[jsemrau]

I platinumed Forbidden West yesterday. It is a beautiful game. But it lacks the magic of the first one where I was walking around slowly around the world wondering what might have happened. Now I know. And it can't be replicated. It's hard to follow-up on such an experience and what the team has achieved is nothing short of amazing. Of course, there are a bunch of things that don't work well. The weapon- and armor- tiers don't relate well to the progress in the game. They nerfed the legendary because everyone was skipping the purple ones making them entirely irrelevant. Sometimes the moral justification / social justice police is a bit heavy handed in a game that is set 1000 years after a full-reset apocalypse. LGBTQ+ representation, Climate change (Lombard street), Handicapped acceptance (Kotallo) etc you name it. I get it, I don't really mind.

Also the game follows the bigger evil fallacy which leads to the main character needing to become a super-hero to "win". I mean Aloy is already at that point, I guess. For example there is a several ton heavy fireclaw that jumps on you at every occasion. I don't see how a person would survive that. Hence it is a bit immersion breaking.