


The story missions are very much “more of what you loved from the first game” with big battles, some sneaking, and thankfully just two puzzles which are quite simple to complete. As it’s in the trailer I don’t feel like it’s a spoiler to say that after six years of the franchise you finally get to fight a Horus, the massive spider like enemies found across on the maps in both games. New creatures include the Waterwing, a version of the Sunwing which can dive and swim underwater, the Stingspawn, small flying creatures that live in eggs and hatch if you get close the them, and the Bilegut, Horizon’s take on a massive toad. Seyka, your new companion played by Kylie Liya Page, is just as feisty as Aloy and works really well as an AI companion, helpful distracting enemies so Aloy can take them down. Initially painted as a camp, almost comedic villain who you can almost hear twirling his mighty moustache, the later story beats reveal a much darker side that is particularly ugly and really made my skin crawl. He is egotistical, vain, and really quite awful – he Musk be based on someone, but I really cannot think who that may be.

Our new big bad is the Zenith named Walter Londra, a tech giant who made his money from space programs which mined near Earth asteroids.
