Quick Thoughts: Horizon Forbidden West (Spoiler-free) · 12:50am Apr 5th, 2022
Finally finished up Horizon Forbidden West this evening.
Finally finished up Horizon Forbidden West this evening.
People don't always have an hour plus to commit to your damn game, especially in the morning.
One thing Guerrilla needs to seriously work on is their exposition or at least WARN us to make ourselves comfortable for over a half hour.
Otherwise I'm done playing Forbidden West in the mornings before work. 17.5 minutes of dialogue choices and conversation. Followed immediately by a 6.5 minute cutscene, followed by 10 minutes of combat and cutscenes.
Brain: "You know all those stories you're working on, and that ever-increasing backlog of Steam games that you have yet to get to?"
Me: "Yeah...?"
Brain:
Me: "Damn you, brain. Damn you..."
I won't lie, I have been absolutely captivated by Horizon Forbidden West.
The closing hours of Horizon Zero Dawn left quite a few burning questions in my head about this exciting new world, and 16 hours into Forbidden West, it seems some of those exact questions are being answered exactly how I thought they would be. So I want to see this story play out before I accidentally trip over spoilers somewhere, as the game is already a week old.
I've known for some time that last gen consoles were going to be left behind at some point, but was still a bit disappointed that I wasn't going to be able to play Horizon Forbidden West's Burning Shores DLC on my PS4 Pro.
The tease at the end of the launch trailer gave me a clear answer as to why: