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Frey is an orphan :(
But she's magical :)
But she keeps doing crime :(
But maybe she'll stop? :)
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"Our people welcomed you..." it's wonderful when the writers forget what happened in their own story.
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!
I like how this game ends with a "don't kill yourself" message because if i spent 70 bucks and 20+ hours on this game that would be my next step too
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
Forspoken is like watching an entire DND campaign be derailed by one player’s edgy character.
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?
Her mom abandoned her, and she abandoned her cat. The cycle of abandonment never ends
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
You know you've got a likeable protagonist when the final boss calls her a "Purposeless, meaningless wretch" and you agree with him and want him to win.
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.
How brave of cintia to send her daughter to the one place in the multiverse where she would be safe: the New York foster care system!
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.
Devs: We are going to make the main character a strong african american woman who fights stereotypes
Also devs: makes her a egotistical criminal..
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.
So they spray painted "Found You" on her window in reverse so it would appear correct from the inside. Thats dedication
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
More time was spent collectively watching this video than anyone played this game
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.
I love how the plot hinges on Frey being unable to carry both a bag and a cat at the same time
"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.
Incidentally. That Judge probably ended up with some major PTSD and spent the rest of her life thinking she failed Frey, who either commited suicide or was murdered on the streets of New York.
Like the last thing the judge knew. This clearly homeless child said "take my cat, and im gonna do the right thing"
And then just disappeared out of existence.
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
I love how hard the game pushes strong female characters and feminism yet you can basically boil the plot down to "we left a bunch of women in charge and everything went to shit"
🤣
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?
Can't believe they spent 100$ million dollars just to give us another episode of expleened. Well done.
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.
Not only did they make the two black girls thieves, they also made her black father do a pump'n dump. Truly powerful stuff.
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
The head writer of Forspoken also wrote After Earth starring Will and Jaden Smith and now everything is clear
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.
I love how Frey's dad basically dosen't matter at all beyond donating the sauce to Cinitia.
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
Olivia got what she deserved. Not just because she was a thief, but a liar as well. She literally said she'd keep the town safe while Fray was gone.
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.
The most unrealistic part isn’t the fantasy world and dragon, its actually an abandoned building in Hell’s Kitchen having one theif squatter and not a minimum of twenty crackheads
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?
1. Her mother is basically a queen and couldn't send ONE ADULT to care for baby Frey?
2. She has the powers of the Tantas and doesn't create a portal to New York and take her cat, buy some McDonald's, get back, 30 minutes tops?
3. What happens when she dies naturally? Demon Sus would just come back. Will she give her kid the demon?
4. Why did the Tantas need to die? Was it because they were insane or something and Frey's mom didn't because the bracelet came to New York?
5. If they made this game like Fallout with a silent protagonist it might be better.
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.
What Forspoken has taught us all is that you should be able to be a self-absorbed, nobility-born, self-pittying, abrassive tool that takes no criticisms, asks no questions and doesn't try to empathise; people will still love you anyway and you'll face no consequences for your actions because your powerful mum and her royal friends will bail you out. Give us the Frey death ending.
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.
I love the part where Frey is counting ‘1,2,3…5’ and someone goes ‘wait! Was FOUR SPOKEN?!’
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
The good ending is that frey remembers she needs to do her community service and returns to be a true hero.
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."
Susurrus is too good of a character for this game, it's wild how a poorly written protagonist can derail an entire story
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.
Frey: "I just Killed a Game Studio with my Freaking Mind!"
Imagine you're the judge in this story.
You let off this obnoxious repeat offender criminal girl because it's Christmas.
She shows up at your house randomly to pawn off her cat onto you, a decade long time and money investment.
And then doesn't show up for any of her community service.
A warrant that maybe you have to sign has to go out for her arrest.
Only thing the police can conclude is that she skipped town and disappeared.
This judge now for years has this cat that will remind her why she shouldn't let criminals off easy because the last time she did they completely abused her good will.
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.
One of my issue with Frey is that she wants to escape the life she has, but when she does, she does nothing but complain and then want to go back to the life that she tried so hard to escape from in the first place.
"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.
The ending of this game is so sad and tragic.
The fact that poor Susurrus has to be trapped forever inside the body of a egocentric sociopath thief truly breaks my heart!
