It’s fun for a bit, but it isn’t until a good five hours in when you unlock a melee attack, through her unlocked fire abilities. Her core “earth”-based abilities allow her to fire rocks as projectiles and summon large rock spikes in the ground to disable foes. Blitzing through Athia is enjoyable, and fast-travel is everywhere if you really want to skip the traversal entirely.įrey’s abilities take a bit too long to get fun, which is a shame. There isn’t much to do on the map itself between all the various waypoints of activities, but I think that’s a design choice given you really wouldn’t want to have to slow down and stop constantly. Parkour is free-flowing and fun, simply holding a button and moving in a direction to have Frey easily zipping across the map at high speeds. Where Forspoken has moments of brilliance is within its various parkour and combat systems, which improve and become more satisfying the deeper into the game you go. It often slows things to a crawl, particularly when spending time in the main hub town, which takes away from the fun you could be having parkouring around the map like a badass. Long cut-scenes with heavy exposition dumps, lore with lots of writing that has to be read, conversations between Frey and Cuff (that literally force you to stand there and listen, rather than have them take place while exploring). The story hits a lot of the familiar beats that you’d expect, which isn’t egregiously bad in and of itself, but the way it’s presented is quite slow and meandering throughout.
She loves her cat and cats in general (relatable), and before you know it she is whisked away to the cruel world of Athia, forced to bond with a sentient speaking cuff wrapped around her arm (that she calls… Cuff), and save the world. Forspoken is a classic Alice in Wonderland story, featuring Frey Holland, a young New Yorker who is consistently finding herself on the wrong side of the law, running with the wrong people and doing whatever she can to “get by” in the harsh city.
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