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oodlyenough · 2 years

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misc thoughts on horizon forbidden west a trillion years later

huge mixed bag of a game for me. some parts were very interesting, and sometimes i was having a ton of fun, and then other times it felt like an absolute chore to bother continuing. i played the first, i don't know, 3rd of the game on normal mode and was enjoying the level of challenge and then eventually hit a point where i was impatient, switched over to story to push through, and was never able to leave story because i'd start dying immediately

part of this is probably because the of the update gear mechanic which. god. i can't be assed. it is too much work honestly lmao, convoluted, etc. overall it felt like the game added a lot of stuff for the sake of Adding Stuff... and in the process it also nerfed a bunch of my fave weapons from HZD. tripwires and traps are useless now. why would i want something that is way more likely to hurt *me* in battle. why did aloy forget how to whistle. i could barely keep track of valor surge let alone remember stamina and whatever else lol

the story too kept having ups and downs.

-varl/zo was such nonsense LMAO i'm sorry wtf... if varl was going to die why not let him and aloy have their little UST thing up until that point? why introduce a brand new character and be like "after trailing aloy for six months he met zo for two minutes and is in love. Also zo is pregnant :)" come on

-erend don't touch me. get off me. ugh. ew

-the far zenith stuff was so strange... i was interested in the lore but every time one of them turned up it just seemed like a different game was happening, lol. like i know the Point of their design was to look so different from everyone else but it just felt odd to me. when they showed up the first time I was like ????? lmao. In general the Zeniths felt ... like... we spent all this time learning to take out their shields and then we fought 1 of them.

-at first i also thought it was stupid they were literally the same people, immortalized. but it DID give me the opportunity to have tilda, who was easily a high point in the game, so whatever i guess

-tilda! you're crazy. i love you. lmfao. I feel like they underutilized her. I can roll w the obsessive love stuff but wish we'd gotten a bit more... I also felt like the way they set up her betrayal was everyone telling me "She's gonna betray us", to the point that I was expecting her to not do so because that would be more surprising, lmao. Sylens got the actual interesting character turn in that regard

-it felt hard to take any satisfaction in the end of the game's "successes" when the last 20 minutes suddenly introduced Threequel Villain and spent time hyping them up as the next existential threat. if I was supposed to enjoy my victory I didn't really bc I was like "okay and now the next thing..." they wanted some sense of triumph and Community and I didn't really feel that. although I guess I did feel we veered back into climate allegory so... fine... I suppose

-the ending stuff being about Community but not involving any NPCs from HZD except erend was off to me. :/ miss u varl. why isn't talanah here. or petra. or... etc

#horizon forbidden west #hfw spoilers

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koalammas · 1 year

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Lmao horizon forbidden west spoilers ahead don't read if u care, I'm on mobile idk how to add a readmore

I still have horizon unfinished after they killed off my fave for no reason whatsoever. They could have included parallels by making aloy care for varl while he recuperates. He literally did that for her, its been established time and time again that they care for each other and like... there's SO much potential to have him live and still get the emotional shock that his death is supposed to be. There's literally technology from the future, you could have written aloy genuinely threaten tilda until she helps to heal him, you could have used that as a building block for the trust between her and the homebase crew. Have him rest at the base and heal. He does not have to be an active npc, you could literally build tension over whether or not he wakes up. You could still get those same conversations with Zo, the cautious friendship they've built together, aloy missing her chance and getting over it to support her friend, becoming friends with zo herself, for her own sake? You could still have all those deep conversations, and have varl wake up at the end, healed by zenith technology. Instead we get a shocking death and ... a messily written truce that makes litchrally no sense to me. Absolutely botched that one, when you had potential to do it so much better and like. Also you know. You didnt need to kill off a black male character for the shock value.

#that left such a bad taste in my mouth i still havent been able to continue that game /:#which sucks bc up until that point forbidden west has been one of my fave gaming experiences ever.#liinatalk #hzd spoilers #hfw spoilers

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