Forspoken

I think there's a thread for this somewhere but I've no cause to actually go find it.

I played through the demo. Early impressions were that it feels like a bad game developed early on the PS2, unaware of any of the advancements games have made in writing, voice acting, level design, player movement, enemy design and objectives since then. Writing is laughably bad and the protag cusses at random, possibly because they thought it makes her sound cool? Outside of the run the player controls like a tank as well.

But harsh as that sounds, the more I played and took the time to understand the game, the more I seemed to like it, well, at least the combat.
For some reason, the game doesn't tell you that you can change between magical skillsets on the fly using the d-pad. That alone opens the combat up much more and makes it more dynamic. Given what I've seen about the number of spells available, it seems like there's potential here for some fun stuff.

I don't think the combat is particularly great, very much style over substance but it gives some mindless fun which I don't mind. Sometimes it's a bit too visually busy for its own good though and it's hard to read what's going on and can feel janky. I could also see it becoming stale quickly, there's an enddemo boss that's just a complete sponge and it doesn't feel all that different fighting the different enemy types.

It also seems the demo itself is just a shit demo to showcase the game. The hoards of menus just look like a ballache to bother with and there's nothing to do outside of very basic activities like clearing enemies on a bridge, which surely can't be reflective of the full game.
Not sold at all, but there could possibly be some good in there.

There has been a bit of chatter about the game here

fontgeek.io/thread/662/games-own-threads-thread?page=10

but it's just as well to give it its own thread.

I haven't tried the demo myself - I'm pretty tired of AAA open-world games, and I've been saving my last scrap of appetite for 'em to play The Witcher 3 for the first time! - and it looks kind of generic from the footage I've seen.

It's also on PC, but no other console. Sadly, no demo on PC.

What? The game is gorgeous and Square has obviously poured a lot of money into it.

It’s just.. bland.

Yeah, I was interested in it since seeing the preorder on the store, but the demo has put me right off.

I forgot I pre-ordered this on the back of the original hype and it has now been dispatched. Damn me and my foolish, antiquated ways.

It definitely does have that 7 energy running through it.

I know, I know.  I am a sucker for a physical copy and so have always pre-ordered.  After a very long period doing it, knocking the habit is hard!      

Sounds like a winner :/

PS5 is in the mid-60s on metacritic and opencritic, no PC reviews

Yeah sounds very mid.

But High on Life got some rough scores but I loved it.

Square Enix have to be the shittest major developers. Although Unisoft just making slightly reskinned versions of the same game over and over again puts them up there too.

Yeah, it has some decent reviews and a 70 meta score is far from bad. Slow start mentioned in a lot of places.
I still quite like the look of it though.

It got delayed twice last year. There's only so much you can polish a turd.