Hmmmm, I think Horizon Forbidden West will START at 92, but will slowly lower and eventually settle on 89. Why? Because of all the great news about how well Zero Dawn sold will make a handful of people give it low scores. I'd be willing to bet Edge gives it a 6/10 and Slant gives it a 4/10, and those alone will be enough to bring it down a point or two. But yes, at launch, I predict 92 after the first wave of reviews, but it'll slowly go down and end up just south of 90 when its all done. So 89.
Sadly, in these modern times there are always contrarians. Unless it's a Mario game.
I'm only just starting Zero Dawn as of yesterday so I got a lot of catching up to do. Plan is to finish Zero Dawn before Elden Ring comes out (not gonna happen) and get all the trophies, then play elden Ring and come back to play Forbidden West. Either way, despite my prior reservations about Zero Dawn (I tried it a few times and just couldn't get into it), my time with - of all games - Ghost of Tsushima has changed my perspective and now It's clicking with me. Good stuff.
**Edit** Oh, and I bet there'll be like one lesbian or trans person in the game and half the internet will carpet bomb its user metascore for being woke regardless of how it's implemented.
Last edited by Runa216 - on 13 February 2022
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