{"id":20144,"date":"2022-12-12T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/forspoken-hands-on-im-sold-on-its-magic-but-not-wowed-by-its-world\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:10:50","slug":"forspoken-hands-on-im-sold-on-its-magic-but-not-wowed-by-its-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/forspoken-hands-on-im-sold-on-its-magic-but-not-wowed-by-its-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Forspoken hands-on: I’m sold on its magic, but not wowed by its world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Near the opening of Chapter 2 in Forspoken<\/u><\/a>, I get my first taste of wielding magic as protagonist Frey Holland. Newly arrived in Athia, I’m learning the ropes as I’m pitted against a strange creature that looks like a cross between a bear and wolf, whose sharp teeth jut out across the entire length of its body like one giant maw. With a mix of quick-fire spells and heavier blows, the magic combat feels snappy and satisfying, with bursts of damage splaying onto the screen as I take down chunks of health from my aggressor. The fight is over quickly, but this short conflict is enough to leave me wanting more – and thankfully I don’t have to wait long before I’m throwing out more spells.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Near the opening of Chapter 2 in Forspoken, I get my first taste of wielding magic as protagonist Frey Holland. Newly arrived in Athia, I’m learning the ropes as I’m pitted against a strange creature that looks like a cross between a bear and wolf, whose sharp teeth jut out across the entire length of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20147,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions\/20147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}