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Her coal burner mom also fulfilled her role.

You can’t say the writers didn’t create a realistic story

At least it's accurate

das rite

XD

this happens multiple times "you should feel honored to be the child of a tanta!" uhmm beeotch why? all ive seen them do is murder and oppress their own people and rule with fear.

I kind of don’t blame them for losing attention to this drivel story. I never would’ve seen the story if it was for IH. Forget pirating it, I didn’t even want to spend the 3 minutes to google it

It's the athian way

Also when they give characters knowledge and then forget they can use it before the player also gets said knowledge. Like, everyone at the the Cipal council knows about the demon, the war, the Sussy guy, and the bracelets, as they all witnessed it happen. So why is nobody explaining this to Frey at the trial and letting her be aware that she is being guided by a demon? Why isn't the guy just saying "she is controlled by the amogus guy, look, she has the bracelet"? Why is Auden even considering she can be helpful? And later on, why are they so happy to let her be guided by the demon? None of this information was a secret, why did it only become important after we find out about it?

@@ferko28 not to mention every single one of the queens or whatever had a bracelet JUST LIKE HERS!

And the DM is non-stop popping oxy

Nah, it's the DMs girlfriend. The one other player who stuck through had a meltdown about 3/4s into the campaign. I don't blame him.

​@Dreckmal01 This, 100% My friend was the DM of our session, and his wife took none of the shit within character, played it as chaotic for chaos sake, and tried to summon a horse in every situation possible. And the DM did nothing because, it was his wife. It was like playing with poorly written Newgrounds animations that believe "random = comedy."

@@Leoncroi *A horse girl.* It all makes sense.

@@Leoncroi Was her name Auden?

And as someone else pointed out, make the first black kid she meets in the other world try to pickpocket her in her first scene… Yikes.

make her even worse than the stereotypes while also reinforcing the existing ones, great job

I dont see the problem?

@@F11ch she's very terrible protagonist, not exactly a crime but this game is bad enough

They made it realistic in a way.

I was GIDDY with delight at the word "wretch."

⁠@@Providence83wretch is one of those words we need to bring back as a society.

Like the "angel" being stopped and foiled by five insane sorceresses, the whole game has been impeded and defeated by insanely stupid decisions. How poetic that was

I felt a prick in my heart for Susurrus. The only one with a modicum of intelligence, trapped in a realm of idiocy.

I'm not even sure if the protagonist likes herself. Her constant cursing is so dispassionate, almost like she doesn't want to exist.

You can't lose!

I almost threw out from laughing so hard at that comment. Thank you so much for that haha.

Lol. Of course that's just another demonstration of the stupidity of the writers. 100% of babies put up for adoption are adopted, only children, as in no longer babies, who enter the system remain bouncing around in the system

I mean, it could have been worse, she could have been sent to detroit or ohio.

No joke, I've went to Forspoken subreddit and their cope for the terrible writing was "you're too stupid to understand the genius writing" or "you're not in Frey's shoes so your choices/logic is much different than her". Gave me the worst headache I ever had.

It's a metaphor for non existent parents in poc households

My father abandoned me and if I have children then I'll abandoned them

Wait how can it cause PTSD?

@danielsurvivor1372 Because their last encounter had her in tears as she's giving away a cat she was caring for all this time? Because. Frey is clearly alone and homeless and sounded like a girl about to do something desperate and she was never seen by the Judge again? Keep in mind, that Judge has probably been helping her for a good portion of her life, if not her whole life and clearly cared about her... but instead of letting her know she was alright, Frey sent a message to her damn cat... animal... BRILLIANT STORYTELLING!

Damn that’s pretty fucked up

​@@googleisevil8958or it could be that frey got whacked by the car thing and this whole magical non sense thing is her imagination, her dream to be in a magical world like Alice. That would make a whole lot more sense.

Its also the most cop out ending you can possibly write for a setting like this. Like cool, you have all this world building but it turns out its for bullshit - Alice in Wonderland, as amazing as the setting is, doesn't have any particularly deeper meaning beyond what you're looking at, so it makes sense it could be just a bizarre dream setting. or like Samurai Jack, where - as shitty as it is - killing Aku makes all timelines vanish, which is logically consistent.@@TG-wg4tw

Hahajaja 😂

Frankly I think it would have been better to end on a message encouraging people to game over.

​@Shenaldrac that wasn't the message at the end?

​@@Shenaldracoh, young ones. It should be "If you down on your luck and can't see the road ahead, remember you should become an hero!"

