That fantasy world certainly looks appealing, but I realized that's often because the RTX tech disguises art assets that are really cheap and bland. In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia. Luckily for her, a sympathetic judge lets her off with a warning as a birthday present. She has a problem with authority, and sometimes, it brings her into conflict with the law. Forspoken stars Frey Holland (played by Ella Balinska, who recently starred in the short-lived Resident Evil Netflix TV show), a 20-year-old woman who is good-hearted and smart, albeit a little. Enter twenty-year-old Alfre Frey Holland, our protagonist. The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing. Forspoken begins not in the mythical lands of Athia but in a New York City courthouse. Doors inexplicably grow or shrink depending on how you look at them (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland in all the wrong ways). If the sloppy opening - presenting Frey's entire backstory through documents on a table, with a judge handing down a community service sentence - doesn't turn you off immediately, the lack of consideration only gets worse from there. With publisher Square Enix already catching heat for producer Naoki Yoshida's defense of upcoming Final Fantasy XVI's scant diversity, Forspoken makes the nightmarish choice to start with its Black protagonist in court for her third felony. Put simply, Square Enix faces too many open-world competitors to get away with a poor showing like this.
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