Forspoken

It looks beautiful, duh!

This is a Square Enix game so of course the cut scenes look great, right? When that winged valkyrie looking monster shoots up and stares down the protagonist, I got chills. I do want to play this. I played the Demo last week and thought it was great. Forspoken is the first big release for me this year and I think it might be a sleeper hit. I really do need to beat God of War though before Forspoken comes out on January 24, 2023!

Only 1 hour of gameplay?!

You can probably explore and expand your time in this demo, but you’ll get the point after about an hour. You start with a lot of skills and stats already. So you are thrown right into the thick of it. Combat is great! I’m just mashing buttons and getting kills. All of the difficulty settings are just adjusting different minor aspects of the combat to make it more difficult for yourself. You can’t just pick easy, medium, or hard. Like with God of War I started on hard. Games like this I feel you can never get the full experience of the combat when the enemies just keel over. I didn’t die once. A little low on life a few times, but I just kept going. The world map looks great, the traversing is great. You don’t need a mount when you can run hella fast and jump and flip over every obstacle. Forspoken will be my first major game for 2023. Check me out when I steam it on January 24, 2023. Below you can watch my replay from the demo.

You are a magical parkour damage dealer.

During the last update Forspoken showed off the Parkour magic. Honestly I liked what I saw, but it didn’t really hype me up anymore. Today we get to see the magic combat. Boy does it look sweet. In typical Square Enix/Final Fantasy you have all your traditional magic spells here. There’s stop, confuse, etc, all the ailments. Plus offensive magic like Earth, Fire, and healing. This has been another one of those games that has come after FF7R that just looks like somebody took the shell of FF7R and made another game. Square has done this in the past. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I remember after Final Fantasy XII came out I got every Square rpg for the next year or two that came out hoping to recreate that feeling. I didn’t have much luck. Forspoken is looking pretty pretty good. We’ll find out for sure in January when this game is released.