“And we all disappear like a fart in Sahara.”
Kaisa Palomäki, Bettina Bonini and Jovana Conikj discuss Control, a video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, characterized by curious language use. One of the game’s most prominent characters is a janitor who speaks English with a heavy Finnish accent and uses a idioms that have been translated from Finnish into English word-for-word. How does this sound to a non-Finnish-speaking player and how does it affect the player experience?