Horizon Forbidden West: Nemesis is an Antithesis to GAIA

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Horizon Forbidden West may be the latest in the franchise from Guerrilla Games, but it’s not going to be the last. The franchise is moving to VR with Horizon: Call of the Mountain, but it’s also clear by Forbidden West’s ending that a proper threequel is in the works.

WARNING: THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD FOR HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST’S ENDINGThis is because Aloy and her companions learn of a new threat to the world, and like in any good fantasy RPG, there have been plenty of them. Aloy has stopped HADES, HEPHAESTUS and the Far Zeniths, and the game ends with her preparing for the coming threat: Nemesis.

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Through Horizon Forbidden West, Aloy will learn of the Far Zeniths, their survival, and the destruction of their planet Sirius. It wasn’t clear why the Far Zeniths «sent» the extinction signal, nor why they were on earth after GAIA, but all of it comes back to Nemesis. Far Zeniths managed to achieve some form of physical immortality—at least as far as aging and shielding their bodies go—but they wanted more. They wanted a digital immortality where they could truly last forever in whatever form, but the project ended in failure.

Prior to this though, the collective consciousness of many Far Zenith members had been uploaded to a program, for some reason dubbed Nemesis as if that wasn’t foreshadowing enough. When it failed, Nemesis was left alone, meaning the collective consciousness of several powerful and egotistical company CEOs, millionaires, and they likely were all left to fester together.

This bred a hatred for the Far Zeniths, with Nemesis escaping, destroying Sirius, and sending the Extinction signal to Earth so Far Zeniths couldn’t have a home. As Aloy