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A Leaked Review For Horizon Forbidden West Has A Big Spoiler In It. Click At Your Own Risk

HStallion

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***** LAST WARNING! SPOILERS FOR HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST AHEAD! *****










A leaked review for Horizon Forbidden West was accidently published by a Chinese reviewer as per @usupedro

Uzupedro said:
A chinese review leaked, it looks incomplete but there is some information that could be considered spoiler so please don't open if you are worried about that.
Overall the person seems to have liked it:

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The review itself has spoilers in it and one of the most notable that many people mentioned right away in the review thread was that the long hoped for flyable machine mounts are confirmed in the review. The sun wing specifically is called out, not sure if other flying mounts would be available.

Sun-winged beast, similar to a pterosaur, powered by solar cells on the wings, long-range attacks, the whole body will be covered with shields, mouth firing plasma shells, can be used as a mount. Usually found in high mountains
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So for those long hoping for flying mounts in Horizon finally get your wish!
 
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Worth it. Now I'm HYPED!
To be fair they have been teasing it quite a bit. This will finally shut up those saying that the PS4 held back the game and it makes GG goddam wizards for being able to pull it off.
 
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As I said in the other thread: I'm eating crow

I would have bet my ass they wouldn't do it.
 
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So happy they've included this just surprised that they haven't shown it off in a trailer.
 
Socivol

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Honestly I figured as much seeing as they wanted this in Part 1 and the placement of the Sunwing on the cover. Add the fact they never denied you would get a flying mount and this isn't surprising but it will be so fun!
 
Templeusox

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A lot of claimed that HFW being cross-generation was the reason this was being omitted.

Because there's no flying in last-gen games or something.
 
RecLib

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There needs to be some context for what is or isn't a spoiler because I would click this thread with absolutely no fear now knowing what the "spoiler" is, but almost didn't click it because I was concerned it would be an actual major plot point or something.
 
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Deimos said:
I wouldn't call a gameplay mechanic like that a spoiler.
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It was definitely a high requested feature for the next game and with FW announced as being cross-gen there was arguments about flying mounts not being doable. I know people said it wasn't for the first game but I dunno if they were saying it just because or someone from GG said that.
 
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HStallion

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Deimos said:
I wouldn't call a gameplay mechanic like that a spoiler.
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RecLib said:
There needs to be some context for what is or isn't a spoiler because I would click this thread with absolutely no fear now knowing what the "spoiler" is, but almost didn't click it because I was concerned it would be an actual major plot point or something.
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It could be tied to story elements so I played it safe. Its not like GG is showing this aspect off at all in any of the promotional material and that's probably for a reason.
 
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Carn said:
Same. Not for technical reasons but mostly mechanics/content wise. Flying mounts are basically 'interactive fast travel' and make the world relatively small and have little actual gameplay use in 'general'.
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Going to assume it'll be late-game/restricted by how long you can over-ride it.
 
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I've wanted this since the first game. One of my biggest frustrations with Zero Dawn was the below average traversal. Between the grapple hook, glider, and flying mounts, it really seems they're doing all that they can to make navigating the world actually fun, so this is great news.
 
Hawk269

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I think OP was blowing this spoiler up a little bit. For those following the game, it was almost known.
 
Jencks

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Level design better be top notch then. Flying mounts can destroy exploration
 
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But I was told vehemently that this was impossible because they made it cross-gen.
 
Ariakon44

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Phew. I was kicking myself for being unable to click on this thread and it's only good news, haha.
 
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Det said:
Going to assume it'll be late-game/restricted by how long you can over-ride it.
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RPG tropes I guess.

Early game: "You have to travel across these far and distant lands; it will be a modern Odyssey! A tale of legends! You'll meet new civilisations, cultures and change the course of many lives and this planet's future!"

Late game: "This mount will allow you to reach every corner of the map in less than two minutes"
 
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I'm trying to remember the last time a mechanic spoiler was some sort of news.

But I can't wait to fly.
 
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clicked this thread thinking it would be an actual spoiler and not just something that actually sounds like fun gameplay

hope it's better than Pokemon Legends' flying mount
 
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Biosnake said:
I'm trying to remember the last time a mechanic spoiler was some sort of news.

But I can't wait to fly.
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Yeah, I don't really see this as a "spoiler," since most games show stuff like this off in previews all the times. I guess it technically counts, though, since the studio clearly hid it on purpose (if the leak is accurate, anyhow).
 
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Just to be blunt if I had stated what the review revealed in the title or didn't mention spoilers this thread would be filled with people bitching about being spoiled so you can save me the indignity of finding out the spoiler was a gamepla;y mechanic.
 
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Ovvv said:
It is when they said they cut it because they couldn't do it on PS4 due to hardware issues.
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Never read too much into those type of quotes. Every engineering effort is relative to the time available. If given enough time, very clever people will make it work. But making games also means deadlines so not every goal is reachable in a certain timeframe; unless you can brute-force it specs wise.
 
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Carn said:
RPG tropes I guess.

Early game: "You have to travel across these far and distant lands; it will be a modern Odyssey! A tale of legends! You'll meet new civilisations, cultures and change the course of many lives and this planet's future!"

Late game: "This mount will allow you to reach every corner of the map in less than two minutes"
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I'm guessing that since Sunwings are found only in specific mountain-tops/areas + you can only override them for so long (perhaps less than standard mounts), that might be a way to mitigate or limit that effect.
 
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HStallion said:
Just to be blunt if I had stated what the review revealed in the title or didn't mention spoilers this thread would be filled with people bitching about being spoiled so you can save me the indignity of finding out the spoiler was a gamepla;y mechanic.
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Oh, I totally get it and think you clearly made the right choice, I just think it's funny that people would see it as a "spoiler" in the first place.
 
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HStallion said:
Just to be blunt if I had stated what the review revealed in the title or didn't mention spoilers this thread would be filled with people bitching about being spoiled so you can save me the indignity of finding out the spoiler was a gamepla;y mechanic.
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So true 🤣

You could possibly remove "big" spoiler, though?

This isn't a big spoiler. I think that's what some people are saying. It's pretty small and pretty widely assumed.

Big spoilers are what happened with TLOU 2, and I think that's what people are thinking.
 
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