Horizon Forbidden West is such an amazing game, and I am just barely scratching the surface on this masterpiece. When you are leaving the first area and beginning the long journey out to the Forbidden West, you must first meet with the Tenakth tribes and request permission to enter their lands. But before that, they were supposed to be having a meeting with the Carja and I guess they were going to renew a peace treaty and give up a prisoner that they have had with them for a while.
While we were waiting for the meeting between the Carja and the Tenakth to begin, I was able to speak with the prisoner and found out that the Tenakth are not as ruthless and bloodthirsty as the Carja make them out to be.
Once they were ready, they sounded the horn to let the Carja know that all of the tribes were ready to begin the meeting and the Carja spokesperson made their way out to the meeting grounds.
It is a pretty tense time and it seemed like things could go bad at any moment. Well, needless to say, things went bad for both sides.
A Tenakth rebel and her army rode in on machines and began to just straight up slaughter everyone from the high ridgeline.
This battle was nothing short of amazing. It was miles above the massive battle of Meridian from the first game, where Aloy saved Meridian from the machines.
Riders came down from the ridgeline and the fight was on. It was a crazy battle and I was playing with surround sound headphones and man, it was incredible.
There was so much going on during this battle. There were flaming arrows flying all over, setting the field on fire. Machines with riders were mowing people down. When you shot the rider off the top of the machines, they would get up and fight you and their machines would begin to attack you and the other Tenakth.
At one point, this dude ran in to sacrifice himself to save others. The front of these machines are like chainsaws and just ripped this dude apart. It was pure madness.
Aloy is able to kill off a lot of these intruders and then she challenges one of their top warriors. He flew off the top of ridge with a glider and had an awesome shield that you needed to shoot corrosive arrows at to break it. Once you get the shield down, he is not that hard.
After you defeat that warrior, the Tenakth rebels decide to retreat and leave because they already did the damage that they wanted to. They had killed off the Marshals of the different Tenakth tribes and killed off the spokesperson for the Carja.
One thing that I really love about this game is that they have put so much time into this story. The first Horizon was so awesome, but this one is already so much better because they do not have to explain as much as the first game and they can just get straight to putting out an amazing story.
Now that I am armed with the glider off of that dead Tenakth warrior, I am ready to set out to the Forbidden West and save the world. This game is massive and there is so much to explore. If this first major battle is any indication on what is to come, I am super excited because I know I am in for a real treat with this game.
