In This Case, A Very Loud Friend.
More Horizon Forbidden West! I've brought the first module back to the base and gone through the mission immediately afterwards.
Kotallo: I'm coming with you.
Riona: Aloy's going to drop you off a cliff, Kotallo; she can't stand having other people around.
And of course Aloy's response was to call the mountain base and go 'hey, this guy's interested in joining us, please pick him up and get him away from me immediately.' Not that she dislikes Kotallo at all; she just hates committing to spending time with anyone for an extended period.
(Her arrangement with Nil is sort of ideal for her, come to think of it. Meet up, do some murder, murder's done, bye.)
Varl teaching Erend to use the Focus is beautiful. I'm so happy. I like the detail that Erend's started seeing glyphs in his dreams, too.
Erend saying the Focus 'makes me feel like I could be useful, y'know'! He's intriguingly self-loathing, and I find I like him more in this game than I remember liking him in Zero Dawn. It's a shame about the facial hair.
This is the first time I've been back to the base since it was established, and I love it! I love getting to talk to my friends and see how they've made this place their own. I love getting to overhear their confused conversations about the strange Old World traditions of pizza and ice skating.
We found Beta! One step closer to making out with my fellow clone? Fingers crossed.
The Zeniths are the same people who left Earth? How many of them were there? Did any of them ever have children, or did the longevity treatment prevent that somehow? Was the colony just the same handful of terrible arseholes living together for centuries, all fighting to oppress each other, because they're all used to having power and suddenly there's no one else to hold power over? It sounds like an awful, stagnant, fascinating society, and I'd love to know more.
Beta saying 'He enjoys hurting people' about Erik, combined with her perpetually anxious body language, is really making me worry about what she's been through.
I like that Beta doesn't just feel like another Aloy at all, and that Aloy finds her a bit frustrating. They speak differently, they move differently, they have different attitudes, and why wouldn't they? They have very different experiences and knowledge, even if they both grew up as outsiders.
I've noticed Aloy referring to Zeniths as 'it' a couple of times, which is interesting. Saying the weapon 'somehow stripped a Zenith of its shield'. It's hard for her to see them as human. (The feeling is probably mutual; the Zeniths call Beta 'it' as well.)
I almost managed to make it through a Forbidden West entry without any mention of Nil, but at the last moment I added a line about Nil to this entry. One day!
Kotallo: I'm coming with you.
Riona: Aloy's going to drop you off a cliff, Kotallo; she can't stand having other people around.
And of course Aloy's response was to call the mountain base and go 'hey, this guy's interested in joining us, please pick him up and get him away from me immediately.' Not that she dislikes Kotallo at all; she just hates committing to spending time with anyone for an extended period.
(Her arrangement with Nil is sort of ideal for her, come to think of it. Meet up, do some murder, murder's done, bye.)
Varl teaching Erend to use the Focus is beautiful. I'm so happy. I like the detail that Erend's started seeing glyphs in his dreams, too.
Erend saying the Focus 'makes me feel like I could be useful, y'know'! He's intriguingly self-loathing, and I find I like him more in this game than I remember liking him in Zero Dawn. It's a shame about the facial hair.
This is the first time I've been back to the base since it was established, and I love it! I love getting to talk to my friends and see how they've made this place their own. I love getting to overhear their confused conversations about the strange Old World traditions of pizza and ice skating.
We found Beta! One step closer to making out with my fellow clone? Fingers crossed.
The Zeniths are the same people who left Earth? How many of them were there? Did any of them ever have children, or did the longevity treatment prevent that somehow? Was the colony just the same handful of terrible arseholes living together for centuries, all fighting to oppress each other, because they're all used to having power and suddenly there's no one else to hold power over? It sounds like an awful, stagnant, fascinating society, and I'd love to know more.
Beta saying 'He enjoys hurting people' about Erik, combined with her perpetually anxious body language, is really making me worry about what she's been through.
I like that Beta doesn't just feel like another Aloy at all, and that Aloy finds her a bit frustrating. They speak differently, they move differently, they have different attitudes, and why wouldn't they? They have very different experiences and knowledge, even if they both grew up as outsiders.
I've noticed Aloy referring to Zeniths as 'it' a couple of times, which is interesting. Saying the weapon 'somehow stripped a Zenith of its shield'. It's hard for her to see them as human. (The feeling is probably mutual; the Zeniths call Beta 'it' as well.)
I almost managed to make it through a Forbidden West entry without any mention of Nil, but at the last moment I added a line about Nil to this entry. One day!