messages, which he then goes into at night.
With so many people talking about this fort, there must be a big reward or storey point hidden there. That’s what you’d expect. His journey did not end with a premium, of course.
For how long E.T.C. only looked through the many forts of Elden Ring at night, it’s not clear. They did, however, get a sense of what the messages meant.
Were you crying with laughter when you found out what it meant, or were you joking? The players of the Elden Ring are together even though this is a silly, embarrassing situation. They all agree that it’s so foolish.
It’s not just the Fortnite memes that Japanese players are having a hard time with, though. Afterwards, another Japanese Elden Ring player asked Twitter what the “butt and fingers” messages meant about English players’ “Try finger, but hole.” memes. When Elden Ring made a perverted joke, many players were happy to explain what it meant.
It’s an exciting situation, and it would be fun to look into it more. In Japan, it isn’t clear if English Elden Ring messages are being automatically translated by the game’s servers and shared or if Japanese players who have heard the memes in English are posting rough translations of them in Japanese online forums.
Both would show interesting layers to people in the Elden Ring and From Software communities. They might not have known that they connect in ways they didn’t know.
Elden Ring is available on P.C., PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. You can also get it on Xbox One.
