It would be even more immersive without English subtitles. Especially for languages we don’t know.

And you couldn’t learn religions from religion teachers without knowledge of the language. Emotes, yes, you can learn by imitation, but trying to teach the philosophies of Mitra without a common language should be impossible.

But immersion often comes at the cost of accessibility. Needing to find multiple dictionaries just to interact with the small handful of interactable NPCs would be bothersome.

Besides, the bracelets act as simultaneous interpreting machines - that’s what they were originally for. Maybe that’s why, even though the NPCs actually talk in their native languages, we hear them as if they were speaking English.

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