Horizon Forbidden West

Currently sitting at 88 on Opencritic, after 75 reviews. Seems solid, but it was never not going to be.

Quite funny seeing EG's no recommendy on the list in between some pretty positive scores on opencritic. I think Malindy is the EG reviewer I most consistently disagree with, so I'll probably love this.

IGN
9 / 10
Eurogamer
No Recommendation
GamesRadar+
4.5 / 5
Metro GameCentral
8 / 10
Game Informer
9.3 / 10
GameSpot
8 / 10
Destructoid
8.5 / 10
Game Revolution
9 / 10

Sounds like a lot more of the same, but prettier. Which sticks it on the wait for a decent sale pile.

Skill-Up is also full of praise for it, despite having criticisms too.

One of which is that it really requires the player having played the first game, and it sounds like you'd be better served having played it recently. The sequel picks up almost exactly where the first leaves of, and references a lot of the events that occurred. Skill-Up mentions that he played the original 2 years ago and was still confused about a lot of what was being spoken of.

He'll give it an 11.

I can't bring myself to play the first one again (even though I did enjoy it a lot) and I never got to the expansion, so I've just watched this:




Pretty good actually, and I'll take 20 minutes over 40 hours or so!

The DLC is the bit that I haven't played, despite owning for years. I always intended to do a complete playthrough before the sequel but haven't.

I fired the game up again to do the DLC, but I've got so many parts, suits, weapons, skills ready to go, and so many high level enemies to fight, I can't be bothered jumping back in without that muscle memory. I think I might do the DLC after the new one, if I have any appetite for it left.

The basic DLC plot is also in the Gamespot video, at the end.

Hmmm. Strongly disagree, lost legacy is my favourite of the series.

FFS, I selfishly didn't need this getting decent reviews.

Ah, to be fair I forgot about Lost Legacy. I did start it, but just couldn't muster any great interest - still burnt out on U4, which I never finished because it is apparently infinitely long.


I read the Eurogamer review for Forbidden West and it mostly sounds like reasonable criticisms. Personally I would lump it under the 'it's not Elden Ring' umbrella. I'll probably pick it up cheap in about 2 years when the price becomes vaguely sensible.

All of the uncharted games were too long. The one where you’re chasing his brother about has about eight different places where the story should have ended but it just kept lurching onwards.

I am critical of the EG review but not because I feel like this game demands high review scores. As others have mentioned, the first one was a 7.5-8 really. Its just clear she suffers from game journalism syndrome where they have to rush through a game and therefore play on easy and don't engage with any side content and systems till after the main story. The second halve of the review also was a bloated mess in dire need of editting. Way too much emphasis on small elements while others could have used more time. Also found it laughable she found time to complain about Zulu face paint and lack of strong female characters in this game. Clearly its never enough for this reviewer based on her old reviews.

I think Skill-Up review is a bit well strange in some ways, it sounds like the activities are great and improved, combat is slightly improved, main story is pacing and quality is far worse while side stories are much better. I mean he starts with 9.5 out if 10 but his end of the video makes me really feel its 7-8/10 all over again.

Will buy it when it goes on discount, there is just simply too many good games coming out the next 3 months (Gran turismo 7, Triangle Strategy, Warhammer Total war 3, God of War and well most importantly, Elden Ring).

I wish I could be arsed just doing the bare minimum and beating the story of the original as an entry point to this but every time I think about doing it I couldn't be less enthusiastic. It just bored me so much.