So, in the meantime we’d be very cautious and unless you really liked the demo you’re probably best to wait until there’s a critical consensus. Perhaps Forspoken will be better than the demo and our hands-on suggested, but we won’t be able to tell you until after it’s already out. That’s great but Frey is from New York and her dialogue, and that of her magical bracelet, is awful, with every fish out of water cliché you could imagine and endless, tiresome f-bombs.Īssassin's Creed Mirage release date changed to avoid week of death To Square Enix’s credit the lead is a black woman named Frey and the fantasy world she finds herself in is very diverse, in terms of race and gender (the main bosses all seem to be women). The demo then got an update that changed how the lock-on works and altered things like the text sizes, which is not the sort of last minute change that inspires confidence.Īnd then there’s the problem with the main character. It was different to what we played – which seemed to be just chunks from the almost-finished main game – but went down so badly that the producer had to make a statement saying that, in terms of mission structure, it was not representative of the finished product.

We spent a good few hours on the game but all our complaints could become less of an issue as the story continues, although the free demo on the PlayStation Store wasn’t much more encouraging. Forspoken – the graphics aren’t very good either (pic: Square Enix)

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