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Posted July 24, 2013
Linking away happily in a colorful realm of adventure!

Ittle Dew, a charming and elaborate console-style action-RPG with cartoonish graphics and lots of puzzle-packed dungeons, is available 10% off on GOG.com. That's only $12.59 for the first week.

Dungeons! Is there a better place to go adventuring than old moldy crypts full of dangerous monsters, traps, secret passages, and shiny beautiful magical loot? Well, of course not! So what's the point of trying to come up with anything different? There is none! We want dungeons, lots of them. Preferably scattered across some green, charming landscape that can be uncovered bit by bit. Some games do it right, others stray off the path. This one is very self-aware and executes all the classic ideas perfectly!

Ittle Dew plays exactly like a console-style action-RPG should play. That would probably be enough for every gamer in the world, but on top of that--it looks amazing! The cartoony graphics are so full of wit and charm, that you'll feel your inner child jumping up and down with delight. The game offers the best gameplay its genre has to offer, complete with many puzzles, odd-looking monsters, and treasures that you'll find along your way. Your quest will take up to 5 hours and once you're done, you'll probably find yourself playing it all over again, enjoying it even more!

If you miss that special feeling only classic action-RPGs can provide, there's a good chance you will instantly fall in love with Ittle Dew! Get it for only $12.59 on GOG.com. The 10% discount offer lasts until Wednesday, July 31, at 9:59AM GMT.
Posted July 24, 2013
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HypersomniacLive: If you notice, even your second link mentions alternative pronounciations and draws attention to possible confusion with due.
Maybe it does have to do with regions or states or somehting along those lines.
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yyahoo: I guess. I'm just looking at first pronunciations and how I hear it spoken everywhere living in this country. Lot's of words in English are spoken with the same pronunciation but mean something different depending on context. It's just the way it is.
You said ;...."living in this country". Yes, in America, the way those words are pronounced is correct. Most other places they're not, or at least not the way they have been pronounced for hundreds of years in places like the UK, Australia, Europe etc..

Have you ever been out of America? I only ask as I have American friends who will often tell me "this is correct", "that is correct" as they honestly believe it is because they've never been out of the US, so they honestly don't know that what they perceive as 'correct' is actually not correct in many other countries.

I was the same about some American pronunciations before I moved from England to the US. I had no idea how some words were pronounced in the US, and was astounded when I heard some Americanisms :) Now, I can usually interchange them depending on which accent I"m using :), but I still occasionally use phrases that are British and have no idea they are until my American friends fall around laughing as they've never heard them before.

When we first moved to the US, I remember my dad laughing over how Americans pronounce the name Anne. It's like they put another vowel in there -- The British say 'An'. Americans in many areas of the country say 'Ayun'. My dad thought it was hilarious. Now he's lived in the US for so long, he doesn't even notice it anymore :)

For me now, I've lived in Thailand so long I even have a Thai accent on some words and, if I talk about places in Thailand, I always pronounce them the Thai way. Some western fiends say it sounds pretentious, but it's not that at all. It's just that if I pronounce those places the western way, my Thai friends have no idea where I'm talking about.

Anyway.....I'm off. I have work to do. Love talking about accents though. They're fascinating.
Post edited July 24, 2013 by Bloodygoodgames
Posted July 24, 2013
Nice Zelda clone.
Posted July 24, 2013
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yyahoo: I'm seriously confused by all of this talk of how Americans speak. Do and dew should be pronounced the same way. Doe would be pronounced differently, but not "do". Also, I've never heard anyone say "mountain" without the "t". Heck, I listened to your youtube link and I even heard the "t" in that pronunciation, even though it certainly wasn't prominent. Was all this a joke? Should I be laughing right now? Very, very confused....
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, it's because you're American. You have no idea how you sound to other native English speakers who aren;t.

And NO, only in America are 'do' and 'due' pronounced the same way. Correct pronunciation for do is 'doo'. Correct pronunciation for 'due' is something like 'jew'.

And yes, you might think Americans are pronouncing the 't' in mountain. Most aren't. The 't' is skipped over like in many other English words pronounced by Americans that..

Nothing wrong with it, it's just an accent, but it's not the way much of the rest of the world pronounces these words as, up until the last 10-15 years or so, most non-native speakers learnt British English and not American English.

I taught English in Thailand for about six years and most of my Thai students were confused with the American pronunciation of many words, as they learnt British English. Like I said, that is changing as more Americans teach in Thailand and as more American language schools open here. But British English is still predominantly taught in schools for the moment.

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HypersomniacLive: Would you care to explain why they should be pronounced the same way?
Because plenty of dictionaries say otherwise.
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, they shouldn't be. Americans pronounce them that way, so they're correct in America but not usually anywhere else.
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yyahoo: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/do?s=t

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dew?s=t
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Bloodygoodgames: Dictionary.com is an American website. That's why. Oh and they use the American Heritage Dictionary, where the pronunciations, and spellings, are skewed to the American version.
Well, we're talking about American English here. You can't compare it to British English. Neither is "incorrect" on their own merits. This is the mistake you're making here.
Posted July 24, 2013
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Bloodygoodgames: it's just an accent
American English is a dialect of the English language.

