It makes casting magic feel more engaging and part of that feeling can be attributed to the haptic feedback of the DualSense. Some feel more pistol-like and allow for rapid semi-auto bursts, some have more of a spread like a shotgun, and so on. However, that's the problem with Forspoken: everything sounds great in concept, but it's executed in a way that is either boring or outright bad.Ī lot of the magical abilities feel more like how you'd fire a gun. While you'll still see some typical spells like binding an enemy to the ground, Forspoken's idea of magic is different and fairly compelling on paper. When you think of magic in a game, you may think of something like Skyrim where you shoot fire out of your hand. When Frey arrives in Athia with her companion, a talking bracelet named Cuff, she's immediately granted access to magical abilities, and it's actually done in a way I have never really seen magic handled before, for the most part. This magical land, known as Athia, is strange, dangerous, and somewhere she doesn't strive to live in for very long, but for whatever reason, she is drawn here and on her quest to get home, she will get some answers to what this place is. At her lowest point, she stumbles upon a fancy bracelet which ends up sucking her through a portal to another world a la the explicitly referenced Alice in Wonderland. All she has is a pretty bummy apartment and a cat that she can claim as her own real companion. She's an orphan who has struggled to survive in New York City, repeatedly getting caught up in legal trouble and making enemies with gangs around the city. That's not to say it doesn't have its good qualities, but that may actually hurt it more as a result.įorspoken places players in the shoes of a troubled, smart-mouthed young girl named Alfre 'Frey' Holland. It's somewhere in the space between, a critical purgatory that can only be described as incredibly average, much to the disappointment of PS5 owners looking for something new to help cure the January/February blues. Forspoken is a game that frequently presents its potential to the player in a way that is immediately attractive, but it fails to execute on its most important fundamentals.
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