⭐⭐ | Forspoken review 'A litany of missed opportunities results in one of the most aggravating action role-players of recent years, with irritating characters, dull combat, and a frustrating movement system.'
Publishers do read game reviews. They’ll carefully analyse the press reaction after a game’s launch, but what conclusions they tend to draw from them we do not know. Although we certainly never get the impression they use them as constructive criticism. Developers always seem to be much more understanding but for publishers a bad review is more likely to be viewed as a failure of PR than an indication that anything was wrong with the game.
As the marketing makes plain, the main character in Forspoken is a black woman named Frey, which is unusual for any game, let alone a fantasy title like this. She starts the game as an abandoned orphan in New York City, before stumbling into the fantasy world of Athia. However, long, there were concerns about her stereotypical backstory and persona, especially as the game has a large writing team and yet not one of them is black.
These elements are handled relatively subtlety, as you note how different people react to you and your companions, depending on their background. Like everything else in the game, the most interesting moments for Frey’s characterisation come right near the end, although her transformation into a more heroic figure happens so suddenly it doesn’t so much feel like a plot arc as a plot point that someone forgot to join the dots to.
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