Topic: Forspoken

My copy arrives in an hour or so. Not gonna lie, although I kinda expected a 6/7 meta score, it’s still dampened my expectations for some strange reason… maybe I was holding out some forlorn hope it would actually hit better than expected.

As someone who is relatively content to travel a large map checking off a checklist, I’m sure that I’ll get something out’ve the experience but I was hoping for at least a little more quality than what has been discussed since the embargo lifted. Oh well, at least I get a pretty steelbook I guess 🤷🏽

Been playing it for over 3 hours and I’m really liking it so far. It’s not amazing, but I’m really enjoying the combat and exploration. I’m even liking the banter between Frey and Cuff, which I know some people complained about in the demo.

For what it's worth, in Japan, the land of the Switch, Forspoken is outselling the new Fire Emblem on Amazon.

@Th3solution I will let you know once I play the demo more. I didn't have much time last night, but wanted to at least get a taste of the game and 20 minutes wasn't enough. I didn't really care for the combat in that short span, but like I said, I don't believe that is anywhere near enough time to really give a good opinion.

I accidentally have two copies of it too. Originally Amazon wasn't going to come close to the release date, so I planned on cancelling it and I ended up ordering it from Walmart. I get an email last night that it was shipped from Amazon, so obviously I forgot to cancel. I'll return the copy to Walmart and then decide what I want to do with the copy from Amazon since you now have to pay for return shipping unless you drop it off a UPS Store here. I can do that, it's just not as convenient as it used to be when you could just drop it in one of the UPS drop boxes for free.

@KilloWertz I’ll buy one of your copies for $5. As long as you cover shipping.

@Th3solution The game is in the mail. No need to give me your address...

One thing that does concern me about combat, which was really the one thing I really liked in the demo, is apparently that is quite a late game build you are running and in the actual game, you are getting stuff like one at a time, hours apart, and it isn't until the final stretch you'll have a loadout like in the demo. I'd be interested to hear from people who have the full game, how the combat feels in those early hours when you only have like one spell and limited traversal abilities etc

I am in love with the Demo, but theres probably going to be a sale soon since no one is buying it, so I rather wait than fork over 80 bucks... but I gotta say I love the traversal, the fire blades, the girly capes and stuff. I would be all over this if it was like 40-60 instead.