Forspoken Expleened Pt. 2 | Internet Historian Reaction 

Fun fact: We are never told why Athia went to war with the nation of Rheddig, nor why they were so desperate they would summon a demon, as either a last stand or revenge. We are just expected to assume we are working for the good guys the entire time. Tantas’ victory is also widely known as the "Purge of the Rheddig." Which has some...implications.

Frey to the cat at the end, "Homer, tell the judge I made it. I found a home" Homer: "bitch l, you're dead to me. The judge feeds me every day. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Die slow"

So if the people already knew about the war and what the cuff is at the start, why didn't they just tell fray "oh that cuff you're wearing is evil" instead of trying to execute fray

$100 Million was spent on this game, and I say about 99.9% of that went to marketing, and 0.1% was for this skeleton of a game.

I love how they made Freya origin story Literally a one night stand, and instead of seeking out the father she justs gets a baby through a portal.

To be fair, cuff looks fucking badass in his true form

Susurrus means whisperer. They literally wore a demon called the whisperer. If they're the best Athia has, it surprises me the demons haven't destroyed this realm yet

The biggest problem in my opinion is the writing. Yes, the gameplay is horrific, but the complete lack of subtlety is baffling. When they’re trying to foreshadow Frey’s parents it’s laughable how much they spell it out, as if they think the audience are complete morons who can’t think for themselves.

BUT WHY WAS THE MOM A DRAGON??? I looked it up because I knew the context was skipped and its just-- She was no longer the Tanta of love because she was crazy so she turned into a dragon .... Ok

Remember. Cinta is white and Frey is very obviously mixed race. So that means the father is black… and absentee… and didn’t pull out at all… And this game’s supposed to be Progressive?

My biggest issue with this game is that it's so empty, not of content but of NPC's. I thought that once we kill a Tanta and free that section of the map the empty towns would start to fill up again with people, shops and Quests but no Cipal is literally the only place where you can interact with NPC's outside of the Tantas and Cuff.

Kinda funny how a game that keeps nailing you in the head with ¨YOUR POTENTIAL DONT WASTE UR POTENTIAL!!!!!¨ and then the game makers go and wastes the potential of a triple A level budget of 100 Million USD.

The writing is so insufferably smug about how self-aware it is. It's almost as bad as Velma. Honestly, if I want media where someone from the real-life city is brought to some medival-world to save it, I'll watch "The Black Knight"

I still can't believe they actually had the gall to do a Father-Son Kamehameha.

The only section of the story that i find interesting is Vambrace, but just impressed by the voice actor. I love how villainy he sounds.

Internet Historian skipped the horrible dialogues from Frey that was sprinkled into the gameplay, and didn't go in enough how insufferable she was.

There are so many “why the fuck’s” I could’ve wrote here, but I’ll settle on this one: why the fuck is she pals with Sus man at the end? This guy killed her mom and is responsible for the deaths of millions. On top of that, his only justification was “cuz it’s my job or something”

So.... the girl is manipulated into doing everything she does, then she gets told "but you are special and cool" so she is now a hero. What? 0 responsability and personal growth. And at the end, she just has to go on about how much of a big deal she is.

Hopefully no one here wastes their potential, you have so much of it

This is like toptier wattpad fanfiction. Like, I'd read it just out of respect for the effort, but then Id quickly forget about it and wonder why Im ever on wattpad.

The writing of this was insane. So, the vambrace randomly gets sucked into the portal, if it didn't, Athia would be fucked. Why didn't the demon just get the Tanats to kill each other until there's one left? So, all the Tantas needed to do was have a child and the demon would've lost that first battle? Why couldn't the demon kill off the Tantas in the first battle when he can do it i this game with a 1/4 of his power on a human girl?

"Tanta" is the informal version of "the aunt" in Scandinavian languages lmao. They did the google translate thing.

55:34 Wait, hang on. She was already pregnant when they fought Sussurus? Doesn’t that mean 1) that Cinta just casually took a break from the war to bang a guy in another dimension and 2) it took _less_ _than_ _a_ _year_ for the other tanta’s to go crazy and start summoning magic hurricanes? I had given the writers too much credit. I thought the corruption took years, and it was during that time that Cinta started traveling to other worlds. But apparently the wise-and-powerful tantas started going crazy almost immediately and did jack about it, and Cinta ditched an ongoing war to get her back blown out by a random New Yorker.

you could actually say the game had so much _Potential_ but at the end of the day, happy almost birthday

Denying the call is supposed to be step two in the heroes journey not every other step

I think the reason why she wasn't susceptible to either Corruption by Cuff or the Break is because she absorbed some of it's essence in the Womb.

So Frey's character development started when she found out her mom was white... What were the developers trying to say?

