Forspoken Is NOT Worth Your Time Time| 30+ Hour Spoiler-Free Review

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I have to comment on these reviewers that are thrashing this game. I've been playing games for over 4 decades and having played most genres… you can tell when a game is going to be good or not. Sort of like watching a trailer for a movie or watching the first 15 minutes of a show and turn it off because you just KNOW! SOMETHING about this game kept pushing me to check it out. Even though everyone thrashed it. I'm a huge Read Dead guy, love games like Control, Mad Max, Just Cause, Dragon Dogma, Infamous, etc… SO, I picked it up and have been playing it non-stop since. I'm about 15 hours in at this point.

Here's my quick take… A good buy and I've been having alot of fun. Alot of fun. ALTHOUGH, you have to walk into this game with clear expectations so you can get past a unfortunate hump in order to experience the game as it was intended…. It takes almost 8 hours to get past the hump. YES, 8 hours. I'm with most reviewers in that it's a really strange choice to cause a player to go through 8 hours only to finally open the game up to play a game that I believe is the core of what the developers intended. I also realized about 3 hours in that I could remap my buttons on my PS5 controller. Once I did this, it was smooth. WAY BETTER. For example, I remapped the shooting button from Trigger to Square. Parkour / Run to R1 and Magic selection to trigger. No joke this changed everything for my play style and was smooth. I also bumped the sensitive up. All this combined to make combat smooth and fun.

Once I hit that 8 hour mark, the game opened up, combat became alot of fun, parkour was a blast and the game just became very smooth and fun to play. I'm hooked at this point and looking forward to jumping back into keep going. THIS is in my opinion the problem with the reviews. I'm not sure they actually played past the 8 hour mark and if they did they were so focused on obvious issues they couldn't enjoy the game at the core. Combat and Traversal. That's unfortunate. I also think there's alot of reviewers that are ALLLLLLLL about story instead of gameplay. They JUST can't get past dialogue or the story. Which also is unfortunate because a game is called a game for a reason. Not a movie, not a TV show but game. YES, the story sucks and dialogue is bad BUT the gameplay is awesome and the world is somewhat empty but really fun to explore. So many open world games that were empty and looked like crap and people still gave it raving reviews.

Enemies aren't that varied but still fun. IT'S FUN. Again, been playing for 4 decades and todays gamers just seem spoiled and entitled. I remember playing Soldiers of Fortune and original Far Cry and Golden Eye and having a blast. It was all about the gameplay, not graphics, not story. SO, I'm really enjoying it. My son made fun but tried it out and now he keeps asking me everynight if he can borrow it. He's a hardcore Souls, Elden Ring, Bloodborne guy, he's on game plus 4 times over on each. For me that says something. Give it a go, get past the long 8 hours and boom, awesome game that I'm HOPING the developer is capable of coming back with a sequel and improve on all the stuff that gave it that unfortunate hump.

It’s really too bad because the demo was pretty decent. Letting you play on and on and on, or start over , figure out a better system, learn better combos. But after 11 years working corrections, I wasn’t thrilled playing as an unhappy foul mouthed juvenile delinquent. Combat was fun and I was looking forward to the storyline but I had being led by hours of cutscenes, I pay to play. I guess I’ll wait for $20 Black Friday 2023

It is a good game decent story and worth playing. But the game is only worth 20-30 dollars at most. I wish I saved my money..

Thank you so much for saying your verdict in the title.

i dont like it, looks boring

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square enix ………….WTF

I got it for free and it's very much a final fantasy cliche game. Ff15 vibes with the cuff banter. Archetypes and all. Being 4 hours in I do enjoy the running around and the battling. The closeups are very choppy when it comes to dialogue. The story doesn't seem too grand but its still intriguing. I'm not sure where the hate for MC comes from but I find her alright overall, especiallywith her upbringing and pov. So basically it's an alright game if you're used to FF like I am lol and can ignore the flaws. I can see the general gamer will think its awful.

Great review, i love when the reviewer goes in deep and doesnt just phone it in. I orginally thought the game looked interesting but it seems they weren't able to follow through. One question….Is it Refuge or Refugee? I mean, Refugees are usually seeking Refuge. I looked around and found a few articles on Forspoken actually using them interchangeably. Just curious….