No One Expects The Spanish Exposition: Horizon Forbidden West is the upcoming sequel to hit action-adventure narrative game Horizon: Zero Dawn. Developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, who have definitely not engaged in any attempts at unfair threats of legal action to maintain a monopoly on console-customizing skins, ever, not in the slightest, you’ll just have to trust me on that. Horizon Forbidden West launches for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on February 18.

Nadie espera el juego: In addition to Aloy being more realistic-looking and reactive than in the first game, which is no mean feat, Horizon Forbidden West will see a more expansive world. Lead Living World Designer Espen Sogn has claimed players will “encounter a world that feels more alive and more real than ever”. 

In a recent official PlayStation blog post, Bo De Vries (Community Leader at Guerrilla Games) details the game’s design intentions and features. Bo De Vries goes into a level of detail far too girthy for little ol me to squeeze into 600 words or less, but I can summarise some highlights!

The game will explore the cultures between two different in-game tribes, Espen mentioning the tribes’ different customs will play a role in communicating the player’s status in the world.

“The Oseram are a social and historically patriarchal tribe, so their animations are more about shoulder punches and high fives. The Utaru, on the other hand, are laid back, so they will often sit down together and be a bit more touchy-feely”.

In addition to touching on weapon upgrades (you can carry up to 6, including your trusty spear), Senior designer Steven Lumpkin claimed that different clothes you equip have different effects on your interactions between tribes. Clothing will mostly effect what items you can get in places alongside giving unique gameplay buffs, so I think it will mostly function similarly to Ghost of Tsushima (psst! Which we have!). Which is to say, you get to unlock various clothes that offer unique gameplay advantages depending on how sneaky or trigger-happy you want to get!

“Clothing reflects a unique style, as well as the materials a tribe has access to and knows how to use […] Hunters from the Nora tend to favor ranged combat and stealthy hunting. Carja excel at the use of traps and tripwires. The boisterous Oseram love fighting up close and personal with a hammer. The Tenakth and Utaru have their own preferences as well — and the outfits Aloy can acquire from each culture tend to reflect and support these unique approaches to combat” – Steven Lumpkin.

कोई भी मेरे हिंदी पाठकों को तीन चीयर्स की उम्मीद नहीं कर रहा है। यह बिट कहानी पर है: Don’t worry my fellow mono-lingual friends, just run the headings through Google translate and you’ll live! Senior writer Annie Kitain has reiterated this new Horizon world will see you “meet many interesting characters, trade for cool new gear” and prepare for challenges ahead. “When you’re out in the Forbidden West, our hope is that the story is reflected in every detail of the world”.

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In an official post by PlayStation on it’s blog site featuring comments from Blake Politeski (principal machine designer) and Maxim Fleury (asset art lead), the developers at Guerrilla Games confirmed some details of the upcoming enemies from everybody’s favourite dinocybaurg hunting series… Actually, if you’ll let me indulge my inner CJ The X, I’d pay good money to see a Cyborg Transhumanist (not about trans humans, though transhumanism has been added to the pride flag this year) reading of the Horizon series. I’m only a little ways in, so can’t comment too much, but the infusing of the natural resources with mechanical beings shtick sounds like there’s a lot of philosophical meat to chew over on that. And who knows, maybe I’ll do it myself, maybe I’ll make a 5-hour long documentary on Hedy Lamar The Ultimate Girlboss! Maybe I’ll become so famous that I could afford to follow up Endgame with F**KING DOCTOR DOLITTLE!

Blake and Maxim confirmed some returning enemies from Horizon Zero Dawn, specifically, the Watcher and the Snapmaw. They’ll appear alongside Forbidden West’s new enemies, Clawstriders and Tremortusks aplenty which you can see in the Horizon Forbidden West gameplay trailer here.

“It was interesting to figure out what type of machines would live in different ecological zones, and how they would interact with each other, their environment, and, of course, humans” – Blake Politeski.

The game’s development has involved a lot of careful consideration about interesting scenarios players can find themselves in when fighting monsters. For a breakdown of the primary traversal and combat tools, click here. I’m talking grappling hooks, resonator blasts and gliding-galore! Pullcasters, stab-masters, spike launchers and more!

