As a german player I am of course always happy when a game gets localized very well. Sadly, Shantae and the Pirates Curse is not among those games. GOG Galaxy tells me there are supposed to be six languages to choose from in-game, but I can't seem to find the language option to change it to English. Does anybody know where it is? Thanks!

I would be interested in this as well.

How do you change the language?

Why would anyone do that, omg. Seriously though, the German translation is riddled with mistakes and awkwardness.

Sorry, but I can't accept this answer like this!

I know that the Steam version can be set to English by setting Steam to English.
So there IS the possibility to set the language apart from the OS language!

You should contact the developers to solve this problem!

Yep, I understand the problem. As far as I know it has something to do with the dev or publisher since the same problem is found in BloodRayne Betrayal. Now, I am a translator, as such I enjoy a good localization, but I also love the original language and would like to get the chance of comparing both whenever I can. At least the Spanish translation does not feel as bad as what I have heard regarding the German one, but it has a few errors every now and then.

Please get a patch for this. The translation's poor quality is really detrimental. There are grammar errors, and the way names (like 'Ammo Baron" or "Scuttle Town") haven't been translated as well doesn't help because then you get a weird mishmash of translated and non-translated stuff.

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I started playing this game today but i can't enjoy bad translations. Will stop until I can switch the language. I also feel cheated by the GoG prodct description page, which clearly advertises english text and audio. To late for refund sadly.

I used this locale emulator
https://github.com/xupefei/Locale-Emulator/releases

It allows to run various applications with a different locale

Risky's Revenge: Instead of running the game with the UK locale (which didn't work) I run the installer with the UK locale. Now all texts in game are permanently english, even if I run the game without the emulator.

I was not able to run the Pirate's Curse in english yet, the installer ignored the setting.
I'll try it with the US setting next.

Yep, that worked.

So here it is
1. download https://github.com/xupefei/Locale-Emulator/releases
2. Unpack the zip file in a folder in your program directory
It's a 32 Bit program, so I suggest
C:\Program Files (x86)\LocaleEmulator
3. Run LEInstaller.exe as Admin (won't work otherwise)
4. Run LEGUI.exe (I think also here you need Admin rights)
5. Create an entry for "Run in English (US)", select the "english (usa)" locale, you can add also other locales and options for admin mode, your call. I don't think that the time zone is important.

6. INSTALL Shantae - Risky's Revenge using the context menu "run in english" (in my case both USA and UK worked).
=> Risky's Revenge will now permanently run in English

7. RUN Shantae and the Pirate's Curse using the same context menu
=> Pirate's Curse will now be in english, everytime you run it using the menu. Note, In my case, only USA works, UK doesn't.

This should also work for "some" other games, Phoning Home now also runs in English. Other games however (Batman the Telltale Series) didn't show the context menu, I don't know why.

note: During the installation of Risky's RevengeI had to disable the ransomware protection of my antivirus. Maybe this is because I didn't use the admin mode option in the context menu entry. Feel free to experiment if it makes a difference.