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@toshtao1

Жыл бұрын

You're just cherry picking the game because its the popular thing to do.

@bensxbd

Жыл бұрын

@@toshtao1 you didn’t even finish the video. I can tell because your comment was posted before this video was even out for an hour, which is the length of the video

@Gageiro94

Жыл бұрын

Recommended a 3070 for this REALLY?

@Pumpkinking64

Жыл бұрын

BOO! AI art is trash. No thanks, Luke!

@LaMaquina17

Жыл бұрын

@@toshtao1L

She cared so much about that cat. More than a duffel bag of cash. So much so that she gave the cat away in the very next scene. Definitely one of the games ever made.

@magicalmagicmagician5223

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a game that was made

@NGRevenant

Жыл бұрын

>complains about being poor and homeless >owns a $2000 cat lol

@jessh4016

Жыл бұрын

I mean, you can't keep a cat if you're homeless. Game sucks, but there're a bunch of weird criticisms in these comments

@star-rock6466

Жыл бұрын

Are you gonna keep a fucking cat or literally any pets if you are poor and homeless ???

@NicoleMarie.

10 ай бұрын

HotY status (game of the year)

This game is the obligatory "I can't believe it's not Ubisoft" title of the year.

@mikeyrocks4274

Жыл бұрын

The voice acting in particular, script like a Marvel movie

@peterbaker1293

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeyrocks4274 Exactly, and not even one of the good ones. We're talking Phase 4 She-Hulk schlock.

@ozzythomas672

Жыл бұрын

There is one Ubisoft game that is really good rainbow 6 sleigh

@unseen32808

Жыл бұрын

I honestly don't trust square Enix anymore either just as bad

@matthewwright9143

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeyrocks4274 Joss Whedon's humor has ruined DCEU. It was only a matter of time before it crept into video games.

It’s like the devs wanted her to be this cool relatable character but they have managed the opposite

@charleszp938

Жыл бұрын

She's relatable to the Devs. 🤷

@Walamonga1313

Жыл бұрын

Western writers worked on this game, that's why

@davidstinger1134

Жыл бұрын

She's relatable to the boardroom of 60 year olds who watched a bunch of Marvel movies, Rick and Morty and 5 minutes of reaction videos and thought that's what people like.

@HateshWarkio

Жыл бұрын

@@Walamonga1313 oh, that explains way too much I was wondering why the hell would a Japanese company create an isekai like this because the usual go-to is the "overworked office worker getting a second chance in a wonderful fantasy land" instead of this "homeless criminal hates her life, gets a second chance, and immediately wants to go back to the life she hated"

@callsignfatbeard2637

Жыл бұрын

@@Walamonga1313 sounds like someone who hasn’t read a lot of western writing.

The first belly laugh for me was the "Just Another Day" chapter headline after she just avoided a severe prison sentence for three felonies.

@johnynoway9127

Жыл бұрын

you dont get an almost prison sentence every day?

@Kushking_Kraven

Ай бұрын

I know it's nothing like trumps 97 felonies it just ridiculous 😂

Leaving the bag of cash in a burning room on purpose is the worst plot point I’ve seen in a while.

@anselmopat4985

Жыл бұрын

Hahahahah that was so dumb

@kalashnikovdevil

Жыл бұрын

They could have made that not stupid too. like. It wouldn't even be hard.

@psyched.shelby5391

Жыл бұрын

@@kalashnikovdevil ya like she rushes out of bed to save her cat and the camera pans down to the bag of cash igniting on fire. Something more cinematic like that but this game isn’t good enough for that I guess.

@Niko_Suavey

Жыл бұрын

Extremely dumb, especially when the player can clearly grab it while still completing the other objective

@TheFinalGate_

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely horrible lmfaoo

Lol when Luke was asking where she got the dirt to throw in the guy's face, all I could think was "Pocket sand!"

@Blitas

Жыл бұрын

must've learned it after getting scammed for 20 silver by a dude in some ruins in the sea of dust

@stevelandmartin-khan2430

Жыл бұрын

After watching the clip I’m convinced it’s pocket sand.

@SherryNiles1312

Жыл бұрын

Shaaa Sha sha!!

@Yummynomnom123

Жыл бұрын

It's a super power

@proto6948

Жыл бұрын

SAME

120 hours of community service for her third felony 💀

@LilCyco223

Жыл бұрын

I guess it was a Christmas present

@skilletno1

Жыл бұрын

Bail reform in new york lol

@AtomicComms

Жыл бұрын

Commiting crimes must be worth it as hell in this universe.

@lewispooper3138

Жыл бұрын

That’s a harsher sentence than most criminals receive in New York

@khaalmalki4039

Жыл бұрын

then she goes to perform breaking and entering and stealing a cuff. We are supposed to like this character btw.

The thing with the money bag to me, is, they didn't HAVE to put it there. They could've said, for example, that she was worried about someone breaking in so she put it in a hidden spot, and then the hidden spot was already on fire. They could've had the flames already reach the foot of her bed and burn it by the time she woke up. They could have done ANYTHING other than literally spawn her in with the option to (fail to) pick up the bag. The developers *chose* to make her a massive idiot for not just grabbing it on her way by. Imo that's just a sign of horrible game design.

@blondbraid7986

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. Plot holes that appear because the writers wrote themselves into a corner after adding a ton of lore and characters is one thing, but such an obvious scene with such an easy way to make it make sense being this contrived is baffling. Like you said, they could have just placed the bag somewhere she couldn't easily get to it and it wouldn't be stupid.

@koreancowboy42

6 ай бұрын

And it's funny the stupid gang found her and burns her place but didn't take the FUCKING CASH

Ok I honestly believe that stopping the player from picking up the cash was a deliberate troll by the developers.

@Bee_Mavrick

Жыл бұрын

Bet

@vinvintoday

Жыл бұрын

The game is just telling you early on that buying their game is equivalent of burning a bag of cash, genius meta commentary really

@ShadowSorel

Жыл бұрын

wow! its like im playing forespoken

@dream6562

Жыл бұрын

​@Milcentvin no it's to say even though she is in trouble she believes a cats life is more important than hers

@chrisandrew7577

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if the game started with player choice between money and the cat. Too bad

The smile on my face when luke starts to complain about the fade to black... Because I already know what lies ahead 🤣

@daktaklakpak5059

Жыл бұрын

This game should fade to black in never reappear again!

@felixbennett6125

Жыл бұрын

I feel like fade to blacks only work well when it's a character POV and they're fading in and out.

@shootnblankz9994

Жыл бұрын

@@felixbennett6125 fade to blacks are 100% fine... When there are only a few an hour to finish chapter or long scenes or to express time advancing or total location shift. Not almost every camera transition lol. Like in the one cutscene from before walking into the court room area and end of scene there was like 10 fade to blacks in 10-15min, like a fade to black when transitioning to each character speaking in the same room during the same conversation?!?!?! Wtf lol

@ninernation2828

Жыл бұрын

Good one, how long did it take to come up with comedic gold.

@billylebullyhunter7366

Жыл бұрын

@@ninernation2828 here, you dropped your extra chromosome

She went like "Haya, pocket sand!"💀 Yep, this is what happens when the writters wanna make a Ryan Reynolds type of a character...

@asobimouryu9545

Жыл бұрын

...Outside of Deadpool

@daefaron

Жыл бұрын

*pocket sand and then I'll stand on a chain link fence when they have a GUN*

@WarBirdGhost

Жыл бұрын

I desperately need a proper Deadpool 2 game, to play.

