Much like the core games, you'll need to use your arrow to hit their weak points and use a combination of elemental arrows to get an advantage. These range from Watchers to fighting a Thunderjaw.

You'll know you're about to fight something because you'll walk into a circular area, and some machine will appear for you to take on. When you reach the top of any climb, there's a sight to behold as you look around the mountain and enjoy the vistas - as long as your stomach can handle it - but the journey, in this case, is not worth the price of admission or the effort. I'm spending most of this beautiful game face an inch away from dirt, cement and dull environments. But it must have been about four hours into my Horizon Call of the Mountain journey that I realised I'd been spending the majority of the game staring at walls in front of me, climbing them.

It didn't bother me initially it wouldn't be an issue if the game were much shorter. Sure, the game gives you new tools as you go along to do said climbing, but it's all the same goal of climbing upward somehow. And for about the next 80% of the 8-10 hour game, you'll be doing nothing but climbing. Shortly after the opening sequence, Rajas is tasked with climbing a mountain to look for his brother.

The smoothness of the experience and the use of the PS5's SSD also meant it was super-fast to get into the game, and any future load screens were nearly non-existent.įor as good as Horizon Call of the Mountain looks, it takes little effort to use the medium for telling stories or ways for players to interact with interactive worlds. The Tallneck moment is the kind of 'wow' virtual reality moment that sinks into you and makes you appreciate this new world we're heading in with video games. Sitting on a boat, the character you play, Rajas, is being transported to another location - the characters rowing the boat attempt to dodge a Tallneck crossing the river and Watchers scouting ahead. The lack of PS Move controllers in my hand, the beautiful new world, and the lack of that screen-door effect we got used to on PSVR. The first ten minutes experience of booting up Horizon Call of the Mountain is magical. As was the test when I let my brother play a bit of the game in his first PS VR2 run: 'why are their robots if it's prehistoric?' 'Is this the girl you play as in the other games?' The answers are A: I don't have time to explain play Horizon. B: yes, Aloy, the protagonist of the core Horizon games, makes a very short appearance near the start of the game. 'I'm playing as a Shadow Carja.' I know they're a bad group from Horizon Forbidden West, but it will be confusing for anyone else playing this game. This is a wild assumption, but as I got about an hour into Horizon Call of the Wild and realised the game was not attempting to explain the world to new players, I had to shrug it off. They'll not only want to purchase Horizon Call of the Mountain as the one key-launch game, but they'll also have been big enough PlayStation fans to have already played the previous Horizon games. Sony has bet on a particular type of consumer for those buying their new headset.

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