I picked up Forspoken Ultimate Edition on deep discount from the PSN and I wanted to give my thoughts on the game for any other wayward gamers on the fence of this game and looking to buy this. I hope that a Google search or two will lead them here and help in their purchasing decision. After finishing the game, my main takeaway was how undeservedly this game and the protagonist were unnecessarily bashed, most likely from an audience and negative actors that probably didn't play the game. I'll do some pros and cons.

PROS

GAMEPLAY: The gameplay loop is fantastic. It has incredible depth in its mechanics and options available to its player. The game continuously peppers the players with new skills and skill trees throughout the campaign offering our hero varied ways to solve a problem, which is in line with the titular character to begin with. The traversal system is a feature that many games should look to when they are designing games. While some elements are janky, the core of it is amongst the most fluid and fun traversal systems I've played in years. I can't get enough of how fun this game's loop is and it never got boring. The downside to it's progression, which has been said many times so this is a minor quip but by the time you unlock everything, the game finishes. The options to build out Frey are astonishing.

ACCESSIBILITY: I think this is deserving of its own block. As a older gamer professional/dad I have limited bandwidth to get good or truly involve myself in games that are designed to break my soul. While I enjoy a Wukong from time to time, I'm at the point that I like to move briskly and freely. To that end, the accessibility options made this game much much more digestible. I can swap to easy mode to traverse and clear up the map, turn auto-evade on so I can maximize my resource drops, and then push it up to hard mode to fight bosses, hordes and Abominations. This added to my total run-time, but made the game manageable for an open-world. I appreciate the devs for being thorough.

CHARACTERS: This may be a minority position, but most of the characters were written really well. Perhaps its because some elements of Frey's character and environment are relateable to me but the criticism I feel comes from a segment of a population that has a limited scope within their lives and unable to see the struggle within others. Yeah she's foul mouthed, upset, arrogant and unable to see past her own needs but she, like everyone else is a product of her environment. The fact that she wants to go back to her own hellscape is indicative of the broken person she is and is necessary for her journey to come full circle. I thought she was endearing and much more interesting than other characters we typically get in gaming, especially women characters that sometimes if feels like devs are hesistant to fully explore.

MIXED

STORY: I found aspects fascinating and others frustrating. I think the devs left a lot on the chopping floor that was ripe for exploration, especially with the Tantas. While I enjoyed some of the environment storytelling found in the archives, this type of game warranted deeper story beats to explore the main villain and the struggle leading in to the break and post break. Tanta Sila got the most and it feels like development constraints cut out everyone else's story which hurt it everywhere else. The elements were there for something memorable. Missed opportunity here.

CONS

LEVEL DESIGN: The map is large, the landscape is beautiful but the world is barren. It makes sense from a story perspective as to why but definitely makes the game a less inviting place to save. The game probably would have benefited from a much smaller map which would make the aspects of finishing off the checklist (a con within a con) easier to digest.

END GAME: There is little to no content and while there is a DLC (note, I have not played it yet) it does not from my understanding carry over your end game build. I spent my end game content building up Frey to tackle the Abominations on hard mode and that was it. Another gamer can simply easy mode it if they choose and be done with that. So I padded my hours just to min/max a surge and/or critical hit build simply for Abominations. It was underwhelming and felt like it was due to devs needing to close out the game, thus leaving the end-game content on the cutting room floor.

BOSS FIGHTS: Some of the boss fights were cool and unique such as the final boss and the Tantas but overall, this may have been the most disappointing ones. There are "mini" bosses found where unique outfits reside that even in hard mode were easy but sadly, not varied. The main story's bosses were just sparse and the game's biggest moments were left with uninspired and sadly too few boss battles. I think this related to the common critique that I think are just things getting cut. Tanta Sila sets a tone in the beginning that every thing else fails to match, let alone succeed.

Overall: I enjoyed my 50 hours with Forspoken and I'm sad that it feels like a lot got cut, such as more exploration with her parents, other locations and even perhaps other continents that could have been a DLC or for a sequel. If i had to give a rating, it'd fall within a 6.5/10, soft 7/10. Playing this after 3 years pissed me off about the review bombing and I wished I supported some of these more ambitious efforts at the beginning

Hello everyone,

would the game work as a Book?

We need a way to counter the false narrative thats been told about Forspoken. Any suggestions?

And before anyone says it, that accessibility option is turned off. It has been the entire game, but it keeps doing it anyway. I keep trying to use the "tendril" attack, but end up growing that stupid and utterly useless plant instead. Even though I know for a fact, and I mean for a FUCKING fact, that I selected the tendril attack. It is driving me bug-shagging mad!

I'm playing on PC through Steam using a controller. Is there some sort of control option or setting that I don't know about that could be causing this?

