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MacArrowny posted...

I don't think Horizon 2 is that amazing, though I did enjoy it, but I would say rising up from the Cauldron on the Tallneck was perhaps my favorite moment in game this way. Felt absolutely magnificent.

Sure. From a story standpoint there are some pretty good moments and set pieces. I think the entire plot with Beta is well done, and the Mass Effect 2-esque feeling of building a hideout/gathering a crew is not bad.

Also it bears mentioning that a large portion of the discourse surrounding this game's release was tainted by gamers overreacting to unflattering screenshots and criticizing the game's politics. In actuality the game is still beholden to its white savior protagonist, so it's still a pretty colonialist narrative, even as it tries to skirt around this by making all the tribes multi-racial. This in itself makes the game problematic from all angles really. MRA's get turned off by Aloy while progressives take issue with the surface-level treatment of Indigineity.

It's nothing more or less offensive than Avatar (Na'vi, not Nickelodeon). Aloy is the main problem here, as she is a white person who is literally smarter than everyone else (due to plot reasons) and that she spends most of this game gifting them technology / "true knowledge." Some of the side quests make efforts to complicate this, but at its heart, that's what Aloy is about. So again - chuds and progressives hate her equally, though for different reasons!