It's a generic AAA "open world rpg", except the MC is inner city dumb young entitled black bitch who gets teleported to another world and gets a magic bracelet ("cuff") which grants her superpowers.
Basically Square Enix tried really hard to make a AAA video game version of a shitty, generic diversity-and-inclusion check box Netflix series.
If you just changed the MC to a Hwhite male and swapped out the woke characters, it would be a generic 7/10 type "open world" game probably. The cringe dialogue and characters bring it down a lot.
Hogwarts Legacy absolutely destroys Forspoken. Hogwarts Legacy is actually a good game. It's the same type of game but 100x better in every respect. And where was it made? Salt Lake City, Utah.
The fact that it was made by japs is cringe. Imagine being from a superior race and culture with dominant global products, and thinking "I should stop being awesome and Japanese, and instead copy what the jews in hollywood do". I hope they learned their lesson, Square Enix dumbfucks.
Notice how EVERY big company, even Japanese, gets taken over by the wokes? Ever wonder why? It's because top university candidates from the highest rank schools tend to be some of the most woke, and they exploit their position to take over the most desirable jobs, which means the jobs in the biggest companies. They then make sure their fellow traveler wokes and others just like them get hired in, too. This is especially prevalent in shit like marketing departments.
The tech demo that was shown before it was renamed/twisted to forspoken was actually quite interesting. Too bad that they had to make it for "western audiences" instead of actually giving us something good for a change
The game was made on the Luminous engine, the same engine that FFXV was built on and the reception towards that game was lukewarm. Luminous Productions re-using Project Athia assets for Forspoken was a last ditch sunken cost fallacy attempt to recoup the investment into the engine.
Apparently, they thought woke-ifying the game would help it sell and we know the rest of the story.
Gotcha. Yea it makes no sense. Unfortunately any black character I see in current era I assume they will be anointing and lecturing. One exception being Denzel. They could make a cool game with him as the main character. Or a character voiced by him. But it sucks that Japan is bending the knee.
A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics
Square Enix would sell their own mother if it made them 0.1% more profit. All this is, was some woketards at Squenix thinking that they could make a woke pander game to sell to Gaijins for easy Hwhitebuxx.
Unfortunately because the corporate culture at Squenix is totally out of touch with reality thanks to woke subversion, they badly miscalculated and got a cold hard dose of reality.
So hopefully they've learned their lesson.
A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics
and no one would care because critics are worthless now. people don't trust them, they trust people like popular streamers and youtubers. the "critics" torched Hogwart's Legacy and it smashed sales records while Forspoken languished.
True. YouTubers have taken over but the garbage media still yours rotten tomatoes or rolling stone as if we don’t already know what they will say. I trust Critical Drinker or Dave Cullen much more
Most likely scenario was a bunch of glitzy consultants came in and pitched the idea to Nippon Honorburu Business execs who thought it looked like garbage but figured if the round-eyes say it's good who are they to argue?
The usual result of failures in the western markets is pulling back and making more standard jap games, which then "unexpectently" make it big in the west (eg Monster Hunter) and they try making more western-focused games again with similar results as this.
Some kind of eternal east-west game dev cycle.
The bigger issue to me is the defining issue of entertainment today, which is also the genesis of GG and this site: the attempt to forcefully change the tastes and habits of the market. Products are being made not based on what people want, but on what the developers think they should want. Everyone thinks they can just throw their customers away and create new ones from magic. it's quite insane, and I think it will be studied in the future much like "tulip mania" today.
SquareEnix made THREE Final Fantasy 13 games, despite the original being almost universally hated. With the final one being a literal waifu jerkoff fest for the director.
Squenix is physically incapable of learning from their mistakes in smart manner.
The female protagonist gets in to fantasy land. The fantasy land is very gynocentrist, because of course it is, and the protagonist talks constantly.
She has a magic bracelet that allows her to do pew pew magic and acts as a guide.
The world looks empty, the story is stupid, the motivations make no sense and the little I've seen of people streaming it has deep moral lessons like war is
bad.
Even if you removed the woke factor, the game was just to uninteresting, sure a sexy main character that was silent for most of the game would have made the game sell better but it would still be a bad game.
While old, if you like isekaied plots. I remember really liking the longest journey as a kid.
Is a puzzle mystery game but there was just something about it.
What is the game about? I saw critics gushing over it for obvious reasons but I haven’t heard any reviews
New Yorker car-stealing sharp-tongued negress gets isekaied.
No, not via Truck-kun.
She is unworthy of Truck-kun.
Perhaps, but the sight of her getting splattered would at least provide SOME entertainment.
What is Truck-kun?