It would have been meta if Frey was sentenced to 14 hours of community service and the player had to serve it by playing this game.
There are laws against cruel and unusual punishment.
lol
I just realized. The dead guy was studying the portals, trying to figure out what this mysterious phenomenon was, and the whole time their leaders were just creating them intentionally?
Like, they could have just told him "yeah no that's us making those, don't waste your entire life trying to do scientific research on this".
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
Moral of the story: "If you're born into nobility, you can become whatever you want to be, despite your bad decisions in the past. You might even survive New York because of fate"
@@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...
You know what sucks? Is that Freya's character could have easily been fixed and the story make more sense by just having cuff be with her for her whole life in New York. Being the only thing she had with her since birth it holds sentimental value to her so she always keeps it with her, unaware that the Cuff's anger and hatred is corrupting her which leads her to being so abrasive and hate-filled and into a life of crime. You can sometimes have her be nice so it now shows her true character, that despite Cuff negative influence she still has enough goodness in her to overcome their vices occasionally, instead of using her occasional niceties to present her as an "uwu misunderstood". It'll even make the ending more palpable, where despite Cuff's betrayal and constant attempts on her and her loved ones lives, she still wants to work things out with him and go back to the way things were because that's how deeply those Cuffs meant to her which only heightens through the journey they went on.
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.
Sus was too good for this game, he deserved better
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.
I love that the game tries to deliver a 'You Matter' speech like anyone could rise to greatness and just kind of... FORGOT that Fray was literally the Chosen One born into power and nobility, like her becoming a big deal is because her mom was a sorcerer-queen? Not the message they thought they were sending.
"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!”
You know a story is well-written when the genocidal villain is more sympathetic than the hero
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.
"We have monsters at our gates! Of course I switched from being a blacksmith to an archivist! How else could I help the city?"
😂 This game sure is
Maybe she implied she was so shait at making weapons it was better to leave that job to someone else.
Oh my God, you guys weren't kidding. It wasn't metaphorical. She LITERALLY threw her baby through the portal, without even looking at what was on the other side.
What makes it funnier is that she didn't even leave Fray with her father 💀
@@stoogemuffinstuffin8569fathers don’t matter in stories about strong women
Frey: What do you wanna say? That I have POTENTIAL? I am a SMART GIRL with a BRIGHT FUTURE?
Judge: No! WTF??? Who told you that? lmao!
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
Multiple courtroom scenes, and you can tell the writers have NEVER been inside a courtroom. $100 million well spent.
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
I actually think a better ending would have been: Frey is full of anger and is very self absorbed. So rather than the traditional redemption by saving the day arc, Frey gives in to her true nature and joins Mr. Sus-cuff. She has more connection to the only entity which has ever made her feel powerful, she is indifferent to the people of Athia and resents her mother for abandoning her so given the chance she turns on them. Her personality is closer to a villain than a reluctant hero anyway. So instead of the story being "she never dealt with any of her issues or learned to be a better person but she's the hero because she's special" it could be "she gave into her nature and was ultimately more drawn to power, getting what she feels she's owed and revenge."
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.
That ending boggles the mind. How and why did Cuff get stuck on Frey's arm? Did she not, you know, defeat him? The writers desperately wanted to have their Wheatley-shaped cake and eat it too. Wheatley got an end credits scene, but he wasn't inexplicably back on Earth. The writers are just throwing away the consequences of their own finale by bringing the bad guy back in his 'nice guy persona' form. How did they think they would get away with that?
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.
As someone with wasted potential, I sympathize with the developers
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
Tossing a baby through a portal will never not be funny.
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
the court scene in first minute if the game shows how out of touch writers were. she wears a hat at court, court is xmas eve with just a judge and 2 cops, she has 3 plus felonies and walks away after Sassing the judge
Yes but she's also a woman
Frey is such a great character. As a member of the young and hip community, I appreciate that the developers can write a character that reflects my young and hip generation so well. As many of you are aware, we often like to use curse words and yell about random things happening around us. If you guys are older and curious about being young and hip, I would recommend you play this game.
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.
The most unrealistic thing about this game is that she had what looks like a purebred longhaired siamese cat as a homeless person and its fur wasnt matted and covered in shit
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.
Thank you for playing Forskin, this is truly one of the game
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 love how she is squatting in an abandoned building with functioning electricity and a thousand dollar cat.
