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  1. Sep 8, 2023
    3
    Outdated graphics and textures. Story could be more interested too. Another game that could benefit from pvp to test our skills and spells
  2. Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Still better than real life references used to make the game. People giving 0 just wants fantasy games.
  3. Aug 14, 2023
    2
    Horrid game! In a way, I'm kinda glad that Square Enix shut down Luminous Productions: I do believe game developers should take responsibility for what they do, and a game like that was disrespectfull to all Square Enix fans.
  4. Aug 13, 2023
    4
    Forspoken Review Incoming,
    Ok, Square Enix I'm Giving you the benefit of the doubt you see this rating it's a 10 right? Good.
    Now below me, I will update this review for every Flaw this game has accordingly. You will see how your game drops from a 10 to whatever rating it really is. Not only that I will also leave some tips, yes I an Indi dev, will leave you AAA studio/publisher
    Forspoken Review Incoming,
    Ok, Square Enix I'm Giving you the benefit of the doubt you see this rating it's a 10 right? Good.
    Now below me, I will update this review for every Flaw this game has accordingly.

    You will see how your game drops from a 10 to whatever rating it really is.

    Not only that I will also leave some tips, yes I an Indi dev, will leave you AAA studio/publisher tips on how to create a cool game.

    So it's 2023/07/29 22:31 - Let's begin playing your game...

    Dialogue is pretty garbage (-1)
    Combat is pretty bare so far (-1)
    The performance is so bad (-1)
    The graphics are passable, but for a next-gen game this is quite pathetic (-1)
    Are we at a 6 already?!

    ok let me stop fooling around and rate this game,
    There are good bones in this game, the Parkour, Visuals, combat (Kinda), The Characters Design...BUT, Every other thing in this game weighs it down so much, that it floods you with an overall uninteresting world, experience and design of a game.

    If you try really hard you can enjoy this game, but bear in mind, this game tries its hardest to not make you want to play it.
    And I refuse to elaborate further.

    Also, this game was review bombed, and frankly, it deserves it, but sadly due to my good nature, I have to rate it fairly, It's a 4/10. Maybe I might change this to a 5, but right now at this point, I'm not feeling it deserves it.

    RIP Luminous Productions.
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  5. Aug 10, 2023
    0
    boring !!!!!!boring !!!!!!boring !!!!!!boring !!!!!!boring !!!!!!boring !!!!!!
  6. Aug 8, 2023
    1
    No game should cost 80€ but even less this one. Square Enix isn't what it used to be anyway.

    In addition the game could have been very good but too many bad choices in this one and as for FF7 Remake, all these additions to increase the lifespan artificially are to vomit
  7. Jul 29, 2023
    3
    This is atrocious. Absolutely atrocious. For one, the game's actual performance is shockingly bad, we're talking about a game that looks awful even compared to stuff that's come out in the past several years, and cannot maintain a consistent framerate even with Ray-tracing off, its that bad. I mean even Control from 2019 runs and looks better than Flop-spoken. Secondly, the actualThis is atrocious. Absolutely atrocious. For one, the game's actual performance is shockingly bad, we're talking about a game that looks awful even compared to stuff that's come out in the past several years, and cannot maintain a consistent framerate even with Ray-tracing off, its that bad. I mean even Control from 2019 runs and looks better than Flop-spoken. Secondly, the actual start of the game is seriously ten cutscenes, a 3 second run through a hallway, then another 10 seconds of running down a city street where male NPC's react to you but NPC women inexplicably don't probably because they forgot to animate it or work it into collision detection when you brushed up against certain non-interactable surfaces or something. Then our heroine escapes into her apartment, where we get another cutscene. I mean is this what developers think modern games are supposed to be now? How odd, because I always heard first impressions matter.

    The first actual bits of gameplay in Forspoken is looking at three photos, which is not skippable for some reason, even though its just a cutscene that forces you to look at the photos- for no reason when this could be accomplished.. in a cutscene. Actual movement in this game is bizarrely animated, and cumbersome. I have no idea how to describe it. Its like a skeleton on roller-skates, and Mrs. Forspoken plows into everything as if she needs to climb it or vault over it or jump off of it, because apparently this is what developers think constitutes parkour elements, when they were done better in games like Mirrors Edge over 14 YEARS AGO. If anything this game is a strong argument that western development teams are getting less talented and more dumb every year.

    Beyond all of these initial unbelievably terrible choices I can't imagine playing it. Like for more than 10 minutes, which I didn't bother to. I wasn't about to sit through skipping cinematics to get to three minutes of gameplay that isn't interesting in the slightest. Its not a surprise that the studio basically was shuddered after this failed to produce results, but then again SquareEnix as a publisher has been making some shockingly bad decisions as well as unwise investments in terms of development teams and this should be a wake-up call for them. Forspoken is so awful that it shouldn't be played. No attention should ever be given to it unless its to point out complete and utter failures in this decade so far. Pretty wild that even the PC port with modding potentional, if anyone even cared to invest in modding potential that is, still couldn't ever hope to fix this title.

    As a final note, numerous channels have covered the abhorrent dialogue, writing, and just disgusting facial animations that plague what could've at least been a well presented story, even if the gameplay was mediocre. This is that whole argument that videogame journalists like to use when it comes to garbage like Forspoken, and they would've defended it had the story been worth preserving in some way, but its hopeless trash that could barely be considered fan-fiction in terms of quality. The dialogue is so bad, so obtuse, the narrative so bland, so lifeless, that I would rather pay a 6 year old kid to play the game, and then recall the story to me with finger puppets from memory. At least then, I might get some entertainment out of it. Lines like, "you are hereby charged with the crime of Tanta-cide," or the fact that the main villains name is Susurrus, a word not used in the english language since 1824 and definitely not known to the writer when he was conceptualizing this turd of a game- are just the tip of iceberg when it comes to how bafflingly bad everything is.

