Everything GREAT About Horizon Zero Dawn!
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- Here's Everything GREAT about Horizon Zero Dawn! Stick around till the end for my mini-review of the game. Leave a comment below on what game I should win next!
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i regret getting like 95% into this game and THEN realizing that you could go visit rost's grave at your house and get unique dialogue depending on where you are in the game
Sounds like time for a replay
I'm sorry.... What!? Here we go again.
The one thing I hate about this game is not having a final conversation on rost's grave after defeating hades
@@flakkes2437 facts
Welp time to start a new playthrough
"I never had a mother"
"What are you talking about? You had two: a dead woman and a machine"
God, I love Sylens
I think that line may have been a lesbian joke.
@@desmolboi4049 Nah, just Sylens being crass
Yeah we love him, until he f**ks us over in the end.
I think aloy is a clone of elisabet and not her daughter.
@@Odin_Allfather Yeah, that's exactly it
That moment where Faro reveals he erased Apollo must be the most chilling and dreadful moments a game ever delivered to me, the thought of someone deliberatly erasing all of human history at once, all our achievements, all our art, everything, is such an amazing kind of existential horror in my opinion.
I thought the same thing. Everything we have learned up to that point, erased. Forever
Could not agree more. Of all the things that have happened in this game and so many others. Like... annihilating the knowledge and culture and language and everything else we've built over tens of thousands of years of humanity. It's pure horror.
And I hope so many of the people playing realise that in the present day, we literally do that to other cultures around the world, right now.
he erased religion lol what a mad lad something like every leaders in the 21st century itching to do it and no im not an atheist if u wondered its just one of few thing i find fascinating in this game.
“Blameless men” - he said. Motherfucker did that so no one could find out it was all his fault. Thankfully, Aloy and Sylens know the truth.
Personally it hit me harder when the real-world implications of that decision were shown at ELEUTHIA-9. The prospect of being a barely-educated teenager sent out into the world with nothing but your peers and the clothes on your back, trying to survive, is terrifying... especially if you've spent your whole life having all your physical needs taken care of.
The first generation had never known hunger and suddenly they had to find their next meal without even knowing where food might come from. I can't imagine how many of them died through the trial and error process of establishing a settlement. I'd be unsurprised if the populations of some of the cradles got wiped out entirely.
I think Tedd Faro was a coward in a different way. It wasn't just about hiding his crimes from the world. He wanted to absolve HIMSELF of his own guilt. He couldn't handle the guilt of being single-handedly responsible for the destruction of life on Earth, so he instead decided to put all the blame on the knowledge that allowed him to build the Faro Plague in the first place instead of his own incompetence. In other words, he is LITERALLY a craftsman blaming his tools.
Oh hell yeah, he deleted the whole of Apollo just so he would never be remembered as the guy that wiped out humanity. I’d love to beat the shit out of him.
@@nightinghood him being a craftsman blaming his tools is like a gamer blaming his controller because it screwed over his experience due to input lag and joystick drift.
That's capitalism for ya.
Spot on. Ted Faro showed signs of NPD and no one with NPD is ever responsible for the bad stuff they do, if you can even get them to admit that they had done bad stuff in the first place, it's always the fault of someone or something else.
@@nielsjensen4185 Narcissistic Personality Disorder i presume?
one of my favorite little moments was when aloy talks to teb after she comes out of the mountain the 2nd time. she tells him that he's wrong to believe her a gift or divine or whatever and soft-spoken, sweet teb tells her very firmly that she she has no right to try and dictate his feelings and beliefs. just loved it
A lot of people shipped Aloy with different people. Erren, Varl, the Sun king. But poor sweet Teb is the best for me.
@@jeanetten.s.8557 oh I shipped aloy and teb! Lol but I gotta admit, avad is more fun. Has more fics, too
@@QuestionableLifeChoices I honestly ship her with no one. Like, i got that there was banter back and forth with all the characters, but it just felt right to me for her not to be paired off. I later realized some things about myself that put that into better focus but suffice it to say that I never ship anyone because I just don't get the point. I don't begrudge others, I just can't see it myself.
small fun fact: Aloy is very similar to the given name Eloi, which means ‘the chosen’. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but it’s nice to think about
And also its play on words with the term "alloy"
She was created by melding heart and mind, human and AI. A literal alloy of man and machine.
