
Others posted video parodies referencing the trailer. Twitter user didn't use the text as a phrasal template, but wrote a similarly quippy narration from the perspective of Kratos in God of War, gaining over 780 retweets and 11,000 likes in one day (shown below, right). For example, on August 10th, Twitter user wrote it to fit Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, gaining over 50 retweets and 270 likes in less than an hour.

Parodies typically involved Twitter users rewriting plots of other video games to humorously fit the text of the Forspoken trailer, turning it into a phrasal template.

Starting around August 10th, 2022, the trailer began being parodied on Twitter, as many found it gratingly quippy and similar to the "Marvel one-liner" type of writing that is typically associated with writers like Joss Whedon. The trailer (shown below) gained over 1,000 retweets, 6,000 quote-tweets and 9,400 likes in two days.Ī beautiful and cruel new land? Twisted monsters? An array of magical abilities? Sentient jewellery!? I do magic, kill jacked-up beasts - I’ll probably fly next."

I’m somewhere that’s not what I would call Earth… I’m seeing freaking dragons, and… oh yeah, I’m talking to a cuff! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. The trailer featured the main character quipping about the discovery of her newfound powers. On August 8th, 2022, the Twitter account for Square Enix's upcoming video game Forspoken released a trailer for the game.
