“Continue destroying your characters PlayStation”: Unhinged Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores players review bomb over Aloy and Seyka

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Horizon Forbidden West's recently released DLC, Burning Shores, has come face-to-face with a rather bizarre controversy. Legions of PlayStation fans have started downvoting the game by "review bombing" it on Metacritic for featuring an optional dialog and an intimate character interaction between Aloy and her newfound Quen ally, Seyka.

The controversy is the result of an ending dialog choice that players can choose in the DLC's epilog, where Aloy can decide to acknowledge her love for Seyka, and both characters go in for a kiss before leaving for their own separate ways. The scene where Aloy kisses Seyka has sparked outrage among PlayStation fans who are unhappy with Aloy getting involved in a homos*xual relationship.

From cursing the developers, Guerrilla Games, as well as PlayStation as a whole, to hurling direct insults towards the LGBTQ+ community, the user reviews for the Burning Shores DLC are filled with players expressing their outrage in the worst possible ways. All that is over a scene that is entirely optional in a role-playing game, no less.

For the most part, Horizon Forbidden West's Burning Shores DLC is a competent and well-crafted story expansion. It not only adds a few new gameplay innovations but also continues Aloy's story in a meaningful way toward a potential third mainline entry in the series. Guerrilla Games tried a number of new things with the DLC, some of them being quite significant.

Tweaks have been made to the game's combat system, making it more fast-paced using certain skills that allow Aloy to use her basic tools like the pullcaster (which was relegated exclusively to traversal) as an active combat tool. Apart from gameplay tweaks, Guerrilla Games has also made a significant leap in making the