    Something like Forspoken should be put in a vault, like a great evil or cursed object so our parents can tell us stories about how it almost crashed the videogame market or something 80 years from now. It has to be seen to be believed to be quite honest, but I wouldn't recommend getting too close something this bad for your health.
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  8. Jul 25, 2023
    2
    Oyunun hikayesi hiç düşünülmemiş. Karakterler çok donuk ve gerçek hissettirmiyorlar. Diyaloglar çok cringe. Kontroller bence çok yetersiz. Kombolar oldukçta başarılı ancak vuruş hissiyatının olmaması o kadar emeği çöp etmiş. Bu oyuna para vereceğinize gidin bir hayır yapın daha çok tatmin olursunuz.
  9. Jul 25, 2023
    0
    Whomever wrote this pile of garbage will continue to create and write skidmarks on toilet paper. And they are clearly racist.

    Just remember that.
  10. Jun 24, 2023
    0
    I see you deleted my review a 2nd time, and honestly...I'm flattered. If you want to censor me this badly it means I'm right over the target and hitting right at home for you - not hard to see either considering so many people disliked this game and dislike wokeness in general. Well here it is again, and I'm dropping the numerical rating score further as a punishment for your censorship.I see you deleted my review a 2nd time, and honestly...I'm flattered. If you want to censor me this badly it means I'm right over the target and hitting right at home for you - not hard to see either considering so many people disliked this game and dislike wokeness in general. Well here it is again, and I'm dropping the numerical rating score further as a punishment for your censorship. As I noted after the last time you censored me, I saved the review as a text file so it's an easy copy and paste the next time you try to delete the truth. I will continue to maintain a saved version of this one as well.

    Game is an absolute disaster and a financial failure. I ended up refunding it on Steam. Awful performance on PC - no optimization. The game is woke as heck - cringey dialogue, awful main character. And you should really take a look at some of the graphics comparison vids I've seen out there showing Forspoken alongside Assassin's Creed Unity (from 2014) and Unity just blows it away which is crazy considering its age.

    Save yourself money and avoid this game.
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  11. May 31, 2023
    0
    what a joke of a game this is , went wokd for nothing lmao, they thought woke people have money to purchase games , good flop
  12. May 30, 2023
    0
    You could obviously tell this game was going to be bad just from the trailer and dialogue but my god it was even worse than I expected. What a joke. Stop releasing garbage!
  13. May 14, 2023
    0
    Square Enix has turned into the laughing stock of the gaming industry.
    Horrible story
    Horrible writing
    Horrible performance
    Horrible pricing.
  14. May 6, 2023
    1
    Forspoken is NOT really woke. Just making the main character a black female New Yorker does not make a game woke. Check out the New York demographic.

    The real problems why Forspoken is a below average game are: 1) technical issues (framerate drops, stuttering) graphically it's not impressive (will probably be fixed eventually) 2) gameplay: it feels like watching a movie. Expect a LOT
    Forspoken is NOT really woke. Just making the main character a black female New Yorker does not make a game woke. Check out the New York demographic.

    The real problems why Forspoken is a below average game are:
    1) technical issues (framerate drops, stuttering) graphically it's not impressive (will probably be fixed eventually)
    2) gameplay: it feels like watching a movie. Expect a LOT of cutscenes. Remember the "interactive" CD-ROM movies in the 1990s? First hour feels like that.
    3) Unlikable characters. No, it's not because she's black, so stow the "racist!" outcry. Faye is a total biotch. She's a terribly written, constantly cussing entitled, whiny POS. Unfortunately she isn't the only one. The talking bracelet is annoying as hell, several other character you wish you could just kill off to silence them (which you can't. I tried).
    4) expect pop-up triggers (press "E" to do this) and numbers (damage done) everywhere. The designers don't even trust you can do a sneak mission on your own: you have to follow a character (with a marker on top of her head!) as she does the sneaking for you!
    5) generic enemies with braindead AI and genereic, empty world
    6) it's $70 !!! Really!? It's not even worth $50! If you buy it (which you shouldn't) wait for a 75% discount.
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  15. May 4, 2023
    0
    To make matters worse, the writing was horrible, so the story is bad...
    Very unlikeable characters to very forgettable characters.
  16. Apr 23, 2023
    1
    I'll start with the technical issues: textures very often don't load and the game looks like Gothic on launch day. And yet we are dealing with nextgen production ... In general, the game does not impress with the visual side, but it has very high requirements - apparently you need a minimum of 12 GB of VRAM to load the textures (!!!). Although people write on the forums., that even it doesI'll start with the technical issues: textures very often don't load and the game looks like Gothic on launch day. And yet we are dealing with nextgen production ... In general, the game does not impress with the visual side, but it has very high requirements - apparently you need a minimum of 12 GB of VRAM to load the textures (!!!). Although people write on the forums., that even it does not help.
    The world is empty, repetitive. NPC without character. It knocks down a labyrinth, which is not a maze, but more rooms with enemies to overcome (more like an arena). The main character is boring, her past is clichéd. It's difficult to identify with her. Character creator would be a nice addition - but these game isn't to be nice. It's correct.
    The story is not surprising, and the side quests are a joke - e.g. run after the kitten, run after the guide, etc. On the plus side may be the combat system. In general it should be a $20 game.
    And one more: I've played few hours and didn't notice day-night cycles and weather changing...
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  17. Apr 15, 2023
    4
    Saying that the game is a 1, is pretty brutal. I feel it has some great aspects like its' magic system. However it takes too long to get good, and doesn't allowed for a variety style of combat. Some people would have loved melee being a option right at the get go or a mixed style.
  18. Apr 1, 2023
    0
    This game is game of the year , worst of the worst , why the management thinks this is a good game ?
  19. Mar 29, 2023
    0
    Can't decide whether this game is worse than Saints Row. Never wasted 2 hours of my life in such a way before. Avoid.
  20. Mar 29, 2023
    1
    Every thing you've heard about this is true. Amazing that this was released in this state, it could have been a reasonable game but is actually a joke. Sony exclusives are really starting to tank.
  21. Mar 26, 2023
    0
    80€ is 60€ too much for a game of this quality, if you are charging 20€ more than anyone else, you should at least optimize it a little bit,
  22. Mar 19, 2023
    0
    As a passionate gamer, it's always disheartening to come across a game that fails to meet even the most basic expectations. Sadly, that was precisely the experience I had when I played Forspoken, a game that was supposed to be a thrilling adventure but turned out to be an exercise in political correctness and social justice.

