If you’ve been following the discourse around Forspoken since it launched last week, you’ll know that a lot of the criticism has been aimed at the dialogue — specifically the banter between Frey and her magical talking bracelet Cuff, which some players have found grating.
The Escapist has a great piece up arguing that if Buffy trained you to love that kind of snappy, self-aware, quip-heavy dialogue, you’re probably fine with it — and they’re not wrong. Go give it a read. It’s a fun argument and it’ll make you think about how much Buffy quietly rewired what a generation of us expects from genre dialogue.
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