![]() Square Enix has made valiant attempts to emulate the acrobatic combat from their CG movies in other games, but this is the closest effort yet.Įxploration is similarly frenetic. Each move is punctuated with an explosion of particles, which feels satisfying, particularly for the screen-filling special attacks. There are a lot of great-looking combat animations that flow smoothly into one another with plenty of bespoke animations for common actions like dodges depending on player positioning. The action is definitely the visual highlight of this demo as well. It feels a bit like the combat from Final Fantasy 15, but with a greater focus on real-time battle and with a lot more polish.Ī closer look at the Forspoken demo, via the medium of streaming video. It's relatively simple to control, combining basic attacks, a dodge, and a mix of special abilities, but the fighting feels fantastic in motion. Combat is fast, fluid, and reminiscent of battle sequences in prerendered Final Fantasy media. ![]() Narrative is kept to a minimum, but you get a good sense of how the game actually plays - and I generally liked what I saw. This is a pretty substantial taste of the full game, with several hours of content spread across a vast space. We were interested to see whether the demo lived up to the promise of initial media and also how the six visual modes compare.įirst of all, I think it's worth noting that the Forspoken demo isn't like most other game demos. Ahead of the game's January 2023 release, Square Enix has released a lengthy playable sample on PS5, allowing players to complete a variety of content in an open-world space. Now, after multiple delays and two and a half years of additional development, Forspoken is finally here, or a demo version of it at least. Based on a brand-new IP and developed by Luminous Productions - the Square Enix development group that produced Final Fantasy 15 - expectations were high and the early footage definitely impressed. I wouldn't recommend this to a gamer even if it was only a dollar.Forspoken was one of the most intriguing early demos for the PlayStation 5. ![]() I feel critics were a bit too nice on this game, this game is definitely a 4/10. Because the gameplay is sadly the only saving grace here, and I feel most of the development time went into that. The combat is fine, gameplay is also pretty solid, but man, the story and writing kills the entire experience. This is a game that could've been delayed for another year or so. I mainly play most games for the story, but I don't want a cutscene to be interrupted by gameplay and vice versa. Also, the game loves to have it so you activate a cutscene after walking every so thirty feet, and it's especially irritating when they've could've just cut the gameplay and made clumped the cutscenes together for one large cutscene. I'm all in for a witty and less serious story, but here, it just doesn't work. It's not the voice actresses fault, it's the horrendous writing. I would just make Frey actually act like a 21 year old. Making them mute makes them self inserts and bland characters. I prefer protagonists in games that talk, it gives them personality. Some people have said she's why silent protagonists in games are better, I personally have to disagree with that. For a 21 year old, she acts like a 12 year old. It's as if the writers couldn't figure out how to make a character funny and likable that isn't Eric Cartman or Deadpool. ![]() But she constantly tries to crack these really unfunny jokes while swearing, during both the cutscenes and gameplay. She literally mocks her companion Cuff for zero reason. ![]() Whiny, rude, stuck-up, and immature, it's especially repugnant if you know what she's dealing with in her hometown, New York. Her personality is essentially what you'd expect from a real life whiny teenage girl. The main character, Frey Holland, is poorly written and just really irritating. $70 is laughably overpriced for a mostly bland and wasteful experience that offers little beyond whatever your definition of a mediocre game is. Far better than the previous live service hot garbage Square Enix has been pushing lately, such as Marvel's Avengers, but that's not saying much. Forspoken is the definition of a mediocre game. ![]()
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