She’s a 21-year-old who swears a lot, doesn’t want to be bothered by other people’s problems, and has quite clearly had enough of everyone’s bullshit. But the voice acting is excellent, even if the dialogue is notably ropey, though Frey is destined to divide opinion as a protagonist. Why exactly she wants to return to a life that she was so headstrong about leaving behind is a bit confounding, as the game itself points out many times. This sets Frey up with one main goal: returning home. Anything but Frey, that is, who seems to be immune to its effects in most cases.
This once-beautiful and peaceful world is ruled by four Tantas, or goddesses, who have become corrupted with something called the Break, a miasma that infects anything organic that it touches, in extreme cases killing them outright. Fortunately, things pick up with both Frey and the story in general after she finds a sentient golden bracelet named Cuff, who inexplicably thrust her into a whole new world, Athia. This courtroom drama opening is both dull and misguided, with Frey’s early characterization being quite tone-deaf in the current climate, and not helped by jarring dialogue that contrasts its story of gang violence with cringeworthy MCU-esque humor. Forspoken begins its story in a New York courtroom, with an awkwardly handled set-up to its story that pitches orphan protagonist Alfre “Frey” Holland as a small-time criminal with a lengthy rap sheet.
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