Kirk Hamilton

It was an interesting, if very dry, read.

Here's my question.

What is your favorite fake language from video games?

Is that consistent or is that just like made up noises every time?

I have two answers, two very different kinds of languages that you play that allow you to experience them in different ways.

One is Irajin from Blueprints, which came out last year.

And that's a game where learning that language is an important part of like solving puzzles and getting deep into the mystery.

And there's even a whole letter that you can translate and some...

like story lore that you get out of that and other bits and pieces here and there puns using it it's pretty pretty brilliant by the end of the day um and the other is all bed in final fantasy 10 which is a very different type of language to uncover because you uncover that by learning each of the 26 letters each of which uh translates to another kind of like a code

And you do that by finding these objects throughout the game that are Albed translators, one per letter, which is a much more just kind of straightforward mechanical way to learn a language.

But still is very little, very fun to get those little endorphin rushes of like discovering a new letter and realizing you'll be able to understand more of the Albed language as you go and trying to find all 26 throughout the game.

So two very different approaches that I enjoyed in different ways.

Isn't that just Red Dead Redemption 2?

Well, I guess you get tuberculosis in Red Dead 2 instead of dysentery, but other than that, yeah.

How about Mario is Missing, remade for modern, for the Switch 2.

It's just the same game.

Oh man, it is a truly terrible game, Mario is Missing.

I actually, I played it for, well, I played it as a kid, but also for Get Played a few years ago.

Back when that was called, How Did This Get Played?

It was all bad games.