You can't have the character make fun of otherwise dangerous, life threatening situations without the audience being sent the message that they too should make mockery of the scenario. Even with writing structured around this premise, you cannot have the protagonist make condescending mockery of, say, antagonists or villains that in the context of this premise should be terrifying and frightening. And being a fish-out-of-water premise is not an excuse. When the protagonist treats the very premise as something of a joke, or an unbelievable set of events to make mockery of, the audience has no other choice than to feel the same way. It evokes an attitude of condescending apathy towards the game itself in all its form the setting, the characters, the premise, the motivators, the barriers, etc. The problem, reactionary or otherwise, with Forspoken's presentation is in the snark. The short version, and why in contrast Hi-Fi Rush works despite the comparison, is in the prose, intend, and delivery. 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.Post-Cringe: Forspoken and the Self-Sabotage of the Smirking Protagonist In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia. The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing.
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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