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In case you didn't get the really bad pun, I was talking about Forspoken.

This was a game I thought looked great, then came the backlash followed by dozens of opinions on the character, the world, the bracelet thing, the dialogue, the personality etc etc.

Part of me was influenced to a level to go from excited to bring less excited whereby I thought I will wait for a sale, but then the demo dropped.

I downloaded it and left it and today I gave it ago. Within the first 30 mins of playing it I realised how much gamers complain. 

Amy Henning, the goddess of dialogue and fun characters and story is now bad. Apparently she can no longer do the job she did before. 

I play the demo and have no issues with the dialogue, character or the bracelet thing. 

The combat is fun and different, the world reminds me a lot of Nier, Zelda, PSO, and other games with open spaces to run and explore. The running is fun. There are plenty of encounters between points so it don't get boring and I love how the typical armour etc is different with the cape, nails and necklace. 

There is so much good in this game and I feel it is getting shat on unnecessarily and possibly unfairly. It seems there are certain games that are scrutinized far greater than others. This seems to be one of them. A game which is essentially destined to be picked apart at any given opportunity which later will be one of those games where people will scream and shout about how it deserves a sequel, should have done better, Sony should have advertised it better, SE and Sony sent it to die etc. 

Its a shame that so many good games get sent out to die. One of my favourite games on the PS3 was Shadows of the Damned. It was so creative and fun, and it got buried. 

What were your thoughts and how did they change over time? Have you played the demo?