“Retched” in Devil May Cry

Was checking the back of #DMC’s PS2 case and noticed the word under one of the screen captures.

At first I thought it was “wretched”, but suspecting of a potential mistake like that being too obvious to pass, I still went to check. Apparently it’s Old English for “vomited”? Curious choice of word if so.

Tangentially, these old cases are being interesting to check imo, to see how titles tried to be relevant back then.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    It’s 100% a mistake. “Wretched souls” is a well-known phrase that goes back to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, if not earlier.

    I’m guessing they didn’t catch it because retched is also a word, even though that use is grammatically incorrect (unless they were souls that’d been vomited up).

    • Auster@thebrainbin.orgOP
      3·
      23 days ago

      Makes me think, maybe I’m getting gritty aesthetics of DMC mixed with the nasty aesthetics of the 2013 reboot, being several years since I played either, and because of that it wouldn’t sound as off.