Failed miserably, the blockbuster competing with Hogwarts Legacy was abandoned by the developer and ignored

In the early period of 2023, most of the news of the world gaming village revolved around two blockbuster games that will be released not long apart. Those are Forspoken and Hogwarts Legacy. But ironically, if at the moment, Hogwarts Legacy is increasingly booming and becoming a strong candidate for the title of the best game of the year, in the opposite direction.

The gameplay style is nothing new, even there are many performance-related errors, but Forspoken’s biggest problem is probably that, the game can’t create a story with depth, throughout. with many attractive highlights like what the Hogwarts Legacy has been doing. Even recently, Luminous Productions – the main producer of the project was brought back to Square Enix, instead of focusing on developing its own project. And this can completely lead to, Forspoken will soon be abandoned because of his heavy failure.

In fact, at the time of preparation and debut, Forspoken also tried very hard to achieve the same success as Square Enix’s famous series in the past like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. But because of many problems, Frey Holland’s journey in the land of Athia in Forspoken brings about a stereotyped model, instead of promoting the creativity that is so necessary for games in the context. Present. Even, according to writer Gary Whitta – who created the plot of Forspoken, in addition to the character Frey and the original foundation of the fantasy world, most of the game has changed radically from the original script. head.

Costing millions of dollars in development, but now Forspoken is simply a disappointment. And with Square Enix seemingly intending to stop focusing on the project, the future of the blockbuster that once competed strongly with Hogwarts Legacy is now more bleak than ever.