Slayaway Camp - Special Edition Content · published
Hey Killers! We wanted to get in touch because we've been working hard on getting Slayaway Camp localized for a Chinese audience. We've got some text back but we have to be honest... It all looks like Chinese to us! (get it? Because it is...)
If you or someone you know understands Simplified Chinese (like really, not just using Google Translate - we can do that on our end and the results are pretty hilarious), it would mean the world to us if you could give this a quick review and let us know if the localization team is hitting the mark with the localization?
You all know Slayaway Camp probably better than we do! Any help you can give us to make sure we're not bringing a subpar product to Chinese speaking audiences would be a massive help! Skullface may even grant you an extra few minutes of life!
Without further ado, here's the text, with the english and simplified chinese localizations. What do you think?
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English Level Name: Last Day of Summer - August 24 1984
English Hint: Try bumping into that smart mouthed victim!
S.Chinese Level Name: 夏天的最后一天 - 1984年8月24日
S.Chinese Hint: 尽量去碰撞那个伶牙俐齿的倒霉鬼！
English Level Name: slide & kill the safety officer
English Hint: Looks like you'll just keep sliding until you hit something?
S.Chinese Level Name: 幻灯片&杀死保安官员
S.Chinese Hint: 看起来你只是保持滑动，直到你碰到什么东西？
English Level Name: el fuego de la muerte
English Hint: use some strategic scare tactics
S.Chinese Name: 死亡之火
S.Chinese Hint: 使用一些战略性的恐吓战术
English Level Name: a hole...
English Hint: Let his fear lead you to success.
S.Chinese Name: 一个洞...
S.Chinese Hint: 让他的恐惧给你带来成功。
English Description: After this scene was filmed, the lead actress slipped on some orange juice spilled at the craft services table and broke her neck, dying on the spot.
Chinese Description: 这场戏拍完后，女主角滑倒在从工艺服务的桌子上洒出来的橙汁儿中，扭断了脖子，死在了片场。
English Description: After various hole-related mishaps, this set was shut down indefinitely while investigators looked into the murderous tendencies of a very shovel-happy crew member.
Chinese Description: 在与洞相关的各种事故后，这套东西被无限期关闭，调查人员同时调查一个喜欢铁锹的施工人员的凶杀倾向。
English Level Name: Teleporter Torcher
English Hint: You'll have to scare both those victims into a fire!
S.Chinese Level Name: 传送点照明工
S.Chinese Hint: 你要把两个倒霉鬼都吓得跑到火里去！
English Level Name: Space Station Slay
English Hint: Looks like you'll need to put three victims through that yellow teleporter before you kill them...
S.Chinese Level Name: 太空站的杀戮
S.Chinese Hint: 在杀死他们之前，似乎你要让三个倒霉鬼穿过黄色传送点。
(a baseball bat kill animation, the joke is about 9th inning of baseball, but also the 9th inning of hell, like the 9th circle of hell.)
English: From the 9th inning of hell, it's time to even the score.
Chinese: 从第九局的地狱里，现在是评价得分的时候了。
(a special kill animation for the Programmer Killer… animation basically causes the victim to “glitch out” like a typical game glitch where they appear in the floor, then slide around, dying the whole time)
English: Programmer's special kill! Tap into the matrix of matrixes to unleash a glitch so powerful no victim can withstand it.
Chinese: 程序员的专杀！在矩阵组中敲入矩阵，释放出的强烈的电子脉冲，没有任何倒霉鬼能够忍受。
(A special kill animation that just chops the victim with an axe. The joke is a reference to the “how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood”)
English: How many victims could a victim chopper chop if a victim chopper could chop victims?
Chinese: 如果用斧头砍，会砍死多少倒霉鬼？
(a special kill animation where the killer shoves a shovel into the victims head.)
English: Major Miner's special kill! He's got a shovel and he's ready to dig his way to your heart. Or your spinal cord. Whatever.
Chinese: 挖矿包工头的专杀！他有把铲子，可以挖心。或者是你的骨髓。无论怎样。
(a monster similar to the 1980’s movie “Gremlins”)
English: Whatever you do, don't feed her after midnight... wait.. isn't any time of day after midnight?
Chinese: 无论你做什么，午夜后不要喂给她食物...等一下...午夜过后不久快天明了吗？
(A skinned Skullface (main character) to look like Santa Claus.)
English: Ho ho hold your horses because there's a sack full of DEATH comin down your chimney.
Chinese: 赫赫，拉住马，因为有整整一袋子的死亡从烟囱进来了。
(A Skinned Skullface (main character) to look like a Fantasy Role Playing Game Dark Knight character)
English: He's a 12th level Fighter with 18(00) Strength, immune to Magic Missiles. He's going to get Early Renaissance on your ass.
Chinese: 他是12级战士，具有18（00）的力量，对魔法导弹免疫。他会让早期的文艺复兴见鬼去。