![]() ![]() Frey is surprisingly vocal about her disdain for most of the tasks Forspoken asks you to complete, and Cuff constantly belittles her for no good reason in a manner that I think is supposed to come off as friendly ribbing but instead feels like awkwardly watching a couple argue at a dinner party. That means the snippy banter between Cuff and Frey come off as obnoxious rather than endearing. The most egregious example of this is the chemistry between Frey and Cuff, which frames most of the campaign as a sort of buddy cop movie but spends almost no time showing these two unlikely partners grow closer after their introduction.Īctual bonding apparently happens off-screen, and this story – which is mostly told through exposition dumps between large stretches of open-world exploration – felt fairly rushed across the 15 hours it took me to beat the campaign as a result. That’s not so offensive on its own, but the real crime is how poorly the writing establishes any of its characters and the relationships between them – it’s like it constantly assumed I must already be invested in these people in a way it never actually made me. ![]() The lands are now ruled by the Tantas as maddened and evil sorceresses.Ĭombat is done through mix and matching various elemental spells to exploit enemy weakness and eliminate them faster, and magical parkour abilities to move around the battlefield and to explore the open world.Forspoken’s world and story are about as bland as they come, equal parts predictable and forgettable. Frey nicknames her new golden companion "Cuff" and sets off to find a way home.ĭuring her journey through Athia Frey learns that this land was once ruled by benevolent matriarchs, called Tantas, until a devastating blight known as the Break transformed the animals into beasts, men into monsters, and turned the rich landscapes into four dangerous realms. A magical, sentient bracelet is inexplicably wrapped around her arm, and Frey discovers the ability to cast powerful spells and use magic to traverse the landscapes of Athia. ![]() Protagonist Frey Holland is one day mysteriously transported from New York City to the magical land of Athia. Forspoken is an open world action-role playing game. ![]()
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