>>720124579
Apparently the mainland Chinese translation is "that bad".
But I don't buy that given they also did something similar to Nine Sols for political reasons.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/hollow-knight-silksong-sinks-to-mixed-steam-review-status-among-chinese-gamers-over-its-bafflingly-bad-translation-with-team-cherry-promising-to-improve-it/
>"The current Silksong CN translation reads like a Wuxia novel instead of conveying the game's tone," said Tang. "
Oh. Oh that's bad. TC will probably have to apologise.
Thank god it's not CCCP.
I wonder if Japan has the same issue. Everywhere else loves the game so I suspect that's the issue.