![]() An early upgrade that lets Frey long jump with well-timed button presses makes her move even faster and smoother. Sprinting through Athia and leaping over buildings feels great, and a handful of additional movement abilities make things even smoother. Where the story and general combat are hit-and-miss, movement is excellent throughout. The final boss does encourage some overdue strategy, and that spike in challenge made for my most memorable encounter. I mostly just hit them with as many magic bullets as I could. They feature interesting designs and attacks that look great in motion but leave little room for a tactical approach. The handful of bosses Frey encounters is also generally underwhelming. Changing abilities is convoluted even late in the game, I had to pause and think about which buttons I needed to hold to access certain weapons. I found a few I preferred, but success often meant switching to the sluggish weapon I didn’t particularly want to use. Frey has dozens of abilities to swap between on the fly, and taking advantage of enemy vulnerabilities means you're encouraged to do so often. ![]() Forspoken is an action game, but calling it a third-person shooter wouldn't be out of line, as most of Frey’s abilities function like magical guns. I was also happy with where the game leaves Frey at the end, both from a character relationship perspective and a continued post-game gameplay perspective.Ĭombat is consistently mediocre. None of the twists were particularly surprising, but they were well executed and helped contextualize why Frey is so angry and why she is so insistent on not being the hero, even when everything obviously demanded she moves in that direction. I also enjoyed the zoomed-out main path of the story. Thankfully, Forspoken’s story and dialogue improve the deeper you get.īy the end, I liked Frey’s overly vulgar and combative nature and her antagonistic relationship with Cuff, her invisible partner that lives on her wrist. From Frey’s cat, Homer, to the little girl who wins Frey’s heart by stealing her phone in Athia, every character’s role as a means to humanize Frey is too obvious, and her frequent and stubborn refusal of the hero’s call is hammered too hard. The dialogue is also underwhelming and the storytelling is overly transparent. Athia’s environments look great, as does Frey when she moves through the world, but zooming in close for cutscenes shows some rough textures. Unfortunately, Forspoken makes a bad first impression. Getting from one place to another is Forspoken’s high point, and while no other element quite reaches the heights of how fun running and climbing are, Frey’s adventure isn’t without its highlights. Amidst that chaos, she falls into the land of Athia and is eager to leave the new, mysterious world where she inexplicably has superhuman combat and running abilities. She's also in the middle of a plan to flee New York City with a gym bag full of cash. ![]() ![]() Protagonist Frey begins the game running from the law and debt collectors. The game will launch for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC.Forspoken is a game about movement and running. Ella Balinska ( Charlie’s Angels) stars as Frey. Forspoken, formerly known as Project Athia, was revealed in March. The 90-second gameplay trailer shows off Frey’s traversal, melee, offensive, and defensive abilities, as well as the array of beasts and baddies she’ll deploy those skills against. Frey agrees to help the last citizens of Athia, and she sets off on a journey to defeat the Tantas and discover her own powers. ![]() The villains here are formerly benevolent matriarchs, known as Tantas, who are now “maddened and evil sorceresses,” says Luminous Productions. She’s also landed in the middle of a serious conflict, where one side seems not to trust her, and another definitely does not. In a new trailer setting up the narrative, protagonist Frey Holland, a New Yorker, ends up in Athia, possessed of awesome supernatural powers, and not sure why or what to do about either. Forspoken, the narrative adventure from Luminous Productions, will launch May 24, 2022, Square Enix announced at The Game Awards 2022. ![]()
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