![]() ![]() And the plot’s not what’s interesting here, it’s the premise. The residents of Athia are bewitched by Frey’s smartphone, for example, and wearable sidekick Cuff (more of a bracelet, really) spends the whole game mispronouncing Frey’s native New York as though it were a locale from a Tolkien story.īut just when you think Forspoken will say something funny and insightful about the genre, it seems to get bogged down in plot again. It should be a landscape for knowing parody and fourth wall breaks, and you can tell that’s sometimes on Forspoken’s creators’ minds. ![]() The reasons it falls short as an experience are complicated, because modern triple-A is complicated It’s not that this dimension is especially novel, it’s not – take away the crystals and quiffs from a Final Fantasy game, and this is what’s left over – but the fact that you’re experiencing it through the eyes of someone from our familiar world is, once again, ripe with untapped potential. ![]()
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