Forspoken looked pretty good when we played it in late 2021, but a trailer that dropped in August 2022 left a very different and much less positive impression. Some of the edgy dialog, which commentators on Twitter have compared unfavorably to Joss Whedon, quickly dominated the conversation, while the PlayStation 5 reviews that began flowing yesterday found Forspoken to be, as PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor put it, “bullseye average.”
We don’t have our own Forspoken review up yet—no pre-release PC codes were offered for review, so Mollie is still working on it—but you can still get a sense of what it’s all about courtesy of the Forspoken demos that are now available on Steam, Epic, and the Microsoft Store.
Details about what the demo offers aren’t offered on the storefronts, but Square Enix confirmed that it’s the same as the PS5 demo that came out last month.
“This specially-crafted crafted demo gives you the opportunity to really dig into the game’s fluid traversal and take on some truly monstrous enemies in combat,” Square Enix said in December. “Don’t worry about spoilers—there’s no story in this taster. It&rsqu…
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