Square Enix released a new trailer for Forspoken, its upcoming Western isekai action RPG starring a tough young woman named Frey who has magic spells and is stuck in the dangerous open world of Athia. Seems like the makers of Forspoken decided to bring that back, albeit with very mixed results. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.There was a time when self-referential dialogue from Joss Whedon was a huge thing in movies and video games.
Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. We’ll see how it goes in January.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Again, hopefully the rest of the game is not as bad as this voiced-over clip, but something about how the game has handled its lead and concept (a modern woman is suddenly thrust into a world of spells and monsters) does not seem to be landing, even if gameplay continues to look rather excellent. This is not an ideal situation for actress Ella Balinska, who is being saddled with what appears like it’s not going to be the best of scripts as the lead of this game, shortly after her turn on a different sort of video game project, the critic-and-audience lambasted Resident Evil series on Netflix. But rather like it’s a parody of the worst kind of action dialogue in media at the moment. Not just like, someone’s writing a clunky script that gets mistranslated in localization. There’s a common notion that most Square Enix games just do not have great writing in general, but this feels like a different kind of bad.
The superpowered magic-wielding combat actually seems pretty fantastic, and no amount of bad scripting will probably turn me away from playing, but it’s not great to have to deal with. It’s frustrating to hear dialogue this bad from Forspoken, given that everything I’ve actually seen from gameplay continues to look absolutely stunning.
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