Places in the world barely matter outside of the lone town of Cipal. Almost every story event and dramatic encounter instead take place in isolated locales like cathedrals, practically divorced from the game-world of Athia. Besides an early game introduction into Athia, practically none of the game's narrative events actually take place anywhere in the world itself. If I had to state it as succinctly as possible, Forspoken's open world feels disparate from its narrative, to the point it almost feels pointless. More crucially, I felt that the game's open-world implementation and narrative flow both stumbled in execution. Actually, I feel like outside of the game's opening hours, Forspoken's dialogue is more-or-less typical of the genre, although I did set the game's banter setting as low as possible. Prior to release, criticism of Forspoken largely boiled down to scrutinizing line reads or some cheesy dialogue, and sure, that's valid, but I think those are far from the game's biggest problems.
Not only is Frey seemingly immune to the Break, but she also mysteriously gains magical abilities that allow her to defend herself from Break-corrupted creatures. After a guided and probably-too-lengthy sequence of events that open up the game, Frey sets off to learn more about this Break, as well as the tyrannical Tantas who threaten the livelihoods of citizens still hanging on in this dreadful world. Forspoken doesn't nail it either.įorspoken takes place in the world of Athia, which as of the time of Frey's arrival, is largely a desolate wasteland ravaged by a magical scourge known as "The Break". Final Fantasy XV's take wasn't anything special, so I wasn't confident Luminous Productions could pull it off this time. I don't have any outright inherent distaste for the structure conceptually, but I feel it's tricky to implement an open-world well and easy to fumble. I went into Forspoken mostly optimistic, although I had some hesitation about the open-world design.
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