    One of the biggest issues with the game was its content, which
    As a passionate gamer, it's always disheartening to come across a game that fails to meet even the most basic expectations. Sadly, that was precisely the experience I had when I played Forspoken, a game that was supposed to be a thrilling adventure but turned out to be an exercise in political correctness and social justice.

    One of the biggest issues with the game was its content, which was chock-full of social justice and political correctness that had no place in the gameplay. While it's essential to have representation and inclusivity in games, it's another matter entirely when the storyline and mechanics are overshadowed by these issues. Unfortunately, that's precisely what happened with Forspoken, where the political messages felt forced, preachy, and often completely irrelevant to the gameplay.

    The game's storyline was also disappointing, as it seemed more interested in pushing its political agenda than providing an exciting, immersive experience. The characters were shallow and one-dimensional, with their entire existence seemingly defined by their gender, ethnicity, or sexuality. It was as if the game was trying to tick off a checklist of diversity rather than focusing on creating a compelling story with memorable characters.

    Even worse, the gameplay itself suffered from the game's political agenda. The mechanics were often clunky, and the controls were frustratingly difficult to master, making the game almost unplayable. It felt like the developers had focused so much on pushing their message that they forgot that the game itself needed to be enjoyable to play.

    Overall, Forspoeken was a massive disappointment, with its heavy-handed political messages and irrelevant social justice content detracting from what could have been a genuinely exciting gaming experience. While representation and inclusivity are essential, they should never come at the expense of gameplay or story. If you're looking for a game that delivers on both counts, I'd recommend looking elsewhere.
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  23. Mar 16, 2023
    1
    I try to make a point to complete games before making my mind up, but the commentary and main character of this are unbearable. Usually in an RPG there's one annoying tertiary character (like the little mage in tales of symphony, or the annoying fairy in Ocarina of Time.) In this game both the braclet and main character are just annoying.

    Gameplay is mindless.
  24. Mar 3, 2023
    0
    Game is not good, boring gameplay, cringe dialogue and uninteresting characters
  25. Mar 3, 2023
    0
    Overpriced trash, with subpar writing, slow pace and an unlikable character. Square Enix's money-be-wasted.
    PS: I can kill a studio with my mind whooooo!
  26. Mar 1, 2023
    0
    this game is absolute **** has bad ui navigation bad story lines its overal not the 75 dollars worth it
  27. Feb 28, 2023
    0
    if you want a fun experience, this game is not for you. With seventh gen graphics, a **** narative and the writing is the sum of pure ****, dont spend your money on this. Buy fast and furious crossroads, atleast that has a better experience
  28. Feb 28, 2023
    0
    The most cringe-worthy protagonist in the world, horrible graphics, lack of plot, the worst game of the year is just not worth a single penny, even for free to play this solid mockery of man
  29. Feb 23, 2023
    1
    One word

    Cashgrab that's what the game is


    Holy **** its so bad yhe story is **** the gameplay is piss easy i absolutely hate it and don't to talk about it again
  30. Feb 13, 2023
    0
    embarrassed by characters. Bad edgy hop **** game. Big pre game promises and nothing was complied with.
  31. Feb 13, 2023
    4
    Okay sorry, but this game was so bad and hard to play for me. And all the time i thought : why, why are developers and scripters doing it like this. Why? Why this kind of story and shamefull storytelling.
    And why spending millions and working thousands of hours on this shamefull storytelling instead of creating a nice athmospheric realistic world without cringe?
    The world they tried to
    Okay sorry, but this game was so bad and hard to play for me. And all the time i thought : why, why are developers and scripters doing it like this. Why? Why this kind of story and shamefull storytelling.
    And why spending millions and working thousands of hours on this shamefull storytelling instead of creating a nice athmospheric realistic world without cringe?
    The world they tried to tell me isnt credible at all.
    Really sorry for the hard work spending on this but - naaaaah. not again
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  32. Feb 12, 2023
    3
    I am extremely disappointed with this game.
    Forspoken is completely poor, lazy and careless.
    And the worst, the game is expensive.
    -3,5/10,0-
  33. Feb 10, 2023
    1
    I was so hyped for this game.... I approached this open-world Isekai RPG with high expectations. The promise of a high-end, graphical, realistic game made by a AAA developer, featuring a spunky, female POC protagonist, had me excited to dive into the world Square Enix had created. However, upon playing the game, it became clear that while the game featured a vast map and decent graphics,I was so hyped for this game.... I approached this open-world Isekai RPG with high expectations. The promise of a high-end, graphical, realistic game made by a AAA developer, featuring a spunky, female POC protagonist, had me excited to dive into the world Square Enix had created. However, upon playing the game, it became clear that while the game featured a vast map and decent graphics, the story and gameplay fell short of many of my expectations. The world-building and rewards for exploration were underwhelming, the story was dull and cringe-worthy, the MC and dialogue was horrendous, and the traversal and combat mechanics, even if fairly fun, were clunky and jarring.

    Here's my breakdown:

    Graphics- 4/10 - The graphics in this game are a mixed bag of beauty and disappointment. While the combat, animals, enemies, foliage, hair, clothes, magic, and most environments are breathtakingly gorgeous, the water looks stale and outdated, like it belongs in an unmodded 2011 Skyrim. The models and textures for human faces are decent, but the clunky and lifeless facial animations detract from the overall experience. The skybox also feels flat and unrealistic, even when all the settings are set to Ultra, and fails to inspire any sense of awe or beauty. The landscape, while still beautiful, is marred by poor quality sky and water. The NPCs in this game are generally dull and bland looking, with the exception of Frey and a few actors that were clearly 3D scanned. Clothing designs seem to have been given more attention than NPC faces and animations. Interestingly, the children in Athia are an exception to this trend, with their faces and facial animations being of a much higher quality than the adult NPCs, which compared to other titles is surprising, out of all the NPCs in this game it seems the children, Frey, enemies, and animals are the most well done. The combat, magic, and other areas of the game are visually stunning, but ultimately fall short of a cohesive Next Gen appeal that the marketing materials implied.

