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The game seems to realize this at the end when Aloy rejects being labeled the savior of the Nora, but she does so with insight and sophistication, and it’s too late. Aloy goes from being an outcast girl to being an important person not just with the Nora but in the huge Carja empire and adjusts easily and fluidly. You can’t go through an experience like that, especially if it’s your ONLY experience, and not be shaped by it. She should either be bitter and angry about her treatment, or super ingratiating and trying to show everyone how awesome she is so they’ll finally keep her around. This is not natural behavior for someone who has always been an outcast. She is driven to find out why, but she doesn’t resent it, and sort of shrugs it off when it’s over, letting bygones be bygones. A lot of shocking things happen to Aloy in the game and she handles them all with grace and wisdom.Īloy isn’t angry OR ingratiating: Aloy has been shunned and abused her whole life. She’s a sometimes sassy empathetic urban twenty-five-year old from today. I thought Aloy was going to be a fascinating socially awkward nerd who spent her whole life practicing for one competition and was completely stunted in other ways because of it.
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How does she even know how to put psychological insight into words? Rost sure didn’t. Instead she’s super empathetic and insightful. One would expect her to model herself after her “father” and be stiff and self-righteous, the only type of human behavior she’s had a chance to observe up close. Who taught her this? It’s learned, or at least practiced, behavior, and it’s not like Rost has a great sense of humor. Despite this Aloy is not only a warm, empathetic, person, but always knows the right thing to say in the right situation. She has fewer than five meaningful interactions with other people her entire life (except for some dealings with a shady merchant) until her 18 th birthday. The tutorial section takes great pains to set up how Aloy is raised by Rost alone, a man who is himself pretty stiff and awkward in social situations, and shunned and abused by everyone else. Here is what I mean when I say that Aloy doesn’t make sense:Īloy isn’t socially awkward: This was my biggest surprise in the game. Instead it has a bunch of good but forgettable stuff, and a standout performance by Lance Reddick, who is by far the most interesting character in the game. Horzion Zero Dawn could have had some of the most memorable character interactions in years. I felt a profound sense of disappointment when I realized that they weren’t going to do anything with their premise, and I never fully recovered during the course of the game. And then it abandons that to make her a fairly routine open world game protagonist. A fascinating weirdo the likes of which we’ve never seen in gaming. My issue is that the game sets her up to be something truly special.
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I think she’s inconsistently written and can be a little annoying at times (as many video game characters can) and that the voice acting was…only adequate…but I mostly found her likable, smart and pleasant enough. I want to start by saying that I don’t dislike Aloy as a character.