There are many handy and helpful tips that can make beginners better Forspoken players. The narrative-driven adventure game follows Frey Holland, a young New Yorker transported to the magical realm of Athia, where she must use her magical powers to journey across the region and survive harsh atmospheres.

Due to Forspoken's emphasis on movement, parkour, traversal, and exploration, the most valuable tips for beginners tend to focus on Frey's cool parkour magic spells, spell crafting, and healing potions that help her remain alive in the harsh open world of Athia. Whether taking shortcuts with Fast Travel, using Auto Pick-Up to save time, or using the Spellcraft challenges to bolster Frey's magical powers, there is no shortage of useful tips and tricks to improve every Forspoken beginner's first few playthroughs.

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Adjust Accessibility Settings

Frey uses magic in a field in Forspoken

Gathering items is a very important aspect of Frey's success in Forspoken. The more collectibles she finds, the more valuable tools can be crafted and used as weapons, healing potions, and protective gear. As such, it's paramount to enter the Settings Menu and adjusting the Accessibility Settings, which literally make collecting items more easily attainable.

In particular, activating the Automatic Item Gathering allows Frey to quickly and conveniently obtain every collectible item automatically by running over it. The option will save immense time, energy, and health by no longer having to stop in the middle of a battle arena or dangerous environment to manually kneel down and pick up loot and resources. There's also a way to activate the Enhance Low Visibility setting, which makes it much easier to spot hidden collectibles in the wild.

Fast Travel To Refuges & Belfries

Frey fast travels to a Refufe in Forpsoken

While fast travel has become a staple of open-world games as a way to save time and shortcut through a map, the options in Forspoken are even more helpful. First off, beginners need to visit every Refuge in the game, as they are safe havens that allow Frey to heal, sleep to regain strength, craft new upgrades, and more.

Secondly, Refuges also serve as Fast Travel destination points in Forspoken, meaning Frey can quickly transport to any of these safe havens whenever they want. Being able to quickly transport to a healing house with spellcraft upgrades and directions to nearby Refuges will give every beginner a major advantage in terms of saving time and preserving life. Likewise, Belfries are Golden Towers that can be used to unveil hidden markers on the map.

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Use Cuff To Can Surroundings & Scout Enemies

Frey uses Cuff to fight a dragon

In the exciting 2023 RPG, Frey wears a talking bracelet that helps her adapt to Athia's harsh surroundings. While it will take a while for beginners to get a hang of the device, a few helpful tips will significantly expedite the process. For instance, once Cuff is activated, pressing Up on the D-Pad will immediately highlight any nearby collectibles, looming enemies, NPCs worth interacting with, etc.

Utilizing Cuff as Frey's extra set of eyes in Athia is a convenient way of ensuring a beginner never misses a valuable item, hidden foe, or important character to interact with. Cuff can also be used to scout specific enemy traits of enemies on the battlefield, including their elemental strengths and weaknesses, a doubly helpful hack in the popular but critically-panned RPG that should be used to make every beginner's life much easier. Even if PS5 beginners opt to turn off Cuff's voice commands in Settings, the bracelet should be used to scan and monitor Frey's surroundings at all times.

Complete Spellcraft Challenges To Improve Magical Powers

Frey unlocks a Spellcraft challenge in Forspoken

In Forspoken, Frey can increase the power and diversity of her spells by progressing through the story and completing optional Spellcraft Challenges, which are unlocked early in the game in Cipal. The Spellcraft Challenges are long and laborious to complete, leaving many beginners to skip over them instead of finishing the tasks.

It's important to ensure that Spellcraft Challenges are activated and completed at all times. Doing so will not only improve the power of Frey's Magic, which includes the amount of damage inflicted on enemies in battle, but it will also increase Stamina abilities as well. Since different enemies are vulnerable to different magical spells, it's important for Frey to bolster as many as she can early and often to remain as prepared as possible.

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Collect As Much Mana As Possible

Frey collects mana in Forspoken

Another way to bolster Frey's Magic is to collect Mana (glowing blue energy bursts) from the Mana Pools located throughout the map. Each pool grants one Mana point, which is otherwise attained by leveling up. The more Mana Frey has, the more she will be able to upgrade stamina, and movement abilities, solve puzzles, and purchase new magical spells as the game progresses.

