![]() ![]() No one seemed ready to know it yet, but Aloy was a hero in the making. As she grew in her understanding of the machine-populated future around her, she also grew in confidence and power, establishing the core tenets of her belief system and personality - a ferocious, single-minded focus (not Focus, which we'll get to later) on whatever the task is at hand, capable of analytical, emotional and pragmatic approaches to every situation except romance and pure bullshit, neither of which she seems to have much time for. In Horizon Zero Dawn, players witnessed Aloy's beginning as a confused and ostracized member of her own tribe, either frightening or angering people she encountered. So, is Aloy a paragon? It depends on whether you think Luke Skywalker-type characters who have had nothing-to-something rises to prominence in their own sagas fit the description. Plus, there's no need to really repeat ourselves. Our guy Chris "Atom" DeAngelus went pretty deep himself for our initial review of Horizon: Forbidden West, so the plan here is to examine a few pillars of the game and serve as a second pair of eyes. This is a "deep dive" after all, which at its essence, means picking apart some things, even if we love them. It's fair to say HFW has firmly cemented any of Aloy's future exploits on the PS5 and beyond into event releases, whenever they happen. There's something about the second game of a Sony series that vaults both hero and franchise into critical and popular stratospheres: I look at God of War 2 and Uncharted 2 as a couple of the best Sony games ever made. Horizon: Forbidden West is a marvelous achievement on many levels, but it stood out most to me as the vehicle for Aloy's ascension into Sony's pantheon of heroes, along with Kratos, Ratchet & Clank and Nathan Drake. I'm relatively fresh off fighting the game's final boss, voiced by a sci-fi legend (did I really just fight and defeat Trinity, for crying out loud?), and I'm spending my endgame reverie helping people, watching Aloy, the series' hero, basically become the friendly neighborhood warrior. I've climbed mountains in the cold, swam underwater and gazed at the remains of submerged Las Vegas, watched Aloy wipe the sweat off her brow in the desert and in a lush tropical setting near the coastline. I've spent about 30 hours buried in the lands of Horizon: Forbidden West. ![]()
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