@wolf1nsoul

Жыл бұрын

@@WarBirdGhost Indeed bro, the 360/PS3 one was awesome! Hopefully the new info about a TNTN: Last Ronin game and Wolverine, open up doors for more antihero games!

@MundaneThingsBackwards

Жыл бұрын

sha shaaaa!

I love how that judge immediately broke herself down from "idk if you'll ever amount to anything" to alright fine community service

As usual Luke has sage advice. I really regret all the times I've left a bag full of cash in a burning room when I could've just taken the bag full of cash.

Love how gigachad judge just sentenced her without any trial after she pled not guilty lmao the judge doesnt give a fuck

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

The judge is strong and independent - she doesn't need any rules! ;-)

@strikeforce1500

Жыл бұрын

Yeah,we call that lazy writing. "Hey, protagonist,you did something very wrong for the 3rd time!, I won't send you to jail this time,because you promise to be a good person/I know you are a good person with zero proof!".

@rumuelnathanael8043

Жыл бұрын

The judge should be the main character 🤣

@MrAjking808

Жыл бұрын

Gigachad? 😒

I honestly don't know shit about this game but the part when she continues to be a smart ass when there's a gun in her face I just completely checked out

@ninernation2828

Жыл бұрын

Lmao….. what? Like seriously? That’s all it takes? My god how do you enjoy anything if you get that triggered by something so stupid.

@titustheboxer2364

Жыл бұрын

@@ninernation2828 you’re telling me that scene was good? 😂 my eyes glazed over as that was playing out the dialogue was absolutely horrendous

@Teddyisoffline

Жыл бұрын

@@titustheboxer2364 the dude above is defending the game in all the comments like he made it or something 😂

@aleciad7218

Жыл бұрын

I checked out when she threw dirt at the gangsters. So, a criminal heavily involved with gangsters doesn't carry a pistol, let alone a knife? A handful of dirt she got out of nowhere is her ONLY means of self-defense? Really?

@Koalavater

Жыл бұрын

​@@aleciad7218 I hate to defend this game but she literally just walked out of a courthouse, she wouldn't have any weapons even if she did regularly carry.

I like how we don't have to infer motivation or discover anything about a character because they'll just tell us.

@lastmanstanding7155

Жыл бұрын

Thank god too. I could feel my brain wrinkle from the mere thought of actually paying attention to story beats.

And remember, this game was designed like this, this is what they went for.

@nathanwatkins1005

Жыл бұрын

Idk man...something went awry... FF15 was better in every way and it was only a 7/10 for me.

@martinramirez9647

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanwatkins1005 I know, it's like if they tried to westernize a jrpg, I don't know, it just doesn't work like a player would want to.

@genericone3848

Жыл бұрын

@@martinramirez9647 Action RPG all day baby.

@TheGravityShifter

Жыл бұрын

@@martinramirez9647 It's like the east assumed everyone in the west is into a lot of the stuff Hollywood and Disney are pumping out because that's how they see it from the outside and just expected us to like this too. Ik I'm exaggerating and conspiring but if that turned out to be true, they couldn't be more ignorant of the west if they tried. I think more accurately though the writers probably come off as big Marvel fans. It feels like clunky Marvel writing if I ever saw it.

@MrREAPERsz

Жыл бұрын

So when they were writing this game they looked at every mcu film and was like "yeah let's do that".

Luke: thankyou redbull for the 6 month supply. Redbull: that was supposed to be a 3 year supply….

The idea that a teenage girl is walking the street of New-York with the pockets full of sands to defend herself "just in case" is hilarious to me. I wish I was this witty.

@cerberusmutt4252

5 ай бұрын

Pocket sand!

@dalamarwren424

5 ай бұрын

@@cerberusmutt4252you bear me like a few days lmao

If you're curious, in the Ted Bundy trial the judge told Bundy he could have had a bright future as a lawyer if he went down a different path. Having a judge tell someone "it's a shame you did what you did because you're so smart" isn't that rare

@pleasegoawaydude

Жыл бұрын

Luke tends to lack a lot of common life knowledge. Neurotypical brains only process their own, small worlds of experience.

@thatrandomsquirrel2924

Жыл бұрын

I think he misinterpreted it as Frey saying that about herself, which would certainly be odd

@edgar7456

Жыл бұрын

@@pleasegoawaydude what are you on about bro 💀💀💀

@lastmanstanding7155

Жыл бұрын

@@pleasegoawaydude Wtf?

@Jinkypigs

Жыл бұрын

The problem is not the judge behaviour but the stupid girl's responses and inner thought. O and the hours of unskippable cut scenes. O and the disjointed dialogues AND the illogical and unnecessary fade to black as he mentioned.

Imagine someone said we need to leave the bag of cash in the burning room and not allow the plyer to pick it up. Someone else said but that wouldn't make sense and they said nah it'll be fine they will never see the cash burning coming. Don't you know, everyone just leaves money on the floor when the place is burning even though you can easily grab it while you walk out of the room.

@mitchellhorton9382

Жыл бұрын

don't even have to grab it you could literally kick it along the ground if you wanted to

@Bee_Mavrick

Жыл бұрын

Its either let the cash burn or let the cat burn and if in that time you grab the money your cat could die. Would you risk it for the bisket?

@danthovict381

Жыл бұрын

"everyone"?? Literally one of the guide for disaster (at least in my country) are keeping valuable documents (as such house certificate) in a spot that easy for you to grab in times of disaster. And i used to occasionally worked at temp. shelter for disaster (usually fire), and most of the victims there always said they rushed to save valuables (house/land certificate, money etc) as many as they can in that moment. And here you see full of your hard-earned cash already in one bag and ready to grab literally in FRONT of you and just leave there? Lol!! Not the mention she looking for her cat and that bag can also be used to help carrying the cats so her hands will free (if she needed both of them later to moved heavy object, etc)

@ShadoShade

Жыл бұрын

It was already in a bag. If it had been laid out all over a table, sure, I could have criticized the MC for not at least taking some of it, but it was already to be picked up. Just grab it and find the cat and go.

@edgar7456

Жыл бұрын

@@Bee_Mavrick it takes no time to take the money just grab it while rushing to your cat, that would add less than a second. She was walking anyway so it's not like she was in a hurry lol

This game feels like it was written by a sixth-grader. This makes me miss the silent protagonist...

@matthewmosier8439

Жыл бұрын

You know, that actually is an interesting point... people enjoy or respond to different styles of dialogue. When the main character in a game, played for probably 100% of the gameplay, is talking all of the time, the odds that everybody who plays the game will enjoy the character's "style" are low. And the thing is, by having other game characters do most of the talking in a game featuring a "silent protagonist", if players hate the dialogue then they can identify it with characters other than the main, making it less difficult for them to put up with, at least. .. when your main character is unlikable, there isn't much story that anybody would care about.

@nathanwatkins1005

Жыл бұрын

This review would've been shorter, but in the end it would be for the greater good.

@TheOldMan-75

Жыл бұрын

I'm 20 minutes into the video and I already can't take it anymore. Games like this are the reason why people still aren't taking video games seriously. The writing is worse than in a Steven Seagal movie.

@tiredofinternetculture

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOldMan-75 I've been flying helicopters with Steven seagall for 67 years.

@thealgerian3285

Жыл бұрын

I've written a short story like that when I was 11, and even with the age excuse I'm embarrassed.

I feel like this game was written by (and for) people who've been raised by fanfic and have very little experience with (or patience with) human life.

@kathleenh2782

Жыл бұрын

as a fic writer and a fic reader i feel like that's slander 💀this is so much worse than about 75% of the fanfic that's ever been written lol, no question about it!!!