    Worldbuilding - 9/10 - The map is pretty big, I'd wager to say it's about on par with HZD in size; there's plenty of notes and books and things to read and learn to deepen your understanding of the world and it's lore. Not much to say here, the world building felt pretty solid, the only thing that knocked a point off for me was the cringey and unrealistic commentary that starkly contrasted with the tone in the menus.

    Traversal - 4/10 - The game's movement mechanics are pretty fun, but alas, the parkour abilities are unfortunately hampered by invisible walls and other restrictive elements in cities. Understandably, the game disables magical traversal in certain cities, but it left me feeling cheated as I had hoped to jump and explore on rooftop using parkour throughout the game, which seemed implied by the game earlier on. Furthermore, certain areas and parts of the story force you to walk at a slow pace or prevent climbing, running, and exploring, whether due to poor collisions or simply being restricted by design, which is irksome. In summary, the traversal can be fun but is ultimately hindered by limitations in exploration and unresponsive parkour.

    Combat - 3/10 - The combat in the game is fairly fun to an extent, with a large skill tree to upgrade abilities, but many skills do not feel organically earned, just "you earned enough XP and here you go, you can unlock this now". Mixing of combat seems clunky and unintuitive, making it hard to stream combos and apply style with parkour system. The game also forces you to switch abilities on the fly with cool-down periods and slow recovery times. Dodging is fun, but seems to be introduced at the wrong point in the story, making it feel inorganic. The magic abilities are gorgeous but not well set up for chain combos, relying more on spamming and taking you out of the action with slowed menu switching. Overall, it feels like Square Enix was trying to mix Witcher 3, PS4 Spider-man, Dark Souls, and Horizon Zero Dawn combat systems, but fails to implement them in a cohesive way, leaving you with a decently fun but not overly enjoyable combat system.

    Story - 1/10 - The story in this game is an utter failure, with cringey dialogue, nonsensical character traits, an overly mean and un-relatable main character, missed story beats, mis-paced, and overall destruction of the suspension of disbelief. The Isekai plot points are non-existent beyond the very basic "transported to a new world and now have superpowers", and seems devoid of making friends or any romantic interest. The plot is predictable and shallow, as if it was written by a 6th grader. Unfunny, cringey, forgettable and boring, it put me to sleep twice so far and I am left wondering if I'll even be able to finish the game.

    Overall Score - 1/10 - fun to play overall, but the story and other negative points make this game very boring, un-intuitive and nauseatingly cringey.
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  34. Feb 7, 2023
    0
    Я не представляю, как эта игра вообще смогла выйти в свет. Игра ужасна во всех смыслах, это, вероятно, худшая халтура за многие годы. Начну с того, что бросается в глаза с первого взгляда: с графики. Она не просто плохая, она действительно ужасная. Это уровень игр 2014-15 годов, но никак не 2023 года. И ладно бы при такой графике она требовала бы столько же, сколько и они. Но нет, этуЯ не представляю, как эта игра вообще смогла выйти в свет. Игра ужасна во всех смыслах, это, вероятно, худшая халтура за многие годы. Начну с того, что бросается в глаза с первого взгляда: с графики. Она не просто плохая, она действительно ужасная. Это уровень игр 2014-15 годов, но никак не 2023 года. И ладно бы при такой графике она требовала бы столько же, сколько и они. Но нет, эту убогую игру еле вытягивают карты 40-ой серии... В некоторых областях фпс падает просто катастрофически. У меня не просто ощущение, нет, я знаю, и все мы знаем как факт, что в игре нет абсолютно никакой оптимизации. Даже намека на нее.
    Что у нас дальше? Ах да, сюжет...)) Сюжет))) Боже))) Будет невероятным комплиментом назвать ЭТО сюжетом) Абсолютно пустые и даже кринжевые диалоги, пустые персонажи, обилие стыдной повесточки, ну и вишенка на торте: неимоверно бесячий и тупой главный герой (геройка?), паталогический нытик и эгоистка с ужасным топорным чувством юмора, которая на всё реагирует неуместным матом. Сам сюжет до ужаса вторичный, а наратив просто смешон: вместо катсцен с диалогами, операторской съемкой и так далее — статичные стеклянные статуи людей, которые обмениваются звуковой информацией (речью я это назвать не могу), а игроку предлагают слушать всю эту тягомотину по несколько минут и так 15+ раз за игры. Мммм, класс (нет)
    Может быть весь этот ужас перевесит интересный геймплей?) Нет)) И здесь разработчики наделали в штаны: играть в это абсолютно неинтересно, карта пустая, нет никаких точек интереса, кроме "лабиринтов" формы прямой кишки, где в конце нас ожидают одни и те же соперники, нет адекватных сайдквестов и заданий, кроме как "ыы пойди убей монстров где-то там/ыы а теперь убей чуть больше монстров, но вот там/ыыы вот тут на полу мана валяется, собери ее ыыы", нет никакого желания изучать мир этой игры, он просто пустой, как и сама игра.
    Вердикт: провал года, пустая трата времени и денег, наглая халтура и тревожный звонок игровой индустрии.
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  35. Feb 3, 2023
    1
    I'm out here stroking my dick, I got moisture on my dick. Im feeling romantical.
  36. Feb 6, 2023
    0
    terrible and boring game, many bugs, the story is boring, the graphics are very bad, please do not buy
  37. Feb 5, 2023
    1
    There is no plot. Empty world. Lots of spells that are not needed. Bad optimization. Full of sh1t. I give TWO points. People will forget about this game in two weeks. (ง ͠°ل͜ ͡°)ง

    One of the worst games I've ever seen in my life
  38. Feb 5, 2023
    2
    That's horrible. Everything is terrible: optimization, design, plot, and voice acting.
    1) Graphics are similar to assets for UE4 and generated from UE5. You get tired of the same texture patterns very quickly.
    2) The game does not work well even on modern hardware. 3) The fights are very boring. Many bosses do not pose any danger at all, they only require time from the player. 4) The
    That's horrible. Everything is terrible: optimization, design, plot, and voice acting.
    1) Graphics are similar to assets for UE4 and generated from UE5. You get tired of the same texture patterns very quickly.
    2) The game does not work well even on modern hardware.
    3) The fights are very boring. Many bosses do not pose any danger at all, they only require time from the player.
    4) The worst thing is the plot: the character does not cause any sympathy. That's what prevented the girl from being just a nice person? The story is dull. It's not fun to follow him.
    5) The voice acting of the characters is just a nightmare.

