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Horizon Forbidden West
So, was just playing the PS4 version, already platinumed the PS5, so just platinum the PS4 version for the fun of it. Got the Plat in 37 hours and this included me being pedantic and wanting to buy certain outfits and doing certain upgrades or optional missions I didn't need to do. Went back to PS5 version after to compare looks, PS5 better is noticeably graphically superior.
As for my thoughts on the game as a whole, I'd say even though it's superb, it wasn't as superb or at least the effect of HZD had on me. I like the way they handled the level and abilities, like Aloy already knew the stuff from the last game, so just make it so everything is more powerful so she is. New machines are great, and Tallneck missions were better than first games.
However the crafting and weapons... urgh, why do I have to farm machines to then exchange for weapons to then farm machines to upgrade them when I've already upgraded a weapon and it's currently more powerful than the weapon I just got/purchased? HZD had a much better simpler system. There's so much farming in HFW. Upgrading the New Game plus weapons is just a chore. Plus they seriously nerfed the rope caster but maybe for good reason, rope caster in HZD was op, worked on basically everything, even the birds. I barely used it if at all in HFW.
As for the plot:
This is where I'm a little disappointed. First game was all about finding who you were, finding out the real threat and discovering the secrets of the world. As a player you didn't know anything, just like Aloy, so you were discovering things together. Finding out we were in Colorado was a nice surprise. Come the second game, it didn't feel like discovery, just going from place to place to on errands, I was a gofer. The only things we discover is about the bad guys and we barely see them and their existence feels (to me anyway) brushed over. First game was science fiction, I could understand the ideas of the first and what lead to the world as it is but I couldn't understand what lead to the bad guys and their existence, it felt like science fantasy. To me there was a lot of unanswered questions when the first felt like it rounded things off really well.
Anyway, I guess what I expected was more AI stuff, dealing with these functions which had gained sentience enough to want to be free or have purposes of their own, maybe even talk to them like we did Hades. In the end we got a bunch of humans, who we barely saw and in the end weren't much of a threat really. Regalla was more of a threat but her plot just felt like the same as a Shadow Carja's.
Eitherway, look forward to Horizon 3.
Hmm, pie.