@@Toasterlovescrocs Thanks , i clearly did not know that
Eloi are also the name of the future tribes of mankind in HG Wells 'The time Machine', which has got to be an intentional nod to Aloy being a future human
Thanks! now I know something new😀
I love the part where she says "I want her to be... Curious", and right as she says that, Aloy turns on the focus.
You havent really touched on how amazing the take on religion is done. The fact the various people have clearly identified cultures somewhat linked to their own interpretation of the past.
A good point, sadly though this is just a positive look through of the presented story. Not too deep into the background stuff. Still a wonderful beautiful game with amazing depth and clear identities of the many people with different cultures.
What i really love about this game is, the more you think about it, the more realistic and scarily realistic it is. Some times it feels like this WILL happen to our real world. This game should be played by everyone, just for the story alone
I think it's one of the first games that goes, "yeah, the apocalypse happens, and humans don't get to survive, BUT using their ingenuity, humanity can help life reappear.
Totally agree
The 1st thing I thought was, "Ah ... the Grey Goo Scenario."
The idea is that, if we truly achieve functional nanotechnology (i.e.: the ability to design & manufacture microscopic robots that can self-replicate) we could inadvertently engineer our own demise *and the destruction of all life on earth* if nanotechnology were to ever malfunction & start replicating out of control, consuming everything & everyone within its reach. The end result would be the disappearance of all lifeforms as we know it -- flora & fauna alike -- replaced by a seething, worldwide mass of "grey goo" (billions & trillions of nanobots).
What the devs of Horizon Zero Dawn did was come up w/ a clever (& much more game-friendly) variation on this doomsday scenario.
Finally, a gaming channel of positivety.
Damn, no win for one of Aloy's best lines? "Why send them, COME FACE ME YOURSELF!"
Also holy DAMN ALL this game was beautiful in every possible way. The raw guilt general Herres felt about lying to the world, sacrificing them to buy time for Zero Dawn... God that scene was gut wrenching.
yes i havent played this game yet but seing art of people about it the songs everything its devinetly the best game for me and its never gonna change the fact that its not a dark and shadow post apocalyptic game going more on the green side i just cant tell how much i love this game its just so beutifull and so well made and the fact that some people skip the side quests that tell a lot about history in a much different way then holograms im loking forward to seing the second part of this game but i still want to play the first version maybe i will once see it for free on somewhere and i will enjoy every little song every little detail and making tons of screenshots of the beutifull land scape
You know I always thought that Herres did the best thing he could under the circumstances. His last message of letting future people judge him. Was so hard to hear.
@@RenshiErmine His raw guilt was heartbreaking.
“heal the world… just a little bit”
Gods that part always cuts the onions
Personal Win for this game: THE AI WAS SAD ABOUT THE LOSS ABOUT MEGA FAUNA.... Thus ... Robo Dinos
Killer Robo Dinos!
Yeah but that means I have to deal with thunderiawssss soooooo…..
Incredible game. I have played through it 3 times. Solbeck’s description to GAIA of her hope for a child she never had still hits you in the feels. Bring on Forbidden West!
yes i never played it myself but seing art that people made and the songs and everything about this game is so beautifull i cant wait to see the 2 version but probably never gonna be able to play it but i will still enjoy the song art and screenchots that people would make and post
Travis gave hades that voice because he's a metalhead and that's a cool voice to him. These people have much better blades than we do they just need to pull machines apart to get them
Amazing. This channels going places
I'll remember this comment if it does!
Yep, on the way to deletion.
@@Notconceitedjustbetterthanyou ?
@@LlywelynGX it’s just another hater
@@GamingWins Still remembering? It'd be a good time to, considering how fast you're growing.
You know what really hurts? knowing I'll never be able to experience this game again the same way I did the first time.
I didn't watch any trailers nor informed myself before buying the game, I just knew this was a game about a girl with a bow hunting robot-dinosaurs; so you can imagine how surprised I was when I first saw the ruins of the old world, buildings falling apart, overgrown and deteriorated; and that's when I realized "Holy shit, this is a post-apocalyptic world".
The mystery of what happened to the world, finding out who Aloy's "mother" is, what the Zero Dawn project was and why the machines were still attacking if it "worked"... It was the first time in YEARS that I've felt so invested in a game and its world.
God, I really hope Forbidden West is also released on PC at some point, 'cause I'm not paying $1600 for a PS5 (Yup, this is a third world country and these motherfuckers really think we'll pay triple it's price because of the current shortage).
