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Just like its predecessor, Horizon Forbidden West is a perfectly decent open-world adventure game that excels when it comes to offering spectacle but suffers from a bland, predictable protagonist, and a world that, despite making a great first impression, lacks mystery and depth.
Aloy, the young outcast turned savior, is now looking for the backup of Gaia, an AI designed to control the terraforming process that is now destroying her machine-infested world. To that end, the now famous Nora hunter heads west, into Tenakth territory, tracking down her old mentor, Sylens, who has kept things from her and may know about Gaia’s location.
Now that she’s deemed a savior [...]
Horizon Zero Dawn is a competent open-world action-adventure that has a strong start and great art direction. If it doesn’t reach the heights of its peers, it’s mainly due to its disjointed narrative and serious dissonances between gameplay and story.
The world of Horizon Zero Dawn is full of bestialized mechanical monsters: robots that look and act like tigers, buffalos, alligators, and even dinosaurs. The protagonist is Aloy, a young female hunter that grew up as a pariah because of the circumstances of her birth. When the mechanical menace becomes unbearable, however, Aloy is finally welcomed to her tribe and is tasked to save not only her people but the entire [...]