Gaming News Forspoken: The game under the microscope, there will be violence and alcohol
All games pass there to get their classification, and it was the turn of Forspoken, the action game from Square-Enix: the opportunity to know the recommended age to play and to learn some additional details about the game.
The game makes its way to the exit
Slowly but surely, Forspoken is making its way to PC and PlayStation 5. Well, this one should take place much earlier, before Square-Enix definitively delayed its project to better polish it: it’s hard to say anything bad about it, since we’d rather have a game with a good ending but late than the other way around. Definitely, The action RPG from Japanese developers is making good progress and has just been analyzed by PEGI as the ultimate proof.
as a reminder PEGI is the European classification organization that reviews all video games to give them a minimum recommended player age and some descriptive mentions. It’s also a good indication of development progress, since PEGI can generally step in when the design is complete or nearly complete.
“PEGI 18” (read with the voice of the trailers)
The verdict has therefore just fallen for Forspoken: this will be a PEGI 18 gameand therefore strongly discouraged for minors. There will be violence, alcohol, swearing and even microtransactions. Regarding this second, we can also have a drink at the bar or even get a good deal: “The player character can order alcohol at a bar and these drinks can randomly affect his statistics, possibly with negative effects.”
Still according to PEGi even a scene with attempted suicide under the influence of alcohol was on the program : We are of course waiting to see how all of this translates into the adventure, because literally put on paper, a large chunk of video games can seem extremely violent and cast our most likable heroes as serial killers.
Forspoken is scheduled for PC and PlayStation 5 on October 11th. Rumor has it that the game will be pushed back (again) to 2023 to make room for Final Fantasy XVI…
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