"'Promised' is a perfectly good video game title", said local man who learned too much German
https://www.theverge.com/23564532/forspoken-review-ps5-square-enix
(Context: "versprechen" in German means "to promise":
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/versprechen
but "forspoken" in English - from the same word roots - means "bewitched"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forspoken)
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@zhuowei making mischief with cognates whose meanings have drifted is always a lovely time

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