The character who was most adamant that Fray is not alone and that her life is worth living BETRAYED HER TRUST because he was a FUCKING DEMON THE ENTIRE TIME

this might be the first ih video i can't finish

That's probably true ya know

​@@stellviahohenheim20:11 watch this part first at least

This is the only way anyone will experience the game. Two men photoshopped in; using their comedic timing and bewilderment to make it palatable. Also, I absolutely loved OneyPlays series on this. It was absolutely perfect for them and I hope the people will see them finish the game one day.

Any time I see clips from Forspoken I feel like I'll die of second hand cringe.

🤣

lol true

i wouldnt mind a game with prevalent matriarchal themes, if they did it right. this is just a shitty game with a half baked story and an agenda

@@embodimentofgreatness5514 yeah for sure, like the Asari in mass effect kinda ruled the galaxy so that was kinda a matriarchy and no one cared because they are hot and not pushing woke BS

Is that the plot of the game or the story of Disney the past few years?

The N must have been a pain in particular

Haha that must have taken ages with many a “f*uck this, its too hard and not worth it”thrown in

I hate that this made me laugh

"Wait!! MY FORESKIN!!"

Liar. There was no dialogue this good or funny in the entire game.

and then the four spoken all over the place

​@@arxehasilent room single applause

Damn right.

Two mortal sins in Scythian culture.

Our only condolence is that she currently burns in the fires of hades for her crimes

she's the true villain of the story, I'm glad she was forever vanquished

If there's anything worse than a thief... it's a lying thief.

Wow that explains alot. What a terrible movie.

He just wrote the lore, not any dialog

@@Beefyface I mean the lore for after earth is pretty damn bad too. Alltho in this generally the idea of 4 magical ladys that have specific purposes and they guard the dimension is all nice and i did like the the villain more than any of the main characters. They just really dropped the ball on the very unlikeable protagonist.

Worth eevery peeny.

A sacrifice they were willing to make.

100 million dollars to create pure distilled cringe, worth it.

they didn't. they spent $100 million

100 mil to have a game with white woman + black new york man lore because OF COURSE.

And at least one dead body

What makes you think Frey isn't a crackhead?

So true lol

They truly went for the high fantasy on this one.

Why is Frey's mom a dragon anyway?

Is this what black people think “white privilege” is like?

Honestly the game would be more fun if she was the villain, sort of like The Boys, I would play that.

It's also done by the one he's most familiar with.

But that doesn't answer why Auden Keen looks like a "highly autistic" man

The leaders at that point were not really rational or acting in the interests of their people, so that's not really a plot hole.

@@robbert-janmerk6783 No, you have to remember, the mother had ALREADY gone to new york and gotten knocked up by some stranger at a bar before the fight with susdemon, and the corruption probably took at least a few weeks to even start kicking in, so even if that were the first time she made one (which is pretty doubtful, given I don't believe someone would just accidentally create a portal and immediately walk through it), she'd have had plenty of time to explain it to the man she was allegedly friends with

they knew, but they just thought it would be funny

They werent but they've seen multiple courtroom scenes from Adam Sandler's movies

Honestly out of everything, that's one of the things that pissed me off the most. "How do you plead?" "Not guilty!" "OK I sentence you to 120h of community service!" like wtf? how did they write that?

When the judge says “ Sooner or later, you have to take responsibility for your actions” The writers obviously never been to Chicago, New York or any 3rd world African nation

My favourite bit is they put "IN GOD WE TRUST" behind the judge. That's very rarely found at all in modern courtrooms, much less behind the judge (it's generally in the lobby, if anywhere). I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's become exceedingly rare in favor of "Those Who Labour Here Seek Only Truth". This is ESPECIALLY true in New York. This is something they could have figured out by looking at any pictures of a NY courtroom. But it's not, meaning they didn't even do that and just did the entire design based on how they figured it'd look in their heads. EDIT: This has also been in the news, because you have a bunch of people who want to bring IN GOD WE TRUST back. They really did 0 research, didn't they?

No it was Christmas dude didn't you even watch the scene tis the season, ur just a hater ass humbug tbh I commit my crime sprees in December too and they ALWAYS give me my milk and cookies

Honestly, is there anything stopping Frey from just, like, visiting New York every now and then? Actually, wait, as I write this I realize she has no Earth friends and thus no reason to. Though, I guess she could become a cryptid for the lols.

​@@AzureLlamaher characterisation would be so much better to me , if she's does that.

I’ll answer the first one. Because activists writers need to insert modern political commentary about whatever they personally feel strongly about, (regardless of actual proliferation of said issue) and that would get in the way.

The funny thing about what you mentioned, Cinta knows who Frey's father is, she is aware of where he lives, she states in the game that one day she will introduce Frey to her father. Cinta doesn't send Frey to her dad, her dad doesn't know he impregnated her, despite having an ability that would allow her to remedy those issues, she tosses her child in the cold. Great mother.