Well she obviously stole the cat so at least that part was plausible.
I just realized something on my whatever numbered rewatch. She got home after being let off easy for stealing a car that she was being paid to do. But she is planning to leave with the money she has, meaning it's enough to leave (more than enough really). But that either means A: she got paid in advance which is just stupid on the gang member's part or B: she had enough to leave new York but decided to take a unnecessarily risky job
i wonder why she didnt just leave that night too
@@Brisk__So the movie can happen!
@@leebarbs7176 duh
That cat is the MVP in this game. No cringe dialogue and totally adorable.
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.
Back off, people, Frey is spoken for
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
Little anecdote: "tanta" is really similar to "tonta" wich is portuguese for "moron"
This storymode gets even better when everytime they say tanta you hear moron instead
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
also the main villain isnt really even a villain, he's literally just doing what he was hired to do. but we wanna take the moral highground and take a side
"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.
“I want you to be safe my child”
*sends her to New York City*
**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.
I'm genuinely impressed that the writers managed to make their main character speak in quips over 50% of the time.
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
So she really went to New York, saw the people getting shot, stabbed, doing drugs, shitting behind dumpsters, pissing into the gutters and thought
“Big buildings cool, what if this, but in my dimension”
She was really into the one night stand culture of new york.
1:37 "Orphan lmao" Omg lol And then in the top right, "Photo of Frey being arrested as a baby" lol
Can we appretiate how well they wrote "found you" backwards on the window from the outside
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
Frey: How are they speaking English?
Cuff: They are actually speaking Rigellian. By an astonishing coincidence both languages are exactly the same.
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!"
Judges do not walk out the frint if the courthouse into a pitch black night soecifically because defendants come looking for them, not usually to give them cats
Ah yes, because that's the one unrealistic thing in this otherwise completely realistic and reasonable story, right?
Thats just one of the many plotholes in this swiss cheese story.
I love how her vision of a perfect world in NY is her being self righteous and everyone telling her how virtuous she is.
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.
I still can't believe she had a Walter White-ass gym bag filled with cash and that wasn't enough to "leave the city". Woman, just move to literally anywhere that's not a city and you can live like a king long enough to find a job. I honestly think the writers considered that bag to be a small amount of money because they've lived in obscenely expensive areas and have never left or considered leaving.
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
So, they made a game about a schizophrenic thief who talks to her wrist and "travels" to magic places?
I could go downtown and see this IRL
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
It's genuinely amazing how the writers managed to make sure every single bad thing that happened benefit her in some way so she didn't have to grow as a character at all. She literally spends the whole game stealing everyone's powers, even her initial character flaw became her core character strength, including stealing the demon at the end. The plot armour is insane.
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.
I continue to be baffled how they can think Frey is a hero when she does nothing but demean others and openly says she's cool with letting an entire population die as long as she doesnt have to bear any responsibility
In her defense, what sane person _wouldn't_ look at that stupid, irredeemable world, and welcome its destruction? I'd bail in a heartbeat.
It was very brave of Square Enix to make the main moral lessons for the protagonist to learn be “it’s ok for my African-American father to be an absentee” and “a horrifying fantasy world where most things want to kill you is better to live in than New York”
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.
I love how despite cuff explicitly stating he is the one with the powers, and how every time they kill a tanta, it is clearly cuff who absorbs the power, when he turns on her she tries to cast a spell and goes "huh? MY powers are gone?" It turns whats meant to be a twist into me rolling my eyes at how brain dead and self centred she is to where she picks up a magic bracelet that teleports her, can cast magic, and absorbs God essence and still goes "huh, I thought I was the special one?"
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 genuinely cant believe that because frey has no actual friends in new york, her whole "You're not alone, so don't give up even if you have nothing to live for" speech is to her CAT.
Game's a DM trying to guide a player who WILL NOT be roleplaying, through a fantasy adventure.
Her mother went to some random place, had sex and got pregnant from some random black guy, the guy left her a single mother and she just abandoned her in new york. What did the writers mean by that?
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?
The fact that this game was the debut release for the studio but did so poorly that they had to shut down in the same year is tragically hilarious
"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
"People only give a shit when they want something from you"
On one hand, yes, she is completely right. On the other hand, as far as these people know, they are the last of humanity that's left in the world and until you came in there was no potential solution to the problem, and right now they are essentially days or weeks at best from being completely erased. So while Frey is right that they see her less as a person and more of a tool, the stakes are the highest they could ever be.
