Horizon Forbidden West’s Follow-Up Should Be Set Across The Pacific Ocean

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The sprawling map that Horizon Forbidden West presents is packed with luscious environments, stunning visuals, engaging side activities, and challenging battles across a west coast landscape that never fails to impress. The change in location from the Rocky Mountains of Horizon Zero Dawn was a welcome one, as the differences in architecture and weather do well to demonstrate the impressive power of the PS5. The game's many vista points show just how far the setting has fallen, and while pushing further west worked wonders for the 2022 title, the conclusion of its story opens up the possibility of yet another relocation.

Horizon Forbidden West is the most sociable Aloy has ever been, slowly recruiting new characters to her cause through the events of the game, resulting in a real team effort in the story's closing stages. One such character, the delightfully uplifting Alva, a Diviner from the distant Quen tribe, encounters Aloy in the game's back half, and immediately becomes a fan favorite. Coming to the USA as part of a research expedition of the Old Ones, Alva's home across the Pacific Ocean opens up the possibility of the inevitable follow-up to Horizon Forbidden West being set far from the shores of San Francisco.

Horizon Forbidden West's Story Shines in the Small Moments

Aloy first comes into contact with the Quen in the quest 'Seeds of the Past' when a temporary alliance is formed with Alva when the former is looking for Test Station Ivy. The quest gave players a significant amount of context as to who the Quen are, how they operate, and the values they hold, and Alva being a researcher of the Old Ones means it gave some much-needed exposition to the history of the game's world. In the very first conversation between