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Its stuttering start belies a combat system that’s worth investing the effort to learn, but takes so long to get up to full speed that it’s already on borrowed time.’īillcliffe further called attention to a ‘lack of polish’ in the game, which led to annoying, repeating voice lines. But it ploughs, shin-first, through every hurdle along the way. ‘In the cut-throat race for your attention, Forspoken feels like a new IP that’s trying to run full pelt alongside heavy-hitting franchises from other big publishers. ‘ Forspoken shows the best and worst of the Luminous Engine’s tech, mixing kinetic combat with dazzling particle effects and janky setpieces,’ he wrote. Still, he believed there was something magical about Forspoken ‘somewhere’. James Billcliffe, writing for VG247, claimed Forspoken is slow and awkward to begin with – and that it barely recovers by the end. Ramée said it was a ‘tricky’ game to recommend, as he felt the fun of the game was severely lacking. Luminous Productions’ action-RPG feels great when it allows you to really stretch your legs and magically parkour across its fantasy landscape, but combat is clunky and regular exposition too often stalls the action.’ ‘Instead, it tells a largely forgettable story that sets up major stakes but fails to offer a compelling reason for why the player should care. ‘Though it takes inspiration from isekai – stories in which people from Earth are transported to and become trapped in a fantastical world – Forspoken ultimately doesn’t understand what makes that genre so popular,’ Ramée said.

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