“We recommend using traps, as well as the Pullcaster. Though slow, they can reach a speed that will easily trample Aloy, so get ready to dodge” – Politeski and Fleury on combating the Tremortusk, based on the use of war elephants in real life history.

Because not everything from Horizon Zero Dawn’s concept art could make it to the game, Politeski also confirmed that some of the new enemies would be adapted from those past extra art pieces, so if any of you managed to get your hands on the Complete Edition (which you probably did since we sold out of it), scroll over the enemy designs there, you may find something that’ll come up in the next big trailer or gameplay reveal. And while we may not have Horizon Zero Dawn or Horizon Forbidden West (at time of writing), in the spirit of all things Horizon themed, have a butcher’s hook at… *checks notes* Horizon Shift for Nintendo Switch… Sometimes you just gotta lean into the awkwardness of an advert to pay the bills-

Horizon Zero Dawn had a whopping 25 different enemy types, so needless to say, the devs at Guerrilla Games seem very attentive to the idea of making multiple unique enemies leading to combat encounters that put new spins on Horizon gameplay.

Horizon Forbidden West is set to drop February 18, 2022, for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

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If you missed out on the free download period for Horizon Zero Dawn, fear not, we at Go2Games HAD it on the store, but now it’s gone, oops.

Horizon Forbidden West is being developed by Guerrilla Games, who have recently made some statements regarding gameplay, tools, weapons and skills. For a little deep dive into other news on the game and rumblings of a new multiplayer game or mode, check my last article here. Here’s a 14 minute gameplay preview if, like me, you’re more a visual learner.

David McMullen, lead systems designer at Guerrilla, made some statements regarding the game in PlayStation’s official blog site: First, expanding on the 14 minute preview’s use of Alloy’s new Pullcaster, ‘a mechanical wrist-mounted device with two separate functions […] a grapple mechanic, allowing the player to swiftly and easily ascend the environment and providing a dynamic traversal/escape option to the player toolkit’. McMullen also describes that it’s possible to channel your inner Errol Flynn by going swing-swang from your dangalang while firing your bow off at enemies from using the Pullcaster to launch yourself into the air before giving a high-up location the good ol’ grapple-dapple… I’m exaggerating, but not by much.

Furthermore, the Pullcaster also has a winch function, allowing you to go full Nathan Brake on the environment to pull up hidden treasures large objects, like in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which we DO just so happen to have!

We also have more updates on the Shieldwing glider and if I didn’t know any better, I’d say that based on the naming, maybe the Shieldwing will have more than one basic function.

Slightly borrowing from Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (which we also have, wink wink), Horizon Forbidden West will also include a “shooting from above” skill, which, based on a similar skill in Zero Dawn, slowed down time briefly as you aim while in the air. That plus some new skill tree additions, including freeclimbing abilities so you can more easily scale the fatta the land.

New weapons mentioned in the skilltree that will have relevant effects includes the Spike Thrower: Presumably a harpoon-like weapon, specialized for fighting “larger targets”, coming with various elemental ammo types.

Dennis Zopfi, Guerrilla’s lead combat designer for the game has also made statements regarding character-accurate gameplay mechanics – “Aloy is not a character who deals with brute force, so we were looking for ways to have the player go back and forth between melee and range, where she could use her precise bow skills to work towards a big payoff moment”

“a (new) skill that does this is the Resonator Blast, where you charge up the spear with melee hits and when fully powered up, the energy can be placed on enemies (humans and machines alike) and followed up with a projectile – resulting in a big damaging explosion”! In addition, the article states that the open world will include encounters that mix up both human and non-human enemies, whereas the first game mostly had the bad robo boys and the bad human boys in separate contextual arenas most of the time, so that’ll lead to some interesting scenarios. Kinda like how in The Last of Us Left Behind DLC, you could stealth your way around and throw a bottle near a bloke with a gun so that you can go Napoleon on their ass to divide and conquer!

Sony has announced the game will be delayed till February 18, 2022. They have also decided to backpedal on its previous offer of free PlayStation 5 graphics updates to those who bought the Playstation 4 standard edition, mild downer but hey, at least that means more time to improve the main game.

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