Every aspect of Horizon Forbidden West is intriguing, from the stunning open world to the intricate combat to the unexpected story.
returns to a post-apocalypse brimming with wondrous scenery, bestial robots, and scrappy civilizations that arose a thousand years after ecological catastrophe. It's topped my most-anticipated games list for years — and I know I'm not alone in saying that its predecessor,, is one of my favorite games of all time. Yet, I had some trepidation when I finally got my hands on the game.
It's a relief for Aloy to learn about her lineage in the first game, but it's also a burden. While she strives to reconstruct Gaia and rescue the entire biosphere from an external threat, her chief aspiration is to live up to the legacy of her genetic"mother," Elisabet.Aloy sees her genetic"mother," Elisabet Sobeck, in a recurring dream.Horizon Forbidden West
, Aloy learns that while Lis devoted herself to saving humanity and sacrificed herself to see her dream come to fruition, she spurned close friendships. She loved people in the abstract but didn't make time for individuals. Aloy is left wondering what Lis was really like, and whether she wants to make the same choices.
For a character who's already reasonably well-developed at the start of this sequel, it's a fantastic and thought-provoking path. Aloy spends the bulk of the first game solo, reluctant to accept any help, and she begins the second game the same way. But over the course of, Aloy works through challenges to her conviction that she must go at it alone.
, and it's easy to run off to the nearest mountain to scale it, just to see what's on the other side. Swimming can be a pain until Aloy assembles a gadget that allows her to breathe underwater — that opens entirely new biomes to explore, from oceans to caves to the underwater ruins of Las Vegas. And, as always, it's an absolute delight to hack robots and ride them.
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