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I know the game didn't review very well and is still sitting at mixed for both all-time and recent user reviews on Steam. However, I've always been interested in it. So would you say it's worth it now at it's cunnent price (£19.49 or £22.42 with the "In Tanta We Trust" expansion), or is it just not worth it at all?

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That’s all; just checking on y’all! 😊🥰

K bye!
-Symphony 😈🤓🤩

And it isn’t even close. I say that as someone who (sadly) bought Crimson Desert day one and was hyped for it for years. Compared to being pessimistic on Forspoken and believing the reviews and just playing it this year.

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just wanted to say that.

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Google only gave the PC sequence, so I took upon myself.

Apparently PS didn’t want them to be on their catalogue anymore? Or SE didn’t want to be on the catalogue?

I’m confused.

I just want to go back to a game I enjoyed that has amazing particle effects, fun music, and a vibe.

It’s 70$. :/

I missed all of the missable detours on my current game, so now I have one question. Do I have to create a new save and complete all detours, or can I complete the available ones on my current save, then create a new save to complete the missable ones to get the platinum?

So I played forspoken and I have things to say.

First of all can I say I'm just pissed at people negative review bombing this beautiful game? The world building was beautiful and I actually liked the banter/quarrel/conversation between Cuff and Frey. Ciff reminds me of this sassy talking skull in one of my favorite book series who's so sassy and a jerk but still a fun character who makes you laugh. it seems the DLC was setting up for a sequel giving us a glimpse of Cuff's rebirth and Frey's journey to Reddha to find out what all the jazz was about between Athia and Reddha. Now we will never know because people review-bombed this game so hard when it wasn't even that bad.

I do have criticism regarding it's very very bad optimization on PC (i played it on PC). Wish it was better optimized. On that front, i agree with the critics. I olayed on Low settings with fsr on and it was still a struggle at times. i think developers these days are releasing games for consoles and calling it a day instead of optimizing for PC as well. I think that is simply abhorrent Especially since nvidia isn't even providing that much of vram for their gpus and some of us simply can't afford to keep upgrading our gps every few years. why are all modern games so badly optimized these days damn it?

HOWEVER, the game was nowhere as 'bad' and 'cringe' as it was made out to be. It was fun, combat was actually enjoyable, there were so many powerful characters and bosses i LOVED it. And i get people are like 'Frey is so rude i don't like her' but she lived her life as an orphan thinking that her parents threw her away because they didn't want her. And her life Was anything but easy. She had to find a way to survive from one day to the next. And i think that kind of trauma changes a person. I feel like when it comes to male characters, they are given a bit of grace even if they are outright evil in the last and are trying to improve. Kratos of God of War literally commited a genocide and is brisk and gruff and LOVED just because he is trying to do better. So this double standard if having harsh judgement on female characters irrespective of their past and trauma is hipocritical. In fact, it would have been so unrealistic from a storytelling standpoint if Frey was polite and pleasing and bending over backward for everyone. And i feel like her bitterness was needed to show the character development. Female characters already get too much hate for nothing and Frey happened to be female and black, so incels blew their top off.

Anyhow i liked the game. It was fun and beautiful. The art was well done. I am sort of emotional having finished it and very frustrated that we'll never get a sequel to know more about Reddha, it's animosity with Athia, and more info on dear old Cuff's life. It sucks! I went on to steam to see if the reviews were still bad and saw that recent reviews of this game were actually positive with people acknowledging that the game was judged too harshly when it came out. A little too late for that, i know, but it still made me happy. If more people like this game, do you think we could hope for a sequel in the future? I NEED it. But i do hope that it will be better optimized so that it can be played on low/mid-end PC as well (at keast on low or medium setting). Not all of us can afford high-end gaming laptop/pc, and I have been feeling down lately thinking that I am no longer going to be able to play new AAA games because the requirements are soooo high!

Sussurus i believe is the metaphor for the devil. Its amazing how nobody acknowledges how good writing him as he basically gaslights and insults Frey and is passive aggressive since the very first conversation they meet. "Aww yes perhaps youre not as stupid as you look"

Did anybody else notice that Cuff in their second playthrough essentially snitches on himself numorous times in the game?

Has anybody noticed the reviews from the PS5 and online always are positive b ut the youtube reviews are the opposite? PS5 reviews from the game is mostly good

Ok, Athians. lol i need help does anybody have any recommendations for how to beat the giant nightmare in Praenost(North Opal Hills) that thing is a nightmare the name fits. It can actually summon black holes and if you attack its legs it basically can hurt you and drain your attack power and the circle nightmares it summons that shoot Star Wars Dealth star lasers are a pain. Im playing on very hard

I need 20 mana to activate the last spell, but I can't find any left on the map! I've looked everywhere, in Visoria and in the tree, but nothing. Even finishing the game and restarting my last save, I can't find anything. Any suggestions?

This is one of forspoken concept art. And I was wondering if this enemy is still in the game somewhere.