This is coming from someone who could not hold back his tears during Senor Pink’s backstory in One Piece, which hardly took 15 minutes of screentime.

However, I could not feel a thing and the Bollywood-style BGM during dialogues did not help either.

The game takes around half an hour to set up the backstory and tries too hard to get us to care about this strong female character who loves her sneakers and is a proud cat mom. She is a homeless girl from New York who was abandoned by her parents either inside the Holland Tunnel or near it ( sorry, I cannot remember), hence the name Frey Holland.

The game starts with our main character Frey Holland standing in a court. Let me elaborate and discuss different aspects of the title one-by-one. But it does not mean there is nothing good about this game. To my dismay, the game could neither make a good first impression nor it could grow on me after I dedicated two weeks of my gaming time to this RPG. Published by Square Enix, Forspokentells the story of Frey, who is transported from New York to the magical world of Athia and that too without getting hit by a truck.įorspoken screengrab (Image captured on PlayStation 5)Ī few trailers and a slight delay later, Forspoken finally launched on January 24, 2023. The anime industry is notorious for employing Truck-Kun to hit the protagonist across dimensions to another world filled with magic, magical beasts, waifus, and sometimes a demon lord.Īs a sucker for good Isekai anime, such as Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, and KonoSuba, when I heard Luminous Production was working on a game on the same story trope, I could not help but get excited for the title. There are so many takers for this pie in the sky that it has become a genre in storytelling, used across multiple mediums. The only fancy that tops ‘saving your school from a terrorist attack’ is to live in a fantasy world as a power-holder.

For someone who was waiting for this game for a long time, I am disappointed.

Frey is accompanied by a Vambrace, which she likes to call Cuff.

Forspoken is an open-world RPG that follows our protagonist into another world.

Forspoken game review