Forspoken has undergone a downgrade - the demo was compared with the first trailer

Friday at PlayStation 5 action role-playing demo became available The prophesied from Square Enix and Luminous Productions, creators of Final Fantasy XV. Channel ElAnalistaDeBits tested the demo and compared the graphics of the game with the very first trailer shown in 2020.

There are three graphics modes available in the demo: quality, ray tracing, and performance.

The trial version contains a piece of the game from the pre-release build. Serious changes in terms of visuals or performance should not be expected by the time of the January release.

In quality mode, better textures, draw distance and higher resolution on average up to 1728p.

The ray tracing mode reduces the resolution to an average of 1512p, and also degrades texture quality and draw distance, but improves shadows on some elements. However, ray tracing is not applied to vegetation shadows, which make up the majority of the environment, as well as reflections and global illumination.

Performance mode has the same texture clipping and draw distances as ray tracing mode, and also limits dynamic resolution to 1440p using temporary reconstruction. Despite the visual simplifications, the mode does not provide a stable 60 frames per second.

Forspoken support option 120 Hz, however, it limits the maximum resolution in all modes to 1440p. Ray tracing and quality modes reach 40 FPS at 120Hz while the quality mode stays at 60 FPS.

Compared to the 2020 debut trailer, it is noticeable that the game has undergone a major downgrade in lighting, textures, geometry, and detail. The author of the comparison notes that in visual terms, the end result turned out to be far from what was originally promised..

Forspoken will be released January 24 on PlayStation 5 and PC.