Horizon Forbidden West is a vast, beautiful game with plenty to talk about, but I'm going to make an entire entry focusing solely on one specific sidequest, and you can't stop me. (The sidequest in question is 'The Gate of the Vanquished', the culmination of the desert water dispute.)
( Horizon Forbidden West: notes on The Gate of the Vanquished. )
I don't think I'm capable of writing a series of ficlets where Aloy bangs her way through everyone who's into her for stress relief, making it very clear that she's not interested in anything romantic, but I would if I could. The characters who are just here for a good time are delighted; the characters who want a more long-term connection are confused and upset by the arrangement, but they'll take what they can get and quietly have emotions about it later; Nil goes 'well, this is pretty good, but it'd be better if we were murdering people.'
( Horizon Forbidden West: notes on The Gate of the Vanquished. )
I don't think I'm capable of writing a series of ficlets where Aloy bangs her way through everyone who's into her for stress relief, making it very clear that she's not interested in anything romantic, but I would if I could. The characters who are just here for a good time are delighted; the characters who want a more long-term connection are confused and upset by the arrangement, but they'll take what they can get and quietly have emotions about it later; Nil goes 'well, this is pretty good, but it'd be better if we were murdering people.'