    I don't know who might like this game. Maybe those people who have not played video games for the last 20 years and after Tetris will accidentally see this?
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  39. Feb 5, 2023
    0
    I'm not gonna review bomb this game, or talk about how the gameplay is boring and repetitive, that the npcs are brainless goons or the fact that the dialogue seems cringy and over saturated with the character cursing a lot. I just wanna play this game, so I'm going to talk about the performance aspect, and how badly it is optimised for PCs. I'm not even going to go into detail about howI'm not gonna review bomb this game, or talk about how the gameplay is boring and repetitive, that the npcs are brainless goons or the fact that the dialogue seems cringy and over saturated with the character cursing a lot. I just wanna play this game, so I'm going to talk about the performance aspect, and how badly it is optimised for PCs. I'm not even going to go into detail about how the graphics have been down graded since the project was first anounced, because hey, a lot of ppl do that these days, So i have an 1660 Ti and i5 9400 with 16GB of Ram and a good SSD. The game works on low with fidelityX on performance, when i say it works i mean it usually plays around 50 fps and dips into 30's. I dont understand why? i mean there is nothing graphically wow to justify this . I can play most of the games in 1080p with high settings. Games that look a lot better than this. Is it the Denuvo implementation or what? I played the DEMO for and in that time i encountered 2 bugs that needed me to restart the game. Once the frame just froze and nothing else was moving and the other time i was flying with no way of being able to come down. I couldnt save either because it told me that i needed to be on the ground to do so. Very frustrating Expand
  40. Feb 4, 2023
    3
    This game is optimization mess. Stuttering is definitely too often. Graphics are also not at best level, at least not at next gen level. Only good thing is combat and animations. Can't recommend to play this messy piece of something really bad.
  41. Feb 4, 2023
    0
    How it release in 2023?! Baddest game i ever seen, make this sh*t is impossible…
  42. Feb 3, 2023
    0
    this game sucks its compelte baloney do not waste your time or MONEY playing this Garbage if i could give this a minus 10 i would
  43. Feb 3, 2023
    0
    What a disrespect to gamers!
    People stop pre-ordering games!!! Make it so that the games would be made for us and not for the sake of the dough, did it and threw it away, not in vain the price is 70 bucks, because it was calculated on that, to sell us what was dead from the very beginning! It’s good that I didn’t buy it, and the fact is again confirmed that it’s much more profitable to
    What a disrespect to gamers!
    People stop pre-ordering games!!! Make it so that the games would be made for us and not for the sake of the dough, did it and threw it away, not in vain the price is 70 bucks, because it was calculated on that, to sell us what was dead from the very beginning! It’s good that I didn’t buy it, and the fact is again confirmed that it’s much more profitable to use torrents! All good luck! Except SE
    And you know, this absolutely perfectly describes the whole FORSPOKEN
    This is not fun to play! It's not fun to watch!!! And I don't want to follow the plot of "this"

    Well, in general, this is some kind of fraud from squer enix !!! for 80 euros!!!!!!!!!! Don't you agree???
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  44. Feb 3, 2023
    1
    This is an example of what you shouldn't´t do in order to make a videogame; Poor optimization, annoying main character that makes UCM main characters seems serious compared, bland world design, bad graphics and art design, repetitive combat,simplistic AI where it shouldn´t be, between others. This is surprising (and disappointing) for me that some Triple A games comes out in this state.
  45. Feb 3, 2023
    0
    En PC no merece la pena, es un port que pide un pc muy potente para tener unas texturas de juegos de hace años con fps muy bajos. Tal como está ahora me a parecido poco menos que injugable.
  46. Feb 2, 2023
    4
    This game is donkey piss, the only reason im so late to this review is because i genuinely just did not want to play this game. And it all comes down to pretty much the story being boring, the main character being boring, the main villain being boring, and the voice acting being absolutey terrible in every way imaginable. This game also has a huge lack of polish, if its the performance orThis game is donkey piss, the only reason im so late to this review is because i genuinely just did not want to play this game. And it all comes down to pretty much the story being boring, the main character being boring, the main villain being boring, and the voice acting being absolutey terrible in every way imaginable. This game also has a huge lack of polish, if its the performance or the glitches the game is just a mess. Lastly the gameplay which is mediocre most of it is boring like tailing missions and side quests in the mediocre open world but the combat is pretty good and fun, but still the open world gives you no insentive to play since the world is completely shallow. In conclusion, just keep away, way to pricey for a game like this its realy just meeeeeeh, thank you for reading. Death grips is online Expand
  47. Feb 2, 2023
    0
    Open-world trash. In fact, not a game, but a blank for it. And do not inflate the topic of racism. The girl is lovely, but the game is terrible. Oh, yeah... Plot and characters. Boring, stupid, does not cause emotions. Optimization? Works fine if you have 4090. And it would be all right if the graphics level were excellent. But no, the picture is empty and primitive in the vast majority of cases.
  48. Feb 2, 2023
    3
    Okay this is review of the PC demo . There is no way this needed a RTX 3070 FOR SEE YOUR MINIMUM REQUIREMENT . The combat and controller layout is a messed. I even was on my phone keep hitting R1 to when I look back not a single hit . The parkour I didn't like . Kingdom and the infamous was some pretty nice parkcore . Why is every time I do graphic settings it reset the game and I haveOkay this is review of the PC demo . There is no way this needed a RTX 3070 FOR SEE YOUR MINIMUM REQUIREMENT . The combat and controller layout is a messed. I even was on my phone keep hitting R1 to when I look back not a single hit . The parkour I didn't like . Kingdom and the infamous was some pretty nice parkcore . Why is every time I do graphic settings it reset the game and I have redo everything again ? The dialogue who my God it's awful. No I really felt you give a 13 year old kid to write how people sound. This girl she hate everything because she said F word alot. And if you where someone who was looking forward to there next after FF XV than I'm sorry. They hav great staff who in the past work on Kingdom hearts. Expand
  49. Feb 1, 2023
    3
    The game have no life the protagonist is annoying the plot was so easy to know the open world is dead I can keep going but Ieave you to it.
  50. Feb 1, 2023
    0
    The award of the best unoptimized game for 2023
    Have a good night ladies and gentlemen!
  51. Feb 1, 2023
    0
    Невероятно ужасная игра. Оптимизация - 0, сюжет = 0, итоговая оценка = 0
  52. Feb 1, 2023
    3
    Alright,so I got this game with my graphics card so I got it for free,lets see,the graphics are good I guess +2 points,uh it's a game that's somewhat fun at the beginning, but for a open world game it forces you to do the story, points again, but this game isn't worth 70 dollars, everyone hates this game if they spent more time on the game instead of the graphics this might be a funAlright,so I got this game with my graphics card so I got it for free,lets see,the graphics are good I guess +2 points,uh it's a game that's somewhat fun at the beginning, but for a open world game it forces you to do the story, points again, but this game isn't worth 70 dollars, everyone hates this game if they spent more time on the game instead of the graphics this might be a fun game,also the only hard part of the game is the boss fights(on hard mode) if only they didn't make the game boring as hell because this has potential, but you're better off playing the other magic game that hasn't released yet, Hogwarts legacy.so to conclude I am giving it a 3 because it's a playable game,but it shouldn't be played Expand
  53. Feb 1, 2023
    0
    The game has some issues like lack of optimization, I don't understand how the game doesn't run smoothly on my pc with a 3070ti as GPU and an AMD Ryzen 5700x as CPU with 32 gb of RAM. Also the game is installed on SSD, but I have experienced huge lag and stuttering spikes while playing the game. I don't understand how a game that is supposed to be next gen has graphics and textures of PS3The game has some issues like lack of optimization, I don't understand how the game doesn't run smoothly on my pc with a 3070ti as GPU and an AMD Ryzen 5700x as CPU with 32 gb of RAM. Also the game is installed on SSD, but I have experienced huge lag and stuttering spikes while playing the game. I don't understand how a game that is supposed to be next gen has graphics and textures of PS3 games or worse, can't run smooth at 1920x1080 resolution in ultra on a 3070ti GPU below 60 FPS when that GPU is supposed to be the recommended GPU to play at 1440p in ultra at 30 FPS.
    The particles are great and the story looks great but a bit empty. I don't think this game is worth the 80€ it costs and I don't recommend anyone to buy it.
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  54. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    If you give even one cent to this greedy developers you are supporting the silly agenda that we all suddenly need 4 grand GPUs to run regular games.
    Actually, regular is a compliment for this bottom-of-the-barrel boring "game". It is a rather lame and ineffective tech demo.
  55. Jan 31, 2023
    0
    I downloaded the pirate to make sure if it was really bad and in fact the game is horrible and I couldn't stay in the gameplay for 30 minutes.

