It’s Frey’s story arc as she starts thinking about the needs of others over her own desire to get home. But as the game progresses I think it becomes very clear that this is intentional. I honestly think people are overselling how much is in the game, but I won’t deny it’s there. And even I will admit that there is truth to those claims. You’ve probably seen the memes and responses to the game that Frey isn’t a likable protagonist and she’s got too much “cringey” snippy dialogue. This – more than the insane Tantas – forms the conflict of the story. As Frey gets further and further elevated into a very unwanted hero position by the surviving citizens, the greater the conflict grows between Frey’s goals and the people’s wants. Frey is a young, snarky, New Yorker in a situation and world that she doesn’t understand, wants to leave asap, and the populace is firmly divided between thinking she alone is their savior or wanting her head put on a pike. I mean, home sucks but IS home and there aren’t zombies and dragons in New York… yet? From there, Frey begins a quest to… well honestly, get home. Her only companion in Athia at first is the bracelet who turns out can talk and who she names Cuff much to its displeasure. With no knowledge of why she got brought there, how she got there, or how to get back. Frey finds herself drawn to a magical bracelet in an abandoned shop, and upon touching it is whisked away to Athia. Some of the trope-savvy out there are probably already putting something together from all of this. She’s also an orphan who was found as a baby in a tunnel with no idea who her parents were. She’s scrappy, resourceful, has a good sense of right and wrong – and tends to choose ‘wrong’ out of the necessity to survive. Into this ruined world falls Frey, a 21 year old squatter from New York city who is on the last fine strands of patience the legal system has. Not the most original name, but hey a lot of the locals in Athia just call it “The Corruption” and between the two, the Break sounds a lot more creative comparatively. The game is an open-world action rpg set in the world of Athia, where the four ruling witches – or Tantas as they are called in-game – have gone completely insane, twisted their virtues into vices and unleashed a horrible miasma on their kingdoms dubbed ‘The Break’… because it “breaks” things. I feel the need to separate those two despite Luminous Productions technically being an in-house team at Square Enix for reasons we will get into in a minute. So with that in mind, I wanted to talk about the most recent addition to that list, and take another look at a little recent game called ‘Forspoken’.įorspoken is a 2023 release developed by Luminous Productions and published by Square Enix. Those things that it seems like everybody but you hate and think is awful? Call them hot takes or guilty pleasures, but I wanted to take another look at stuff like that and share my honest thoughts on why _I_ like them despite all the hate. You know, for a long time I’ve wanted to do a series on shows, games, movies – what have you – that I really, really enjoy but seem to have the minority opinion on. So you let me know! Would you like to see these as a video series? Keep it as a text post thing? I still have a good sized list of other movies, games, and what not that would fit the “Another Look At” format. However, due to vacation followed by over a week of sickness that completely has destroyed my voice for the time being and thus has kept me from both recording this AND streaming, I have decided to release it as a text post. This post was originally a script for a first attempt at a short video essay that would potentially be the start of a series.
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