Trap the demon in a child, name the kid Naruto.

Even better that he’s black, ticking off that stereotype

Literally pumped and dumped, went to get the milk and never returned

@@corporalkills What were they thinking? It wouldn't kill the studio the way it did if they leaned her being bit of Disney Princess, girl with a single father, who found the cuff which says he knows her mom and one thing leads to another and she ends up searching for her mom.

could have at least said the dad died before she was born or something. Now its clear he just went out to get a pack of smokes and was never seen again

The writers thought they were going for realism cuz it would “reflect the modern world.” Which it kinda does.

That's legitimately the only realistic part of the entire game.

If I was the judge and she gave me the cat like that and then just disappeared, I would assume she had been murdered by a gang or something, not just gone into hiding.

You say that like the judge didn't push the cat out the door after a week.

the courthouse, not the judges house.

Honestly knowing the game im suprised she didnt go back, yell at the judge and saying that everythings her fault etc etc and for the game to act like shes completely right.

"GoTtA FiNd hOmEr fIrSt!!'

Bruh they had the best writers on this project

Outside of the obvious/braindead “leave the bag” trope, what exactly was stopping Frey from just straight up leaving that night? If anything, the death threats would probably motivate me to grab a cab/Uber and at least get out of Manhattan asap. She had the money.

@@ChatterboxFM the writers

​@@ChatterboxFMSmart enough to steal $100k, too dumb to realise $100k is enough to rebuild a life.

Nice bearded dragon!

He was alright at best(his design was neat though) but him telling the MC shut up when she tried talk her way out of the final boss then just blasting her, instantly made him 10 times better.😂 Also him just ranting about how annoying she was throughout the entire game.

Poor Sussy, he deserved to be in a better game

@@bobjones7406 I think sussy looked good and had some good dialogue. Much more entertaining than the arrogant brat protagonist.

Susurrus just reminded me of Grimouri Weiß from Nier. That's why I didn't think he would be the villain.

There are laws against cruel and unusual punishment.

lol

Oh yeah, that I never understand. At the end she clearly can travel between worlds, yet she didn't even drop by to check on her cat (you know the one that she traded a bag of money for?) nor did she just say a few words to the only person who cared about her in America: the judge. I wouldn't blame the judge if she think Frey was gonna go off herself somewhere and probably very concerned right now. What a POS protag.

With her magic powers she can finally stop shoplifting. So stunning and brave.

"I've done at least 2 hours of community service and NOT EVEN ONE PERSON told me I was a hero! Fuck this!"

​@@Svoorhout85 -Open scene on supermarket, day -2 young starving children are running out of the supermarket with apples in their hands, clearly malnourished -from out of screen: "Hey! Me thinks you didn't pay for those!" -Frey then enters the screen in front of the children, and immediately decapitates them because she does not condone theft -She then looks at the fallen apples, and puts her hand in the air, fingers wiggling as she says "Don't mind if I do!" -She then steals the apples and walks out of screen. -An uneaten apple rolls into screen, and into a sewer grate, ending the scene.

@@lavans5721 "If there is one thing I can't stand, it's a thief."

Just go ask a judge to take care of you

​@@saschaberger3212truly, they'll put a roof over your head, feed you daily, give you exercise, and a wonderful bedside window to a wonderful sight of the prison courtyard

This is now my favorite insult.

Well they were the one who made FF15 Their RNG of having a good leader is quite bad

​@@MaxLittleBuddyhey ff15 is better than foreskin, man i miss my bros 😢 Gotta play it again

What makes it funnier is that she didn't even leave Fray with her father 💀

@@stoogemuffinstuffin8569fathers don’t matter in stories about strong women

Sus had some serious Armstrong vibes at the end. I really wish we could have sided with Vambrace at the end. I'm just sayin', if your choice was the smartest sapient being in the realm or your mom who dunked you into NYC through a portal, I would personally choose the cuff.

"Anyone can be anything they want to be, provided they are born into a position of advanced privilege of an elite minority," is VERY realistic storytelling, so, there's that I guess. Brilliant writing turns out...?

And she gives it to a fucking cat

Just like Naruto

​@j0hnnyblade just like A LOT of fantasy chosen ones. It's hard to write likeable chosen ones since if they accept they are special then they are unlikeable assholes, and so most of the time they have to have them sort of speak like they are a regular person and that everyone else matters just as much when it is completely wrong.

It’s very common sadly. Look at bleach, one piece and Naruto. Naruto is the most obvious hypocrite with “wow, look at this loser. Can’t do shit. But anyone who tries hard enough can do anything!”

