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Good day
The problem is that Steam version of Blade Symphony defaults to Russian, and it is impossible to change it to any other language ("Language" submenu in steam launcher doesn't work and there's no way to change language in game).

LameGreen is this you?

LameGreen is this you?

Excuse me, what?

LameGreen is this you?

Excuse me, what?

We had a player contact Puny Human about the exact issue you are having, I wasn't sure if you were that person.

Have you downloaded the Russian Workshop client mod from the Blade Symphony Steam Workshop?
The player I mentioned had, which is why the game was in Russian for them.

We had a player contact Puny Human about the exact issue you are having, I wasn't sure if you were that person.

Have you downloaded the Russian Workshop client mod from the Blade Symphony Steam Workshop?
The player I mentioned had, which is why the game was in Russian for them.

Well, I see...

I never installed any mods from Steam workshop at all (I don't know how, TBH).
I tried to completely remove Blade Symphony (uninstalled the game from Steam client and then manually removed "Blade Symphony" folder from "[...]\SteamApps\Common") and reinstall it. It didn't help. Now I have something like this:

Text in the game is a mix of Russian and English now. Attempts to switch to any language from Steam client menu change nothing.

Try deleting the file clientregistry.blob in the Steam directory. You'll have to sign out of Steam first before you can do this.

After that start Steam up again, you'll have to enter your login details again.
Then try verifying the game cache for Blade Symphony.

You can do this by following these steps:

Right-click on "Blade Symphony" in your list of installed games and select "Properties" from the menu.
Then you need to select the "Local Files tab" and click the "Verify integrity of game cache" button.
Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.
Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
If there are any corrupt/missing files, then they should have been downloaded in this process.

Try deleting the file clientregistry.blob in the Steam directory. You'll have to sign out of Steam first before you can do this.

After that start Steam up again, you'll have to enter your login details again.
Then try verifying the game cache for Blade Symphony.

You can do this by following these steps:

Right-click on "Blade Symphony" in your list of installed games and select "Properties" from the menu.
Then you need to select the "Local Files tab" and click the "Verify integrity of game cache" button.
Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.
Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
If there are any corrupt/missing files, then they should have been downloaded in this process.

I followed your instructions, but it didn't help. At "Verify integrity of game cache" step Steam has found 5 broken files and redownloaded them, but after that the game switched to Russian completely (despite being set to English in Steam) and that's it.

After unsuccessful attempt to find some registry key or .ini/.cfg file with the option to change in-game language I came up with clumsy but working solution.
I went to "[...]Steam\steamapps\common\Blade Symphony\berimbau\resource" folder, removed "basemodui_russian.txt", "berimbau_russian.txt" and "gameui_russian.txt", then copied "basemodui_english.txt", "berimbau_english.txt" and "gameui_english.txt" and renamed them to "basemodui_russian.txt", "berimbau_russian.txt" and "gameui_russian.txt" respectively.
This way I have everything in English in game, phew...

BTW, Russian translation leaves much to be desired, there are many errors of all kinds in it...

That is an odd problem, good to see you fixed it.

The Russian translation is fan made. We are open to other players submitting changes to fix any errors in it.