Tag: horizon zero dawn

theherocomplex:

good good HZD things: 

  • Varl’s “…mother” after she drags him in front of Aloy. 
  • “All the way to Meridian, just to see me?” “Have you been drinking?” 
  • “Why do you think this will end well for you?” 
  • Vanasha immediately hitting on Aloy and Aloy not knowing how to handle it 
  • Petra’s weakness for “restless girls”
  • Talanah’s lipgloss 
  • the look Avad gives Erend at the end of the Dervahl questline 
  • climbing a Tallneck for the first time, because they are the Most Good Boys 
  • yelling at your TV because [redacted asshole] manages to continue being the worst, ever, in history, even worse than Protogen from The Expanse and the Reapers from Mass Effect, and possibly even worse than all Dragon Age villains combined
  • “this is a door” 
  • Baby Aloy’s post-apocalyptic bump-it 
  • Aloy saying “probably needed the wash” when she climbs out of a river 
  • Ikrie’s freckles!!!!
  • the way Watchers bounce around and fall over when they jump at you 
  • “LOOK OUT BELOW!”
  • Aloy how do you have enough hair for twenty people 
  • Rost’s power-beard 
  • speaking of facial hair: laughing at Erend’s Randy Savage jam
  • Nil naming his bow but not his knife, because who names their knives? 
  • peeping the Helis musculature 
  • realizing Jennifer Hale voices two NPCs in the Frozen Wilds and one of her lines might have an oblique reference to Shepard 
  • abusing photo mode 
  • “+100 Human Kill/+15 Stealth Kill/+50 Headshot”
  • “I would have come just to see you one more time”
  • finding the metal flowers and reading the poetry attached to them 
  • the Blessing before the Proving 
  • “a hawk never abandons their thrush” this is fine!!!!!
  • Aloy calmly dismantling the patriarchal bullshit of the Carja 
  • spending the game wanting to marry every female NPC you meet 
  • where’s the tall grass omg where is the tall grass I have three Bellowbacks coming after me TALL GRASS PLEASE!!!!
  • “should have brought a cart!”
  • Aloy’s extensive done-ness when it comes to the dudes in the Frozen Wilds 
  • Elida clearly not realizing Romeo & Juliet was a warning/satire and not something to aspire to
  • “we’re here for Meridian…and we’re here for you.”
  • [redacted]’s efforts to save the world, and how they succeeded in the end 
  • “turn your face to the sun, and think about that!” 
  • “two? ha! she likes me.” 
  • all the millions of tears we cried during “Deep Secrets of the Earth” 
  • I might still be crying 
  • seriously guys someone hold me 
  • “with enough compassion to heal the world…just a little bit.” 
  • crying. so much crying. so much good crying. 
  • just one hug guys that’s all I ask 
  • lying facedown on the floor because this is fine, nothing hurts, the game totally did not break my heart