So, first read the article I’m linking below, then come back here. It’s clear those expressing concern over this have never set foot in Final Fantasy XIV’s Limsa Lominsa, and especially not as a Rogue!

https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/17/17582070/octopath-traveler-haanit-dialogue-localization

So, yeah, I get it. The people struggling the most are non-native English speakers. And that makes total sense. Those folks might have a legitimate gripe there, haha. But to anybody not in that group, I say: rather than harsh on her vibe, stick with H’aanit’s Middle English and let yourself be charmed by it!

As for my comment about Limsa Lominsa and the Rogue’s Guild: I mention this because I feel I have a degree of credibility in this arena. Allow me to explain.

When, in a place called Limsa Lominsa, run by one Admiral Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn (try pronouncing that correctly the first time you read it!), a man named Captain Jacke sends “whid” that we “must needs bite back” a stolen item from someone “what bit it” from someone else, and instructs you to do so in the “darkmans,” and once you’ve got your “fambles” on it with a “bene” grip and “milled any ruffmans” like the “sorry rooks" they are, you can finally relax, you realize pretty quickly that you either learn the rogue’s lingo or find yourself stumbling around like a colt with bare dew beaters on account o’ being so hungover so as to forget your beater cases in the mornin’.

What I’m trying to say is, stick with Octopath’s Middle English. I learned to manage and get around Limsa Lominsa and the rogues especially by diving into the fiction head first, and I really feel like all the more a part of the world of Final Fantasy XIV as a result.

H’aanit’s Middle English might just do the same for you!