Idk I’ve been playing a lot of Fromsoft games lately and the iconographic style bled into this. Don’t know if I’ll finish it but it’s been good practice
I think I know why I love the Horizon story so much.
It's narratively post-apocalypse, but not thematically post-apocalypse.
This story isn't about a world that ended, but carries on under new laws and understandings, this is about an entirely new civilization. The history is gone, so far gone for so long that even if it were recovered now, none of it would matter because culture and science and art have already been rebuilt from scratch.
It also, unlike most post-apocalyptic stories, doesn't almost exclusively portray humanity as a plague and an enemy of life and the natural world. In this case, life didn't endure despite humanity, life endured BECAUSE of humanity.
The Horizon story is a fun, emotional, action-packed chronicle, but it's also a love letter to humanitarianism, and how important it is that we never give up no matter how hopeless the situation seems. We are a part of the natural world. We are a part of nature itself, and we are not the enemy of life. We, on our best days, are life's custodians.