I LIVED for those holo movies. I loved collecting the data points from soldiers of Enduring Victory, how they shared such raw horror and sorrow and how they took those points and filtered them before sending them out to civilians. I loved hearing from the scientists and scholars who threw off prejudice and things that divided them to join together as HUMANS. I loved tracking down the viewpoints and learning one man's story. I loved every little detail. It was a dang NOVEL in the game.
I hope that in forbidden west we found Ted somehow still alive so we can have revenge for destroying something that could have help humanity thrive again
Calling it now: Clone Ted, with the last surviving copy of Apollo. The opposite of Aloy.
Wouldn't make sense. Also, Apollo isn't gone, it was stored in a hard drive using artificial fossils and DNA, with multiple backups to ensure redundancy. It's more likely Ted just erased whatever program would cause Apollo to activate, because there's no way he could delete something like that from his private bunker.
@@addisonwelsh Personal theory here, but wasn't it said that the skull of every SUN KING have a crack in the back, "as if fired in a kiln," the fact that meridian is one of the more advanced civilizations we see, make me think the "crown" was one of the input devices used to teach mankind apollo's knowledge.
@@griffinheld2540 I'm gonna need a reference to where you heard that. It sounds familiar, but I can't remember where it's from.
@@addisonwelsh there are a ton of texts about the history of meridian.. might be there
Finally a gaming wins channel! Been searching for so long. Awesome video as well! 👍
Glad you enjoy it!
When I first found this channel, it was by accident and now I realize how much I had wanted something like this but didn't know how to explain it.
Psst I live in Colorado Springs (Devil's Thirst) and we have a ton of nature trails and my dude, it is just as beautiful and diverse as the game. You absolutely can run through the Embrace if you come visit us.
Damn I live there too. Gonna have to look at it again.
There's something that amazes me about Aloy. Save for the prologue, we understand she's 18-19 years old for the whole game. Yet, in my case at least, I saw her more as a inexperienced and innocent teenager at the beginning of the game with the Nora, and more as a strong adult leader by the end of the game.
I'd say it's because her growth as a character (Which isn't much, but still), the way you can dress her with more complex outfits which represent higher ranks... But most importantly, because of the way she wins the respect of so many characters throughout the game. She essentially saves the Nora, she helps several Oseram, she gives information to the Carja Sun King himself, she even travels to the Banuk lands to solve some conflicts... You realize how much of an adult she has become when everyone respects her for her achievements and intentions, and still keeps herself down-to-earth, never playing the victim nor taking advantage of her position.
And I love how, in Forbbiden West, the focus seems to be on a personal story for Aloy. That sounds great. Really want to see how she progresses from up-close.
I'll be honest @GamingWins, I'm a little sad I didn't see a win in there for all the NPC reunions we got right before the last stand. I know they were marked as optional, checking the ridge and the spire, but it added so much gravitas. To me, it made the game feel so much more alive and raised the stakes even higher because everyone worth remembering from my side quests and main story is showing up to a fight they may certainly perish in. I felt so more responsibility and a need to be perfect in this last mission to make sure they are all safe and sound. Overall, loved the video and this is now my favorite way to watch game reviews for games I've already played!
I loved that too! The fact, that the side missions had so much impact on the main story line was an amazing feature for me
I had two theories when I was playing.
The first was that Aloy's mother had wandered beyond the mountain and became pregnant with someone from the sun kingdom. She returned but gave birth to Aloy just beyond the mountain's scope. Rost saw everyone leaving her to die as she was beyond the border and chose to become an outcast in order to save her life.
That got blown to hell when the game revealed she was born from the mountain.
Then when we were getting into the idea of Zero Dawn, I thought I had a decent grasp.
The world came close to ending, but by shutting down every single piece of technology, EVERYTHING, they were able to return the world to some semblance of renewal. However, with the detonation, and devestation, humanity would lose everything but the people. Those who had travelled would be stuck but alive, and the swarm, having consumed most of the planet, would be nothing but scrap. Only the barest levels of technology buried deep in bunkers would have a hope to survive, but too few people knew they existed, let alone how to open them.
And THEN it was revealed that Zero Dawn literally allowed the destruction of the entire world.
From now on, I'm all for Horizon.
It went FAR and beyond everything I thought could happen with these games.
Once Forbidden West comes out, I hope they're able to keep up this level of storytelling quality.
