This review contains spoilers

This game is the most mid open world game I've played in years. But because I haven't played this type of open world games in years, this was actually really nice to finish.

I'm annoyed by the turn the story makes in the end and it all becomes about Frey's heritage and that she mattered all along, which really wasn't necessary and imo renders the point the game tried to make and her character arc obsolete.
And the pricing on this makes me angry.

For everything else; I really welcome it being so short, I loved some of the landscapes but think that the soundtrack is pretty lacking overall. Apart from the title theme which absolutely f*cks, this really doesn't have the vibe I was looking for. I highly recommend muting the music outside of the main story and replacing it with parts of the FFXV music. This shit just hits! It actually carries a lot of 15's DNA in it, which I really really enjoy. Sad to see though, as I hoped that 15's dev team finally got the resources and time to make a game which's development isn't as messy as FF15's was, but this isn't it. Forspoken would have really benefited from more dev time, better optimization and polish. Can't say I didn't like it though. If this is on sale and you liked roaming around in FF15 and want to do just that with a pretty cool parkour system, that towards the end of the game is a whole ton of fun, Forspoken is your shit.
For 30€ I'd instantly recommend this!

PS:
Sucks though, that all of the POC characters square will have in their big releases this year were in this game cough Final Fantasy XVI what the fuck cough

Reviewed on Feb 05, 2023


3 Comments


1 year ago

Oh and the combat is really fun once you've unlocked enough shit, but I see why you would be put off by the limited options at the beginning.
The FFXV soundtrack for me was just the soundtracks to all the previous FF games because that's all I played in the car lol

1 year ago

Hahaha fair! But songs like 'Stand Your Ground', 'Valse di Fantastica' and 'Wanderlust' are just amazing songs and Yoko Shimomura really got to flex all of her talent in that one. FF15 is just lots of cooler themes for the open areas in Forspoken and definetly the more engaging battle themes. This game's ost isn't bad, but repetetive and not gripping enough for me to make exploring just a vibe, without putting on Gaur Plains, To the Sun from FFXIV or straight up FFXV