Horizon Zero Dawn - perfect harmony between machine and nature

 

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Hunt machines in nature

Horizon Zero Dawn is a single-play game developed by Guerrilla Games and is an open-world action RPG played from a third person point of view. The player controls the hunter and archer 'Aloy' to fight against a monster called the "machine" and an unidentified tribal group. Machines have their own habits, such as moving together in groups like real animals, or wandering the plains alone, and each has one weakness. Parts that machines drop upon death are essential to survival and can combine with natural materials to create unique weapons, ammunition, traps, and tools.

 

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Mother Nature and Destroyed Humanities

It deals with events taking place in a world occupied by Mother Nature. Humanity is not the dominant race of the world, and besides the generally visible beasts, highly evolved animal-type machines occupy this world together. Humans have lost their future civilization and technology and have returned to ancient primitive tribal societies. They not only collect animals and plants in nature, hunt and eat, but also hunt small and medium-sized machines to prove their courage and return them to prove their courage.

 

One snowy winter, a middle-aged man takes the baby to the heart of his mother, the center of the Nora tribe, affectionately speaking to the baby girl he raises, but in a tone that he seems not to be a parent. Teresa, one of the three priests of the Nora tribe, was waiting for the child and a middle-aged man, who welcomed her by calling the middle-aged man Lost, blessed the child and named the child Aero. But as soon as the ceremony is over, another priest, Lancera, appears and criticizes Teersa and Rost, saying it is wrong to hold the ceremony.

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Let's go into nature

Horizon Zero Dawn is an open-world game, so you can really freely roam around vast areas, and you can see that most of the terrain and climate you can see around the world has changed as the world has been reestablished. The ecosystem has been completely revived, and there are not only vegetation, but also various animals, so you can hunt them and collect items. Time also circulates, with time zones of day and night and changes in weather. There are times when it rains or snows, and the view is also affected by the weather. Unlike the usual save method, it is a form of saving by setting fire to campfires all over the place. The campfire that I have been to once becomes a kind of "marker" and can be moved as fast as a village.

 

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Animals that can be met on the field provide meat in common. It is recommended to hunt occasionally because each type of item is different and can be used as a material for the item. Wild animals include foxes, wild boars, raccoons, turkeys, rabbits, and fish, and when hunting them, they come with meat, bones, and leather. Bones are green items, and leather is a rare blue item. There are three kinds of meat: greasy meat, delicious meat, and bone meat. These items are used as production materials, which are essential for expanding inventory. In particular, increasing the arrow and bullet slot has a significant impact on game play, so it is recommended that the inventory expansion be done regularly whenever the ingredients are gathered.

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It's not always good

I can't help but praise this game, which has dazzled countless players. Like the guerilla games that created the KillZone series, the gorgeous and colorful graphics left me mesmerized. The view of the world itself is quite attractive, showing the decline since the future and returning to the ancient times in a very natural and attractive manner. As frequently shown in this kind of "Post Apocalypse" work, the interpretation of the remnants of the old world and the remnants of the future world, which have been promoted to boring taboos or myths, is well handled, and the story balance, which interprets over-technology not only in individual designs but also in the overall atmosphere, is relatively well matched. This is the first time I've seen such a well-made game since 바둑이사이트.

 

That doesn't mean there are only advantages. Close combat is inconvenient and bland, and DLC Frozen Wilde has tried to improve its window by making it possible to modify and adding close weapons, but it is an auxiliary role to all the way. They include that the characters' lines and lips do not match well, that the combat balance of the interpersonal is not balanced, and that the volume is small enough to clear all side quests and collect all the collection elements within 45 hours of normal difficulty, so there is little that hard player users can dig into.

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The most unfortunate thing is that storytelling is very disappointing. Sometimes triathlon options are printed and require selection, but only the lines at that moment change and do not have much impact. And even if you choose one of the two options, you have to turn the story over and tell the other person when you go into the next step. Moreover, there is no change in the main story because there is no dividing line between the choices. For players who value stories, this evaluation will be a big disadvantage. I hope the sequel will improve.

 

Thank you very much for reading my long article. I'll be back with some interesting articles about the game next time.

If you guys have time, I recommend buying this game and playing it.

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