"Yes please give a way to leave this godforsaken place and leaving you all alone to die and become mindless monsters, yes I know Im the only one who can do something about it... why dont you care about ME?!"
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.
The terrible writing is even funnier in light of all the Sweet Baby stuff
Funny how cuffs "punishment" is basically to have to go back to being stuck with Frey. Its almost like they knew she was insufferable. Lastly i cant believe she ditched the cat. She learned nothing and kept abandoning anyone who somehow didnt absolutely hate her.
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
I love how she's finally able to contact the *one* person whom cared enough to spare her and take in her only pet. To assure them that she didn't skip town or die in an unnamed ditch. AND SHE TALKS TO THE FUCKING CAT.
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??
1:46:18
I'm Tanta Frey!
Daughter of Cinta!
Protector of Athea!
MOTHER OF HOMEEEEEERRRRR!!!
There have been multiple times where I've thought to myself that a lot of what Frey says are things I would think if I was in her place. But they're things I would *think,* not things I would *say out loud.* It's an internal monologue, as in something I say to myself, not to other people. The dialogue feels so unnatural because almost everyone is *saying* what they'd be *thinking.*
True, if it was framed as an inner monolgue it might be less cringe
Career criminal being let out with no jail time or having to post bond in New York City? Most realistic game ever.
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)
"Hey librarian lady, stop researching how to help save your people, and research how fix my problems"
"No, you're not even helping us"
"Of course I won't help you, I don't care about you. You only wanted me to help you fix your problems, you don't even care about me"
. . . .
Are we supposed to like such a hypocritical and unlikeable character?
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.
The "They welcomed you!" is so hilarious, when they immediately wanted to execute her and had to be persuaded to "only" imprison her. And then later, once they felt threatened again, they were immediately ready to hand her over to her death, as well. They only started welcoming her when she started being useful to them.
And then, when Frey has a single moment of "Oh god, I am going to be stuck here forever..." 3D-scan-gone-wrong girl immediately goes on an angry tirade. And even she only helped Frey, because she thought she would be useful, not out of the goodness of her heart.
You know what, Frey? You go on ahead and steal. Steal all the apples! Freak those guys.
So, Frey's motivation for 80% of the game is just
"I need to go back to New York, that place where I have no money and no place to live; the place where people want to kill me, and almost managed to do so; the place where I was about to jump off a building like 10 minutes before getting sucked through a portal; because ThAt'S mY hOmE!"
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.
Is it me or did Frey only change her mind to save Athia because she found out that it was her “home”
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.
Can't believe they spent $100mil for that sensational apple bite
50:40 Rotunda Sizemore is the funniest fat name I think there ever will be
that shit legit squeezed all the damn air out of my lungs
I 100% have more sympathy for Sussus Amongus than for Frey. Like dude was summoned by some guys that wanted to fight some chicks and he gets broken apart and then is stuck with a bratty orphan as a companion when all he wants to do is his job.
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. 😢
It's lucky that none of the Tantas ever mentioned that Frey's bracelet was a demon, because otherwise we wouldn't have gotten that dramatically-appropriate twist in the third act.
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"
🤣 Did... Did Mama Cinta, dead-ass, yeet her daughter through a magic portal into a random alley in NYC?
I hate it when the game i'm playing force me to do obvious mistakes just to progress the narratve. If the building I'm in is burning, first thing i'd grab is the money bag literally right next to me.
They literally could have just had the bag already be on fire, or even just missing and nobody would have an issue with that scene
"I wish i could go down a rabbit hole" but then when it actually happens and shes a chosen one with powers, spends the entire time complaining and trying to return to her burned out abandoned building.
The thing that bugged me the most was that cuff didnt even need to lie to hide his grand scheme because frey wasnt even curious what the talking magical artifact bound to her was trying to do, she never even asked.
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.
"Why would I give my child to one of my friends in either worlds, or even her father, when I can just chuck her through a portal ?" - Tanta Cinta, Mother of the Year awardee.
"You know what would be a great idea ? Sealing the entirety of a demon inside of me when a part of him sealed in an item was enough to drive the greatest sorceresses to madness." - Frey, Keeper of the Plot Armor.