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Bloodygoodgames: Correct pronunciation
Pronouncing 'dew', 'do', and 'due' as homophones is correct in American English.

American English and British English differ in some grammar, pronunciation, etc.
Posted July 24, 2013
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Bloodygoodgames: it's just an accent
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SeduceMePlz: American English is a dialect of the English language.

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Bloodygoodgames: Correct pronunciation
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SeduceMePlz: Pronouncing 'dew', 'do', and 'due' as homophones is correct in American English.

American English and British English differ in some grammar, pronunciation, etc.
Thank you, exactly the point I was making.
Posted July 24, 2013
Game looks amusing. I'm not in any hurry to buy it, but I'll put it on my wishlist to remind me later.
Posted July 24, 2013
5 hours of gameplay for 12.59 $ ...Meeeh
2.5 $ per hour (Not counting the bonuses...) Meeeeeh
Posted July 24, 2013
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Bloodygoodgames: LOL, it's because you're American. You have no idea how you sound to other native English speakers who aren;t.

And NO, only in America are 'do' and 'due' pronounced the same way. Correct pronunciation for do is 'doo'. Correct pronunciation for 'due' is something like 'jew'.

And yes, you might think Americans are pronouncing the 't' in mountain. Most aren't. The 't' is skipped over like in many other English words pronounced by Americans that..

Nothing wrong with it, it's just an accent, but it's not the way much of the rest of the world pronounces these words as, up until the last 10-15 years or so, most non-native speakers learnt British English and not American English.

I taught English in Thailand for about six years and most of my Thai students were confused with the American pronunciation of many words, as they learnt British English. Like I said, that is changing as more Americans teach in Thailand and as more American language schools open here. But British English is still predominantly taught in schools for the moment.

LOL, they shouldn't be. Americans pronounce them that way, so they're correct in America but not usually anywhere else.

Dictionary.com is an American website. That's why. Oh and they use the American Heritage Dictionary, where the pronunciations, and spellings, are skewed to the American version.
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yyahoo: Well, we're talking about American English here. You can't compare it to British English. Neither is "incorrect" on their own merits. This is the mistake you're making here.
No, I wasn't making a mistake. My original comment, THAT WAS MEANT TO BE AN INNOCENT COMMENT NOT A FUCKING EXCUSE FOR AN ARGUMENT ABOUT HOW AMERICAN ENGLISH IS CORRECT - was that 'ittle dew' is NOT a play on words in anything other than American English, as it doesn't mean the same.

And that also means, in many countries around the world, gamers will buy it and have no idea the name is supposed to be funny as the pronunciation of 'dew' they are familiar with is not the same one Americans use.

So yes, Ittle Dew' in American English -- hahahaha funny/. In the English language that the majority of the planet still speaks, it does not have the same meaning. Result? The joke is lost.

Anyway, I actually have a life and have work to do. So on that note......done here.
Posted July 24, 2013
Get angry.

On-topic: probably not a bad game, but it doesn't look especially unique nor something to really get excited about. (And I do think it's overpriced at "5 hours of gameplay".)

Still hoping GOG is doing some summer negotiating and will be able to bring some incredible classics this fall.
Posted July 24, 2013
Oh, a release on Wednesday. Sweet.

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Bloodygoodgames: Words like Mountain Dew in the US, for instance, it's pronounced 'Moun-un Do' (they don't even pronounce the 't' in mountain :), and that's how it's pronounced all over the US -- just listen to the TV commercial.
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know. I read about the drink the first time in the fantastic article in Eurogamer about some game reporter and always assumed it's "due" instead "doo".
Post edited July 24, 2013 by Mivas
Posted July 24, 2013
Really charming looking game, but maybe tad dear compared to other indie games.
Posted July 24, 2013
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Bloodygoodgames: And that also means, in many countries around the world, gamers will buy it and have no idea the name is supposed to be funny as the pronunciation of 'dew' they are familiar with is not the same one Americans use.

So yes, Ittle Dew' in American English -- hahahaha funny/. In the English language that the majority of the planet still speaks, it does not have the same meaning. Result? The joke is lost.
Od's blood, what is this tragedy?!
Posted July 24, 2013
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Bloodygoodgames: Snip
Weird... English is my third language, yet I still understood the joke :/... Pretty sure I'm not more intelligent then others.

Plus I remember watching the interview on youtube about the game, and the game creater who was being interviewed talked in a "northern-europeen" accent... So he's not a native english speaker...

I mean we have to stop underestimating people's capacity to understand pronounciation jokes...

If let's say someone who isn't an english native speaker, comes across the name, he'll try to pronounce the name : " It'll daaaaw ??? It'll duuuuw ? It'll dooo ?? IT'LL DO ! !" He'd probably get it after a while :).
Posted July 24, 2013
On the other hand, I'm American and only got the pun when someone pointed it out.
Posted July 24, 2013
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Gazoinks: On the other hand, I'm American and only got the pun when someone pointed it out.
So it didn't strike you at odd in any way whatsoever that a name is called Ittle Dew ??
Some people take names for granted U_U
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