@kkuro7054

Жыл бұрын

@@kathleenh2782 It's not really meant as a slander against fanfiction per se. I do run into a good number of people who really were raised on a diet of little but fanfic and -- it's not pretty. It doesn't help them be adults with a lot of options and talents in the world. It's like, I don't mean to slander french fries, but catering to/fomenting french fry addictions isn't, I'll put my neck out to say, a positive contribution to culture/society.

@8bitorgy

Жыл бұрын

Elitists are always trying to pretend they're normal. Only like 10 celebrities ever sent their kids to public school

@cainyourkids

Жыл бұрын

@@kkuro7054 I'm still reeling from that one news of someone who got pregnant because they took sex ed advice from fanfiction

@kkuro7054

Жыл бұрын

@@cainyourkids That must surely be Fake News!!!! From what I've seen, getting sex advice from fanfic is FAR, FAR more likely to prevent any possibility of pregnancy than to cause it! ;) (If it doesn't entirely prevent any possibility of successfully having sex...)

As someone who IS NOT an artist, I find the whole AI generated art thing kind of repulsive because of how hard people work to become skilled artists.

@Jinkypigs

Жыл бұрын

Thing about the so called popular AI bots, they actually relies on lots of "big data" to emulate and recreate what was already in existence to fit a particular situation. It ain't true authentic AI in the classic sense. So when it comes to art .. the issue arises if the AI was trained not just with piece in the public domain but also pieces without getting the artist consent. But if it is truly just from public domain art then it is not a big issue, but don't mistake it as a true creative.

@failtronic2646

Жыл бұрын

@@Jinkypigs There's no way to know if they used ONLY public domain art or just any image scraped directly off a google search, that's one of the biggest issues with AI art right now. The people who make them aren't transparent about the data fed to the AI/don't collect the data fed to the AI so for all we know, ALL of them or NONE of them are using someones art which isn't public domain.

@jessh4016

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I'm a woodworker, and I find factory made furniture repulsive too. You know how long it took me to get good enough to make nice furniture? Now it's just crapped out by some unthinking machine. It's not real furniture, it doesn't have that human touch that makes furniture special.

@Rayerie

Жыл бұрын

​@@jessh4016 False equivalency. The issue with AI is how it straight up steals artwork to function. Factory made furniture doesn't do that. Truly a lame statement you shared here.

@peacefusion

Жыл бұрын

theres nothing stopping artist to use AI art. This is just hate, ignorance, fear. Real artists are excited to have more tools for thier workflow.

I love how he’s trying to give the game a chance but it proceeds to trigger back to back nitpicks and unintentional laughter.

@Bee_Mavrick

Жыл бұрын

Alot of parroting going on

@indeed260

Жыл бұрын

@@Bee_Mavrick Alot of parroting going on

@rumuelnathanael8043

Жыл бұрын

@@Bee_Mavrick Alot of parroting going on

Remember everyone, this is what's considered "next gen" by the industry.

@TheKepaza

Жыл бұрын

Graphically it is next gen plus a good engine it's just the characters and gameplay so don't be this way

@MooseCastle

Жыл бұрын

@@TheKepaza This shit was next gen 2 gens ago.

@StormsparkPegasus

Жыл бұрын

This looks awful, give me indie games over this crap any day.

@young-blk-investor1059

Жыл бұрын

@@TheKepaza graphics are mid 🤦🤦🤡 you must only play Fortnite and Minecraft if u thing this game looks next gen

@utisti4976

Жыл бұрын

@@TheKepaza The only thing that looks next gen about it are the particle effects. Take away those, and you are left with a game that looks more bland and low res than Dragon's Dogma back in 2012. (No shade thrown at Dragon's Dogma though. Great game.)

Frey: "Gotta find Homer first!" Real Cat: **

@minnie21434

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@shrumgus5608

8 ай бұрын

How you gonna take care of a cat realistically tho? Also left it with someone she trusted.

The thing about the infamous dialogue at 33:55 is that I think it goes wrong when she goes “Yeah this is what I do know.” The stuff beforehand I actually liked caused it would make sense for her to be confused and excited about doing magic but then she just completely ignores cuff’s explanation and goes “Yeah that’s what I do now, this magic is just mine now”. it’s weird and doesn’t sit right with me. Plus Frey ignoring cuff comes back later when he betrays Frey and goes “Your powers? They were never yours!” Like yeah he literally tells that to Frey at the beginning of the game but she just ignored it

@HandOn145

Жыл бұрын

I have a question because you seemed to know the story, Does she actually try to befriend the cuff? Or goes through bonding experience with it? Because first impression made me think the cuff is kinda justified in abandoning her if that how she act.

@nexferna7695

Жыл бұрын

@@HandOn145 I only know the story from videos and people who streamed but from what I can tell no, Freya doesn’t at any point try to befriend cuff. From the beginning Frey is super rude to cuff for like the entire story. In fact later, Freya is just the absolute worse saying how she doesn’t care about the world and that “it can all burn” and weirdly enough cuff is the one telling Freya she’s gone too far and that she should apologize? I genuinely believe cuff being a twist villain was thrown at the last second cause they didn’t have a big climactic boss for the end

@HandOn145

Жыл бұрын

@@nexferna7695sad to hear, wasted potential I guess, the idea of the cuff being the main villain is also interesting, like if the cuff intentionally feeding her ego and making her believe she was invincible and directing her to destroy "monster" that keeping him sealed under the guise of heroic adventure would made a decent twist villain.

@nexferna7695

Жыл бұрын

@@HandOn145 Yeah, other people suggested where Freya knows cuff’s evil from the beginning but because she’s just lost everything and has no where to go, she willingly goes along with cuff because being able to do magic and be a hero would be better than her life before

@HandOn145

Жыл бұрын

@@nexferna7695 You know, now that I think about it, Square already does this premise, twice even. Brave Fencer Mushashi, the main character is a kid hero who get summoned to help against invading kingdom and he ended up pulling the legendary sword that he use to fight them, then it turn out the sword is the big bad that was sealed by the hero(His adult self from the past, his kid self was summoned) and becoming the final boss because Mushashi break the seal without knowing and then there also Bravely default where the fairy companion is manipulating the party to free the big bad

I guess Forspoken should remain Unspoken.

@btnhstillfire

Жыл бұрын

Im loving it. Magic based combat w a flowing dash system. 👌

@gunlook

Жыл бұрын

@@btnhstillfire Prototype does it better.

@nier_gard9236

Жыл бұрын

@@btnhstillfire its going to be forgotten when hogwarts legacy drops

@thebadwolf3088

Жыл бұрын

@@nier_gard9236 it's going to be forgotten way before Hogwarts Legacy comes out

@geminine970

Жыл бұрын

Matter of fact just play the infamous games

One of the things that bothers me is that the performances feel like acting, not like people actually talking.

@jimmymurphy898

Жыл бұрын

So true. Not a fair comparison but I play Rdr2 every year just because of how real the characters feel. Arthur Morgan is a remarkably written and acted character. These characters feel like caricatures.

@ulfrthewolf5065

Жыл бұрын

It is a “performance”

@WeKNOWTHETRUTHITSUNDISTPUTED

Жыл бұрын

@Kx xK it’s square Enix I will never understand while people where expecting a god of war or red dead redemption acting performance these are the same people that worked in final fantasy 15 similar cringy acting in that too

@chancylvania

Жыл бұрын

@@WeKNOWTHETRUTHITSUNDISTPUTED I haven’t seen any of final fantasy. I’ve just seen what’s here and I gave my opinion on what I’ve seen. It doesn’t mean they can’t improve

@gman7497

Жыл бұрын

@@WeKNOWTHETRUTHITSUNDISTPUTED yeah idk, they are a Japanese studio so idk what kinda resources they used for VA/mocap etc.. but yeah the bar is raised for video game writing. If you don't have confidence you can make it engaging and realistic, minimize it as much as possible.

