Horizon Forbidden West: The Story Behind Relic Ruins Ornaments
With Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla Games veered away from its first-person shooter roots and decided to experiment with a unique third-person game. The Horizon series gained popularity from featuring mechanical robot enemies and primitive tribes, making the best of a future Earth wrecked by human-caused disasters. Although it was a risky move for the studio at launch, the game was well-received, and Horizon Zero Dawn has sold over 20 million copies on PS4 and PC. Not unexpectedly, the game was followed up with a sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, released in February 2022.
With Horizon Forbidden West, everything is bigger and better. Aloy travels to the Forbidden West to figure out the mystery behind a strange blight that is infecting nature and threatening to bring a host of disasters. The game packs plenty of content including new machines to discover, tribes to learn about, weapons to play with, and collectibles to find. One of these collectibles is the relic ruin ornaments which are scattered throughout the Forbidden West. Aloy does not know what to do with them at first, but they are highly useful and worth collecting.
A Horizon Zero Dawn Prequel Just Makes Sense
The Horizon franchise is set in the distant future following the apocalyptic events triggered by Faro Automated Solutions. Almost all life on Earth is wiped out, but thanks to a genius plan by Elisabet Sobeck, an AI system known as GAIA repopulates the planet with life. Unfortunately, most of humankind's greatest creations have been lost to time; urban areas have been reclaimed by nature, and entire cities are submerged underwater. By the time Aloy is around, humans have established primitive societies, and while survival is still a struggle, some semblance of
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