Forspoken - Easy Allies Review

Forspoken emerges as a solid new RPG, and though it has its fair share of issues, its world draws you in with intriguing combat and spellbinding abilities.

Written by Michael Damiani
Video Edited by Don Casanova
Reviewed on PlayStation 5
Available on PC and PlayStation 5

#EasyAllies #Gaming #Forspoken

[Kmaitland]

This is one of the higher review scores out there. By quite a bit. I'm interested to see what made it better for Damiani than most.

[sashazyryanov]

When an entire paragraph is dedicated to cats you know it's Damiani's review.

[usernamefromhell]

(dialogue "slightly" misses the mark)
Understatement of the century.

[kiekeyz]

Life Hack - Use Japanese Audio with Subtitles. It's like a brand new game lmao. Got so annoyed of the English dialogue quickly until I switched it.

[interlinkedMedia]

This is the kindest review of this game by a pretty large margin.

[Ayoul]

Damiani is definitely the least predictable reviewer at EZA.

That outro about staple franchises will definitely not age well though.

[mattcurrin]

Definitely wasn’t expecting an 8, especially from Damiani

[LeanneMustafa]

I just beat the game. I got it on black Friday and it's surprisingly short. But a lot of fun! I liked it much more than ff16 and other square Enix jrpgs I played this year

[Saogin]

8 seems high, wouldn’t not be surprised if Damiani straight up added a point because of cats

[bengotagun]

All the footage I've seen of this game, I feel like I haven't seen a single enemy try to attack. They just stand around and wait to be killed.

[MachFiveFalcon]

Whether it suits your taste or not, Frey reminds me a lot of the protagonist "Drew" from the cancelled Scalebound game for Xbox One. A Japanese-made game heavily targeting the Western-style of "hip kid lost in a fantasy world" vibe.

[cloudkitt]

I don't have a particular interest in this game, but what is wrong with these commenters? So he liked the game, what skin is this off your nose? People seem bizarrely invested in this game's failure.

[airkid]

I'm reading comments and people are really wondering why his score was so high. After playing the game myself and getting the platinum, I can tell that the reviewer actually played the game. Objectively this game is around an 8 out of 10. Subjectively, I give it a 9. It's really not as bad as reviewers made it out to be and is quite fun. I still don't agree with the dialogue thing. I have most certainly heard worse. And from a technical aspect the game runs pretty good on the PS5 except for Inner Praenost. Quite a few framerate dips in there. Years from now there's going to be plenty of "Was Forspoken really that bad?" videos floating around on Youtube.

[Thwap]

A decent chunk of this comment section is so depressing with their bizarre expectation for every review to be the same and fixation/weird controlling need for their skewed mental image of a game they haven’t even played yet to match up with Damiani’s opinion.

“Uhhh I did NOT expect that score after the review” it’s like people only watched the opening statement and then skipped to the score. He’s pretty much praising the game the whole review, I was expecting the score to be higher after listening to him. Maybe because this is the first review I’ve watched and it’s not this review your bringing that bias in from? Just a thought. Besides even if the interactions with cuff are tedious/annoying having the foresight to acknowledge it and add in options to make it less frequent is worthy of praise!

Lastly, I have a weird interest in this game and am really struggling to decide if I want to buy it. I think the combat looks pretty dull if I’m being honest but the world and fluid way you can explore it along with the way you unlock everything are both really appealing to me. The fact that Damiani enjoyed the story is a + but it still looks pretty cheesy to me. This is a tough one.

[legendofkailia]

Square game with Cats. Damiani. Wonder if it will score well...

[TiagodeAngelisSilva]

I was talking to a guy in another video, he told me that it took 10 hours of playing the demo for the combat to really make sense and become something fun. Honestly, I don't know if it's a game for me....

[ThePixelProductionz]

This game looks like it took A LOT of inspiration from the Infamous series.
I mean look at the way the main charter is shooting spells.
Looks obviously close to how Cole and Delsin shoot off their attacks.
It’s just Infamous but with magic.
Not saying that it’s bad, it’s just that I’ve seen this before.

[DDustiNN]

“An uneasy alliance”
I see what you did there

[JayNSG]

I just finished it after 24 hrs (the story and a few side things) and it just got better and better as you go and even had a plot twist that I did not see coming at all.



I loved this game, a straight 9/10 for me and a breath of fresh air to a gaming industry that's become all too samey and predictable, this story seemed predictable at first and then completely changed my perspective a few times and then blew me away by the end. I truly feel sorry for those hating on it, it's a well made game with a lot of heart and a ton of potential if Frey ever visits another world using the Torana. I can't wait for the DLC where we may play as Cinta herself!

[kingofthesharks]

I like the idea of combat primarily being magic spells and movement being superpowered parkour, but every time i see footage of the open world or cut scenes I feel empty and transported back to 2008. Oh well, at least this game isn't a walking NFT machine