Kirby & The Forgotten Land's Secret Language Deciphered By Fan
One dedicated player has decoded the secret language featured in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. An interview with Kirby and the Forgotten Land's developers originally revealed that the language was decipherable ahead of the game's release.
The fictional languages sometimes found in video games are a form of constructed language (conlang for short). In some ways, conlangs might be considered the ultimate worldbuilding tool. A spoken language, or even just an alphabet, can offer players a sense that the world they see has a deeper culture lying underneath the surface. Not only that, but the creation of a language also allows developers to hide small secret messages in their games for dedicated fans to decode. One of the more notable examples of a fictional language in gaming to date is the Dragon Language featured in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. As well as providing meaning to the game's Thu'um shouts, an understanding of Dragon Language also allows players to gain a deeper insight into their meetings with the dragon Paarthurnax amongst other details of the game world.
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With the promise of a language to break down and decipher, Kirby fans with a love of decryption and puzzles were keen to put their translation skills to work. Amongst them was Reddit user PromiseMeStars, who has now decoded various examples of the in-game language. Referring to the game's opening cutscenes, PromiseMeStars explained to fellow Redditors that "the theme song gave us a translation into the fictional language right below the English subtitles." By using this as a base, it was possible for fans to create a key for the language, and from there translate the various fragments of
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