Posted on: July 5, 2021
datawraith236
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Mixed opinion
A decent Gothic-like game, although it's post-cataclysmic setting is closer to the world of Elex. I personally don't mind a female protagonist (didn't mind the male characters in Gothic, Risen, and Elex, either) but not letting the player customize the character was a flaw even back in 2001. 20 Years passed since Gothic 1, and we're still stuck with a prebuilt character. Gothic-like games had an unfortunate tendency of becoming more and more difficult: Gothic 2 was ok (sort of), NoTR made it very hard, Risen was too difficult, Elex was a punishment. Fortunatley, the devs managed to balance the game's difficulty, making Horizon a bit more difficult than Gothic 1 and a bit easier than Gothic 2 (note that i play on easy difficulty because my computer is slow and i don't want to die because of a framerate drop. Your mileage may vary). As mentioned earlier, Horizon, at first, may seem quite similar to Elex. I personally liked the story of Elex better. You also don't get to use hyper-advenced technology in Horizon (besides a set of advanced armor and a few occasiional heavy weapons that you can't keep after their ammo is depleted). Horizon doesn't make you join any of the in-game factions (well, strictly speaking, you begin as a member of one of the factions). A welcome change: finally a Gothic-like game that doesn't try to increase its replayability with a mandatory choice of factions (which, apart from giving you different armor and weapons, have little influence on the gameplay). The setting is what ultimately keeps you playing, the story is mediocre at best. You may also miss the ability to choose between character builds: you're stuck with a stealth archer (well, at least it worked in Skyrim), but there's no choice between fighter/(techno)mage/generalist builds. Yes, there is a skill tree with different paths, but you'll end up needing to develop almost all of them.
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