Forspoken (PC/PS5)

Days Gone's weapon wheel was atrocious. It had several segments, which you then had to select one which opened further sub-segments, where you might also have to hold that open and press another button to craft or attach suppressors.

At the very least things like crafting ammo/equipment should be kept for a pause menu in single player games.

I'd say with God of War now being confirmed for early November, better to leave Forspoken to the New Year and give it breathing room.

I'm actually getting a bit excited for this. Grading aside, the rest looks right good and right up my alley.

Have a good feeling about this one

Looks like there'll be a demo for this! The Japanese PlayStation Twitter account posted a teaser for a gameplay showcase, but included a thumbnail advertising a 'Forspoken demo announcement trailer'.

I agree. The bit that they give you isn't very well explained, but I'm ok with that. I think it will play better once you start at the start and learn as you go, as this just throws you into it with 2 "powers" and expected to know how to use them. The going up a wall mechanic is annoying, thought it was broken but it just doesn't explain you only get x amount of jumps before you need to "land".

But, I am enjoying the combat. It's different, and when you get something to work it looks really well and can be devastating. I recommend people go in and read all the skills that are unlocked, or to be unlocked in the demo. Give a bit more direction and idea of what to do and how to combine styles.

As above, for now it's a solid 6/7 out of 10, but as it's a demo I'm expecting a bit more polish once released. It has what I call the Squenix jank, all Squenix games I've played have this feel to them and this is no different. It's not distracting, but it's hard to go from the smoothness of Ragnarok to this, albeit 2 very different games.

It gives you plenty to do and explore. I've "finished" the demo, but there's an extra thing to be done, maybe more. I'm just cleaning up the map for now. I'm also hoping the conversations between her and her bracelet are upped for demo purposes and it won't be that constant in the final game. Still looking forward to it and this has at least given me an idea of what to expect so yeah, I'm still down for it. Will bring me nicely up to Hogwarts Legacy and PSVR2.

Not sure what I think of this. I don't play many open world games, so can't compare too much.

I know it's a demo so they had to put you somewhere after the start but it did feel like it would benefit if they slowly introduce elements. I'm sure if I went back and took my time with it and followed guides online, I could get an idea of what those skill trees and all are about. But as it is, I just did the objectives and a couple other things. I definitely wasn't at the level of one armed dwarf, going by their video.😀

They did seem to be going the usual route of showing what a standard objective might be as well as some side objectives as they would usually do at the beginning of things like Infamous or Horizon. Speaking of Infamous, it did feel a bit like Destin's earth throwing ability, though think Destin's worked better. Adn was hard to tell when the R3 targeting was working at times. I don't think there was a manual targeting, like holding L2 or something?

I'll probably pick this game up at some point but won't be rushing to get it.

Well, I've been ignoring everything about this. I played the demo, I got some enjoyment out of it and I'm looking forward to giving it a spin. If it's not good, it's about €45 back towards Hogwarts Legacy a month later.

Why is there so much negativity around this game? Seemed to start before the demo. Think was after that trailer where she was just talking, leading to a load of memes.

And while I didn't enjoy the demo, mainly because I didn't really get the systems, but I'll probably check it out at some point.

Just watched some leaked footage. I had no intentions of getting this but thought it might be something for down the road. The constant cursing is so jarring, awful AWFUL writing, i mean seriously what is going on with game writing the last year? So many big releases have cringey dialogue.

I put it down to people of one generation trying to copy the speech of 'influencers' from the next generation, who are in turn trying to appeal to the young teens from the next next generation. And so you end up with dialogue and speech that no one actually genuinely uses.

Yeah I quite enjoyed most of the dialogue in GOTG even though it was constant, but it all felt fairly contextual based on the map and your decisions, and the mix of characters helped keep it interesting enough. Though the words they came up with to replace swear words were used far too much.