Gaming

What are you talking about? The player literally learns nothing about the alien languages. All you do is walk up to a NPC, button mash through absolutely inconsequential filler text, and pick the option that says "teach me a word". Then a popup says "You now know the Korvax word for 'THE'", except it doesn't even tell you which alien word was translated or explain any grammar or context or conjugation or anything. Your character just does a magical substitution from that point forward.

Or you can do the same thing by walking up to the black pillars if you'd rather trudge around a planet surface for macguffins.

How in any way is that a good system? There's zero skill or challenge or reward or even real gameplay here. A word search puzzle would have 100x more depth.