These dialogues... writers must have been proud of themselves 🤣

The writers actually thought that a character who, constantly breaks the law, has 0 respect, is "sassy", would be likable and acceptable because she's a girl and she was an orphan. Wheres my violin?

@introduction1266

Жыл бұрын

shut up. I bet you like male characters that are sassy and don't mind it just because they are male but now when a female does it ya'll have a problem. hypocrisy at it's best...ya'll idolize male characters that have done way worse than break the law

@amberbaum4079

Жыл бұрын

Gotta write for those US-American Isekai readers. Male and female oriented iskeai is different. Western and Eastern isekai is also different. Notice how they didn't make her average looking, despite having a hard life she still needs to look pretty for the power-escapism-fantasy

@introduction1266

Жыл бұрын

@@amberbaum4079 delete this comment

@minnie21434

Жыл бұрын

* Gives you Mr. Krabs' tiny violin *

@introduction1266

Жыл бұрын

@quetzalpacheco you make no sense whatsoever. you're the minority

Just to point out, the officer in the picture holding her as a baby is wearing the same NYS COURTS uniform as the Court Officers in the court scene... i guess devs just reused the skin and thought nobody would notice a court officer rescuing a baby from the holland tunnel for some reason LMAO

Game lost me as soon as I saw a defendant appear at an arraignment with no one else in the courtroom and allowing the defendant to wear a hat in a courtroom.

@MimiRAM0NE

Жыл бұрын

The hat bugged me too lol

@angelcrush3320

Жыл бұрын

the lack of care for realism is driving me crazy. like what are the spikes on the towers supposed to do ? 45:20 at least put some flag on it and pretend it had a purpose in the world lol...

@Andrew-mx6ud

Жыл бұрын

Also a pleading at an arraignment with no advisement of her rights for a GRAND (felony) Larceny.

@Quzga

Жыл бұрын

Ikr.. going from watching better call Saul to watching this gameplay sure was something..

@TheRealOAFs

Жыл бұрын

This game was made by people who have no idea about anything lol

This was an interesting review to watch, I like your style of interacting with games you review semi-live. Just something I thought I'd mention: my great-grandfather was found abandoned in the snow outside of a catholic children's home/hospital/coven as a baby and because of that, he was given the last name "Blanc", which means white in French. I also know that a more distant ancestor was named "Duchemin" which means "of/from the path/road" because he was found on a dirt road leading out of a small village. These are common naming conventions for abandoned children, at least in my country. You have to give them a name, so usually the people who found them would do it, and especially in older times, they would give these very generic names related to where they were found, and their first name would be either the saint on the calendar date or if it's a monastery or a school dedicated to a saint, the child would be named that way, which is what happened to my great-grandfather. Just thought you might be interested in that tidbit of information!

FORSPOKEN should be preserved as an example why YOU SHOULD NEVER MIX Japanese game devs with American writers. You will reach unfathomable levels in the uncanny valley.

@jacobjackson5062

Жыл бұрын

@Doom Guy umm what?

@failtronic2646

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobjackson5062 Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 1-3

@jacobjackson5062

Жыл бұрын

​@@failtronic2646 Oh yeah. Still dont make sense.

@jessh4016

Жыл бұрын

@Doom Guy You didn't understand the comment. They don't mean uncanny valley as in horror, they just mean uncanny valley as in it's shitty.

@jacobjackson5062

Жыл бұрын

@@jessh4016 Right on bro! Thanks....

God, I love these full-stop tutorials to teach how to run away from the bad guys. Oh, you’re being pursued by the gang members (who could’ve shot you through that fence, I want to point out, because you didn’t actually take the gun from her, you just knocked it out of her hand onto the floor) - let’s stand still and teach you how to run and jump. Oh, you’re being pursued by fantasy bears - let’s stand still and teach you how to jump again, but this time it’s higher. Yeah, that totally doesn’t break the flow of gameplay, ruin the immersion, and ignore the fact that it’s instinctual to basically every person who will ever play this game to “run away from the bad guys”. No, we definitely need to halt the player and throw up that full-sized text box for them to read; we can’t just teach that shit on-the-fly with simple tool tips (like we totally did with the sprint tutorial). It’s amazing how much criticism I can draw from literally a couple seconds of the gameplay.

@oliver_twistor

Жыл бұрын

I hate when games do a full halt while the player is in motion. I'm disabled and one of the symptoms of that is that I get easily confused and disoriented by changing contexts. So when I'm jumping around trying to fight some bad guys and a modal dialog suddenly pops up, freezing the game, I get really disoriented especially when I close that dialog and the action resumes. The result is that it often takes a couple of seconds for me to get my bearings and remember which buttons to press. I wish games that do this had their modal dialogs _before_ the action instead of in the middle of it.

@silverblade357

Жыл бұрын

I recently played a game called Blasphemous. The tutorial goes like this. Your dude begins that game all jacked up. You see the prompt for L1. This makes you stand and use a health potion. You see A pop up as you approach hops. You see R2 for dodge/slide to get under stuff. The game doesn't stop full stop. The only true tutorial windows were about the more unique mechanics like prayer beads and icons of guilt. How AAA games can't be this seamless and creative is kinda shocking.

@DocOck

Жыл бұрын

Ghost of Tsushima was the worst for me about this. During an unskippable combat tutorial the game freezes and tells you to attack a certain enemy. The problem is this is happening during dynamic gameplay so the enemy's AI is random. So when I go to attack the enemy the game tells me to, he runs behind a different enemy and I end up killing him instead. This resulted in the game soft locking. Yes the game soft locked on the tutorial. This was my first experience with the game. Luckily I just loaded an earlier auto save so I ended up liking the game regardless but this could have been a deal breaker for some people.

@dillongage

Жыл бұрын

@@silverblade357 its seamless yes, creative no. Plenty of games have used organic tutorials over the years.

@ExeErdna

Жыл бұрын

@@silverblade357 Think of it as AAA games sniffing their own farts. They know they could have made it simpler yet the really think players are THAT DUMB. If you're already into the first fight before a tutorial pops up just leave it on the cutting room floor.

"Those aren't the sounds those shoes make". Love it, that really did encapsulate the review... lol

@TheMadMadow

Жыл бұрын

@Phawnix Those weren't squeaks they were more like claps that you would get from a more solid soled shoe.

@TheMadMadow

Жыл бұрын

@Phawnix I may have miss understood where you were coming from. My b

I feel like ideas for games/creative things in general are getting bigger and better but the execution is getting worse, and the want for big spectacular set pieces leaves the basic little things forgotten about ruining the entire experience.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

Well... Some games are really bad like that. Other are pretty good! Some are innovative, like Watchdogs: Legion. Some indie games are great ;-)

@ExeErdna

Жыл бұрын

This game was clearly more of a higher fantasy yet they were too scared that it would flop so they did the "Hello Fellow Kids" take. There's 2 games here one clearly was interesting yet was neglected and the other was focused yet never wanted. Like how Stranger in Paradise pretty much flopped too.

