finnish – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:17:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png finnish – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 Hempuli Translates Finnish Super Mario Manual Back Into English https://setsideb.com/hempuli-translates-finnish-super-mario-manual-back-into-english/ Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=1510 Continue reading "Hempuli Translates Finnish Super Mario Manual Back Into English"]]> Hempuli is the creator of the brillian Baba Is You, as well as other games. He’s known to tweet from time to time, and lately he translated some of the text from the quirky Finnish translation of Super Mario Bros. back into English, making an effort to retain some of its distinctive weirdness. Here is that thread, unrolled for your convenience. Here’s a couple of highlights:

Hurry Mario and save Princess Chanterelle of Mushroomoom land!
“Willowherbs” is the translator’s attempt to do something with the “field horsehair plants” in the English manual that have mystified players for decades now.
Daddy-longlegs?
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