The Forbidden Arts

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  • Summary: The Forbidden Arts is an action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. When the hero of the game, Phoenix, seeks the counsel of a druid to make sense of his visions, she awakens the latent pyromancy within him. This begins an epic journey from Phoenix’s humbleThe Forbidden Arts is an action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. When the hero of the game, Phoenix, seeks the counsel of a druid to make sense of his visions, she awakens the latent pyromancy within him. This begins an epic journey from Phoenix’s humble beginnings as he seeks to master the element of fire.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Generación Xbox
    Aug 26, 2019
    75
    Besides some technical issues and a slightly bland combat The Forbidden Arts is a very enjoyable game without a doubt.
  2. Xbox Tavern
    Aug 16, 2019
    75
    The Forbidden Arts is a beautiful, vibrant and fun game for the whole family. Side scrolling action at its best, it also brings a tiny bit of nostalgia along for the ride. Challenging puzzles make this game addictive, while great design keeps you looking at the screen.
  3. TheXboxHub
    Aug 18, 2019
    60
    The Forbidden Arts on Xbox One is a good solid action adventure platformer that just so happens to come with some mechanical issues. If you’re a big fan of the old school vibe that mixes combat in a special way then I think you might have a lot of fun with The Forbidden Arts.
  4. XboxAddict
    Aug 27, 2019
    60
    It's very rare when I can't get past the first few hours of a video game. I'm no professional gamer by any means, but I take pride in doing the best I can with what I am given. As per my gaming style, The Forbidden Arts is not my type of game, as I didn't mesh well with the combat and the overall gameplay experience. However, with all my experiences aside, those whose game style this matches should have a phenomenal time with it. I fell in love with the visuals, music and the overall concept of The Forbidden Arts; that's what drew me into it in the first place. With that being said, I don't forbid you from trying The Forbidden Arts out for yourself. This one was just not my cup of tea.
  5. ZTGD
    Sep 6, 2019
    50
    The Forbidden Arts is a game that feels like a relic from the past. If someone had told me this was a budget title on Gamecube and somehow got the HD treatment, I would believe them. It just lacks polish and interesting content to keep players interested. I doubt many people have heard of this title and even fewer will remember it. It is just a plain adventure title that never steps outside the boundaries of mediocrity.
  6. MondoXbox
    Sep 5, 2019
    47
    The Forbidden Arts presents some nice ideas and a surprising variety in environments, but it gets all ruined by very bad performances and input detection problems and design choices that make it very frustrating to play.

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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Sep 3, 2019
    5
    The Forbidden Arts is a Fantasy Adventure Platfomer. You are a young Fire Mage named Phoenix, on a quest to master the art of Pyromancy (fireThe Forbidden Arts is a Fantasy Adventure Platfomer. You are a young Fire Mage named Phoenix, on a quest to master the art of Pyromancy (fire magic), and collect magical artifacts to save the world. The story is lacking, giving just enough to drive the game forward. At first glance, and as you start to play, you are greeted with a platforming level, then you arrive at one of the many 3D wanderable hubs. Hoping to use my combat in free roam, I was disappointed to find out that you can only jump and run in these areas. The one redeeming factor of the 3D areas is the hidden gold, giving you a reason to explore every crevice and corner of each hub. These areas also serve to connect the various main stages and contain challenges used to upgrade your equipment. You use the gold you collect to fix shrines and access the challenges, this gold is spread wide among the hubs and stages, and hunting it down can be a task, leading to a lot of dead end paths. The game itself is a mix of clunky combat on side scrolling platforms, panicking past every enemy as it doesn't take much to kill you, and your daggers can only do so much. The graphics feel outdated, but are smoothly rendered. With less than accurate combat, and a repetitive soundtrack, The Forbidden Arts, may not be one for the masses so maybe catch it on sale if this genre isn't necessarily one of your favorites.… Expand
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Oct 30, 2019
    2
    The Forbidden Arts
    A forbidden game
    The forbidden arts is an action adventure platformer where you play as phoenix who sets out to master    The Forbidden Arts
    A forbidden game
    The forbidden arts is an action adventure platformer where you play as phoenix who sets out to master the element of fire, and im gonna just get right to the point.
    Don’t play this game.
    The forbidden arts is just awful, from mechanics, to sounds, to graphics, to level design, to story.. I oculdnt take more than 2 hours of it…
    It starts decent enough with its linear feeling platforming and wall jumping with the occasional enemy here and there, but it just quickly becomes overwhelming as it slaps you with exploration and enemies in a world that’s just a chore to get through…
    Nothing here just feels like it sticks, this doesn’t feel like a game world, this feels like a pre alpha phased game, its like playing with power rnagers in a Barbie dream house, it just doesn’t feel right, theres something that feels off that stops any bit of emersion from happening…
    And because of this, again the world just isn’t fun to explore, so I would’ve actually preferred levels to be linear platforming focused rather than dashes of metroidvania style thrown in here…
    The gameplay is so unfun that I go to a point where I would just ignore everything including enemies, I would just hop over them and move on if I could rather than engage in combat.
    No matter how hard I search or thing, I can find one redeemable quality here
    The combat is unfun, the world design feels just there.. the platforming isn’t fun… the double jump only works when it wants to…
    The forbidden arts hurts my heart just to play or think of playing
    I give forbidden arts
    a 2/10    … Expand