Posted on: April 5, 2022
stefan.gustavson
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 68 Rezensionen: 2
A masterpiece
I am not entirey sure why this game gripped me by the guts and had me playing late nights. That's a rare occurrence these days, with me supposely being a grown-up and all, but I really liked the new, fundamentally optimist take on the apocalypse which is the foundation of so many games these days, and I enjoyed the way the backstory was told: revealed gradually as the main character dug into her background. You have a relative freedom to explore, where a linear overarcing story can be freely mixed with mostly fun and reasonably varied quests. Whether I took short or long sessions with the game, I always found things to do and places to visit. The visuals were beautiful, and my budget GTX1660 GPU had no problems with the highest quality settings. The animations for the main character and for the machine opponents are very nice, with a sometimes stunning attention to detail and lots of variation. Human opponents look and feel less alive and less intelligent, bizarrely enough, but the game is mostly about fights against machines, and they are really well done. Perhaps most notable, though, is the outstanding voice acting for the main character. Aloy is voiced with such passion (by Ashly Burch) that some moments in the dialog had me literally moved to tears or laughing out loud, and even her little comments on the environment and the actions you take are spot on for the character, all the way through. As a Swede being used to cold winters, I love the way the character interacts with deep snow in the DLC, both how she walks and runs in it, and how it deforms to her footsteps and dodge rolls (and, I must admit, the occasional downhill butt-slide I made just for fun). I hope the PS4/PS5 sequel, right now Sony-exclusive, will be ported to Windows as well. This was my most enjoyable gaming experience in years, perhaps in a decade. (FYI, I'm old enough -barely- to have played the original Pong when it was released.)
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