#inscryption oddities

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I realized that I’ve neglected to talk about one of the strangest things that happened to me while playing Inscryption.

What happened was, while we were replaying the game in German to see what the localization was like, we named one of our Death Cards “Dutch” - because of reasons.

But then, when that card was actually dealt to us, it was instead called “Niederländisch”:

You see, “Niederländisch” is the German word for “Dutch”, as in the language Dutch.

So, somehow, for some bizarre reason, the game had automatically translated that Death Card’s name into German?

Actually getting the card into our deck and changing the language settings afterwards confirmed that the game would indeed just automatically translate the Death Card's name into whatever language we had set the game to:

I have no idea why this would happen, since it’s not like the rest of the game’s text is auto-translated or anything like that.

We did do one experiment with a Death Card called “Mice”, to see if it would translate that to “Mäuse” in German, but the game left that one untouched.

So your guess is as good as mine.

I haven’t had the time for more experiments with this one, so I don’t know how many words would be affected by this - or if it’s even still a thing in the latest version - but I still wanted to share it, because it’s just so weird.

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“Greater Shade”?

I wanna tell the story behind my URL, cause it’s actually kinda interesting, I think.

A while back, like a few days before Kaycee’s Mod first went into beta, to give you an idea of the time frame, we were replaying Inscryption in German to see what it was like.

So, during Act 1, one of our Death Cards, which had both the Fledgling and Loose Tail sigils, dropped their tail after evolving -

And for some reason, the tail was labelled “Greater Shade”:

I’d probably just have assumed this was what “human” tails were called, but the fact that it had an English name in the German version tipped us off that this was probably not supposed to happen?

I tested this again on my own a little while later, and when I did, my own experimental Fledgling + Loose Tail Death Card “Skinkeroo” would spawn “Skinkeroo Tail” when not evolved, and “Greater Shade” when evolved.

Looking into it more, “Greater Shade” is apparently the internal file name for evolved Death Cards?

So based on that, I'd guess that when a Death Card has evolved, the tail it drops unintentionally grabs that file name instead of whatever you actually named your card.

And since this scenario is so rare, it probably hadn’t really been noticed, maybe.

In any case, I was intrigued by it.