In this expansion, you’ll still be exploring ancient caves full of glowing, glitching artefacts, antediluvian voice memos, and the odd brood of enraged robot dinosaurs, but the whole thing’s so immaculately polished from start to finish that it’s impossible not to warm to it, despite the outward silliness of its setting.Īloy’s still an oddly anodyne figure, though, her flat delivery and largely expressionless interactions making her seem at last 15% shop window mannequin. The base game is already a winner, and its familiar blend of stealth, kinetic-feeling battles, and traversal challenges maintains a cracking pace throughout. However, Burning Shores doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent itself to be considered worthwhile.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores – even prettier than the main game (pic: Sony)
Upping the difficulty level to hard changes that, essentially reducing your weapons to peashooters, turning otherwise robust battles into drawn-out, hand-aching wars of attrition that can occasionally end prematurely with you getting frustratingly crushed to death in the seconds before your healing item takes effect. While enemies in Burning Shores pretty much assume you’re at or near level 50, fights are fun rather than brutal. We’ve always found combat easy enough that traps and ropecasters, which let you tie up robots so you can give them a good drubbing, were never really needed anyway. As ever, they range from useful to almost entirely redundant, but that’s as much to do with the way you play the game as anything inherently wrong with the perks themselves. There’re plenty of other novelties to discover too, with the removal of the old level 50 cap and a bunch of new skills to learn.Įach of the game’s skill trees receives three additional nodes to unlock. Along with the glider wing, you’ll be making good use of the Sunwing, Aloy’s existing flying robot dinosaur mount, complemented during one memorable sequence by the new Waterwing, which seems to be based on a gannet and can dive under the waves for a few seconds to avoid incoming attacks.
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