"man... Live suck, I'mma just jump" to "God, just lemme go back to New York so I can be miserable again and hit the pavement in Minecraft IRL"

I would say being transported to a world without electricity and magic people trying to hunt and murder me is a downgrade. I can't imagine anyone agreeing with this would last more than a day without youtube and their cat.

I mean, as much as this world sucks for her, there is no reason why the magical world couldn't be even worse. Lack of technology is a big factor obviously. Still, it is the execution that was bad.

You will never be happy unless you are with yourself

@@JokerFace090 I would. Provided I have the same superpowers.

Yes but she's also a woman

Yeah that would have been far more interesting. Should have at least implied the cuff was making her do all the bad stuff in new york. I just think it was a big mistake to make the protagonist unlikeable, arrogant and selfish even tho i guess she was homeless so it makes sense she is all that but who wants to watch a person like that? I mean did she have any other redeeming qualities than she took care of a cat? Also they killed the criminal kid too early she should have realized herself that stealing is bad and teach it to the kid. Also why did she even want to go back to her home when she was in the fantasy land if she was literally just about to do a sudoku before she was sent to the fantasy land. Maybe the whole story is just her dying brain on the pavement imagining a nicer ending.

Just a lazy way of showing she’s saved some money

@@Juniar101 "stole"

"Find a job" LOL

@@MAGAMAN wdym robbing and stealing is not a legitimate career my good sir

I got as far as the judge telling her she hast to take responsibility sooner or later for her actions. that’s not going to happen to this black queen in a video game, or in real life

Has she been spoken for before? Has she been forespoken for?

@@BarakehYep that was in fact their joke

Freyspokened

not bad

Get out of here

"Just following orders" doesn't really excuse murdering civilians. I do agree that the story needed some more moral greyness and in my head canon all the little birds that fly around Sussybaka all present prayers of the murdered Redditors, making him the embodiment of their grudges towards the power hungry Athian invaders.

Zoinks!! As a young and hip individual myself, i totally agree😂😂

Yes, Voosh!

Eh it's a solid 7/10. They didn't namedrop _any_ Hip and Trendy apps.

​@@fringelordmoral of the story- when women are in charge of being gang leaders, judges, tauntas, weird city leaders, main character and more, things turn to shit. Just like wokeness!

​@@dont-touch-mepg1392 You're right, patriarchy's are the only way to go. Genocide, war, questionable experiments for the sake of war. So much better.

​@@dont-touch-mepg1392 What does woke mean?

​@@dont-touch-mepg1392i guess all the bad leader men all of these positions who failed and was a man are also women

​@hollowman9410 it means if you cut your dick off, you get to be a lady...

WOAH! DID I JUST HEAR THAT!? HE SAID THE "F" WORD!!!

i just blew a job…. with my fricking mind!

Can’t wait for the sequels Foreskin: UNCUT and Foreskin: The Circumcision.

Truly one of the games of all time

@@Guardian978 Don't you people ever get tired of repeating the same lines over and over and over again? You're not kids any more - think of new words.

I think it would have been even better to have her turn villain and cuff be a good guy. He encourages her to absorb the Tanta power because he thinks it will help fix the corruption, but she just enjoys being powerful, and becomes even more self centred as she gets more powerful. After the final Tanta, when she learns that her mother was a Tanta, she banishes Cuff from her arm. The townspeople have to go back to the opposing side from the prior war, and ask them to re-summon Cuff in his angelic form, because if they don't, Frey will destroy both of them, so despite being life-long enemies, they combine forces, re-summon Cuff, and you play as him with the Tanta powers for the final fight. If you really want to pussy out you can have him just beat the corruption part and she returns to normal, agreeing to take the role her mother did as protector, or go full Shadow of the Colossus, and have Cuff fully beat her, trapping her into some similar accessory as he used to be, then taking up the mantle as protector. You can even weasel it into being woke "it's a story of how the oppressed villagers used their cultural traditions to defend themselves from a tyrant who only had power because they were born into it as a child of a monarch". Would work especially well if you lean into, like you said, her feeling betrayed by her mother for not protecting her as a child, so she takes her mothers powers to attack Athia, because her mother chose Athia over her. You can even have Cuff begin with bad intentions, but as he sees Frey clearly losing control, has to course-correct because she's a bigger threat. Would be interesting to have him trying to convince the Athians to re-summon him in his powerful angelic form, with them being worried that the "demon" is just trying to trick them into giving it back it's power, but also feeling like they have no choice because he's the only thing strong enough to stop a fully-powered Tanta, as shown in the past. Give Audrey some payoff by having her fathers research actually be about re-summoning Cuff, and he was exiled for it, but it turns out he was right all along that they may need Cuff's power one day. You can even have her show up when both sides are arguing about if they should empower Cuff and give her argument all "My father died for this, looking for a way to protect us, I refuse to have his work go to waste. He may have died, but that doesn't mean we have to." sort of thing. Would even add a personal touch to Frey's defeat that her only 'friend' in town was the one who was the deciding factor in her downfall.

