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It’s full of content giving you your money’s worth. Area after area, tower after tower, town after town – at times it seems like it will never end. If you’ve played Assassins Creed Odyssey, then Forspoken is the fantasy version of it. Luminous Productions have filled this outside world with locations and collectibles. Numerous times I had to face heavy drops in performance when in big battles, especially when throwing eccentric magic spells filling the screen. But those vibrant colours and fidelity sadly drop when in heavy combat scenarios, as does our 60 fps performance. Landscapes become lucious and beautiful and suddenly you are reminded you are playing a PS5 game. Outside of the walls of Cipal however, a lot changes. You can thus add poor pacing to some of the negatives. When conversations with NPCs end, and Frey and Cuff reflect on that between them, you can’t walk and talk so you have to stand on the spot, waiting for it to finish. Ending conversations with NPCs is equally as frustrating: the screen fading to black every time a conversation starts and ends means you lose the immersion. Lip syncing is out, expressions are wooden and faces at times just look off – unfinished almost. Interacting with people is as bland as the walls and textures: motion capture was apparently used, but you’d be amazed to know where.

Forspoken has none of that: people are literally just standing still, all day every day.

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Cipal is bland and ugly, really ugly, textures are off, people are static and lifeless, it’s quite extraordinary at times this is a current-gen only game, no PS4 to blame… If you’ve played Horizon Forbidden West, you’ll remember how alive the towns felt. There is the capital city Cipal, and the rest of the world you can parkour your way around.

The world of Athia, from a gamer perspective, has two sides to it. Complete with your new sidekick Cuff, you are thrown in the middle of this world, armed with new magic powers you can move with your freakin’ mind and eccentric parkour moves. It really is that predictable and tropey.įrey is thrust into her new world, Athia, a fantasy world riddled with The Break, a curse if you will, where humans and animals have become zombie-fied and are on the hunt for blood. Forspoken is a redemption story of such, from zero to hero, your unfortunate protagonist grows and battles all her obstacles to become that hero she was always destined to be. Orphan, down on her luck, in trouble with the law, homeless, on the brink of suicide (literally). Playing as protagonist Alfre, or Fray as she’s known, the story of Forspoken is as predictable as you can probably imagine. If you happen to have read or listened to various Twitter or podcast accounts in the last ten days, from people who haven’t, and won’t play Forspoken, you can be forgiven for thinking this game is trash, and an easy pass. The video gaming internet can be a cruel place at times, and no release in recent times knows this more than Forspoken.

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