Came here to say this -- Inkling is technically not Japanese, English, or Latin.
If you want to pick a specific song, you can't go wrong with Splattack!:
Or Shiokara-Bushi if you want more lyrics:
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Best Song with Lyrics That Aren't in Japanese, English, or Latin
- Thread starter DiipuSurotu
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If you want to pick a specific song, you can't go wrong with Splattack!:
Or Shiokara-Bushi if you want more lyrics:
German is my first language and man, I can barely understand anything. Sounds nice though.
This is one of the worst thing Japan does with anime. They really love Germany and German stuff for whatever reason and try to shoehorn it into their stuff and it sounds HORRIBLE to anyone who can speak German(except if you're some turbo weeb or something).
Blumenkranz from KLK is a great example of this.
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"Sie sind das Essen und wir sind die Jäger" is the first line in the AoT opening and it's actually understandable, but most of the time the pronunciation is so off that you can't understand a single word. It's quite funny.
Yea I'd like to think it's not just that...
Check this, it's really bad.
It's better than in Xenoblade X at least! I could understand a word here and there!
Yeah, it's bad.
I had no idea a Cafe Tacuba song had ended up in a video game.
If it's any consolation, they do this with English too and it also sounds pretty weird most of the time. Though since you're writing your posts in English, maybe you've already noticed that?
Yeah, I noticed that.
Usually they threw one or two words in there, I see it all the time in the Detective Conan openings. At least there are subtitles in the openings so you can notice it despite the often times funny pronunciations.
But to be fair, my pronunciation of English isn't that good either, so I shouldn't be that harsh.
Other ones from Civ series are nice too
Both of Shaka themes in Civ V:
Peace
War
Russian Atomic Era theme:
There's Georgia and the Zulus in Civ VI DLC too which are very, very nice.
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Nope, not listening to that second one. Not in a millions years.
Literally burst into tears every fucking time I hear it. I only heard the first few seconds and I'm already on the verge of weeping.
Ar Tonelico hymns. The literally constructed new language that fans can even decipher them and create new songs using that language
Was yea raaa chss hymnosss meaaaaa
Was yea raaa chss hymnosss meaaaaa
I really like Risa Ohki's rendition of "La Mia Tristezza" from Suikoden II.
It's perhaps a bit cheating because, as far as I know, it's a song that's supposed to appear in the game but doesn't for one reason or another.
It's perhaps a bit cheating because, as far as I know, it's a song that's supposed to appear in the game but doesn't for one reason or another.
Well, I bet your English is better than my German. It's the only other language besides Japanese I've had an interest in learning and some decent experience with. It's a shame my High School cut a lot of the language classes after my 2nd year, I probably would have continued learning it if I didn't have to choose between it and Japanese and could've done both. That was a long time ago now so I've forgotten a lot of it, but at least it's easier to grasp than Japanese since it's so much closer to English. :) Maybe I'll get back to it after getting fluent in Japanese.
And yeah, it helps that they will often have subtitles when speaking English, sometimes we need them because of the heavy accents too.
On an unrelated (but on topic) note, I'm pleased to see so many Fata Morgana mentions. That's a great soundtrack and a great game (even though it is one of the least interactive Visual Novels I've ever seen, it's a fantastic story).
This was precisely the track I came to post. Good to see someone was already on it.
the people who posted nier are correct, and posters of culture, but drakkengard 3's ost is also in nier's made up nonsense language, and it's bangers all the way down.
tales of legendia also had a constructed language— i think?— called relares.
always felt like this ost was super underrated.
tales of legendia also had a constructed language— i think?— called relares.
always felt like this ost was super underrated.
Since Legend of Mana and Ar Tonelico were already mentioned I'll go with a Korean song from DJ Max:
i see everything i wanted to post is here, so i propose this one from Anno 2070
EDIT : damn it's in latin, for some reason i was sure it was italian from what i remembered
EDIT : damn it's in latin, for some reason i was sure it was italian from what i remembered