One of the most famous failures of this 2023 is Forspoken, which despite its strengths, failed to convince players with its playable proposal, leaving what should have been one of the flagships of the PS5 catalog. in a single note. with Minimum Sales, in which some of the blame lies with its narrative. maybe that’s why Gary Whitta, the original author of Forspoken, recently revealed that the game’s final story proposal had nothing to do with his original proposal. Although Whitta was the author of the original concept, it seems almost none of his ideas made it into the game we know now.
Talk with Alanah PearceWhitta didn’t reveal what his original idea was, but said that when he was approached to write the Square Enix remake, which involved interdimensional portals, he declined due to scheduling issues.
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The way of telling the story in Forspoken was considered one of the main problems of the game, and the Internet wondered if funny dialogues should be present in video games. We don’t know how Forspoken would have changed Whitta’s original concept, but there are many who won’t rest until they know what they could have had.
What did you think of Forspoken’s story?