![]() Armed with her ever-trusty Focus, she can now determine precisely where she needs to launch herself in order to avoid stumbling down into a dreary and dramatically anticlimactic death. The pullcaster gives Aloy everything she needs to weave her way across the world. I’ll be surprised if I’m the only reviewer who grabs the low-hanging fruit here and labels the pullcaster 'the best open-world contraption since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s paraglider.' Even the words themselves are sort of similar. ![]() There are welcome exceptions, like the pullcaster. There’s an overabundance to it all as if the developers were worried that players would grow bored with every weapon and tool at Aloy’s disposal, so they just kept shoving in some more. I have a professional obligation to retain this important information in my brain, you know.īut I can’t. As a reviewer, I should refrain from using words like doodad the insinuation is that I can’t remember what this stuff is called. There’s a dichotomy to the combat system, an oddity that stems from that most dreaded (and perhaps overused) of open-world critiques: "bloated." Aloy has access to a dizzying number of new trinkets and gadgets. Not every story in Guerrilla Games’ visually mesmerizing sequel is told quite so well. But for now, the emerald foliage near sapphire coasts, the ruby red alarms in research laboratories, and the like - with decent HDR, every television will tell the tale that Forbidden West is a visual gem. Eventually, we will notice all the blemishes in this 2022 outing of top-notch graphical substance. Every ounce of this game is bursting with color an experience so vivid that it will likely age quite well in the years to come. They’ve also driven past satellite dishes in Utah and envisioned these places as far-future settlements for the survivors of a post-post-apocalyptic North American continent. I am absolutely convinced Horizon Forbidden West’s creators have read their fair share of the science fiction classics. There’s a story here about the important role of imagination in the design and development of ambitious video games. In the PlayStation 5 version of the game, the haptic feedback on the DualSense controller works hard to lend our hands a sense that we’re right there with her as the sandy gusts pass over her and - oh, yeah - giant mechanical dinosaurs roam the land. It’s the next phase in a long westbound journey for Aloy, and she looks upon it with wonder. To do so, however, would be to ignore the way the sight of that desert makes us feel. Horizon Forbidden West is a story about stories. Sure, you can break it all down and say that reluctant returning heroine Aloy’s quest to save a reborn world is the all-inclusive pillar holding the whole thing together.
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