    game without salt, nothing innovative or that makes you want to play
  56. Jan 31, 2023
    1
    There are games on the nintendo switch that look better than this. You can clearly do better than this square enix
  57. Jan 31, 2023
    0
    $100 CDN...for this?! $100. Didnt take long for me to irrefutably decide to refund this tacky trope laden mess.
  58. Jan 31, 2023
    0
    Not that the lackluster attempt at a game with cringey dialogue wasn’t bad enough already, they also make this one of the worst PC ports ever with insanely unreasonable system requirements and textures not loading in properly at all if your GPU has 8GB of VRAM or less. I highly recommend Digital Foundry‘s latest video on the subject to get a better understanding, but seriously: don‘t buyNot that the lackluster attempt at a game with cringey dialogue wasn’t bad enough already, they also make this one of the worst PC ports ever with insanely unreasonable system requirements and textures not loading in properly at all if your GPU has 8GB of VRAM or less. I highly recommend Digital Foundry‘s latest video on the subject to get a better understanding, but seriously: don‘t buy and support this crap! Expand
  59. Jan 31, 2023
    0
    It's embarrassing.
    A very disappointing tech demo pretending to be something else. Anything within the universe makes any sense, neither it is well executed. It doesn't even look good.
  60. Jan 30, 2023
    0
    It seems to be a 2023 game, but the quality is like it's from 2010, the graphics are worse than Watch Dogs 1 or even Dishonored, it's a shame, I don't advise anyone to buy this game.
  61. Jan 30, 2023
    1
    ¿Cómo desjuego esto? Lo peor que probé en mi vida. Es pésimo en absolutamente todos los apartados.
  62. Jan 30, 2023
    0
    Played demo for 20 min and most likely seen all that this game has to offer. On highest graphic settings still looks like few years old and I got only 30 fps but dropping to just few during boring combat. Equipment is not existing (just a cape and necklace) but you can paint heroine's nails- really.... It's more of a joke than a real game
  63. Jan 30, 2023
    0
    menuda catastrofe una 4080 para correrlo a 60 fps narrativa pesima, el combate es meh enserio esto es de square enix?
  64. Jan 30, 2023
    0
    Am i cursed ? Shall i stop playing ? The last 4 games i've played while waiting on them (like so much) went so badly that i can't even express how i am fed up with this industry.

    Lost 80€. Firstly, i got scam, i will never buy any f*****g game again, i'll download everyone of them, and i swear to god. Forspoken is utterly garbage, the main character was a nice idea (minus the
    Am i cursed ? Shall i stop playing ? The last 4 games i've played while waiting on them (like so much) went so badly that i can't even express how i am fed up with this industry.

    Lost 80€.
    Firstly, i got scam, i will never buy any f*****g game again, i'll download everyone of them, and i swear to god.
    Forspoken is utterly garbage, the main character was a nice idea (minus the conversations with the scuffs) - but it came out as a Marvel character, linear, not exceptionnal and below average.

