Posted December 06, 2020
Zero Horizon Dawn has a really nice world and story. My only gripe is that it tries too hard to 'educate' its players, which gets tiresome after a while. Apart from that, it could have been really great.
Altogether: 4/5 stars
(1) Story is very linear. It would have been nice to have several endings or to simply ignore the proving. After all, the villagers don't want you, so why should you try to kiss up to them?
(2) Survival of early antagonists. It would have been interesting for character development to see Bast or the girl in the beginning survive. And maybe eventually come to respect Aloy.
(3) Depiction of men and women. Ok, I get that Sobeck/Gaia/Aloy are all good and wise and nice. And all female. And that Ted Faro/Hades/Helis are all evil or incompetent. And all male. And we have at least Rost and Lansra counteracting this black and white world view. But after some time, it gets tiresome.
(4) Stone age utopia. This is a fantasy story, so you can of course depict utopian societies. But the suggestion that a tribal, stone age culture would work as a 'modern', 'multicultural' society is a bit wishful thinking. Just have a harsh winter and these tribes would immediately splinter and break apart.
Altogether: 4/5 stars
(1) Story is very linear. It would have been nice to have several endings or to simply ignore the proving. After all, the villagers don't want you, so why should you try to kiss up to them?
(2) Survival of early antagonists. It would have been interesting for character development to see Bast or the girl in the beginning survive. And maybe eventually come to respect Aloy.
(3) Depiction of men and women. Ok, I get that Sobeck/Gaia/Aloy are all good and wise and nice. And all female. And that Ted Faro/Hades/Helis are all evil or incompetent. And all male. And we have at least Rost and Lansra counteracting this black and white world view. But after some time, it gets tiresome.
(4) Stone age utopia. This is a fantasy story, so you can of course depict utopian societies. But the suggestion that a tribal, stone age culture would work as a 'modern', 'multicultural' society is a bit wishful thinking. Just have a harsh winter and these tribes would immediately splinter and break apart.
Post edited December 13, 2020 by GR11