Yet, I have experienced none of this in Forspoken.Ī brief jaunt online tells me that it has been ‘review bombed’.Ĭlaims that for whatever reason (console exclusivity, the main character’s gender or ethnicity) a minority of people have taken it upon themselves to critique it into oblivion. In fact, a 0-3/10 is a game that is pretty much unplayable. It either won’t start or causes my console to corrupt itself and potentially burst into flames. To be clear, for me a 0/10 game is one that is so broken that I can’t even play it.

And yet as I scrolled down, I saw a litany of 0/10 scores, with similar opinions. One 0/10 reviewer says: ‘Usles game, waste of time, bad story, verry expensive, the girl is anoying.’ Oof. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.The user score though, is currently at 3.5. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. Update: Scores have risen slightly to a 69 on Metacritic and a 70 on OpenCritic.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. I would absolutely wait for the Digital Foundry review before buying it there. And we should now brace ourselves to figure out how exactly this performs on PC with those crazy recommended specs, which we will apparently not know until the game is literally for sale in the wild tomorrow. This is bad for both Square Enix, and for PlayStation, who touted this as one of its major console exclusives this year. Generally the spellcasting seems to be a highlight, as I figured it might be from the demo, but it’s not enough to offset the other issues. In general, the complaints are about the dialogue (where there’s actually a “less banter” setting in options to make it less annoying) and the blandness of the open world. Or to translate this to Whedonspeak, “Yep, she really did just do that!' “Forspoken doesn’t do anything new for the open-world genre of games, but it does offer just enough to distinguish itself, mostly thanks to Frey and her magic spells, and a story that’s able to stick the landing. I’m a bit surprised one of the more positive mainstream reviews is from Gene Park at The Washington Post, who gave it an 8/10:

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