If you are one of the people that love this game because you played it when it first released, go back and play it again. In 2017, wokeness wasnt so widespread so people didnt take notice but, in 2020, when this shit is so widespread and irritating, it so obvious what they were doing.
The game makes sure to point out Aloy’s gender in just about every major cut scene. Anytime she talks to someone she goes out of her to make some snide comment about how bad ass she is. Every important good character is female (except her father figure which abandons her and dies). Most evil characters are, of course, men. The armor sets are designed to, as the SJWS would say, “sway the male gaze”.
The best, specific, example (and they are many) is a dude gets captured by a group of killers and has to help them or lose his family. Obviously, he helps them. When Aloy kills the bandits that captured him, you have the option to kill him, let him go or say the situation is complicated (this kind of choice is not common, at all). If you say it’s complicated Aloy’s dialogue is, “Maybe you arent an evil man. Just a weak man”
To which he responds, “Yes, I am weak. All I have is my family.”
Having a family and wanting to protect them is weak, apparently. A normal person not be able to single handedly bring down 10 or so guys by himself, is weak, apparently.
This game is the definition of woke.
It just came out before the bullshit was as widespread as it is now.
Usually, there’s a fair amount of gameplay between cutscenes so it may not seem as obnoxious as it is but it’s there in, pretty much, every cutscene after the first act. The first act does a great job of giving you a false sense of normal, though.
The gameplay is pretty bad to.
Eneimes will randomly freeze, enemies will get stuck in the environment, enemies will be placed in the most cheap ass of spots, enemies will lose sight of you while looking straight at you, You will tell Aloy to shoot an arrow and she wont do it, You’ll tell her to shoot an arrow and she’ll do a melee attack, critical and over ride options will randomly disappears as you are hitting the button to trigger it.
All of that’s annoying but the aspect that’s pushes from annoying to bad, for me, is the terrain being designed in such a way that it makes combat tedious because you get stuck on the environment so easily. If there is a 2 inch rise, you are probably not gonna be able to role past it. The game is, heavily, reliant on dodge rolls but the terrain is designed in such a way, doing them is tedious.
And that’s just the stuff that happens frequently. It would take an essay to point out every bug I’ve seen.
When it works, it’s some of the best gameplay ever but that’s about 40% of the time. This game is, on par, with how buggy a typical Bethesda game is. How does it not get called out for it. I’m sure it, partly, has do with most people playing on lower difficulties but to judge a games mechanics, it needs to played on hard, in my opinion.
I’m just confused how this game gets so much praise. It’s not the worst thing ever, by no means or the most woke thing ever. But it’s far more woke than I want out of my entertainment and the gameplay is really fun when it works. Usually, it’s tedious.
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