Platinum Trophy #35: Horizon Forbidden West
I'm going to be very honest with you: I put off writing this Going Platinum for days.
Not because I dislike Horizon Forbidden West (far from it), but because I'm just really tired of the same conversations circling around whenever the game is brought up.
There are a lot of vocal people that love an opportunity to tell you how bad they think it is. There are defenders (like me) who frequently point to the series' impressive sales as some sort of proof that it's beloved.
In this sense, Horizon is the Avatar of video games. Many people love talking about how much they hate James Cameron's sci-fi action flicks, but they're among the highest-grossing movies ever made. I'm doing that weighing-things-up-in-my-hands gesture, if you'd like to imagine that.
It's just not very interesting to have this back-and-forth anymore; I feel like we barely talk about the game itself at this point.
That's a shame, because there's so much to discuss.
For example, I think my main criticism with Forbidden West is that it felt like the writers didn't quite know what to do with Aloy after her brilliant origin story in Horizon Zero Dawn.
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