The memeification of pre-release clips of the game’s dialogue meant the game had already been fighting an uphill battle, but I remained curious: was the game as bad as all that, or was the internet just being the internet? With FFXV being the only game under Luminous’ belt, it perhaps comes as no surprise that Forspoken is more than a little rough around the edges.

I say technically because so many employees from Luminous were once part of Square’s thrillingly named Business Division 2, responsible for the hot mess that was Final Fantasy XV, that they are in essence the same studio. You play as Frey Holland, a young New Yorkian in trouble with the law who slips through a portal into a medieval-adjacent fantasy world of castles, dragons, and evil sorceresses.įorspoken is (technically) the debut title from Luminous Productions, a subsidiary of Square Enix. Forspoken is an open-world, third-person action-adventure game set primarily in Athia, a realm plagued with a magical pestilence called The Break.

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