[SPOILERS Ch. X - Part 3] I'm really confused with the method of death

[LOLGuy213]

This is literally the third person you look at (he's the spooky bones with flies around him) but I'm actually really struggling to name the cause of death. Frankly, he gets hit with a spear-like/pole weapon that caves his skull in. Does this go under "Clubbed" or "Speared"? I would use "Donked on the head by that guy who looks like Heihachi from Tekken" but I don't know how to describe it or if I'm doing it right

[LOLGuy213]

I'm sorry for being terrible at this from the start, I just can't pass this roadblock in my mind

[SISKꙮWICZ]

Absolutely clubbed, sometimes it enough to hit once/

[The Renderer]

"Speared" would be if the thing actually got stuck into him. Just getting hit by it is "clubbed".

[LOLGuy213]

Originally posted by SISKØWICZ:

Absolutely clubbed, sometimes it enough to hit once/

Originally posted by The Renderer:

"Speared" would be if the thing actually got stuck into him. Just getting hit by it is "clubbed".

Thank you!

[Ryusui]

Consider yourself lucky; I thought it was a sword for a rather frustrating length of time.

[dukope]

Either "clubbed" or "speared" will work for this one.

Many of the correct fate variations are down to issues with localization. Something obvious or specific in English can be more or less broad in other languages.

For a good example of this, in English we have the nice verb "knifed" which covers any usage of a knife including cut or stabbed. Unfortunately there's no such handy verb for being killed with a sword ("sworded?") so the fate entry has to appear as "Killed (Sword)."

Imagine that issue projected across 9 languages.

[Ryusui]

I should...replay the game in Japanese.

[LOLGuy213]

Originally posted by dukope:

Either "clubbed" or "speared" will work for this one.

Many of the correct fate variations are down to issues with localization. Something obvious or specific in English can be more or less broad in other languages.

For a good example of this, in English we have the nice verb "knifed" which covers any usage of a knife including cut or stabbed. Unfortunately there's no such handy verb for being killed with a sword ("sworded?") so the fate entry has to appear as "Killed (Sword)."

Imagine that issue projected across 9 languages.

That's really interesting and that sounds definitely very frustrating from a localisation point of view (I guess a lot of us really underestimate the true lengths people have to go to in order to localise games in other languages!), thanks for replying: this is an absolutely great game and I'm having such a good blast with this one. Also, the soundtrack is awesome too, I love how certain actions you do contribute to the soundtrack. I'm actually making my own game for a school project, so I'm definitely gonna reference Obra Dinn in an analysis :)