"Hey Cat ! I'm telepathically talking to you so you can pass on a message to Judge Judy. Why am I not directly talking into her mind ? Because I feel like a cat that can't talk would be a better messenger." - Frey, Tanta of Intelligence.
The plot of this game only happens because every single person in it is absolutely braindead.
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.
"Release all of the Pokemon from her PC box and reset her game" hits fucking hard
This story is made by someone who wanted to make a movie but eventually settled with a game
She straight up abandoned her cat at the end of the game.
They showed that she can teleport.
They showed she probably inherited the power to open portals between realms.
She has the power of Big Sus.
She could get her cat in two minutes if she wanted but she doesn't.
"wait for me"
Bitch, I live for about 10 years, 8 of which are gone. And you can teleport at will. What do you mean wait for me.
All the while giving it an "anti-die" speech like it was gonna fling itself out of the window. "girl, I'm a CAT." lmfao
well, you see, introducing Homer into the other dimension would be an ecological disaster, as Homer would be an invasive species
she's just being econscious
The story started with her stealing a car, it would be poetic if at the end she used her powers to steal a cat.
@@Hegataro Can't be an invasive species with only 1 cat, it can't reproduce.
Frey's whole wanting to go home would make more sense if she specified that it's because she misses her cat. There is literally like no other reason to want to return to new york.
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????
It's my head canon that Frey actually died in that building fire, and this whole game is just a hallucination in her final moments as she dies of smoke inhalation.
Homer escapes only to come back later and feed on her corpse
I'd pay to see that "bad" ending.
@@leescott3138
Extra crispy.
Wait a minute... did she not once ask who the hell the cuff is or why he is in his present state? What an intelligent and caring protagonist...
Every time I see gameplay of this game, I think: who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
They took the worst isekai cliches, got a multi-ethnic cast of characters that speak English, put them in a fantasy world, and gave them all Reddit dialogue.
This game looks like it was made by a committee of Los Angeles white women for the “urban female gamer market”. It was apparently funded by ESG, developed by Blackrock, and bought by absolutely no one.
It’s all all female game made by underpaid first year design school men. They all probably regret the ramen noodle they bought after making this cringe lord game.
I have my own theory about this game: This was originally suppose to be Wizard of OZ, but either Square didn't want to pay for the copyright for it and choose to make their own version or Warner Bros. backed at some point and Square had already committed way too much to scrap the project. The latter would explain why this had barely any marketing. They knew it was going to fail because it was literally never the game anyone wanted to make.
@@Vaniity_Velvet What copyrights? The OZ books are in public domain. Warner only owns the rights to the 1939 movie.
@@Vaniity_Velvethh Wizard of Oz is public domain. So is Alice in Wonderland and the references to that are really on the nose.
Like in the first 20 minutes I think you see the Alice in wonderland book
There's nothing wrong with the multi-ethnic cast. The problem is they're all annoying characters. Like you said
Oh my god, this story of this game is literally, literally the exact fucking same as Amulet. A book series made for children.
I should note, however, that in Amulet the twist about the magic McGuffins being evil was revealed in the first book, which is hilarious because apparently, a book series made for children respected their readers' intelligence more than this game for adults does.
Also, amulet's dialogue doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon.
Oh Amulet, I remember that. It was such a great series. Also had a better protagonist though I suppose that is a pretty low line.
it would be much much forgivable if the demon still maintain his calmness after he reveal himself.
maybe even strike a deal with her. Like "i'll help you return to real life after i absorbed Cinta's power and here are some gold, you can sell em when you're back to your world and start over". its just there are so many things that can be done better.
@@blackforest1646 From what I remember the amulets did that as well (though it has been a while) & it did create a more interesting dynamic between the hero & effectively the 'villain' of the story.
So yea ur prolly right.
That's funny because as I was trying to be positive about the story I got the impression it'd be great for a YA novel like a Percy Jackson type thing but not as a AAA game lol
Holy shit, I never realized that until now. And I read those books all the time in middle school!
1:41:37 "WILL THE REAL SLIM SHADY, PLEASE STAND UP?"
I like how almost all of this plot could have been avoided if her mom just left a note attached to her explaining what was up and maybe visiting once. Or if even the first Tanta just told her that the bracelet was evil