Comment on Nier Automata
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 6 days ago
I had a moment with the game where the etherial, unintelligible music seemed to make sense for a sec and it tripped me out, like I heard something about being altered by “strange reddish slime” and it sent me down a rabbit hole trying to find the lyrics only to discover it’s a made up language or something? Anyway, top shelf stuff!
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The lyrics are designed to evoke a feeling, but not confuse the player with actual lyrics they might understand (especially if the song is playing while characters are talking in-game).
To do this, the songwriter just created nonsense words that made the sound they wanted, and later on called it Chaos Language. That way they only had to record the song once for all localizations. Its not a real language though, because it doesn’t have any grammar rules or anything.
They did sing some songs in multiple real languages though, which typically play during the end credits.
Cherries@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In the prequel, the songwriter was told, “Imagine it’s been 10,000 years. What does French sound like?” And then she was asked fto do that for multiple other languages and it’s awesome.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
He pulled a Sigur Ros