I feel like the game deliberately baits you into thinking that the Faro Plague had survivors, simply because it's kind of drilled into us by virtually every other post-apocalyptic story that in any apocalypse there're always going to be people that slip through the cracks of the threat to scrape out an existence from the ruins. The Last of Us. The Walking Dead. Heck, I Am Legend and its various adaptations.
Horizon does a masterful job of playing into that expectation RIGHT up to the instant that it rips it away from you. That's what makes the Faro plague so horrifying. The notion that as existential threats to humanity go, the Chariot line is just flat out BUILT DIFFERENT in a literal sense.
There's always going to be a certain Pirates Vs Ninjas comparison to be had between the various world-ending threats in media, whether supervirus, zombie, alien invasion, kaiju, nuclear exchange, Skynet.... but of all of them, the Faro Plague is the most horrifying because it is simultaneously sweepingly universal and horrifyingly personal.
I don't think it's any mistake that the timeline of the game presents itself such that the majority of the players have to think about what it would be like as a senior 40 or 50 years down the road, frail and elderly, watching the end of the world and wondering if your health will give out before the machines finally catch up to you because at your age there's nothing you can do to fight them.
What I really loved about this game was the narrative progression and how it consistently respects the player by not dragging any one narrative point/motivation on for too long.
The game starts and you want to know who Aloy is, and where she came from...
and right as the average player starts to get well in front of the story the game says “okay, we know that you’re piecing this together, let’s just give you this and transition on to the next thing”...
So you find out where Aloy came from.
Then the story says “Well, what *EXACTLY* happened to the old ones? What were they doing?” And you start unraveling that mystery, and shortly after you start getting well in front of that storyline, the game says “OKAY! We know you’re not slow, and you’ve probably begun to figure it out.” And they give you about 2 or 3 hologram recordings that fully explain that...
Then the story asks *“How did Hades lose control/take control from Gaia? What is his goal and why? And how do I stop it?”* And that’s the final act of the game.
Typically a game would have been about *JUST ONE* of those plot lines because each has more than enough to center a whole game around, and most devs would have been more than content to stretch one of those storylines into an entire game. Hell, this could have EASILY been two games if Guerrilla Games was into excess padding.
I also appreciate a game that doesn’t refuse to answer questions because writers are afraid of writing themselves into a corner and making sequels hard to justify.
While I actually thought The Last of Us 2 was a better game (I know I’m alone, but I don’t care... that game is a tour de force, fight me, lol... please don’t), *this is BY FAR my favorite NEW IP of the last generation.*
Agree, even on TLOU2. Both masterpieces in their own way.
One of the times I wish he would cover some of the side quests in these open world games. Or at the very least cover the DLC. I know it would probably take way too long and wouldn't be fair to non open world games and the main story is great. But some of the characters and worldbuilding in the additional content is SO great.
Yeah I also really liked the sidequest and I loved the fact, that the people I helped throughout my journey would help me later in the last fight.
It’s nice, that the sidequests have such an impact on the main story
Agreed. Even if it is just side quests that are directly referenced in later games or are just as important as the main story quests. For HZD that would be
1. Free Heap. Petra shows up with her completed weapon at the end regardless if you have done the quest chain or not.
2. Hunters Lodge. Talanah replaces Sona as the third companion in the final battle against HADES and is the canonical option.
3. Sunfall. Rescuing Avads half brother and step mother from the Shadow Carja.
4. Frozen Wilds. This one speaks for itself.
The moment I heard Sylens voice I immediately thought about; "Whether we wanted it or not, we have stepped into a war with the cabal on Mars" ( shoutout to all destiny fans reading this :D )
So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc.
Aloy, then Cal, then Jesse Faden.
I thought Remedy’s Control was packed with wins!
"Placing this goddess of fertility in her pyramid."
One second later
"Are you shitting me, Sylens!?"
I literally could not stop laughing at that!
You missed the best part! Aloy calls sylens a bastard when getting the alpha registry and sylens just responds
“Oh no I had a legitimate birth”
How have I discovered this channel only last night?
I know right I only just discovered it last night but I already love it. Hope he starts doing older games.
I literally just discovered it today!
This channel is sooooo underrated.
Job interview:
HR rep: "so why would you like to work here?"
