![]() ![]() ![]() These are not new types of feelings!īut the thing is: When I sign up to go to the mystical world of Athia, ruled by four sorcerous Tantas and cursed by mysterious blight. And I also know the other half of this, which is that my work in genre spaces gets looked down on. I know the strange feeling of writing about orcs or robots or death gremlins or rhyming sorceress-queens by day, only to spend my free time consuming stories that are grounded and real and which shake my bones free from one another. I work in "genre" despite having a lot of high-falutin interests. People call this type of dialog Whedon-esque a lot, though the Marvel example I think of the most is that bit in the most recent Spider-Man where MCU Peter and his friends laugh at the idea of someone named "Doctor Otto Octavius." Both of these lines-and a great deal of similar smirking, snarking, wink-at-the-camera style comedy-miss for me in the same way: They feel ashamed of the world that the lines are being spoken in.Īnd I get it. She isn't just being flippant, she's lampshading the artifice of this situation, calling attention to (and dismissing) the absurdity of a sorceress-queen who speaks in rhyme. "Shit, alright, if you're gonna rhyme everything, just kill me now," responds Frey, hands in shackles. In this moment, she is restrained and confronted by one, who speaks to her in rhyme. So, what's happening in this clip, given what I know: The protagonist of Forspoken, Frey, has been transported from New York City to a weird mystical world called Athia that is consumed by a magical rot and ruled by a quartet of mystical, tyranical sorceress-queens, called Tantas. Let's focus on just the third one above, which I'll even re-embed here for ease: I want to explain why I sink into my seat a little when I watch these clips. But I want to do more than call it cringe and move on. So, if this hits for you, hell yeah, have fun. No one makes their own taste, and while it's something I beleive you can and should broaden and nurture, well, we cannot always broaden and nurture it as we please. And let me be clear here: This is not me saying I think it shouldn't work for others. ![]() SO, at risk of discoursing, I'm going to weigh in on why this style of writing tends not to work for me. ![]() Or, maybe one step better than that, it's asumed they you're arguing in bad faith (when in fact, it's just that ages of being online has made us all feel like sharing our feelings in careful ways is just a waste of time because people are going to ignore what we actually said and cherry pick a way to tear into us anyway). And the trade off that comes from performing funny dunks instead of considered critique is that it becomes easy for the person who disagrees with you to assume that you're just trolling. There's another reason I think, which is that a lot of people share their strong reactions without elaborating on or unpacking where those feelings come from. There are many reasons that this has been so polarizing: frustration with a decade of "Whedonesque" Marvel dialog and the adjacent contraction the variety of films released into theaters the absence of black writers on Forspoken the public dismissal of Forspoken in contrast with the valorization of other projects that have white instead of black leads but are otherwise very similar in tone and style the word "isekai" and how you relate to it, generally the general emotional experience of life under capitalism et cetera. (Don't tell me you wouldn't have reacted the same way!) /NAqztq115c- Brittney Brombacher January 23, 2023 If you thought THAT dialogue was fun, you'll probably like this moment too. n3EjzjThY0- LegionzGaming January 23, 2023 You fucking telling me you wouldn’t be acting like this too? You out your god damn mind. She’s a girl that hated her life in NYC and got issekai’d into a magical world. Y’all are so ridiculous getting mad about the dialogue in forspoken. I present to you *actual* dialogue from Forspoken /IzygNHHM2T- MrMattyPlays January 23, 2023 Just in case you spend your time better than me, though, here's a small collection of them: If you're on Twitter or frequent gaming forums, you have probably been unable to escape clips of Forspoken (Square-Enix studio Luminous' new open world action RPG) today. ![]()
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