Send this video to your Dad as an apology

8:21 after taking a look at all the side content, I can confirm that Frey is NOT a lesbian. She actually seems to have an interest in Pilo

I think somebody on the dev team wanted to write a YA fantasy book but they didn’t want to go through the process of writing/publishing an actual book, so they made a video game instead. Also people keep forgetting that you have to make a decent game or two before you can add a bunch of lore to its world and not the other way around. Game studios keep looking at massive franchises like Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon etc and trying to create something at the same scale right off the bat while forgetting that it took between 10-50ish years for all those different games to become the way that they are today. And that kind of success isn’t likely to happen on your first try. So maybe just chill and use that money to make multiple games instead of blowing it on all on one and being surprised when doing that doesn’t work out for you 🤷

And in the end, the game ended like it began: With Frey in contempt of the law

The timing in which I finished part 1 and when this dropped? IMPECCABLE

For a second there, I thought she knew the talk no jutsu

Taint asylum still crushed that kid and didnt apologize after she stopped being crazy

I would like to take a moment to congratulate all those who managed to complete this game. Clearly, you are beyond all of us regular mortals, for I could barely sit through a comedic summary of this miserable excuse for a story. Remember, you matter. You are big deals. Don't waste your potential. It is your duty to suffer through nightmares like this so others do not... Or at least, that's what I think the message of this game is, but I'm sure not gonna play it myself to find out.

How were they still evenly matched if Frey had her own powers plus the power of the four Tauntas. Also, why did the mom think just randomly throwing her child to Earth with no support would end well? She’s seen New York and should know how shitty it is

Bro, i don't read fanfiction, but I felt something like that was coming.

May god have mercy on cuffs soul. Having to spend a lifetime with Frey must be a living hell

As someone who reads lots of novels and manga it was obvious that the dragon was her mom, its the usual outcome of some powerful being trying to take the protag rather then kill them

So, what's stopping her from opening a portal, err, tostito, and getting her cat?

The worst part is that if you put a decent amount into the side content like i foolishly did, it isnt 25 hours befor the story gets anything close to engaging, its like 30 or 40. I have a real problem with games like wolfenstein the new colossus being 6 hours long with 3 and a half hours of cutscenes, but forspoken being the opposite is just as bad.

Freya did more for goddamn cat Homer than her mother did for her

For a game developer credited with helping on Final Fantasy XV, I’m left wondering what they did for that game because Forspoken takes a huge step back of at least fifteen years in quality. These are PS3 quality graphics.

I’m sure if I played the game I would have hated the story but I’m actually enjoying it through this commentary.

when i saw the first hour vid from chav channel i was like skitten with the snacks! I ordered Chinese food and had fun watching. i did not care for the forespoken story AT ALL! Internet historian made it so much more Entraining to sit through. Aside from that. To see The both of you this long after work was worth it! Love you both hope to see more of both of you. after yall recover from this "Story" lolz

Skitten's dad is based should have believed him from the get go

youd be surprised how many people guessed the dragon was gonna be freys mom💀

Yeah, my dad got me himself Mortal Kombat when I was a kid and he let me play it. The SNES was a family gift, lol.

At 23:27 was probably the most genuine STFU I heard in a while in media and at 1:06:46 they tried so hard to emulate Nero's Devil Trigger moment in DMC5 it made me laugh so goddamn hard!

'you matter even when you dont think you do' people disappear everyday and nobody looks for them

One thing that's been bothering me ever since I watched the original video: Why does Tanta Prav have a completely different accent compared to everyone else, especially her sisters?

Oh I know this finna be interesting and hilarious especially with the reaction from both of you 😂😇😇

Dude this was so good, thank you for uploading these they were a great time. Gonna rewatch these soon!

i'd really love to see a post mortem on what the fuck went wrong with the development of that game... how did they manage to burn that amount of money and this being what they have to show for it... i mean the developers at bioware who worked on mass effect andromeda can at least say: "hey, management canned everything we had developed over multiple years, forced a complete engine change on us and we created that thing from the ground up in 8 months with a skeleton crew of mostly junior staff while the big wigs were all working on anthem." and i'd say that mass effect andromeda in the context of being developed from scratch in 8 months by mainly junior staff with unfamiliar tools in an unfamiliar engine... its fucking amazing what they accomplished in that short amount of time with the conditions set by management. but forspoken... from what i heard, they got everything they wanted, all the time they needed, all the money to burn and it just resulted in a cringy mediocre and sometimes offensive mess with a whole cast of unlikable bullshit characters... (cant rip on the va's though, script and direction were fucked. they did what they were told to do and seemed to execute that beautifully. they were told bullshit though...

So are we not going to explain what happened to her dad.

I don’t think they watched Marvel movies for this. This seems more like that surge of YA movies that came out. Like Percy Jackson and Maze Runner and Hunger Games. Also, this could have been Hogwartz Legacy. Just from this summary it felt like HL gone wrong.

I had a great time. I got to watch 2 hours of content in the form of you guys and Internet Historian I got to see how this game that I have not even heard of, but supposedly was gonna be game of the year flushed $100Million down the drain. I got to have some laughs from the ridiculousness of some scenes, while also amused on how you guys reacted to it as well. Would have hoped for more time at the end of the video for you guys to just talk more about your thoughts on the video and the game in general, but it was alright. Hope to watch more videos from both channels where you react to videos together, the interactions you have with each other, the small jokes, the tidbits of random stuff, just talking about the video with each other makes it quite enjoyable, it gives the video's more something? Don't have the word for it, but its great to see daily videos again, even if the cause for doing so is the new AC. Thanks for being a part of my life for all these years, and I hope to be here for many more to come.

