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Date:
9/24/2026 2:24:00 PM
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RE: Horizon Forbidden West: dank meme
Yes, it has some eye-roller moments, but pound for pound I think it's one of the greatest games ever made.
Ubisoft makes really big Assassin's Creed games with wonderfully accurate details, but the size and detail aren't meaningful in any crucial way. Every square yard in Forbidden West is meaningful in relation to some political conflict. The biomes are equally oppressive and beautiful. When you get to the southern rain forest areas, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up because you can feel how dangerous it is, and the soundtrack perfectly cues this up.
The combat in both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, imo, is second to none. You're trying to control an outcome that can instantly become overwhelming if you make one wrong move. You're isolating targets and paring away threats, and then an arrow misses or a machine turns around at the wrong time, and suddenly you're a 120 pound, five foot six inch girl in the middle of a freeway dodging traffic that's trying to run over you, set you on fire, and shower you in acid.
The geographic scale is immense. You start on the frontier between the western-most edge of Carja territory and a neutral zone that extends for miles before you ever see the beginning of the Forbidden West. Your whole job during the first several hours of the game is getting to the point where you can legally cross into No Man's Land, the neutral area occupied by the Utaru tribe. And you spend hours here before you're finally allowed to see the first signs of Tenakth tribesmen. And this is only the beginning of the West.
In Zero Dawn, you were a solitary figure attempting to piece together the world's forgotten past history and prevent a second extinction event. In Forbidden West, you have to become a diplomat, an organizer, and a general. Zero Dawn was about tactics; Forbidden West is about strategy. I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to say that you become the T.E. Lawrence of your world.
Yep. I like it a lot.
