Forspoken is an upcoming action-adventure fantasy wherein you get the isekai treatment and “have” to find your way back to reality (oop, there goes gravity). It’s being developed by the folks at Luminous Productions, published by Square Enix.
Click here for more on the combat mechanics for player character Frey. We also got the Game Awards trailer, a story trailer and the Game Awards 4-minute gameplay footage for you here, here and here!
Forspoken is currently set to release ‘early in 2022’, which is great to hear, considering the PS5 games library essentially just consists of the PS4 library, plus Returnal and Ratchet and Clank! Forspoken was initially announced under the working title ‘Project Athia’ in 2020 and is set to be the first non Final Fantasy IP from Square Enix in a long time. And when I say long, I don’t mean “long”, I mean 🎵LONG LOOOOOOOOOOOONG LOoooOOOoooNG🎵, followed by sensual trumpeting… It makes sense in context!
Forspoken has a very talented team behind it by the looks of things. Amy Hennig, head writer behind the Uncharted series, will be collaborating with Gary Whitta (Screenwriter for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). The music composers for the game (Bear McCreary and Garry Schymann) are also behind the scores for God of War and Bioshock… Also, feel free to have a butcher’s round our store if you want to get The Bioshock Collection! Ella Balinksa, playing Frey, has also played in Charlie’s Angels and is confirmed to play a starring role in the upcoming 2022 show ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to New Raccoon City’.
Compared to the previous trailers and gameplay V-Slices, this current gameplay is… Substantially less aesthetically pleasing, to put it mildly. But at the same time, I’m also a firm believer in ‘I’m not ugly, I just reduce graphics to improve performance’, so who am I to judge? Besides the looks department (which, outside of this current footage, looks smooth as a marble scultpure of Bloodsport-era Van-Damme’s booty), the traversal looks suitably fast-paced and the combat magic suitably weighty. You could make the case that the player is actually so agile, that boss fights and healing in most cases may be too easy, so I’m looking forward to seeing how the late-game obstacles rise the difficulty curve.
Forspoken will be released for PC and PlayStation 5 on May 24, 2022. The game will be a PS5 console exclusive for approximately two years.
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