When cuff goes all butterflies it reminds me of the beast in the magicians. Great show if you never saw it and definitely a better and more entertaining antagonist.

Johedi, is the best character. She’s freaking hilarious

I noticed the dynamic between Frey and Audin instantly….though I DO also read fanfiction 😂

One of the plot holes in the whole story is how some people know Fray is the daughter of one of the tantas….but she left this world as a baby

Tbh this game could have been saved with some tweaks, (I know it was condensed but regardless of that I mean) Side quests, Morality scale(choose if you wanna be the hero or just someone trying to go home). Different endings And give susurrus the back story of a demon with contractual obligation to do the evil he does, something about him being trapped in an unfeeling gilded form until he's upheld his side of the bargain or something. Make the "bad ending" leaving and make em have to watch as susurrus crumbles the kingdom and mc(forgot her name already) sleeps in an alley. Or the good ending which is how this played out but frey(was that the name? Close enough) gives the loop hole of "If I rename the land then the kingdom of whatever is technically no more" full filling his obligation and then Sus just has to stick around until that goal is sought through Oh and obviously take out the dumb ass hour of being talked at about lore, make that shit part of a 100%ing easter egg or something, call em "fractured memories" and you gotta explore to find them like memories in BoTW or Dossiers in Ark. Remember folks, Lore is optional

Ol sus was like "if i was a watch id be looking at myself REALLY condescendingly right now"

We need more Storymode vids lol

God...the MC is so unlikable. She really is 'everything is about me' and sits there yelling at everyone else for doing exactly to her what she does to them. -_-'

Lets make a story about a black hero in another world, procedes to get arrested again and again.

1:18:30 Spilers to a 20 years old game, bit that is literally the ultimate ending to Drakengard 1. They teleport from their fantasy to Tokyo, destroy our world in their big final fight and then Nier happens.

So... Are they called Tantas because they're brave, beautiful, alluring and... TANTAlizing?? I'll see myself out lmao!

Pop really knew his stuff lol

Game reads like a middle school fantasy book

Skitten did not use her potential. Happy early birthday

1:18:28 The collateral damage would go crazy 🤣

Tanta Sila got them beef tank arms... 😂

1:17:20 what I've done by Linkin park starts playing and cut to credits on the beat drop

You know how I knew Frey and whatsherface weren't gonna hook up? They made Auden too ugly.

I have arrived! You saw me once, now you see me again. Great part 1.

Bruh the last section of this game was AWFUL. They just kept beating the same message into your head over and over and OVER!!!

She salmon cannoned her baby

DO YOU SEE THOSE BUILDINGS AT THE END? THEY'RE THE EXACT FUCKING SAME! SQUARE WITH CIRCULAR CORNERS! 100 MILLION DOLLARS!

Oooh I forgot to say but Luminous Productions was shut down right after making this because it flopped so hard (They are one of the listed developer's)

uhh I guess because can dragons can polymorph into people in DnD?

Here is why I could never take the Tantas seriously. Due to the pronunciation of the characters, I often hear them turning the first ''A' into an 'O' making it sound like "Tontas". In Spanish, "tonta" means "dumb", so it always appears like people are calling their all powerful leaders and magic users dumb.

This made me realize even though they're boring side quests are important. Now that I think about it, throw in some side quests, vines to zip around on, and a morality bar and this is just a fuckin reskinned Infamous game. Story pretty much reads like them too

Also the group laugh at 55:52 is amazing.

Although the game wasn’t that good. I gotta give props with how Olas was revealed and the shattered reality she created it was pretty well…..probably where the budget went ngl

they thought they ate 🤣 game was despicable

Skitten was technically right about cuff killing her mom

i actually dig fay's "you're not alone" speech. it's a bit heavy-handed but clearly it's an anti-depressant speech and i vibe with those. honestly from what i've seen here i'd say the story isn't actually bad, just not told well.

by the way, there is DLC out for this game... big surprise it's worse then the main game

The part 2 of this video is how part 2 of Across the Spider-Verse should have been released

16:00 but the mothers not dead, i thought she was just abandoned?

It was like an hour and 40 mins into the video when I realized how similar this game feels like The Quarry

My dad also introduced my brother and I to video games. The forespoke series never looked good to me. The main character was annoying in the previews so I knew it wasnt a character for me. I like it when the mains dont talk so you can really pretending your the person.

i think the game just didnt know when to stop. a joke would happen and then you'd have 2 more lines trying to make the joke take longer. dialog would go on and on for no reason. if they just took some time and cut the fat off it would have ended up a better product.

was a "good" ending talk, really uplifting, pity she's saying that to a cat

I feel like I just ran a marathon, so I guess thanks? That's the closest I'm gonna get to actually running one.

56:49 wait, it is seen she can make portals without the cuff, why didnt she go back to pick up her kid 😂

I laughed so hard watching expleened video😂😂😂

"Tell me why? Because Frey was a mistake. Tell me why?"

1:06:22 Cue The Power Of Love