Horizon Forbidden West Player Points Out Incredible Aloy Detail
Horizon Forbidden West is a game rich with detail. As a showcase game for the PlayStation 5, Guerrilla's clearly spent a significant amount of time ensuring that the game's visuals impress players in any number of ways. Aloy's model is perhaps the best example of this, because Horizon Forbidden West players can directly compare her to the last generation version of herself in Horizon Zero Dawn. There's one example that players especially appreciate, given it's a key reference to the events of Horizon Zero Dawn and a unique comparison between the games.
In Horizon Zero Dawn, Aloy's journey begins with a catalyst event that's incredibly tragic. Without getting into detail, it involves a young Aloy having her life threatened and nearly dying. She's grabbed by an enemy who draws a knife to slit her throat. Only, at the last second, the enemy is hit with an arrow and drops Aloy down a cliff. Aloy lives through the fall, but is slashed across the throat. It's not deep enough to prove a mortal wound, but it's a nasty cut that leaves a frightening scar.
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The detail that fans have noticed in Horizon Forbidden West is, obviously, the scar that Aloy retains from this traumatic event. Aloy carried it with her throughout the events of Horizon Zero Dawn and Guerrilla Games made sure that it remained visually recognizable in Horizon Forbidden West.
The events of Horizon Forbidden West begin just six months after the conclusion of Horizon Zero Dawn, which itself isn't much past when the events of the Proving occur and Aloy got her scar. As such, it makes sense for Aloy's scar to be clearly visible. The scar on Aloy's neck in Horizon Forbidden West is clearly identical to
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