Sylens: "I need money to buy food to survive and I'm hungry. I don't care"
Played the game recently and no game has ever brought me greater rage than hearing Ted had destroyed Apollo and killed every bright mind left all because of some fucking superman injustice complex of that "if I fell to the dark side and I'm the best of us then no one deserves to be as smart as me." Fantastic writing and its one of the reasons this games story is one of my favorites, but goddamn fuck that dude.
The Faro Plague scenario scares the living hell out of me.
, Aloy starts the game looking for answers that will connect her to the world she knows instead she becomes snared in a quest that permanently severs her from that workd. She makes peace with it and if you do enough side quests and get all the potential allies she's part of a larger world but she cannot be Aloy of the Nora anymore.
This game is a masterpiece. I was hooked and had to 100% it. I think I completed it 5 times in a row. Still need that platinum....the last one I need is beating the game on the hardest mode...I'm literally at the boss but got side tracked with life lol
"It's good to have hope. Enduring Victory had hope." I am freakin' dying!! Lmmfao
Notice how at the end she looks to the west. Very subtle foreshadowing.
This was one of the few games I specifically bought a PS4 for. It was a day 1 buy, and I love it. Day 1 buy on its Steam release too. It is easily in my top 10 games of all time, and I'm so excited for the next one.
I love Aloy as a character. Her sarcasm sings to my British heart, but the way she interacts with the world and the use of the sarcasm is so wonderfully done.
She's not sarcastic to be an asshole (most of the time), but to try and correct peoples' thinking. It's unsuccessful, but the words she uses in the situations she uses them show that she, at least a little, wants the people who shunned her for so long to be better, and smarter.
The scariest thing about the Faro Plague, in my opinion, is that it's actually pretty realistic, by that I mean I could actually see this being the end of our civilization.
If you haven't already, please play the frozen wilds (and maybe even do a video on it)
This is definitely my favourite game ever, I can't even count the amount of hours I've put into it and explored the world. And I'm still pretty sure I still haven't done it all
I bought the full thing on pc (not knowing frozen wilds was a dlc, but accidentally left it till last anyway), i actually didnt like playing through frozen wilds not because it wasnt good, but because i knew it was the end.
I just finished replaying the game on the ps5 and it was the first time play TFW which I loved having new content to dig into, it got me so hyped for The Forbidden West I can't wait for it to drop
one thing i noticed is that if you look at the suit elizabeth is wearing you actually can addapt it later if you do the ancient armory quest.
The fact that with a little tweaking on PC you can visit the Sobeck Ranch and the naming cliff is truly awesome. This is my favorite game of ALL time
After sylens visits the workshop at gaia prime and gives you the spear, he leaves some audio tapes on his backstory and how he activated hades and what he learned from him. In one of the tapes sylens asked hades to teach him quantum physics which means if he understands quantum physics, I'm pretty sure he can understand gravity lmao, the man knows everything but everybody ignored him and kept believing in their 'gods'
Great video. This channel is going to be huge. Also, animators are actors is my favourite thing that you’ve said in your videos
Don’t know if Yoitube works like TikTok where interaction with the content brings it to more viewers but I’m just commenting for that reason just in case. This guy deserves way more views!!
You’re right! So thank you!!
Dude no offense since it's hard to tell with text but how old are you youtube should be second nature and all the features.
I love how in trying to rid all of the world's history because he doesn't want anyone to know his mistake, Faro inevertanly made his mistake the only thing people can know about the old world
This game is one of my favorites ever! Learning about the story, fighting cool robo dinos and exploring an incredible and beautiful world made every hour i spend on it worth it
I'm loving this channel right now. Tbh I was wondering how long it would take for make these kinds of channels for video games. Also if you haven't played the DLC I highly, highly recommend
In a game like this it sucks to miss out on all the side content, like saving the heir to the carja from the shadow carja, or the entire frozen wilds both of which effect the final battle as the important characters you’ve helped throughout the game help you in the finale
That was my same reaction to Sylens in the post-credits!
This game is easily the game of the gen for me.
10/10 in every department.
Loved the story.
This game... Oh boy this game was amazing, it was the fist game i had an URGE to get platinum, now im hyped for forbidden west.
lest'sa go Guerrila!!!
Fun fact: Jb Blanc, voice of rosy, also voices Prauf from Jedi fallen order
I THOUGHT I RECOGNIZED ROST! I’ve played apex, Titanfall 2, and Jedi fallen order and knew he voiced Kuben Blisk, Caustic, and Prauf in those, so thanks fro this
02:05 actually birthdays don't work like that at all in the Nora tribe. It is said in the artbook that during your birthday you're giving a gift to your mother and spending the day doing what she wants because she's the one who suffered to bring you in this world.
