There is very little left for it to arrive PS5 and PS4 the long-awaited Horizon Forbidden West, one of the most important games of 2022 and a more than worthy sequel to the magnificent Horizon Zero Dawn. If you are wanting to play but do not remember what happened in the previous one, we come to the rescue.
Below we summarize the story from Horizon Zero Dawn to Horizon Forbidden West so you can launch into the second part without worrying if your memory is failing you or you haven’t played the first one yet. And besides, we do in less than three minutes. Set the stopwatch and start reading.
The short story of Horizon Zero Dawn
Living between cliffs and snow with a tribe of hunters we find Aloy, a girl who appeared in a mountain cave when she was a baby. As her origin is unknown, since she was little she is treated as an outcast and rejected by most of her tribe.
Disowned by the other kids, Aloy ends up in a cave that reveals that the game’s setting is actually the ruins of humanity as we know it. The ancestors of his tribe, who disappeared many years ago and about whom almost nothing is known, have left behind the most strange buildings and objects.
One of them is the Focusa small triangle that, placed on the temple, offers the wearer a kind of augmented reality vision that provides information about everything around him, including everything related to that ancient civilization that is now extinct.
With a Focus in his power, Aloy he steps into an ocean of digital information as he trains so he can become a full-fledged member of his tribe. Unfortunately, just as he is about to earn that honor, outsiders attack his people and injure Aloy.
After the event, the head of the village shows her the door of the ancients in front of which they found her as a baby. A door that, with Aloy As an adult, she reacts to her in a way she never has before, thus adding to the mystery surrounding the hunter’s relationship with her ancestors.
Aloy He sets off in search of answers and revenge, leaving the village and running into corrupt machines beyond its borders. What were once docile metal beasts that simply roamed free now seem to suffer from a contagious disease that makes them aggressive. Another mystery for the bag.
On their way, Aloy He helps one and the other until he finds out what is behind the attack on his people and the corruption of the machines. Hadesan artificial intelligence of the ancients, was giving orders to the attackers through Focuses like the one he carries Aloy.
Looking for more information about it, he arrives at some of the old facilities that act as a machine factory. There he discovers that behind the metallic beasts are two names, Ted Faro and Elizabeth Sobeckwho created the machines before the collapse of humanity but lost control over them.
In those same ruins Aloy intersects with Sylensan enigmatic man who claims to have been related to Hades and the attackers to his people. Acting for her as a guide, the protagonist finally discovers what happened to the ancients.
With the planet devastated and consumed, Dr. Sobeck created a project called Zero Dawn in which the machines would serve to rebuild the world by terraforming the surface and helping to create a new oasis in which humanity can thrive.
Fight against the invading enemies by, Aloy ally with Sylens to rescue her tribe from the clutches of attackers, and ends up discovering more about the mysterious door where she appeared as a child. She was found there because that is where humanity was reborn. She, in reality, is nothing more than a clone of her own. Elizabeth Sobeck.
Sobeck created an artificial intelligence called GAIA who would be in charge of creating and controlling the metal machines to rebuild the Earth. However, one of the AI’s subprograms, Hadesbroke down and began to manipulate the behavior of the beasts.
In a final battle, Aloy travels to the Needle, a structure that Hades wants to use to spread corruption. His goal seems to be to create a new attack of the machines that ends humanity once and for all. Aloy fight against the AI and kill it thanks to the spear of Sylens. However, much more remains to be done to save the world.