It’s star-studded development team alongside some solid world building helps create a fantasy world that feels both incredibly unique and yet somewhat too familiar. Developer Luminous Games’ debut game Forspoken -their first full fledge title since working on Final Fantasy XV- released January 23rd for PlayStation 5 and PC offers some of the most marvelous movement systems, an awesomely magnificent open-world and combat that makes massive fights into a ballet of magical strikes emphasized by beautiful particles that dazzle as you strike down monstrous chimera like creatures.

Now take that and put it on a more chaotic field, set in a ruined fantasy world and you get this glorious combination of magic and parkour. Which is not bad at all, but is undeniably lame when compared to doing gainers off the side of buildings then neon sprinting to your next destination. The variety and uniquely suited travel style really elevated the super-hero fantasy, because most games give you a car or a glitchy horse to move around in massive worlds. It took the mundane task of traversal and turned it into a trick filled, super-powered fiesta where you’d shoot around as a beam of light then transform into smoke rising up a pipe and shooting out high into the sky.

The 3D Mario games have probably the best handle on it but for my money Infamous Second Son, released in 2014 for the PS4, featured some of the most dynamic and varied movement ever featured in an open world game. Get your character from point A to point B in an entertaining way. Want to know what the hardest thing in gaming to make fun is? Movement.

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