Voice actor and YouTuber SungWon Cho made a great video that shows how absurd the dialogue is when applied to other games, like Animal Crossing and Danganronpa. Square Enix has spoken out about the wave of memes that popped up following a Forspoken trailer that didnt seem to land quite right with potential players. Here are just a few of the most memorable ways Twitter is dunking on Joss Whedon and Forspoken. Get owned, Joss - While all this meaningful discussion of the Forspoken trailer is nice, there were also a massive amount of memes that came out of it. Forspoken may hold a lot of promise in its gameplay and story, but if this trailer is indicative of the rest of the game’s tone, then that very well may be enough to make the game dead on arrival. This has led to them selling off talented studios like Eidos because they thought Deus Ex wasn’t performing well enough. Square Enix loves to set lofty expectations for games, mishandle them, and then act surprised when they don’t perform as desired. Whedon doesn’t know how to write women, and emulating this style feels like yet another nail in the coffin I worry Forspoken is preparing for itself. Its not quite the disaster that the memes would have you believe, but its certainly not the PS5 showpiece that was once promised, either. It’s also disheartening for this style of writing to pop up in Forspoken, a game that ostensibly seeks to elevate women in RPGs. Forspoken is an ambitious title that builds both its fluid movement and its battle system around the concept of magic. Joss Whedon’s special brand of dialogue actually sucks. (I’m sorry, but characters don’t need to elbow me into finding something funny.) This style of humor has permeated the MCU since Whedon’s time with The Avengers and culminated in fans feeling burnt out on the franchise. Much of this comes after Whedon was accused of misogyny and creating a harmful workplace on multiple projects.Ī key aspect of what we will call Whedon-esque dialogue is a constant need to play to the audience in a way that feels very much like the characters are saying “would you get a load of this?” in a shitty transatlantic accent. Having worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the first Avengers movie in the MCU, Whedon’s writing has come under scrutiny in recent years. As soon as Twitter got a hold of the trailer, users started comparing it unfavorably to the work of Joss Whedon. Why the dialogue sucks - If you think this feels like stilted dialogue from a late-2000s show, then you aren’t the only one. | Social Banners - Sarah V.Forspoken’s world and gameplay look like they could be genuinely cool. It was the last game by Luminous Productions before the company's closure on May 1, 2023. The game received mixed reviews from critics. It was released on January 24, 2023, on PlayStation 5 and Windows. Please be sure to comment, like, and subscribe and be sure to follow the show and it's hosts on their various socials!Įmail us your questions for our Viewer Mail on Twitter! Forspoken is a 2023 action role-playing game developed by Luminous Productions and published by Square Enix. Your hosts are Ryan (He/Him), an actual doctor with an addiction to PlayStation Trophies, and Chris (They/Them), a professional card gamer who only plays games for fun! Moreover, making Frey and other NPCs in Forspoken mute, isn’t the solution the company thinks it is. However, giving this option to players contradicts this claim and proves that they are aware of how banal the dialogue is. Welcome to I Have More Trophies Than You, a discussion podcast focused on the differences in how people play games. The Japanese company previously said the memes were out of context and didn’t reflect the writing. In this episode, Ryan starts his 5th Hogwarts year, Chris gets trapped in Phantasy Star, and take on the Whedon-styled memes that became Forspoken!
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