Forspoken has glimpses of greatness, but they're often mired by safe mediocrity.
On paper, Forspoken is a game that should have resonated with me. It's a Luminous Productions/Square Enix venture, a developer I remain deathly loyal to despite its poor track record in recent years. It features some of my absolute favourite things in life: nail art, cats, parkour, and badass matriarchal rulers.
The most fun I had in Forspoken was when I ignored the story and explored Athia instead. Combat and movement is the best thing about this game, with Frey able to parkour at lightning speed around the world and fling spells of different elements at the enemies who inhabit it. Dashing across the map, flipping up cliffs and zipping around feels really good. But bring things a little more close quarters and it becomes finicky, with Frey regularly bouncing off walls and short platforms.
Mutants were my favourite bits of combat in Forspoken—giant, ultra-strong beasts dotted around the overworld. They're the toughest foes I faced throughout my playthrough, but I also found them a great way to get in the habit of memorising patterns and honing my evade timing. At least, when I could even figure out what was going on between the stutters.trying to get Forspoken to run well on my PC, resulting in severe frame drops every time I entered combat.
The one filler objective I genuinely enjoyed—and went out of my way to do—were the cat monuments. They offer nothing for the gameplay, simply existing as companions who greet Frey when she enters a respite to recover health and upgrade her gear. But I'm a bit cat lady, and as I write this review my own feline friend Luna is next to me. I adored the slightly weird looking fur babies, all with their own little fantastical twist.
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