A commercial 18-wheeler shipping truck that is likely the catalyst for at least half of all "Reborn in Another World" stories.
There is a literal manga about the person who drives said truck to send people to another world.
It's a generic AAA "open world rpg", except the MC is inner city dumb young entitled black bitch who gets teleported to another world and gets a magic bracelet ("cuff") which grants her superpowers.
Basically Square Enix tried really hard to make a AAA video game version of a shitty, generic diversity-and-inclusion check box Netflix series.
If you just changed the MC to a Hwhite male and swapped out the woke characters, it would be a generic 7/10 type "open world" game probably. The cringe dialogue and characters bring it down a lot.
Hogwarts Legacy absolutely destroys Forspoken. Hogwarts Legacy is actually a good game. It's the same type of game but 100x better in every respect. And where was it made? Salt Lake City, Utah.
The fact that it was made by japs is cringe. Imagine being from a superior race and culture with dominant global products, and thinking "I should stop being awesome and Japanese, and instead copy what the jews in hollywood do". I hope they learned their lesson, Square Enix dumbfucks.
Notice how EVERY big company, even Japanese, gets taken over by the wokes? Ever wonder why? It's because top university candidates from the highest rank schools tend to be some of the most woke, and they exploit their position to take over the most desirable jobs, which means the jobs in the biggest companies. They then make sure their fellow traveler wokes and others just like them get hired in, too. This is especially prevalent in shit like marketing departments.
The tech demo that was shown before it was renamed/twisted to forspoken was actually quite interesting. Too bad that they had to make it for "western audiences" instead of actually giving us something good for a change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU
The game was made on the Luminous engine, the same engine that FFXV was built on and the reception towards that game was lukewarm. Luminous Productions re-using Project Athia assets for Forspoken was a last ditch sunken cost fallacy attempt to recoup the investment into the engine.
Apparently, they thought woke-ifying the game would help it sell and we know the rest of the story.
Gotcha. Yea it makes no sense. Unfortunately any black character I see in current era I assume they will be anointing and lecturing. One exception being Denzel. They could make a cool game with him as the main character. Or a character voiced by him. But it sucks that Japan is bending the knee.
A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics
Square Enix would sell their own mother if it made them 0.1% more profit. All this is, was some woketards at Squenix thinking that they could make a woke pander game to sell to Gaijins for easy Hwhitebuxx.
Unfortunately because the corporate culture at Squenix is totally out of touch with reality thanks to woke subversion, they badly miscalculated and got a cold hard dose of reality.
So hopefully they've learned their lesson.
and no one would care because critics are worthless now. people don't trust them, they trust people like popular streamers and youtubers. the "critics" torched Hogwart's Legacy and it smashed sales records while Forspoken languished.
True. YouTubers have taken over but the garbage media still yours rotten tomatoes or rolling stone as if we don’t already know what they will say. I trust Critical Drinker or Dave Cullen much more
I'm hoping SquareEnix seeing the poor sales and firing their President is a sign they are about to change course.
Most likely scenario was a bunch of glitzy consultants came in and pitched the idea to Nippon Honorburu Business execs who thought it looked like garbage but figured if the round-eyes say it's good who are they to argue?
The usual result of failures in the western markets is pulling back and making more standard jap games, which then "unexpectently" make it big in the west (eg Monster Hunter) and they try making more western-focused games again with similar results as this.
Some kind of eternal east-west game dev cycle.
The bigger issue to me is the defining issue of entertainment today, which is also the genesis of GG and this site: the attempt to forcefully change the tastes and habits of the market. Products are being made not based on what people want, but on what the developers think they should want. Everyone thinks they can just throw their customers away and create new ones from magic. it's quite insane, and I think it will be studied in the future much like "tulip mania" today.
SquareEnix made THREE Final Fantasy 13 games, despite the original being almost universally hated. With the final one being a literal waifu jerkoff fest for the director.
Squenix is physically incapable of learning from their mistakes in smart manner.
The female protagonist gets in to fantasy land. The fantasy land is very gynocentrist, because of course it is, and the protagonist talks constantly.
She has a magic bracelet that allows her to do pew pew magic and acts as a guide.
The world looks empty, the story is stupid, the motivations make no sense and the little I've seen of people streaming it has deep moral lessons like war is bad.
Even if you removed the woke factor, the game was just to uninteresting, sure a sexy main character that was silent for most of the game would have made the game sell better but it would still be a bad game.
Gotcha. Thanks for the rundown. I had major red flags of being overhyped.
Probably wouldve upgraded from shit game to a mediocre game if she stfu and had alternative bikini outfits.
While old, if you like isekaied plots. I remember really liking the longest journey as a kid. Is a puzzle mystery game but there was just something about it.