A Non-Combat Horizon Game Would Be Incredible
A new Horizon game is on the… um. Well. Anyway, it’ll be here soon, and at an unspecified date in the future, Horizon could also deliver VR’s Breath of the Wild moment. Horizon Zero Dawn was a huge success, and convinced Sony to bet the farm on it for the PS5 generation. It has done tremendously well, so there’s only one suggestion I have for it - it should completely change.
Maybe that’s not quite right. In a year stacked with even bigger crowd pleasers like Elden Ring, God of War, and Starfield, Horizon might just be my most anticipated game. Certainly it’s the one I’m most looking forward to out of all the big hitters - but it’s the unknown sleeper hits that might oust it come my 2022 GOTY list. Still, for all I love Horizon, it has always seemed like the triple-A game most equipped to go completely pacifist, and it’s a shame we’ll never get to see it.
Related: Horizon Call Of The Mountain Needs To Be More Than A VR Tech DemoHorizon’s combat is great. It can get a little tiresome, especially near the start, when you need to manage your inventory and gather resources for pretty basic weapons, but explore a little deeper and the various traps and elemental attachments give Aloy a vast array of options. Judging from the gameplay demo shown to us in mid-2021, combat is even more sophisticated this time around, with new weapons, new ways to trap your foes, and more to do with your staff than just clobbering things to death. Despite all this, I don’t want to get rid of the combat because it sucks, but because the world around it feels so alive.
This is a contentious issue within the Horizon fandom. Some say that the world feels barren and soulless. Certainly, in some places it’s empty - it’s a game set in the wilderness,
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