@koreancowboy42

6 ай бұрын

​@@ExeErdna doubt kids would wanna play this garbage. Especially the when they find out what "Cringe" is

I cared more about homer (the cat) than any human in the game

@shrumgus5608

8 ай бұрын

The floating cat familiars were pretty cool too

15:30 🤣🤣😭🤨 Climbing away from a gun and standing off behind a metal open fence as if bullets can’t still hit you Is undeniably the funniest stupid cinematic scene I’ve ever seen

@angelcrush3320

Жыл бұрын

it's rather sad than funny but I get you 😂

@Macheako

Жыл бұрын

@@angelcrush3320it’s funny CUZ of how sad it is 😂😂❤

@yochiro0864

Жыл бұрын

surprised they didnt shoot her when she decided to go ape shit and climb up the rails. I woulda ran back in a crowd of people

@ds90seph

Жыл бұрын

I was dying laughing. She makes the dumbest "clever" remarks with a gun in her face, and the delivery is so wooden. Then she somehow fights off a group of people who she could have easily just run away from at the outset. Followed by that ridiculous climbing bs and the middle fingers. It's beyond insane lmao

@TheRedRaven_

Жыл бұрын

@@ds90seph It’s not even wooden, it’s IKEA particle board levels of dialogue 😂

This sort of flew under my radar, but just based on the cringe opening court scene alone I can't see how it would be very well received. Here, protagonist! Here is a picture of you as a discovered baby that has been put here on the defense's table! This is how court rooms work!

@Funko777

Жыл бұрын

Or how you can wear a beanie in front of the judge without the bailiff "escorting" you out of the court room and shoving his arm so far up your ass that he'll work your mouth like a puppet.

@TheFinalGate_

Жыл бұрын

@@nezahuatez what does good art direction mean to you? (Being serious)

@menosuraiya4686

Жыл бұрын

@@nezahuatez No, that's still subjective and I think it's pretty plain/basic. I actually baffles me because the colors in this game are amazing, and the contrast between NYC drabness/confined colors and Athia open and super free colors is very beautiful and well done.

@senpai7101

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFinalGate_ some of it looks pretty but it’s bland generic

@HaplessOne

Жыл бұрын

@@nezahuatez you're confusing graphical quality for art direction.

The next epoc being "soulslike" is probably the only thing I'm lowkey excited for in gaming for the coming years lol

@Chanelle208

Жыл бұрын

Honestly hate that genre but can understand why people love it.

One thing about the court scene that bugs me, and I’m sure it’s like this in NYC right now IRL is that this chick has been arrested for the same crime like 6 times now and gets community service. Probably actually reality but shouldn’t be. I’ll take up for the apartment because it’s kinda implied that she’s not actually paying for it, that’s why she hides the windows, running power from an extension cord maybe. Edit: you did address this at 24:15.

@haku8135

Жыл бұрын

Nope, that building just has power. She has the christmas lights on sure, but the building's lighting is also on, the building clearly is getting power for SOME reason.

I've seen a lot of people say this game feels like it's AI created. And I'm sure 50% of it was.

@TheSGBrown

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, at least the environment. . . /shrug

@MrREAPERsz

Жыл бұрын

It's just a modern audience game.

@MASJYT

Жыл бұрын

ChatGPT write a fantasy script for modern audiences in the style of Ryan Reynolds and Josh Whedon, where a young, sassy, female of color living in New York with her cat gets whisked away to a magical world, hijinks ensue.

@ashrafothman9925

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSGBrown I've been playing the demo a bit on PC and it's funny how the environments remind me so much of Dragon's Dogma. But where that game had a typical medieval fantasy environment that was somehow filled with wonder and variety, this one feels very empty. It might be the lack of enemy variety so far but it's hella disappointing not so much because it's bad, but because it has potential. It's just half-assed.

@Extreme96PL

Жыл бұрын

Dialogues probably were written by AI and AI was trained on some cringe shit too lol.

This is the culmination of writing games for a “modern audience”

@Linkman247

Жыл бұрын

The game is filled with political agenda.

@Dubz759

Жыл бұрын

@@Linkman247 yea you can already tell in the first scene of the game lmao

@Space_Ache

Жыл бұрын

@Linkman247 I get the feeling the writers thought they would get more good will from critics given the...characteristics...of the characters and world building.

@artcorbeau

Жыл бұрын

@@Linkman247 what political agenda ? elaborate

@uchihabomber1296

Жыл бұрын

@@artcorbeau That’s what I’m saying man. People just say Political agenda for literally barley anything at all. Especially when it comes to JUST having a female protagonist sometimes. But not all of them do that tho

Tbh this game should have been about the Cuff finding a clueless young adult and using her for his own goals. Would have been more interesting this way. I really hate the fact she's able to do all the weird crap right out of the box. If you and me ended up in this situation it would take us years to digest it all and find out what needs to be done. But whatever, I always try to appreciate all the effort that went into making games like this, all the artists and devs who spent countless hours building this world. The game DOES work and it is rather beautiful, so if anyone's to blame it's the execs and whoever was in charge of decision-making for going with all the clunky illogical stuff you're referring to. However it does hurt when the game costs three kidneys and a retina and it leaves you with a "meh" aftertaste at best.

@bounty1402

2 ай бұрын

I find Forspoken really fun and on the whole a good game despite its limits.

Luke we both laughed at the same time when she said “im a smart girl with a bright future”, its like we were in the room together lmao

@adams3560

Жыл бұрын

The judge said that, not her.

@riikyricardo

Жыл бұрын

@@adams3560 W R O N G

@KaylaJones2000

Жыл бұрын

@@riikyricardo YOU are wrong, you clown. She was clearly being sarcastic. Judge: You have so much... Frey: What? Potential? I can do so much more with my life? I'm a smart girl with a bright future? Judge: I was going to say you have so much anger and resentment in you I'm not sure you'll ever amount to anything at all.

@SilverDreamweaver

8 ай бұрын

​@@KaylaJones2000That's not at all how she said it.

Okay, I just have to say, if there was even a hint that my house might be on fire and I was asleep, my cat would not hide in a corner. He'd yank off my blankets, flip the mattress and slap me awake while screaming "FIRE!"

@id1550

Жыл бұрын

I don’t believe you. I mean, if you’re very close with your cat, and it’s very intelligent, then maybe. I would say with 100% certainty that this would never happen in 90% of these scenarios.

@grimm_satisfaction1292

Жыл бұрын

@@id1550 🙄

@animuslite8809

Жыл бұрын

Cringe. Did you write this game?

@grimm_satisfaction1292

Жыл бұрын

@@animuslite8809 🙄

@williamkelly5689

Жыл бұрын

Hahahah

I heard waterboarding is being replaced with making prisoners listen to dialogue from Forspoken.

@sayospecter6731

Жыл бұрын

I heard particularly nasty criminals would be forced to drink room temp soda while listening too.

@BlazingKhioneus

Жыл бұрын

@@sayospecter6731 I honestly prefer room temp soda over cold soda. Has a lower chance of giving me a headache (presumably my body desperately looking for an attempt to cry brainfreeze)

@strahinjagov

Жыл бұрын

I'll take the waterboarding please

Game: "everything just looks broken" Reviewers: "Yes."

@Tsumefan2

9 ай бұрын

why do you think it's called the break then

11:51 Omg, i just realized that the stranger dropping her phone scene was them trying to use a barbed wire baseball bat to beat us over the head with how chill, atruistic, and down-to-earth she is.

33:33 "because its not as it seems" -- How it seemed was that it was a bear/wolf type creature that was clearly carniverous chowing down on its prey. What was the main character expecting?

@ThePresidentofMars

Жыл бұрын

For it to behave like a cat that found its owner

@daktaklakpak5059

Жыл бұрын

People try to feed actual feral bears they encounter in the wilds. And GenZ believes Men can become pregnant. In other words, they don't think at all...

@silverblade357

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Alaska for a couple years. I see even a small furry thing, my immediate first thought is, "Imma get moving before it's momma shows up!"