    WHERE ARE THE IMPACT ? WHERE A THE FEELING OF POWER ? WHY IS THE STORY SO LAME ?
    What happend ? WHY IS AN OPEN WORLD NOT REALLY OPEN ?
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  65. Jan 29, 2023
    1
    Jeu très moyen mécaniques old school narration plus que moyenne quêtes secondaire à la Ubisoft (pas un compliment) et open sans saveur
  66. Jan 29, 2023
    0
    This has to be the most cringiest most basic way to wright a character. it feels like you did it that unlikable on porpuse.

    the game runs like absolute garbage and its dosent even look that impresive. RDR2 can run on a potatoe but this needs a RTX3090 to run at unnestables 30fps... just lazy lazy developers, you guys have access to the most advance Graphic Engine ever made and you
    This has to be the most cringiest most basic way to wright a character. it feels like you did it that unlikable on porpuse.

    the game runs like absolute garbage and its dosent even look that impresive. RDR2 can run on a potatoe but this needs a RTX3090 to run at unnestables 30fps... just lazy lazy developers, you guys have access to the most advance Graphic Engine ever made and you manage to make this pile of crap... congratulations.
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  67. Jan 29, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Even bad sex is sex, actually even masturbation is sex, it's just a matter of whether you pay the same money for masturbation or sex with a toothless prostitute in the passage as for sex in a luxurious "brothel" with a beauty from wet dreams. Expand
  68. Jan 29, 2023
    0
    The b*tch they put in doesn't even know how to act and really annoying character. Bad story and gameplay. Diversity, wokism all over the place as always. Also this way people see a good graphics doesn't make the game better.
  69. Jan 29, 2023
    0
    Braindead game with gaming jouralist level difficulty. Lazy game dev at its best.
  70. Jan 29, 2023
    0
    Cant play the game on steam deck outside home cause game uses denuvo, plus the slutter it is causing.... Refunded sadly :(
  71. Jan 29, 2023
    0
    Abysmal. 8 characters are enough to review this. The rest are just filler to reach the required 75.
  72. Jan 28, 2023
    0
    I have downloaded the beta version of this game and it is so lagged.On RTX 3070 1440P 30-35 fps avg.This game is awful
  73. Jan 28, 2023
    0
    Un niño de seis años (6), hubiera hecho una historia mucho más interesante con diálogos más adultos. A nivel técnico el juego deja bastante que desear y su mala optimización es algo que lastra mucho la experiencia de juego. Mal port de Playstation que incluso ahí en modo calidad tiene que ir a una resolución de 720p y con caídas severas de fps. Muchos juegos de 2010 se ven y funcionanUn niño de seis años (6), hubiera hecho una historia mucho más interesante con diálogos más adultos. A nivel técnico el juego deja bastante que desear y su mala optimización es algo que lastra mucho la experiencia de juego. Mal port de Playstation que incluso ahí en modo calidad tiene que ir a una resolución de 720p y con caídas severas de fps. Muchos juegos de 2010 se ven y funcionan mucho mejor. Expand
  74. Jan 28, 2023
    0
    AHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAAHHAAHHAAHHAAHHAAHHAAHHAAAHHHAAAHHHAAAHHHAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHAAA:)
  75. Jan 28, 2023
    1
    1) Denuvo Malware checked 2) Overpriced 79 Euros checked 3) Empty world fighting the same bullet sponge enemies checked, 4) Woke annoying character checked 5) Repetitive combat and most enemies are stupid 6) Forgettable story checked,...Square enix is a greedy and awful company and this is one of the worst games ever released
  76. Jan 28, 2023
    1
    Worst graphics I've seen in any game that released last 10 years. Some textures even worse than in a game that was released almost 15 years ago (Fallout 3).
    Optimization had zero effort - stutters and FPS drops everywhere even on recommended specs.
    Prologue is utterly stupid and doesn't make any sense. Why don't you just made her steal bracelet without half of an hour of a "story" that
    Worst graphics I've seen in any game that released last 10 years. Some textures even worse than in a game that was released almost 15 years ago (Fallout 3).
    Optimization had zero effort - stutters and FPS drops everywhere even on recommended specs.

    Prologue is utterly stupid and doesn't make any sense. Why don't you just made her steal bracelet without half of an hour of a "story" that has zero impact on game?

    Combat is fun, I give score "1" just because of that, but that funny decision of removing FOV settings because of 10000% draw distance so at least some FPS will be present? Mm-kay, but how do I see enemies attack flash if only I can see because of this tiny FOV is their belly?
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  77. Jan 28, 2023
    0
    Que jogo horroroso, padrão PlayStation, joguei no PC e não está nada optimizado a minha rx6700xt sofreu pra rodar essa bomba no médio
  78. Jan 28, 2023
    0
    And these are 'high' quality games??? Why is she so bad?! One gameplay only in quality, everything else is a low quality variety. Complete disappointment!
  79. Jan 27, 2023
    2
    Very old and outdated graphics, terrible performance, unlikeable main character, poorly written dialogues, poor voice acting, generic and repetitive game world and the list goes on.

    This is very far from a good game and the only good thing I have to say about it is that direct storage-technology have finally arrived in a game which will hopefully mean a lot for future games.
  80. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    This is quite literally the worst game I've seen. Each year the Worth a Buy YouTube channel chooses the worst game of the year in December. It's January, this we already have a clear winner. Everything from the choice of character to the dialog & combat was awful.
  81. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Sorry. I could not give this game anything when’s project athia coming out the one that actual looked good? Thanks for dropping demo for karma I’ll drop your physical game, This has to be the most boring experience i have ever witnessed listening to dialogue puts me in coma. The characters are bland, flatter than my neighbours dead nans ass and on the other side I don’t know what’s worseSorry. I could not give this game anything when’s project athia coming out the one that actual looked good? Thanks for dropping demo for karma I’ll drop your physical game, This has to be the most boring experience i have ever witnessed listening to dialogue puts me in coma. The characters are bland, flatter than my neighbours dead nans ass and on the other side I don’t know what’s worse EDP455 getting cupcake for kid or forspoken. The story has an extremely bad and unsatisfying. I RETURN THIS GAME FOR REFUND WITH MY MIND. The gameplay has 0 improvements too. Boring. Must play my ass cheeks WE MADE IMPROVEMENTS FROM FEEDBACK FROM DEMO **** off you sloppy doodle donkey **** most cringe I ever witnessed. NO ****IN WAY I JUST DID THAT NO ONE ASKED G HOLD THAT SKILL ISSUE Expand
  82. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Unoptimized, cringe, not fun. Repetitive world design and repetitive enemies! Bad story overall. Stay as far as you can.
  83. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Esta versión del juego está aún más rota que la versión de Ps5, ojalá la arreglen pronto.
  84. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    boring gameplay
    poorly optimized
    the story is so lame
    graphics is not next gen
    empty worlds
    PS : dont buy this crap game wait for sale!
  85. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    This really does have potential to be the worst game square has ever made. Boring, clunky, uninteresting combat, cringey dialogue, and in classic “AAA” fashion… released unfinished and buggy. Anybody telling you this game is good is trolling. Any critics giving this game green scores are paid to do so. Trash game
  86. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Um dos piores jogos que já tive o desprazer e prejuízo de jogar. Me senti naquele meme “olha que diálogo m&rd@“.
    Lacração em cima até do dragão (dragonesa no jogo). Gráfico ridículo pra um exclusivo de PS5 e nova geração, animação facial péssima, personagens sem carisma nenhum e história completamente desinteressante.
  87. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Main character is extremally unlikeable. Even as a homeless girl on the street she is a turd. Game play is slow and forced. i've played probably halfway through it and only redeeming aspects are when you finally get some good movement skills. But unlikeable character has me screaming most the time..
  88. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    DO NOT BUY AVOID AT ALL COSTS