@@Winasaurus oh wow, that 1000% would have been way better! That would be a genuinely interesting story

if only you were the writer for this game. thats a great idea

@@Winasaurus That honestly sounds awesome

And she gets her ass sealed by the witches and returns as a baby in an empty valley with no escape, full of giant collapsed statues that used to roam around like they were alive but they were just possessed, like in shadow of the colossus.

And is probably the best character.

@@antifurryfoundation55 he is, I mean if you think about it, the Tantas only said that they waged war with the country of the past and who knows that Tantas might be lying to cover up their invasion(remember that after they sealed susurus, the tanta elders literally took the vambraces on themselves instead of simply destroying them, which made me suspicious that they want to harness his power for themselves instead later on), the attacked kingdom might have summoned susurus to battle the Tantas because they don't wanna get invaded due to how powerful the elders are(and they were right, not even susurus can stand up to them), not to mention he is actually still trying to accomplish his mission given to him even after being sealed which made him the most determined character throughout the whole game, got stuck with frey long enough before finally released from his seal(dude's literally got the patience of a saint, if it were me I'd find some nobody instead who wont at least spew bullshits and berating me for no good reason), and susurus still got shat on by plot armor later on because the writers don't know how to make a compelling story Cuff/susurus is definitely a tragic main character in my book instead of an antagonist

@@oniplus4545 well, he admitted himself that he was a demon summoned to kill everyone in that area. Still best character.

@@antifurryfoundation55His name has “sus” in it, and is a twist villain. He su(ck)s, just like this game.

@@antifurryfoundation55 Dude was just doing a job so he go back home and play some Decent Games but apparently that’s a lot to ask for.

No literally, that cat is way too nice looking for an orphan squatter Maybe if she became homeless again after a brief lucky streak, I could buy that

Who are u kidding. These ppl view "victim status" as a costume they can put on. No need to actually look into what life is actually like for the homeless.

​@@frankensteinmd4921Take your pills

😂😂😂 exactly what i thought, those fuckers cost alot. And another thing equally unrealistic is that the cat sat in her lap for that long.

@@Nour-hh7ok My tonkinese was a lap cat. That's not hard to believe.

I can't believe you're making me explain the game, you fucker. The original leaders couldn't actually destroy him, they had to contain him instead, separating him into pieces. They went mad because of it, so Frey just absorbing cuff entirely is really dumb and will probably cause kids issues down the line but that's I guess future Freys problems. And there's no way cuff is just suddenly good now. That's too stupid, the only thing we have to work with is one line from cuff, who Frey basically imprisoned in herself. It sounds more resigned to the fate in the moment, rather than, "he's good now."

They cant beat him in the past, not in the present

Honestly that's just a facet of an even bigger problem, namely "how does magic work in this story?". If your protagonist is supposed to have powers you need to define how they work, otherwise any problem the character faces has no tension and thus no pay-off. Frey's power is just "magic!", and so you can't write any good crisis for her because the solution to any problem she faces is just "magic!".

@@bradleycalkins394 Yeah i mean sometimes not knowing what kinda powers a character has keeps it interesting but sometimes its just lazy writing. Good example for mysterious magic dude is gandalf.

The game is like a very egotistic unpleasant person holding your hand and telling everything about herself. In modern writing, it is very popular for writers to project themselves into the characters they create.

black girl magic

Also "we want to appeal to the African-American audience so we made the protagonist a criminal"

​@@mrbigglezworth42 A criminal with a nice shoe collection. I'm surprised she wasnt trying to start up a rap career.

@@EbonMaster gotta save something for the sequel

@@mrbigglezworth42 they wanted to make it relatable.

Probably the biggest handwave in an entire game of handwaving.

I was expecting some sci-fi thing like "Having me accompany you let's you understand any foreign tongue" but I'm thinking of it in the likes of "evil taking many forms" kind of thing, because who better to understand any language so clearly as one who's basically the evil incarnate in that universe wishing to manipulate any idiot he comes across? Very subtle foreshadowing. But y'know something like that would take some thought so this is what we got instead.

and here I'm trying to write lore-friendly stuff for languages in my story. I should just do the 'because yes' reason, it seems popular these days

​​@@jackeroo_sundownou can always use an existing language if you don't want your characters to speak gibberish, uncommon ones such as Dutch or Norwegian.

"There's no time to explain why there's no time to explain!"

Thats just one of the many plotholes in this swiss cheese story.