So for multiple reasons, it's safe to assume Rost wasn't one to make a deal out of Aloy's birthday
6:30 actually deafeting them wasnt a problem at all, operation enduring victory destroyed tons of faro robots with great easy,with their 21 century technology tha swarm wasnt hard to take down the problem was their numbers
Its kinda like fighting an infinite amount of toddlers with a knife,sure you can deal with them,but for how long?
there´s also their consumption of biomass, they literally killed the atmosphere before mankind
5:06 Agreed. I could never get tired of watching that
I love this channel. But I have to admit I'm disappointed you didn't go into the bigger side quests. Specifically during Erend's side quest where he admits he was only hitting on Aloy because he thought she was pretty, then saying he was lucky just to meet her, then the Hunters Lodge side quest where Aloy refers to herself as "Aloy in spit of the Nora".
:) Some additions, as I watch your video:
1. The Lion King parallel: there's no such thing, it's quite the opposite. In Lion King, a newborn future-king is being introduced to the nation. In Horizon Zero Dawn, no one to introduce Aloy to, no one cares about her, baby-Aloy is the opposite of a future-king; an outcast. The only parallel is the movement and the cliff.
2. In Aloy's vision, the tail of a Corruptor is just starting to transform into Lansra's hat.
3. Resh was one of the two guards of Lansra when she tried to interrupt the Naming Ceremony. They were really a club of jerks.
4. It's quite ironic that Aloy has never got any knowledge about her mother (except that pine-tree story). Sobeck was just Aloy herself living a thousand years earlier, thus as Rost became her step-father, so became Sobeck her step-mother.
🤘🏼
The circle of life!
And it moves us all!
Love this channel. You could have fooled me that you haven’t been doing this for longer. all you videos are incredible. loved your spider man ps4 video especially because I learned something new about rhinos voice actor.
(He is also the voice actor for Rocksteady 2012 edition, arrrrgh from troll hunters, and a truckload of more characters.
Wow, thank you!
No big deal, although there is another comment in your avengers video by me as well if you could look at it, it be much appreciated.
Horizon: Zero Dawn is my all time favorite game, but I've never heard anyone talk about it so it was cool to see a video about it.
This was the deepest end to a gaming wins video ever! Dude, you’re doing great! And the RE:Village video made me laugh out loud a lot!
Keep it up bud!!
Another fun naming fact/geography fact. The mountain the Nora live under is specifically Cheyenne mountain. The current headquarters of NORAD. Which also may be where the Nora got their name.
So many wins and this isn't even geting into the dlc content further proof of how amazing this game is it holds a special place in my heart
greco-roman mythology has more ties to Mesopotamian mythology then to Egyptian mythology
The love and compassion that lies in your voice makes this video so amazing and makes me wish I could play hzd
Keep it up
Binging your videos! Loving the content, we need more positivity right now! Always great to come back and appreciate great games. Can’t wait for more content, keep it up!
The map itself is at least 3 times the size you're allowed to move around in. It's somewhat empty but they're are miles of forests canyons and deserts. I was able to go there and posted lots of videos
Great insight man, I’ve binged your videos 😅
That’s awesome! Thanks for watching!
I just hope Forbidden West comes to PC quick. Such an amazing game
Chances are high i think another big PS exclusive just found it's way to pc. (Days Gone)
@@danieljung5862 I think you’re 100% right as PlayStation ports to Steam have been doing extremely well
Choosing to unravel the history of what happened to earth bit by bit was the smartest thing anyone has done in a game in a long time. I can't even point to a particularly gut wrenching moment because they all are... I was crying every time I went on a new ruin. And that speech of Aloy when the Nora are bowing down to her... gave me chills. Also her finding Elizabeth.... it hits hard particularly cause my own mom is dead too.
I've been thinking for a while, "Someone should do CinemaWins, but for games". Just today, I noticed one of your vids in the recommendations on one of his. Glad someone else had the same thought. :)
May I suggest/request videos covering _Ori and the Blind Forest_ and _Ori and the Will of the Wisps?_
I know you definitely weren’t asking for this in any way but to answer your question at 17:06 I think Sylens knows about gravity through Hades; he said that Hades taught him a great amount of knowledge about ‘The Old Ones’ so I’m guessing that’s where he got it? (Not sure Aloy would understand that though?)
