Horizon Forbidden West Review

After finishing Horizon Zero Dawn I eagerly awaited the next entry. The past Earth and the downfall of mankind due to the robotic Faro plague was the most interesting thing to me and I couldn’t wait to find out more. Then in 2022, I didn’t have to wait any longer and finally I got to explore The Forbidden West.

Horizon Forbidden West follows Aloy six months after the events of Horizon Zero Dawn, where she is searching for a way to reboot G.A.I.A. to heal the planet before it dies. Joining her is Varl, a character from the first game who looks out for Aloy even when she doesn’t want him to.

Her search takes her to The Forbidden West where she finds a land riddled with even more savage machines and tribes that are weakened by inner conflict. Throughout The Forbidden West are many recognisable landmarks such as the casinos of Las Vegas buried under a desert and San Francisco being reduced to an island, with the Golden Gate Bridge sticking out of the ocean.

Along her journey Aloy needs to find the remaining subordinate functions and return them to G.A.I.A. but the discovery of Far Zenith may reveal more than she was ready for.

This time round Aloy gets a few extra tricks to help her navigate the world. Early on you are given a paraglider, to glide down and stealth attack machines from above or to just avoid fall damage. Another device is a breathing apparatus so you can freely explore under water. While the breathing device allows you to explore freely, you cannot attack at all underwater. So basically underwater kinda sucks.

I did really enjoy this game and I don’t remember having the same visual issues this time round. The world of Horizon Forbidden West was just as captivating as Zero Dawn and with all the new information we now have, I can’t wait for the next Horizon.