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However, it's not a world that the game is able to adequately convince the player of wanting to stay in and protect. Like any isekai protagonist worth their salt, Frey is initially resistant to her new surroundings before discovering that she's actually ideally suited to the world she's found herself trapped in. It's difficult to like the standoffish and stubborn Frey, the incessantly sarcastic Cuff (who regularly quips in Frey's ear like a discount JARVIS), or any of the survivors who are all too eager to completely rely on Frey's protection from the Break while also asking her to complete boring optional tasks like going on a tour of a lifeless hub or petting a bunch of sheep.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot'sįorspoken's story is one about belonging-finding a place you want to stay and a people you wish to protect. The whole situation is an intriguing narrative setup but boring or unlikable characters let it down. Frey is the only exception, making her an ideal candidate for exploring the Break, finding its source, and destroying it. This blight, which Frey calls the Break, covers the land and transforms living creatures into mutated monsters.

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There, she bonds with a sentient brace she nicknames Cuff and then encounters a group of survivors living in the last city that's free from the effects of a dangerous miasma. In Forspoken, protagonist Frey finds herself trapped in the magic-filled world of Athia after stumbling through a portal. Luminous Productions' action-RPG feels great when it allows you to really stretch your legs and magically parkour across its fantasy landscape, but combat is clunky and regular exposition too often stalls the action. Instead, it tells a largely forgettable story that sets up major stakes but fails to offer a compelling reason for why the player should care. So yeah, sorry to burst your bubble, but a 68/100 Metacritic score feels too high for this game.Though it takes inspiration from isekai-stories in which people from Earth are transported to and become trapped in a fantastical world (think Alice in Wonderland but Japanese)- Forspoken ultimately doesn't understand what makes that genre so popular. The only thing I can recommend is the music, which is quite dramatic and lovely and really wasted on such a lackluster release. It’s not fun, it’s not engaging, it looks terrible. I would have to change the language or play it muted I think.Īfter less than half an hour, my mind was good and made up.

The game tries to be funny (I think?) but fails miserably.

Truly awful writing, bad line delivery (though this is likely more about the writing than the actors) and it’s pretty constant.

Speaking of annoying, the dialogue between the main protagonist and her magic bracelet is about as cringey as anything I’ve encountered in a video game in the last decade.

I was bored after the third group of mooks. You should feel it when you tear through enemies, but it’s floaty and unsatisfying. This should be a game with constant crunchy hits landing. Meanwhile, you almost never feel like you actually connect when you hit enemies. You have all these powers but just selecting them is a chore.

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Hell, if I didn’t know what this was and just saw some video I might peg it as a PS3 game, and not even one of the better-looking ones.

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For a game with such demanding specs that’s only releasing on PC and PS5, the graphics are shockingly last-gen.

The open-world is bland and boring and it looks ugly.