Bast wasn't being gentlemanly. He was saying. " you two go first, I'll still climb faster than both of you"
YES. Yes to everything in this video. I started playing and put down HZD because I thought it was boring. Then I decided to give it a second chance and actually got to the first scene with Elizabet and Ted and was hooked instantly. I have told everyone that I mention this game to that it has one of the most horrifying apocalypse scenarios I have ever seen in media. It’s what kept me pushing through this game, for the story behind everything, every piece of information about then Zero Dawn project. I had to pause and take a break when it was revealed that Ted had purged Apollo and we would never access the entirety of human knowledge again. The gameplay and main story is good in this game don’t get me wrong, but it’s the background story, the pieces you have to pay attention to, that you have to collect through exploration that make it shine.
no no no, it wasn't the designers that decided to give hades that voice...they made travis tate the kind of guy would design his destruction program to have that voice lmao. favorite alpha
I love this game and I'm excited for forbidden west
So underrated you deserve more
i don't mind girls as protagonists either- hell, most of my stories are female led, and in games with a create-a-character, i pick the female option- but there's a way to do it. most western entertainment these days force it- it's not natural. "oh, let's make a female-led Ghostbusters cause we need representation', or the fabled and feared Mary Sue trope. doing it naturally means that they can do it not because they are girls- i am woman, hear me roar-, but because they know how. Japan does this naturally, but people on Twitter are upset cause oversized boobs, yet if they were to make Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop spinoffs that focus on the female leads, the fans would love it.
if you live out in the wilderness with a small community, you either learn to defend yourself from wild animals and outsiders or become lunch- also practice fighting with toys to stave off boredom helps. This is why franchises like Tomb Raider, Horizon, Underworld, Aliens (the original four), and Wonder Woman work, and why characters such as Sonya Blade, Princess Leia, Katniss, Hermione, Arya Stark, Eowyn, and Mulan (the cartoon, not the god-awful live-action one) are so beloved- it's not because they are woman, but because they know how to do this stuff through training and determination or just to survive, something men also do, and not because "we need representation".
Well said
@David Hecht to them, yes. just ignore what actually happened. to quote Adam Savage "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
Well, we ALSO need representation. But i agree. Aloy Is now my fav character, above Ellie, she's a badass and unapologetic and i love that her outfits aint reveiling, or that her features arent overly feminine. This Is why we need representation, because not every girl Is a sexbomb like Blizzard's characters.
(Mulan Is my all time fav
I finished the main story yesterday and now i am playing the frozen wilds dlc. This game made me so curious about the story and the zero dawn project and I don't want it to end. I love the combat i love the story i love the characters and i LOVE this game. I hope forbidden west its going to be even better.
16:58 certainly not ALL of Apollo’s knowledge was wiped from existence. Apollo was the vessel that all of our knowledge was stored in, but not every vehicle that Knowledge could be delivered in was destroyed... because it’s not like the earth was flooded or scorched, just that it was made completely uninhabitable for life to exist...
But you can look at the focus, and how much a device that small and isolated was able to teach Aloy and see that there are certainly other well’s of knowledge available.
Sylens entire thing was that he was able to gain the knowledge he had because he was willing to delve into the lairs of the old ones, where others were not. So while he and Aloy might not have access to ALL of the knowledge, bits and pieces certainly exist throughout the land... if you’re willing to go and get it.
You realy do good reviews..this game will always be close to my heart..it just have a uncanny feeling to it. So beautiful.
Fantastic reviews and now you’ve got me wanting to play this game all over again. Maybe try and get the platinum this time.
The ending made me cry, it had no reason to be that good
Just got done platinuming the main story a couple of days ago. What a game! Definitely one of my top favorites.
Really appreciated the video you made of this and discussing all the themes. I really enjoyed that about the game. Especially since it has one of the saddest "end of the world" scenarios actaully happen and we're several hundred years later after those events. But the hope that Aloy has to do better, bringing in people to stop such a huge threat and come together is just👍👌 Great stuff!
Glad you like the redheads being represented. Not sure if you've played it, but might I recommend a game called Control. Which also features a bad to the bones, witty redhead named Jesse Faden, who finds herself caught up in a bizarre, paranatural mess in a strange building.
