"Horizon Forbidden West gameplay walkthrough"- Part 8 -#Uri35

Horizon Forbidden West is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn (2017), the game is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States recovering from the aftermath of an extinction event caused by a rogue robot swarm. The player, assuming control of Aloy, must venture into the Forbidden West to find the source of a mysterious plague that kills all it infects. The player can explore the open world and complete quests using ranged and melee weapons against machine creatures and hostile rebels. Forbidden West introduced new gameplay mechanics to the franchise, such as new traversal tools, underwater exploration, and expanded melee combat. Story: Aloy returns as the game's protagonist. In Forbidden West, she had to deal with another catastrophic extinction-level event, live up to the legacy of Elizebeth Sobeck, an esteemed scientist whom she was a clone of (as depicted in Zero Dawn),[43] while needing to prove herself again while venturing into the Forbidden West.[44] Writer Benjamin McCaw added the overwhelming amount of pressure Aloy faces as a significant part of her character arc in the game.[45] Ashly Burch returned to provide voice and motion capture for Aloy, along with Lance Reddick as Sylens, John Hopkins as Erend, and John Macmillan as Varl. Newcomers include Alison Jaye as Alva, Noshir Dalal as Kotallo, Carrie-Anne Moss as Tilda and Angela Bassett as Regalla.[46] Unlike Zero Dawn, Guerilla invested more resources into creating the game's cinematics. Advanced motion capture tools allowed the team to record dynamic movement and character expressions more extensively, enabling team to create scenes that were character-centric across main quests and side objectives, though the COVID-19 pandemic meant that the team had to recruit local talents in Amsterdam to substitute certain cast members.[47] According to McCaw, Aloy's dynamics with other characters were difficult to write, as Aloy's unique upbringings and aspirations to live up to Sobeck's legacy (who saved the world by herself single-handedly) meant that she often pushed away her friends as she felt like she had to accomplish the task alone. The main theme of the story is integrating Aloy into a society and learning to accept help, ultimately understanding that instead of saving the world "in abstract", it was the people in the world who are worth saving. The team spent more time developing character-driven side quests in order to deepen Aloy's relationships with them.[43] Aloy's relationship with Beta contrasted with Aloy's own relationship with Sobeck, and was described by the team as "the heart and soul" of the game's story", and the most difficult part to write.[48] [43] According to the game's writer, Beta served as a "dark" reflection of Aloy, and embodied "all of Aloy's conflicts about wanting to be like Elisabet, wanting to connect to others, but feeling isolated".[43] Far Zeniths were an important part of the story, and their role was known to the team even during the development of Zero Dawn. Having long achieved self preservation, Far Zeniths was egotistical and had little regards for the rest of human life.[49] Tilda, one of the surviving members of the Far Zenith, was created as a "Dutch technologist, authentication expert, and art collector", and the team collaborated with the Rijksmuseum to select 10 art pieces and recreate them inside Tilda's mansion in the game.[50] Ted Faro, the billionaire who doomed the world in Zero Dawn, returned in Forbidden West. According to McCaw, he has become a "human cancer", "a massive cancerous growth" due to unnatural techniques used to extend his lifespan. The team made an intentional decision not to show Faro's face, because Forbidden West was not intended to be a horror game, and the team felt that by only showing his silhouette, it left rooms for players to imagine what he would have look like, making the encounter more frightening.[51] As with the previous game, Sylens is not an antagonist in Forbidden West, though he and Aloy shared an "adversarial" relationship. In the game, the two will need to learn to collaborate despite their mutual disdain for each other.[52] Technology