Forspoken review code provided by Square Enix PR. It took me a long time to not hate Forspoken. That said, does a game need to be perfect to have an impact? In this review, let's dig into why Forspoken has left me so conflicted.

This video is spoiler-free (bar one very light plot point from the first twenty minutes briefly brought up at around the five minute mark, click to 5:21 to avoid it).

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Forspoken has so, so many problems. For so, so many hours, its characterisation and dialogue seems downright irredeemable. Its combat systems feature so much extraneous fluff, all hampered by an unhelpful camera. Protagonist Frey is occasionally finicky to control, and her incessant banter with her travel "buddy" Cuff is unbelievably cringey. But just leaving it at that isn't what we do here on this channel—is there anything to like about Forspoken? Maybe? I think? Even if the answer is yes, you sure have to dig through a lot of unnecessary nonsense to get to it. And that's what I'm attempting to do in this review of Forspoken.

0:00 - Intro
0:12 - It took me a long time not to hate Forspoken
1:28 - The problems with Forspoken's dialogue and characters
5:30 - The gameplay
6:55 - Endless systems
7:48 - It's all needless fluff
8:51 - Why I don't hate Forspoken anymore
12:00 - Even Frey isn't all bad
13:59 - Forspoken is Final Fantasy XV
16:22 - Outro

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Text intro by Isaac Holland -   / drazgames  

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