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