That fantasy world certainly looks appealing, but I realized that's often because the RTX tech disguises art assets that are really cheap and bland. In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia.

With this release, PC players can also see what it’s about before they commit to a. The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing. Forspoken launched on PC and PlayStation 5 today, but only the PS5 version had a free playable demo until now. Summary: Forspoken is an action RPG that follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. Doors inexplicably grow or shrink depending on how you look at them (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland in all the wrong ways). If the sloppy opening - presenting Frey's entire backstory through documents on a table, with a judge handing down a community service sentence - doesn't turn you off immediately, the lack of consideration only gets worse from there. Though it takes inspiration from isekai-stories in which people from Earth are. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. With publisher Square Enix already catching heat for producer Naoki Yoshida's defense of upcoming Final Fantasy XVI's scant diversity, Forspoken makes the nightmarish choice to start with its Black protagonist in court for her third felony. 29.78 at Amazon 47.99 at Best Buy 49.95 at NewEgg. Put simply, Square Enix faces too many open-world competitors to get away with a poor showing like this.

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