Quick Thoughts: Horizon Forbidden West (Spoiler-free) · 12:50am Apr 5th, 2022

Finally finished up Horizon Forbidden West this evening.

I had a feeling Guerilla was setting this up to be a trilogy, and they have, so far, done a phenomenal job of it. Looking forward to what DLC and a third game brings. Aside from a single cutscene where it feels like developers truly held back to maintain their Teen-rating, the main story hit all of the right beats, and the side content is some of the best I have ever played in any open world title, ever. I do feel like the base game could have done with 10 more levels, as I spent the final 12 hours of play at max level, and finishing up side content became much less of a priority once I hit 50.

What I am not, looking forward to, however, is the harder difficulties. There were times where it felt like Aloy got knocked over by a stiff breeze, and other times she was rag-dolled across the battlefield, with barely a moment to react. Every time she takes entirely too long to get back on her feet. I don't believe I'll be attempting a harder difficulty, and to be fair, hats off to Guerilla for letting players fine tune their difficulty settings to exactly what they like.

Dodge was unfairly neutered from the last game, along with melee attacks.

And I really don't know why single player experiences like this receive balance passes, as Legendary weapons got a considerable nerf in patch 1.09, just in time for me to tackle the endgame, going into the final fights with weapons that felt decidedly more toothless than they did a few days ago.

All in all, I will absolutely replay this on PC or PS5, depending on if it releases on PC before I get a PS5.

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