@BriarPatchNyra

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, like it's a massive unknown WILD animal, WHY would you ever call it? it didn't need to be some weird teeth thing to be a threat.

I think the thing that puzzles me about the judge thing is that they clearly have a history and it also looked like the judge was willing to help her when she gave her the cat, yet she decided not to accept help from the judge. I don't have issue with predictability. If your creation isn't a mystery, being predictable isn't bad, it's all in your execution and what new you can offer than other media with similar story beats.

@sonofbelz

Жыл бұрын

If anything if they had a history legally the judge wouldn't have even been able to preside over that court case.

@nicocee2431

Жыл бұрын

@@sonofbelz If anything this game is about a homeless girl getting dropped inside a magical fantasy world, you might say it's not realistic

@teeman7137

Жыл бұрын

@@nicocee2431 but the world where we live exist in this univers. And it was a really bad interpretation. If anything, the game shouldn’t have shown a court case

@nylockgaming7209

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's to show how alone she is? literally having no one to turn to but the person that showed you mercy.

@nicocee2431

Жыл бұрын

@@teeman7137 Not really. You don't watch action films based on the real world and expect everything to be realistic, why would the law in a fantasy game be the same? It's not even based on it being realistic, it's just petty to think it's important

Like how elevators and slow crawls mask the loading areas in modern games, the fade to black hides the transition from gameplay assets to cutscene assets. The character models are the most obvious change, and it's more frequent in the Yakuza series.

one positive thing that I can give this game is the cloth and how realistic it looks, I couldn't stop looking at her puffer jacket when she was in court.

6:42 This is probably the reason why they didn't give you a preview code earlier.

@samlaysamlay6924

Жыл бұрын

Right 💀

@blackvalio4060

Жыл бұрын

They didnt give anyone codes xd cus the game is trash

The dialog… This had me scratching my head, who speaks like this & that 100% volume music soon as the gun gets pulled out had me 😂

I thought that it couldn't be that bad, but after watching this I know that I couldn't even make it through the New York bit.

I think that Fallout New Vegas was a good example of a really austere post-apocalyptic landscape that you still cared about because of the interesting characters and humans hanging on no matter what. Also you got this feeling of reclaiming what was there from the monsters and not just killing them.

@somni2246

Жыл бұрын

Yes!! The world of NV is downright hideous, aesthetically speaking, yet everytime I return to the game world-- I've replayed it dozens of times-- it feels like being wrapped in a warm and fuzzy blanket. Sure, some of that is a function of nostalgia, but I felt the connection to that world from my very first play-through. I honestly think that the radio has a lot to do with it (I *always* keep my radio on in-game), and the way that the game balances the grim, post apocalyptic world with more campy, satirical and light-hearted elements.

I was one of the people defending this game before launch...I'm so sorry to everyone I argued with. What a disappointment 🙁 Those constant "fades to black" are rage inducing 🤬

@brianosterman456

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say I was negative on the game, I'm sure there were some people who liked it / were excited, but I just didn't understand why. Something about all the gameplay videos they put out didn't sit well with me.

@thealien_ali3382

Жыл бұрын

I have money to buy this but in two minds if I should

@MollyHJohns

Жыл бұрын

I heard that they put less playable times than the cutscenes, and the fact that there's an actual option to make the protagonist -be shitty- talk less. And the dreary open world is too big with so little to do. The $70 is a little too expensive for such a product.

That dead eye moment and your response made my day. Audibly lol'ing over here. 🤣

@thevolta89

Жыл бұрын

Which part? I’m about to listen, can’t watch til later(working)

@ShadowedStalker

Жыл бұрын

@Chase Rhodes It's very close to the very beginning of the vid. I'd say roughly within the first 3 mins or so.

@TheFinalGate_

Жыл бұрын

@@thevolta89 11:20 lmaoo

@m.o.x.d

Жыл бұрын

I snorted my food out at that bit holy SHIT LOL

Personally, when it comes to video game companions that stay with you for the whole game while also being a sentient object, I can't think of a better example than Grimoire Weiss from Nier Replicant. I remember every time I played the game I was always looking forward to the tiny bits of dialogue between him and Nier while fighting or simply traveling, and never got tired of their conversations or little banter, no matter how little they contributed to the plot or the lore of the world. Grimoire Weiss is one of the best companions I've ever had when playing a game because he just has so much personality that really makes you care about him and get emotionally attached. The bracelet from Forspoken on the other hand... not so much. It was extremely surprising finding out both games were published by Square Enix, because how can a company fail at something they've already achieved perfectly nearly a decade ago? This really baffles me if I'm being honest, but I'm sure the main reason behind said failure when it comes to Forspoken was the scriptwriters trying to be "funny and hip with the genz". Companies should actually start observing their target audience instead of making half-assed attempts at creating what a bunch of people with zero experience in human interactions believe a relatable character to such audience is. Sometimes all you have to do is ask, but I guess companies would rather grab all the cash they can from all the hype, than a game that is actually good in multiple aspects. A real shame, because the game was looking so good from the trailers that the disappointment just came crashing down in the end.

The way he effortlessly predicted the bag of money 😂

Thanks for playing games i will never even bother with Luke. You are doing us a service

@naruhearts1

Жыл бұрын

I mean, this one was very obvious from the demo and PC requirements

@hughjaenus2235

Жыл бұрын

It's almost like he's financially benefiting from these reviews

@djbpresents9584

Жыл бұрын

This guy is a paid tool, demo did huge disservice to this game full game is so much better trust me i was on fence, and also 3070 runs 4k dlss at 70 80fps high

@djbpresents9584

Жыл бұрын

Dialogue isnt even that fkn bad to shes newyork older teen basically story is good combat is good i dont get it i dont just play ya remakes and remasters

@SobeCrunkMonster

Жыл бұрын

@djbpresents9584 sounds like youre huffing the finest copium in all the land. what grown man would enjoy these vibes anyway?

Don't we all need some time to build our relationship with our drug dealer 😩, this character could have been likable with a minimal level of care for the dialogue

@Coreisus

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! Like, I'm tempted to play it just cuz of the character, until I remember that she's a poorly written idiot. She could've been written like Jason Brody from Farcry 3, gone on a real hero's journey.

@menosuraiya4686

Жыл бұрын

It's honestly the "I'm a New Yorker Character." and writers using that mindset to make a certain type of character that always comes off a little cringy no matter what. I will never understand the appeal of the "Urban Lost Soul" Archetype and I'm from New York.

@orion4829

Жыл бұрын

@@menosuraiya4686 racist

@STOKERMATHALLAN

Жыл бұрын

@@menosuraiya4686 I think that it could have worked to be someone living in New York if the dialogue wasn't more inhuman than Life is Strange

@STOKERMATHALLAN

Жыл бұрын

In fact I don't think it's too late to make the dialogue good, it's probably way out of budget to even change it, it's a waste of a character of colour in a good looking game

I'd say that predictability isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just that when the story beats are predictable, you are more sensitive to elements of the game/movie that are executed poorly. And from the gameplay videos I've seen, forsaken does a lot of things very poorly. All of the characters seem to be suffering from some slight case of andromeda.

Don’t use AI, commission an artist. A good artist will give you a far superior result than an AI program ever could. Or better yet, learn to do it yourself.

Problem with photorealism (in this case, mainly of the main character) is it doesn't allow for any imperfections. Any wrong detail like the wrong footsteps sound is extra heightened. And it raises the bar so high the whole production gets either impossible, or looks much worse in comparison to the one photorealistic part.

@ReviewBotAi

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention it's usually the trade off for the other aspects of a game.