"Horrendously Sensical" is a good sum up as well, wish it'd happen to bigger companies than small ones though lol Would do more good to see them *actually* recoil and pay a price for lackluster effort/false advertising.

Honestly, it's what all developers who approve millennial dialogue/writing deserve. Give me a protagonist who doesn't make sarcastic quips interspersed with "Fuckity fuck mcmotherfuck" every 10 seconds ffs.

If you watched this story and thought to yourself "This is good! Greenlit!" you don't deserve to be in business. Holy crap, this is so hilariously bad.

Square Enix has gone 2 for 2 recently when it comes to creating a studio, having its first game bomb, and then shutting down the studio because of it (Balan Wonder world and Forspoken)

@@Alias3141 "millennial dialogue" lol; lmao even, that shit is all GenX but keep talking out your ass

Have you played any spider man game?

@@l3ss7han7hr33you Except it works for the wall-crawler.

Or Infamous Second Son

​@@l3ss7han7hr33youAt least its in character for spider-man, bit of a stretch though

I’d be impressed if they did it and also made a successful game. Any numbskull can write a main character says “poop comes from butts” in a game that sold 3 copies because 2 people were too lazy to get refunds and 1 was the creator’s mother who doesn’t own any game systems or even a computer

Yes, but then you'd have to be, brrr... Portuguese. No amount of enjoyment is worth that.

@balacleaver583 In German, there exists a word called "Tunte", which is a slur against gay men. Wasn´t getting easier the longer the video went.

"Tonto" in spanish is also moron when translated

I wish bioshock infinite was just 2 clones of booker tossing baby Elizabeth back and forth.

They stole Ray William Johnson's shtick of tossing a black baby. C'mon, man.

Ezra Miller shoving a baby in the microwave.

Geralt in Witcher 3 throwing baby to the furnace to solve some quest

This comment deserves much better responses

You have amazing potential in a life of crime, so, basically, in you go, off with the key, eligible for parole in 50 years.

Judge: "You'll be appointed a public defender. Your trial will be in approximately 6 months. In the meantime, you'll enjoy the hospitality of the New York City penal system." Frey: "B...but I'm the chosen one!"

Honestly I thought that line was fucking hilarious, idky it’s just so damn funny

In her defense, what sane person _wouldn't_ look at that stupid, irredeemable world, and welcome its destruction? I'd bail in a heartbeat.

She was really into the one night stand culture of new york.

Art imitates life. :D

The truth

She got the magical bbc

Even more hilarious, Frey goes to another reality and the first black person she meets is also a thief. Man, these writers really are something... lol

Lmao are the writers based?

It almost seems intentional that Frey is a self absorbed idiot, but no one really acknowledges it outside maybe the opening dialog between her and cuff.

Weren't you listening? SHE DID IT WITH HER FREAKIN' MIND!

She's so self centered that despite Cuff immediately telling her he doesn't like being called that, she never even bothers to ask him his name.

Yeah like… I get if Frey doesn’t realize at first but after the adrenaline wears off you’d think she’d put two and two together! Every single player is definitely going “It was the cuff. It’s the cuff. The cuff is giving you powers- ITS THE FUCKING CUFF FREY”

Bro you missed the line, its the most famous line. "Did I just do that?" she even repeats it like 6 times afterwards, same delivery.

i wonder why she didnt just leave that night too

@@Brisk__So the movie can happen!

@@leebarbs7176 duh

Well she obviously stole the cat so at least that part was plausible.

​@@Jebu911Touche... lol

Considering they were able to set the entire place on fire before Frey was able to wake up, I wouldn't be surprised if they just clambered on in and wrote it from the inside without her waking up

They could have killed her, took the money, then burned the building down.

I know it shouldn't have, but that really ground my gears

I was viscerally disturbed by how well they sprayed that mirrored on the outside.

I was thinking the same thing lol. why not take the cash and call it square, why let it burn, why kill the person you just said you need for this job? Listening to this for the second time at work today because there's just that much to pore over and I'm beside myself

You might think that Tantas would at least anticipate the demon trying to corrupt them and implement some safety measures. Or at least tell their subordinates "Oh, BTW if I ever show up acting all crazy, DON'T LISTEN TO ME"

"you are a demon" "No I'm not!" "I'm not talking to you I'm talking to the demon on your arm"

Or that society has been governed by woman so long it’s literally become corrupted

It’s also equally lucky that Cuff decided three kills into his list of four revenge targets to randomly betray Frey and temporarily remove her powers when she was still up for killing tantas and that it happened at a time and in a manner where Frey was still on guard and extremely suspicious. Heck he doesn’t even try to trick Frey into thinking him suddenly obtaining humanoid form was a good thing.

