I found myself greatly enjoying them but couldn’t help but wonder how this would read to a larger audience. Here we have a woman who may be facing a sentence in a fantasy prison, who was also recently almost getting mauled by a dragon, and her strongest emotional reaction happens when a sentient bracelet suggests she might be from New Jersey.įrey’s many quips are hyper-specific to New York City culture.

He can never make this mistake ever again.

“New York and Newark are not the same thing!” she chastises him. Cuff has a hard time grasping the city’s name and confuses it with “Newark.” For Frey - and most diehard New Yorkers - there is no greater insult. Frey informs Cuff (her talking … cuff) that she found him in New York. And, as is true of most residents of the greatest city in the world (fight me!), she can’t shut up about New York when she isn’t actually there.Ī particularly memorable interaction sent me into a fit of laughter so loud that everyone in the room began staring. Square Enix New York state of mindĮven though the only hint of New York I got during my preview was a short look at the Holland Tunnel, the city looms large in Forspoken as the object of Frey’s mission.

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