@eclisis5080

Жыл бұрын

these graphics aren't photorealistic the art style is like something out of a children's book

@kloakovalimonada

Жыл бұрын

@@eclisis5080 yes, I meant the main character. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

@thetruestar6348

Жыл бұрын

@@eclisis5080 it is realistic Nothing in the game is stylized, except for the magic

@eclisis5080

Жыл бұрын

@@thetruestar6348 lmao the entire game is stylized, photorealistic is like the Matrix Unreal Demo, games don't look like that lmao

Bruh 6 months of red bull, I don't think they were helping you out, I think they may be trying to kill you 😂

@DereineLord

Жыл бұрын

@Phawnix why? Red Bull is top g approved…

@nathanwatkins1005

Жыл бұрын

@@DereineLord noooiokokkkkslalskdjdb

@daktaklakpak5059

Жыл бұрын

@@DereineLord Just shows how stupid top g truly is. Drink fresh mixed or pressed lemon juice. That combats fat liver and sugar in general. There is no detriment by drinking lemon. Yet, i have to hear even a single positive for drinking bull$hit.

@thebadwolf3088

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanwatkins1005 too political

@furkandk2234

Жыл бұрын

@@DereineLord Redbull is way better than Cola

Did they add character customisation in the beginning but then decided to remove it completely cause that 7:55 definitely looks like a customisation screen to me

Hot take: this doesn't actually look that bad

@Doncroft1

9 ай бұрын

Too hot.

@Raidon484

9 ай бұрын

@@Doncroft1 I mean, honestly? Get rid of the shitty dialogue and we're good I'd say!

@shrumgus5608

8 ай бұрын

@@Raidon484You’re exactly right. It’s a 25 hour long game with cool elemental spells and actually decent enemy designs.

I think that one of the major problems that the game has that makes people say that is cringe worthy/the dialogue is cringe is that it falls under a major trapping that many writers are falling nowdays, and is that a character needs to be "relatable". This limits so much the potential of the characters because they always end feeling mundane. A good writer seeks for the characters to be fascinating, interesting; At first glance, it seems like the same goal by a different name, but believe me is a difference that really matters and it shows. Just look at Homelander and Butcher for example, both characters would be truly awful to be around, but their characteristics make them interesting to watch, and at times, relate to in certain circumstances. If the goal would be to make them relatable instead, I can bet you all that they wouldn't be as near as interesting as they are, since they will be limited in what can be explored with them and what situations you can put them, since you can no longer take the risk without alienating the audience who the char is designed to relate to.

@baitbait65

Жыл бұрын

The thing about Homelander and Butcher is that they're emotional and people can relate to that.

Жыл бұрын

The problem is not "relatable", the problem is the writers both don't really understand what that is and secondly they often (not sure in this case) think "if we make her/him/they like us, people will be able to 'relate' to them" Also: "representation" is not just overrated, it's bullshit.

@jbear3478

Жыл бұрын

It feels like the game knows it's a game and has to fill tropes

@aquasnippy

Жыл бұрын

@ what do you mean by representation is bullshit? Care to explain

@id1550

Жыл бұрын

@ I think you mean relatability is bullshit. Representation is not.

"where'd she get this dirt to throw at people" he says just after the character rolled into dirt

@QueenKittles

Жыл бұрын

Literally 🤦🏾‍♀️

@adams3560

Жыл бұрын

I really felt like he wasn’t paying attention.

She has that huge apartment because she is a squatter? That makes the most sense for this story.

@matosz23

Жыл бұрын

And why are the lights on if its abandoned? Is that a thing in NYC? In my country the electrical company is all to eager to cut the power off.

@jasoncohen5469

Жыл бұрын

@@matosz23 She could be illegally tapping into the power. Actually, it turns out that the character is supposed to be a squatter.

that fade to black transition though to “IT DIDNT GET ANY BETTER!” 🤣🤣

@a1kev

Жыл бұрын

Even funnier seeing how optimistic he was trying to be

I thought the city looked okay until the gang members were chasing them. Those ally ways were so bare. Also I'm going to call it, her parents were sucked into the same magical world she's going to be sucked into. Also, you never mentioned if they are ever any people in the game. That's really what I wanted to know. Edit- Spoilers ahead.... it's been about 24 hours and I was right about the parent thing, well half right anyway. Point being that this game was incredibly predictable in all the wrong ways.

@psicorpant3940

Жыл бұрын

I’ll call more, her parents WERE from that magical world, and left her in our world so she could be saved from whatever gobblygook is going in on there, and that’s why she didn’t fit in, yadda yadda

@angelcrush3320

Жыл бұрын

thats what I really want to know too. are there ANY interesting characters ?

@caliginousmoira8565

Жыл бұрын

@@psicorpant3940 i was thinking this.... reminded me of 'once upon a time'

@JaviHunter95

Жыл бұрын

There are other NPCs when you get to a big city but they're pretty generic and the whole dynamic with them is Mc saying a word from modern language and them not understanding. It happens like 10 times in under an hour

@prdprdprdprdprdel

Жыл бұрын

From 2023 titles, i expect at the very least 3 rats running around in an environment like that.. If they want to be impressive, 5-10 rats+ a few homeless people doing their own thing until you run through and push them out of the way/ bust through their cardboard houses..

This is quick becoming one of my favorite KZread channels Cross eyed bit had me creasing

@SobeCrunkMonster

Жыл бұрын

“merry christmas”

You know it shocks me that no one has pointed out that the Judge allowed you to in a sense run away, because wouldn't the Judge stop her from leaving? Or maybe report it asap? Just a thought

@SilverDreamweaver

8 ай бұрын

As someone who's trained in dealing with people like the main character in this game, she was clearly suicidal and the judge, who would also be trained, is LEGALLY OBLIGED to escalate it to people who handle suicidal individuals. And as a writer, what makes it worse is (what Luke touched upon about 65% through the video) there is no background behind why the character is like this and no believability to any of her situations. Also, she was in real trouble (literally a gun to her jaw) and was popping jokes like she's on stage. I also fully agree with Luke that the dialogue is basically Marvel's godawful, horrendous crap but made 100x worse.

@MikeyJBlakeJR

8 ай бұрын

She didn't really tell the judge that she was going anywhere, just that she needed to sort some stuff out. That does sort of hint at running away (maybe?), but Frey was extremely vague with the judge. Judge kept asking what was going on, and Frey just kept talking about the cat, like they were having two different conversations.

Ok I don’t usually comment but I will say this from someone who is also playing the game. In that intro she wasn’t saying she had a bright future etc. the judge was about to say something and she cut her off because she figured the judge was gonna say that stuff about her and why she shouldn’t be in crime etc.

Its like they added the break corruptiuon as an excuse to make a mostly barren open world with random zombies. I feel this game would have been good if it was livelier with more towns and cities in the different regions and we can see how the Tantas rule. Each region would have it's own theme as every Tanta has different corrupted values. Something like how the Seed siblings controled their regions in farcry 5. This would be cool.

@mitchellhorton9382

Жыл бұрын

like a 7 deadly sins kind of thing

@Bee_Mavrick

Жыл бұрын

You learn about what the tantas did later in the game

I appreciate your take on Forspoken, had my doubts about it from the beginning. Unrelated to gaming, but AI art generators are being protested by artists for stealing art. And in my opinion, cheapening the value of talented artists. I understand a sponsor is a sponsor, but as an artist, it's not something I can ever put money behind. Not coming for you, just needed to say it.

@Thor-Orion

Жыл бұрын

Not unrelated to gaming. An AI wrote the script for this game!