@@pokerface4396 "Hey, how about we just toss these bracelets into like tough metal vaults and toss them in the ocean or a volcano or seal them away with our godlike magic?" "Nah let's wear them 24/7 and be corrupted like a bunch of Gollums"

In short; having time and infinite money

Isn't that pretty normal? Doesn't everybody wish to be a well respected member of their community in their ideal world, especially if nobody respects them in the real world?

@@Edagui97 Alltho her dream world still had homeless people for her to help out to seem like a saint. If i was in my ideal world id still want to be rich but i wouldnt want anyone to be homeless.

@@Jebu911 I guess it kinda depends. I think there's a couple of different ways you can be a good person: 1. Be a cog in the machine that helps running the society and not doing evil or 2. Help the downtrodden people as a little or even as a big hero. Frey's fantasy is the latter, because someone like her probably can't imagine themselves as a simple cog in society and her background in the "streets" can't be completely separated from her persona, hence she is respected in the streets and helping other foster kids. Archivist as a hobo is just her being petty, but even in your own personal ideal fantasy world there would be at least one person you wouldn't want to be as happy as others or alternatively that person wouldn't exist there at all.

Nobody like a captain save-a-hoe lil bro 🤣well except chumps 😂 "oh what's that? you want me to do this and that and this and that for you? why of course stranger I never met, I would be happy to I'm captain save-a-hoe after all"

Even tho they were using her they did earlier throw a party in her honor so they werent just using her without any appreciation. I mean they needed her help she reluctantly helped the world and then they gave her a nice house with a great view and were even gonna give her some political power even tho she had absolutely no merit for that job.

like that guy in system shock that calls his wife on his last moments to have her tell his cat that he loves it. but that was intended to be comedic, and i get the feeling this game was serious about it

This game is so cringe.

she can open portals willy-nilly but leaves her cat with a stranger permanently. wow

Probably to avoid she losing her shit ebcause magic and stuff

I seriously thought she transitioned into a monologue but I got whiplash when it focused back in on the cat. Also was that apartment a reused asset from the dream sequence??

**doesn't even place her gently in front of an orphanage door or anything; just yeets her through a portal**

​@@TheKenchanx Didn't even chuck her into an orphanage, or police station, or a hospital, just threw her at a bridge...

At some point you just start to question "Did they just make shit up as they went along?"

@@theotv5522 To be fair most stories are written that way, the problem is when the writer doesn't reread or adjust the story as needed to make sure the motives and dialog make sense. Which Forspoken was probably written by a bunch of unpaid interns within the span of two days.

The fluffiest thing ever, one of the best cats in video games it’s so cute

I cried at the end only because SHE LEFT HER! I have a cat who has a bond with me that is much like the one portrayed between Frey and her cat, here. The few times I’ve left for a while and come back, I’ve gotten the warmest welcome back ever from my cat. She does miss me, to the point where a camera I had left in the house caught her waiting at the door for me to come back in. Leaving an animal with a bond like that does, in fact, stress the animal out! She doesn’t even visit afterwards. The poor thing just hears her voice and is left to stare sadly out the window wondering where her person is and why she was left with this stranger!

The Cat would have saved the bag of money First

hi reddit

Say what you want about the budget of this game, but the salary of whoever who did the cat modelling was money well spent.

what if she _wanted_ to spend 120 hours doing community service

In her case, or in any case.

Gotta get that 'za.

You dont need "literally" or "like" in that sentence. Sounds like something the "protagonist" of this game would say.

Well, she didn't want to stay in a land willing to kill her tho, nor was she probably into the murder the witches plan, so it made sense that she still wanted to go back to escape that. Well, would have made sense if she said any of it. In fact, she's actually into the witch murder plan before the third witch, but she still wants to go back because ???? Hello????? Fray??? Why????

Maybe she implied she was so shait at making weapons it was better to leave that job to someone else.

​@@Jebu911I mean... I'm sure are reasons _she_ couldn't make it as a blacksmith 🤷🏻‍♀️

She didn't even pay the gangsters.

Its fine. The cat is probably better off not being with Frey. Im glad Homer is with someone that seems to be a caring human being

@@EurrikkeEdward agreed

The bitch didn't even do her 120 hours community service

you are more insufferable but ok

Noteworthy: The Reddit people got genocided. Nothing left but ashes of their civilisation.

@@Warmakabig good very win 👍

The fact that he's stuck killing his own angel fellas is like, just comedically sad.

At least Sussus Amogus was appreciated by Gaius Julius Caesar and had a loving wife named Hegott Dadrip. 😢

True, if it was framed as an inner monolgue it might be less cringe

to be fair, if a voice in your head told you they were the girl who had so much potential, would you believe it?

