I saw they've updated the demo, so I reinstalled it last night with a view to giving it another shot. I had to turn off the demo when the character exclaimed 'put that in your pipe and smoke it'. If you're going to give us constant one liners, at least put some gusto behind them IMO. It was as if they were recorded in a vacuum, with no context to them.

However the controls felt off, and the constant one liners from the two protagonists were sending me into cringe overload.

I had heard a lot of negative feelings towards it but went in with an open mind. I was quite excited for the game, until i played the demo. The art style and overall graphical presentation looked fantastic, combined with what was presented as an interesting protagonist. When I saw this game originally revealed under the name Project Athia, I thought it looked amazing. That fantasy world certainly looks appealing, but I realized that's often because the RTX tech disguises art assets that are really cheap and bland.I want this game to succeed. In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia. The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing. Doors inexplicably grow or shrink depending on how you look at them (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland in all the wrong ways). If the sloppy opening - presenting Frey's entire backstory through documents on a table, with a judge handing down a community service sentence - doesn't turn you off immediately, the lack of consideration only gets worse from there. With publisher Square Enix already catching heat for producer Naoki Yoshida's defense of upcoming Final Fantasy XVI's scant diversity, Forspoken makes the nightmarish choice to start with its Black protagonist in court for her third felony. Put simply, Square Enix faces too many open-world competitors to get away with a poor showing like this.

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