3:02 yes bro, those are definitely goosebumps! Love this channel and how he seems to appreciate the stuff I do
I love this game. The world is gorgeous. The characters are well acted. And the story oh my God the story. I still can't believe they had the nerve to tell such a dark and depressing story. From the very beginning to get this sense of something is horribly wrong. With the robot remains all over the land sticking out of mountains and even covering the mountains themselves. And the payoff is so heartbreaking. To learn the only way to save the human race was to first let it go completely extinct is bone chilling. It gets me every single time. And just a little fun fact I love that they hid this reveal/story plot in the game's title.
Through every moment in this game I just kept wishing that I could be there, the world design is so beautiful and absaloutly gorgeous in every way that it makes me just want to reach through the screen.
I cannot say enough how much I love this game!! It is absolutely one of my favorite games of all time! I love Aloys journey and seeing her progression, I love how you have to use careful strategy and quick thinking during combat encounters. Plus the score is breathtaking, simple yet so beautiful. It almost brings me to tears dang near everytime I hear it! I cannot wait until Forbidden West arrives!!
Probably the only game where I formed an emotional attachement to the main character - that's some achievement.
20:10 I saw that scene as well, and I've never wanted the creators to put "sylens, you banuk bastard" in the next game so badly.
The stadium was Mile High they even showed the Chair Force Academy and Red Rocks Amphitheater. Lots of stuff here in Colorado. Kinda fun to explore your post apocalypse state.
Hey Gaming wins, I hope people give you the support you need to keep this channel up and running for years to come.
Also If you wouldn’t mind taking suggestions, I remember you saying you liked ben 10 and a game I would like to see reviewed is the “Ben-10 protector of earth” game. Please like and comment if you see this.
Dude, words cannot describe how amazing your scripts are and how frigging word things in such a captivating way. I have watched every video so far and I'm patiently wait for more. Love your stufd
is it just me but does Sylens sound almost the exact same as Zavala in destiny 1 and 2 and he looks the same way the real life voice actor for Zavala or am I just losing it?
They're the same person, Lance Reddick
I love this game!!!
I waited 'til 2020 to finally play it and resisted the temptation to watch a let's play for years (I literally wanted to play this from the moment I first saw the Trailer)
I never realised the thing with the names.
I mean, sure, the Horus, the Khopesh, the Scarab, that I got immediatelly, but Ted Faro having ties to the Pharaoh, or the Name Sobek... I always thought these to be kinda bizarre names, but never realised the egyptian theme they had.
Hm, viewed in that light, there is even more. Like think about it. Faro brought a plague down on earth, that destroyed the crops and killed all life, both plant and animals, and only those that stayed inside the bunkers survived. And then he doomed future generations by deactivating Apollo.
Some may recognize this, and maybe (probably) this is just me interpreting things into this, but with the whole egyptian theme, this reminds me of the Exodus.
The Pharaoh refused to listen to Moses, so God send the ten plagues to show everyone that the egyptian gods had no Power. One of the plagues was possibly scarabs, which were considered holy and one could be executed for killing one, so imagine how it must have been to be unable to make even a single step without killing dozens of them.
If I recall correctly, the 7th and 8th plague were a big hailstorm, that destroyed all the plants in all of Egypt and killed all Men and beasts that were outside, followed by an enormous swarm of locusts, which ate all and everything that was spared by the hailstorm. But the Pharaohs pride knew no bounds, so finally, in the 10th plague, God send an Angel to slay all the firstborn of Egypt, from both animals and humans, from the lowest slave in the dungeon to Pharaoh on his Throne.
Although in HZD it is only one plague, some of the effects of the Faro Plague resemble parts of the ten plagues:
The Nile became blood : the Horus Unit that slaughtered dolphins at the American Westcoast and colored the water in the bay red with blood
Only the people inside survived
All plants and creatures outside were killed by the hail, and the remains consumed by locusts : the robots of the Chariot Line destroy and consume all organic matter
Gods Angel slew all firstborn in Egypt : Faro disabled the Apollo Program and withheld knowledge from future generations, figuratively killing all firstborn
20:05 I'm pretty sure the flower triangles were created by DEMETER since the metal flower guy says something about them only appearing after the fall of GAIA Prime, when the Subordinate Functions became their own AI's, and DEMETER was the one in charge of plant-life.
Anyone notice that Bast's voice actor is Kirito's voice actor in the English dubbed of Sword Art Online.
(Edit): Sylens is also Zavala From the Destiny games.
Great channel glad i found this
"Animators are actors too." What an amazing line.