“Hey cat! Remember me? The woman you bonded with and are probably traumatized over losing? Yeah, I’m okay, you’ll just never see me again!” ~ Frey , Loving Cat Owner

“Did I just do that? Ignore the magic bracelet who said we did, I did that” - Frey, Ruler of Narcissismland

Yeah that problem with the cuff really bugged me. Four experienced magic witches with potentially decades of experience turned completely bonkers evil in ~20 years from just wearing a _part_ of him as a bracelet, and this random kid who only found out she had powers like an hour ago and only knew magic existed for like a week absorbs the entire demon??

She never knew her father because he went out to buy some milk and never come back.

At least New York has Wi-Fi.

The true moral of this game is that New Yorkers are too stupid to be alive

It makes the whole Alice in Wonderland scene BS too. Lol it’s like she basically won the lottery and then is like “I don’t want this money, I LOVE being homeless!”

They must had realized they screwed up with that plot point. On Isekai stories a common trope is that the protagonist does goes back to their original world but despite the fondness they have for it they realize their life in the new one is way better, Frey kinda has that when she "revisits" NY but instead of revisiting her actual life they had to make her hallucinate a completely different one because it would have looked straight up ridiculous she going back to being a homeless, loner thief with a target on her back and realizing Athia was a far better home.

To be fair, even in Athia a lot of folks wanted her dead, plus having to deal with the apocalypse is also kinda stressful. I personally would have stayed in Athia, purely because it wasn't winter in there.

that shit legit squeezed all the damn air out of my lungs

They'd shank you regardless.

I still can’t get over the fact, the judge expecting this brave, beautiful, black queen to take responsibility. racist criminal justice system confirmed

Probably where they got the game idea lmao

IT WAS ALL A DREAM SUPER NINTENDO SEGA GENESIS

And she only started to care about the people because she found out she is a magic princess and they are her subjects

​@@shanebryant799Exactly 😂😂😂

The whole motivation was because of a random child that happens to teach her crafting tutorial for like 10 minutes and the whole game is Frey being rent-free obsessed over this dead child. And when I play it I just burst out laughing when they're mourning over this dead child while there're still corpses left rotting in the street.

Why didn't anyone tell her the smart watch as evil

Pretty much. I get that it's meant to be a whole "This place is somewhere you have a connection to, actually" thing, but her entire problem was "This isn't my home, I don't care about it", and then because it happened to be her home she suddenly started caring. It's meant to show that she's changed but it just implies she would have probably bolted if her mom didn't happen to be a Tanta in the end.

She was way too self-absorbed. Infact. You could have the tantas point out the fact that amulet is evil, and she would just be like "you just want to take my powers away" because she sees that they also have it.

No real agency, infered responsability, general apathy and cultivated weaponized unawarness. No future.

Homer escapes only to come back later and feed on her corpse

I'd pay to see that "bad" ending.

​@@leescott3138 Extra crispy.

GTA is okay if it's almost your birthday.

My parents never got me GTA for my almost birthday :/

@@DILFDylF me too had to beg for free roaming games that if it even had a HINT of fighting the police would not get it (but Simpsons Hit and run was okay to play smh)

I also hate librarian Lady trying to Gaslight her into helping them by shit talking her ... Both of them are sociopaths

​@@sebastianrosenheim6196 Exactly Their exchange is literally: Protagonist: "I literally only care about myself! Screw all of you and solve my problem!" Librarian: "Screw you, we don't care about your problems! Save us now dammit!" It's like a snapshot of a toxic relationship

Yes, because the type of person that writes this kind of protagonist is writing themselves into the protagonist, meaning they actually think this is a reasonable argument.

@@Ozymandias2x Amy Hennig, of Uncharted, wrote this game's story. Usually is considered a good writer, but maybe we were all wrong about her.

@@MarvinPowell1 This kind of wild swing is definitely concerning, if it's only her and not someone else interfering.

That is an amazing description

Anyone remember the stealth section after they busted out of prison and was never brought up again? Anyone remember anything about Frey’s dad? Yeah me neither

This is a great summary of the game

LMFAO

The world's most lovingly-crafted sabotage effort 🤣

"I wish I could go down a rabbit hole" *goes down rabbit hole* "I wish I didn't go down a rabbit hole" Make up your mind!

Tbf, many people who wish for things wished they didn’t wish for them, it’s a common trope in stories for millennia. Not that that fully excuses the bad writing…

It's like the writers copied the usual 'isekai' story line but forgot they also wrote her real life reality being the shittiest ever. Who would want to go back to being a homeless in NY running away from a street gang after going to a fantasy world? LOL

Yeah maybe a sheltered rich kid instead. Would be interesting.

"I want to return to being a homeless criminal in New York being hunted and nearly killed by gangs" is one hell of a motivation.