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Oseramtober 2/7 Mixing days for the sisters 💥 🎃

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Boomer and Delah

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Desert destruction with friends.

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the inventor

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Horizon Forbidden West | Favorite Moments (3/∞)

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Boom sisters 🧡🧨💥

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Delah and Boomer.

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Name: Delah of the Oseram Family: Boomer (Sister) Relationship: - Household: Oseram CC: -

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Delah & Boomer — Horizon: Forbidden West (2022) 

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Sisters

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Loud people my beloved

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Thoughts on Aloy

I rolled credits on Horizon two days ago and have had some time to think about the over all story and game play for the sequel. It’s been interesting reading other people’s thoughts and opinions and how different a lot of them are from my own. Even one of my favourite gaming podcasts are utterly different and they didn’t pick up a lot of story beats that I did. Maybe because they game lined the story and didn’t focus on every single side quest and talked at length to your companions like I did. Horizon Forbidden West has exceeded my expectations and improved a lot of things from the first game. It also dropped the ball on a couple of things but it didn’t ruin the experience for me. And HFW is 100% my game of the year. The story was captivating and left me begging for more  but also dropped a lot of lore and twists that I never thought I would see coming.

I’m going to break my thoughts down by categories and yes, this may be a long read and I’m sorry! Lol

First we gotta talk about Aloy and the growth that she has gone through from beginning to end. Aloy has the literal weight of the world on her shoulders and isn’t afraid to bulldoze her way through people to get to the results she needs. She can be harsh and doesn’t put other people’s feelings or beliefs into consideration when trying to get things done. And yes, Aloy can be cold and stand offish when people like Erend and Varl reach out. She doesn’t know how to people or to rely on any one. There’s probably some fear mixed in with being rejected if she opens up and shares her world. Especially the realization that she wasn’t born but made. You see that struggle in the beginning when she initially gives Varl the focus and has to answer his questions. It’s her brushing it off and shying away before moving on to the next thing. But Varl pushes her, makes her realize that she can’t do this alone or she’ll either fail or die trying. Varl was that spark that Aloy needed. He didn’t give up on her and followed her to the bitter end. Even calling her out on running off. You also see the pain her actions have caused and her not realizing that leaving after Meridian would be such a big deal. She’s not comfortable in group settings or being praised. She literally did not have that growing up. She had rocks thrown at her and adults brushing the other kids away from her. Of course she’s going to be socially awkward and anxious. As the story goes on though, you see her compassion and love of the world around her. The side quests are the perfect example of her warmth. Aloy is kind and understanding when dealing with the side characters, being stern when needed but also showing that not all hope is lost.

She also discovers patience when dealing with Beta and watching her unwrap those feelings for her sister is really powerful. I knew the two of them would have their “blow up” moment and I wish there was more to it. I wanted them to storm off after the fight and then come together when Aloy realizes that she is also putting pressure on Beta for not being Elisabet. I did the quest with Delah and Boomer at Hidden Ember and thought I did it at the perfect time story wise. If you haven’t played it, Boom or Bust, then I highly recommend. You should also visit them at Chainscrape when you first start playing. Because you get a great weapon that I kept in my weapon wheel for a majority of the game. 

Aloy is a complex character that is still growing and developing. Which is why it bothers me that people are being so harsh about her personality and characterization. She’s not your cookie cutter protagonist. And I appreciate that Guerilla Games is taking their time with developing her. Aloy has a lot of trauma to unpacked and rushing that would do her a disservice. We see the woman that she is becoming and the fact that she is going to pave her own path rather than trying to live up to her mother’s standards is a beautiful thing. Also being able to take the time to mourn Rost and realizing the importance of his presence in her life was such a key moment for her. Has she fully mourned him? No, but it’s leaps and bounds ahead of where she was at the start of the game. And if it wasn’t for Varl, who knows if we would have gotten that.

It also upsets me that people are letting the fact that there is no “ship” ruin the experience for themselves. Or that their desired love interest was “taken away”. Does Aloy need a love romance? No. Is it something that she deserves as an ending? Possibly. But I’m also a big Erend fan and their relationship seems to be cannon or at least growing in that direction. So please take that criticism with a grain of salt. I do understand being upset with some of the writing choices for certain characters. And I’ll get to that soon. But this story deserves the chance to be played and explored. So keep going. It might not be right in your face, but I picked up on a few moments that shows the door isn’t closed.

This post is already going pretty long. So I’m going to cut it short here for now and delve deeper into each character. Because there are a few that have been introduced that deserve so much more love!

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What were the things/characters/quests you enjoyed the most about HFW and what do you hope for possible DLCs?

First of all, love the gameplay. It's a blast and I'm having a ton of fun messing around in the postgame. The haptic feedback for the PS5 dualsense is delightful...holding R2 to ignite firegleam, hrrnGHH ✨s e n s o r y✨

I was, as predicted, a huge fan of the jock-ass Tenakth. The Tenakth side quests were awesome in particular. Yarra my absolute vulture mom beloved. I wish we'd have had more imperative to spend time in the Tenakth settlements during the main quest, outside of The Broken Sky and the Kulrut.

In fact, a lot of the side characters were awesome. Yarra, Delah, Boomer, the Vegas Oseram guys, Silga--awesome supporting cast.

I'm still working on the Cauldrons, but they've been great this time around.

I know this one is a little polarizing, but--I personally thought the entirety of the Faro's Tomb main quest was a masterpiece. A shining star amidst some weaker material. And this coming from someone who was firmly in the camp of not wanting to see an alive or otherwise undead Faro. It was the only main quest that had me totally riveted from start to finish--much more of an HZD feel to it.

Alva, too, was a high point for me. Zo and Kotallo as well. The new allies each got a little time to shine and endear themselves to us. I wish the returning characters could've received that same benefit.

While the Base was a personal disappointment for a number of reasons, I did love the accents and touches the allies brought with them. And the absolutely maimed training dummies in Aloy's bedroom. Gal was working out some issues in there.

I loved how Beta's design (darker red hair, as hers hasn't had a reason to be bleached by the sun) and acting (I called Ashly Burch getting a triple credit) really lent themselves to forming a wholly separate vision of other fragments of Sobeck.

We got Milu!!!!! but at what cost.

I got about six seconds of hot Carja sword action, yeah?

As for my hopes for DLCs, I talked about that a little in this post!

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health plants on the climb into the valley of the fallen

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delah

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medicinal ochrebloom in the forbidden west

these pics were from may and june of 2022 and whatever patch hfw was on at those times, and i don't think the plants exists anymore in the current version of the game. :(

but i found these functional/pickable plants specifically only in places where shellsnappers spawned! the daytime shots are from the shellsnapper/snapmaw site on the north coast of the mainland, and the nighttime shot is from the shellsnapper site near camp nowhere. i don't know if they were also around the unmarked site in the northwest of the isle of spires (i think i only visited it much later) or where the shellsnapper shows up in talanah's quest, but i do seem to remember them being in the area you visit with delah and boomer, although i don't have any visual proof of that one so i could be misremembering.

i'm not sure why the health plants were changed from red to blue...? it took me quite a while to train myself to look for blue instead of red, and it was honestly a bit of a pain haha. pls don't change to another color in H3, guerrilla, i don't know if my brain can take it...