@Teuwufel

9 ай бұрын

@@Thor-Orion Unfortunately, it's worse. It was made by cringe people who never heard normal people speak. It's interesting and creepy at the same time, like they never left hollywood.

@Thor-Orion

9 ай бұрын

@@Teuwufel I was making a joke, but yeah, you’re right. A lot of that going around these days. People living in bubbles.

6:12 The look on his face here. Also, I love how Sony was boasting about the graphics of this game, but the facial animations look like they come straight out of 2006.

I remember seeing some tech demos for this game and seeing how cool it was to be able to fly around and do magic. And then the main character opened her mouth in the first cutscene.

@thevolta89

Жыл бұрын

The very first teaser I think had no dialogue and I was like “wow the power of the ps5!” Then the next trailer came out and I was like “why did she talk.” Tried the demo, shut it off 5 min in. The dialogue and the downgrade was baffling

The fact that I completely forgot about this game almost *right after* it was announced during a State of Play like last year or whatever... that in and of itself is a massive red flag. And I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one. Even just a few moments ago, I was trying to bring something to my friend's attention, regarding this game. We had talked about it just a few nights ago. And she was "Which game was that? Remind me." 🤣🤣🤣

Even when Luke is wrong, sometimes I laugh out loud like the Holland tunnel thing I sort of rolled my eyes at it too but it actually plays into the story in the first 10 minutes or whatever. But I still cracked up laughing that he makes fun of the same stuff I do and all these reviews that's why it's pretty much my number one favorite review site now, the next closest would be my boy ACG. Oh and by the way Luke you have such a bright future. 😂😂😂😂

The most baffling part about the money bag in the burning apartment scene, is it could have easily been fixed and made more believable if she just put the bag somewhere else in the apartment, like under a floorboard or on top of a shelf. Then it would make sense that she would have an instinct to find the cat before taking the time to get to the bag of cash. But the game designers purposely put the bag DIRECTLY next to her feet, where she could grab it while running out the door. It's like a seinfeld sketch, its comically stupid.

Stalking a judge that just handled your case and following them to their home would get you in more trouble than any other crime she talks about committing

@John_Notmylastname

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think she followed her home. Pretty sure it was the court house. I could be wrong but I remember it being the court house. However if you are right that’s some wildly inappropriate behavior for sure.

@tylervogt4128

Жыл бұрын

She met her at the courthouse. Nice fabrication.

@Bee_Mavrick

Жыл бұрын

How did op not see that

I also feel like there wasn’t good direction for the voice actors. They aren’t bad it feels like they just needed more direction as to how they should sound.

@nathanwatkins1005

Жыл бұрын

I assure you that they are mostly objectively awful.

@Verasoul

Жыл бұрын

@@nathanwatkins1005 Direction is everything in VO work. Vin Diesel already had experience in VO but in Dark Fury every delivery from every talented actor was quiet, tone deaf and took away from the action scenes. Not everyone is Mark Hamill. Also, look at Destiny vanilla versus Taken King and onward, especially in regards to Nathan Fillion's performance. He had previously worked with Bungie since Halo 3: ODST, but for some reason his performance lacked in vanilla Destiny. Again, direction matters.

@Macheako

Жыл бұрын

@@Verasoulno one said it don’t matter…. And they suck at voice acting ❤

@thebadwolf3088

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like they had NO direction, someone just threw the script on their hands and said "Try to act."

@F1jones

Жыл бұрын

@@Verasoul Actors know how to act, especially voice actors. Vin Diesel is not the standard bearer of such skills even in front of the camera, much less in a sound booth so that's probably not the best example (in fact, the hiring of named actors for voiceovers has killed the quality of most such film for the last 20 years, and most games having them as well). Go listen to Disney actors in the old mid-century classic animated films like Sterling Holloway and Phil Harris; they were all the same guys in all of them and you won't find a flat performance because they knew exactly what they were doing as voice actors. Directors give...direction and insight to the character and situation, but they don't tell actors how to do their jobs. If you're seeing or hearing bad acting, it's because you're seeing and hearing bad actors. By that token, Michael Caine, for example, has been in dozens of lousy movies, but his performances were never phoned in.

Ok so, I know almost nothing about the game's story before watching this video, but am I the only one who could blatantly see the 'protagonist is actually originally from the fantasy world' twist coming only five minutes in?

“That’s not the sound those kind of shoes make”😂😂😂😂💀

There's always something off and weird when a local Japanese developer tries to pull off a completely western style game. It lacks cohesion and proper art direction

Listening to this review while playing the game is a unique experience.

@hughjaenus2235

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry i feel your pain I played Valhalla while listening to Luke shit talk that game...

@btnhstillfire

Жыл бұрын

Painting ritualistic symbols is new to magic now? Having it on your characters nails is fn incredibly smart. 🤷‍♂️

@MalikATL

Жыл бұрын

@Phawnix At the end of the day people like different games

@hughjaenus2235

Жыл бұрын

@Phawnix I mean like others have said, it's a great viking game, but a bad AC game. I hate the fact you can't loot or open doors alone, or the fact enemies are mashed together so you can't stealth kill them.

@anindya27599

Жыл бұрын

@@hughjaenus2235 yup, they easily could have made it a new ip. God knows they need it now desperately .

The more games like this come out, the more I appreciate games like RDR2 and Elden Ring.

And when the world needed him most, he delivered! Thanks for the review

I would always be interested to see perspectives on new generation games from people playing a videogame for the first time. Maybe they would absolutely adore this game? I don't know since I'm a hardened gamer veteran too. Maybe if this is their first big game this would be amazing and they'll sink hundreds of hours in it.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

New people would like this (and ANY bad game) because: * Wow - you can run and jump! * Wow - you can use magick! * Wow - you can speak to other people and creatures! They see all of that for the first time. So that game would be "the best"! Because they have no point of reference - nothing to compare it too. I started playing games since 2000, so just having ability to run and use spells doesn't make any game great and I could spot that: * Writing is really bad. Cuff is more interesting character than Frey (our main character). * Graphics are PS4 era but more demanding that Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus or Horizon Forbidden West (look at this one - it's also open world, post apocalypse, female protagonist, but it's better in any way!) * Fights are easy. Enemies are stupid and do just a few moves very slowly ;-) It's "Dark Souls for kids". * If that game would be advertised as "everyone could make games! Look what those 10 students did!" - it would be criticized much less ;-) * It's overpriced. For 25$ it would be an ok game.

@haku8135

Жыл бұрын

@@igorthelight Yeah, I've been gaming my whole life, and there are some games I've gone back to over a decade later and they don't hold up. Some of them do, which is amazing, but plenty of games I used to play just fall flat because of all these problems I didn't see because I was so amazed by the NEW thing. The same goes for stuff like books too. If you don't read, for example, fantasy books very often, you could read a SHITTY book that just steals all its ideas from BETTER books, ahem Goodkind AHEM HACK, and has very poor writing and characters and all kinds of problems, but you don't know what makes a good fantasy book so you think it's amazing cause everything is new. Then you start reading more fantasy and you begin to realize the faults in that first book.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

@@haku8135 True!

@SuperHornetA51

Жыл бұрын

@@igorthelight That's my prediction. People who like this game have probably never played a game before.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperHornetA51 True! Or they are just "casual gamers" - play and eat at the same time and don't pay much attention. I disliked them in the past... But now I think that everyone could play games as he/she wants to. It's just not for me ;-)

16:20 "where is she getting this dirt?" I immediately thought of Dale "pocket sand!" Gribble from King of the Hill

the open world craze started with skyrim in 2011 and hasnt stopped to this day

Thanks mate. I was fearing this but glad you did this. Hope you are doing great. 🙌