    Made the mistake of buying this game, didn't know much about it, thankfully I was wise enough to return it in time. Garbage writing, characters have the charisma of a cabbage, generic open world that looks like absolute garbage but demands 5x the performance of much better-looking games.
  89. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Don't waste your money on hot trash like this, definitely not worth the price and I wouldn't play this even if it was free. The dev is putting out worse and worse games every release
  90. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Very poor game. Extremely disappointed in this one. Terrible protagonist and horrible combat gameplay.
  91. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Just awful in every way. Go install UE5 and run their free tech demos and you will have a funner time than this game. When people say this game is cringe, they mean it 100%. Your ears will be bleeding from listening to this corporate teen soap opera.

    Impossible not to see at every moment in this game that it was designed by a corporate board room committee.
  92. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    amazing how square enix has gone down so much in such a short time, this game is a complete shame
  93. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    This game should have been called Forbroken.. They Promised SO MUCH and delivered something that felt like rushed and "just release it already" game. NEVER trust Square Enix anymore. Definitely not preorder. Feel bad for those who paid $70 for this pile of crap.
  94. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Made an account just to warn others not to lose your money like I did. The dialogue feels like straight out of some Deviantart fanfiction, I've had headaches running the game properly and I had barely moments where I was really enjoying the world. Overall, I never thought a game would prompt me to write a bad review but here we are.
  95. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Looks like a poor indie game, and they want to sell at full price its laughable, dont but this game
  96. Jan 27, 2023
    2
    Love open world games this is something straight from 2019 and not in a good way. Graphics feel outdated and still my 2080ti cannot handle the game without dlss.Issues with sound, stutters while moving. The game keeps fading to black to dump expositions that are poorly written but still a masterclass compared to the dialogue between the main characters. Few character models areLove open world games this is something straight from 2019 and not in a good way. Graphics feel outdated and still my 2080ti cannot handle the game without dlss.Issues with sound, stutters while moving. The game keeps fading to black to dump expositions that are poorly written but still a masterclass compared to the dialogue between the main characters. Few character models are serviceable, other are dated and not AAA level, The I think is the biggest issues and why I refunded. Nothing here is worth so much money with many much better PC games available. Expand
  97. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    stupid camera position ruins the game. Put the character in the center!!!!!
  98. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    A very disappointing game in all respects - animation, art direction, cinematics, environment, mood, tone, dialogue, and story progression. The dialogue is the main highlight and seems to represent the nadir/lowest point of video games. Just even hard to imagine how the developers and the team of "all-star" writers could think that this game could be successful by any means. But thisA very disappointing game in all respects - animation, art direction, cinematics, environment, mood, tone, dialogue, and story progression. The dialogue is the main highlight and seems to represent the nadir/lowest point of video games. Just even hard to imagine how the developers and the team of "all-star" writers could think that this game could be successful by any means. But this review is only for the developers and the writers and not the actor who voiced Frey. Instead, I would like to commend Ella Balinska (the voice actor) for keeping up with and voicing the extremely unlikable and unsympathetic dialogue crafted by the developers and the team of "all-star" writers.

    Forspoken is a masterclass in how not to make video games.

    The developers should take lessons from A Plague Tale series, Red Dead Redemption series, God of War (2018 and Ragnarok), The Last of Us series, Halo series, and indie titles (Hollow Knight, Ori, Tunic, Stray, etc.) on constructing impactful video games.
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  99. Jan 27, 2023
    1
    70 dollars, for this? Runs poorly, paces poorly and was written poorly. Noticing a trend here...
  100. Jan 27, 2023
    0
    Forspoken looks like a cheap game.

    Play and graphics worse than Anthem. At least Anthem was good with graphics.
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    40
    Doesn't matter that the effects and magic look great, or that the art stylization is breathtaking at times, when you're standing on a desolate plain and looking into the fog most of the time, because the creators simply couldn't manage a decent visibility. This is how games were made a decade ago. The only thing I wouldn't be afraid to praise the authors for is the action, which has pace, and the magical abilities bestowed on the protagonist by the magic bracelet. [Issue#325]
  2. May 30, 2023
    60
    For all its ambition, Forspoken doesn't bring much new to the genre, and instead falls into various pitfalls common with open-world games. While the combat is serviceable and fun in spurts, the game's narrative, characters, and exploration all come up short. It's too bad it seems like Forspoken won't get a second chance, because I think there is some potential sitting dormant underneath all the imperfections, but it looks like Frey's journey will remain a missed opportunity.
  3. Feb 16, 2023
    40
    Forspoken is not worth either your money, or your time. Even were it offered for free, perhaps as part of a free weekend promotion on Steam, or as one of the rotating weekly free game giveaways on the Epic Games Store, it would still be too high a price to pay, as the time investment costs far outweigh the doubtful pleasure of experiencing what little Forspoken has to offer.