Farming and utilizing Mana to upgrade Frey's overall health and magical prowess is essential for defeating bosses and deadly diseases in Athia. If the Automatic Item Gathering option is activated, Frey can easily pick up Mana without the hassle of battling armed guards. As such, it's a much more convenient and expedient way of increasing Frey's strengths than leveling up or farming mana in unnecessary side quests.

Spend Gold Coins Wisely

The Curio Collector appears in Forspoken

In Athia, there is a wealth of Old Coin Chests containing valuable gold coins that can be used to purchase several items in Cipal. To unlock the chests, puzzles must be solved. The gold coins can be spent to obtain craftable items, new buffs, and other useful items to increase Frey's overall standing in the game. Be sure to check every Locked Labyrinth for hidden gold coins.

It's important for beginners to note that there are only three places to spend coins. The first two in Cipal include the Bookseller and The Cat Lady, while the third is found in a hidden Curiosity Shop located in Visoria. It's worth waiting to spend the gold coins at the Curiosity Shop rather than purchasing items from the Bookseller or Cat Lady because sewing kits, compasses, crafting pots, etc., are much more valuable than Cat toys.

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Visit Founts Of Blessing For Free New Spells

Frey visits a Mulberry Fount in Forspoken

While most of the spells in the highly anticipated 2023 game need to be unlocked or purchased, visiting the sacred towers known as Founts of Blessing is an easy way of gaining a new spell for free each time one is visited. The Founts can be spotted from Belfries and usually grant free Support and Movement spells to help Frey become more agile and adept to handle Athia's terrain.

For example, Founts of Blessing can grant Shimmy, a spell that rapidly improves her ability to jump around the ground. Soar is another spell that enables Frey to climb walls and cliffs much faster and more nimbly. Even more helpful, many spells can be converted back to Mana free of cost after they're unlocked. This gives beginners great leeway to experiment with a combination of spells without any cost or consequence and allows Frey to be at her best.

Slow Down Time During Battles

Frey uses her support spell wheel in Forspoken

Frey can temporarily slow time down during combat by accessing her Spell wheel using the bumpers. This gives Frey a much greater advantage to defeat enemies, especially in the early going when she's equipped with more spells than advanced weapons.

While the temporary hack is ideal for combat in a pinch, there's also a way to keep the slow-motion feature activated for the duration. By turning on the Spell-Switching Slowdown option in the Gameplay Balance Settings, Frey can stop to catch her breath. Slowing down enemies is a great way for Frey to gain an advantage on the battlefield, but doing so can also help beginners learn the ropes of each magical spell in the process.

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Use The Map To Upgrade Gear

Frey finds crafting gear in Forspoken

Depending on which region of Athia Frey is in, equipping her with the proper gear is vital for survival. Yet, with such a massive map, it can be difficult to know which type of gear can be found in any given region. Of course, unless beginners use the Map to scout the land ahead of time.

In addition to using the 3D map to pre-plan mountain scaling and vertical climbing, the map can also be used to spot specific gear in every region of Athia. The three types of gear in Forsaken include Cloaks, Nails, and Necklaces, and depending on which is needed for a specific mission or boss to fight, beginners can check the map and the game will clue them into which gear is located in a specific region.

Pad Landings To Minimize Fall Damage

Tanta chokes Frey in Forspoken

Frey does a lot of climbing, parkouring, and zipping to high places in Athia. When she falls, Cuff usually absorbs the damage and depletes Frey's stamina. If Frey's stamina is fully depleted when landing on the ground, she can sustain significant damage. Therefore, it's important for beginners to monitor their stamina and be careful of each new leap from high up.

By Chapter 6 of the Square Enix game, an even more helpful tip includes activating the Tanta Sila's red magic tendril ability. By activating the ability and pointing the tendril toward the ground, it will provide a safe landing space for Frey that will reduce the damage of falling from high places. Forspoken relies on Frey to reach the highest peaks and mountaintops in order to fulfill missions and gain hard-to-reach items.

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