More Like Horizon Forbidden West: Slow-Burning Shores, Amirite?

1h 45m · Pixel Therapy Pod · 06 Jun 09:00

Join us as we soar upon a Sunwing into Guerilla Games' long-awaited epilogue to 2022's Horizon Forbidden West, among the sun-soaked Burning Shores of post-post-apocalyptic Los Angeles! It's both a bittersweet final adventure with the late, great Lance Reddick and a new kind of journey for the emotionally distant Aloy we've all come to know and love. PS - Happy Pride!

3:35 - Let's get into the PlayStation Showcase!

24:49 - Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores discussion

29:00 - The next-gen-ness of it all

33:42 - Background and setup

45:55 - Aloy's emotional coming-of-age

53:53 - Traversal-focused gameplay

1:03:27 - SPOILER WARNING! Spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores from here forward!

1:05:00 - "Wow" moments and scaling up enemies

1:16:00 - THAT part

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