What we've been playing
10th February 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Talking cuffs, cards that play themselves, and mole mits.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Forspoken, PS5
Can everyone just stop hating on Forspoken for a second? Look beyond all those memes about the dialogue and there’s a really decent game experience underneath.
And no, I’m not going to pretend I like the dialogue. Bathos is not my preferred style of humour and the quippy lines here only serve to undermine what is otherwise an intriguing fantasy world – I just wish the developers had the confidence to take it more seriously. The game is so desperate to tell you its story it becomes overly talkative and forces you to stand still and endure conversations with poorly animated NPCs. I sigh at every trip back to Cipal, the central city for crappy chit-chat.
