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Have You Played… Horizon Zero Dawn?Slowly disappearing, farewell Thunderrrrrjaw
Slowly disappearing, farewell Thunderrrrrjaw
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You know those far-too-good-looking gameplay trailers that big-name developers and publishers put out? The ones where everything looks so shiny that your PC would never be able to run it, and so exhilirating that it must have been scripted? Yeah, that’s what the Thunderjaw fight was like. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a cinematic boss fight in any game. And the best part is that it was the joint effort between the astonishingly good looks of Horizon Zero Dawn, and the brilliance of its combat and movement systems.
Next, I surveyed the immediate vicinity and found a useful cluster of rocks that seemed to force me down a fairly narrow path. I slid past the Thunderjaw as its maw closed in, reached the end of the rock path, and then started firing tripwires from point to point as fast as I could. The Thunderjaw roared a terrible roar and charged again. Its enormity meant the first tripwire’s massive explosion barely slowed it down. But together the many tripwires took its toll, blasting plates of armour off the underbelly of the beast and exposed the more delicate parts of its chassis to my arrows.
The moment of the Thunderjaw’s collapse was the best part of it all. This incredible fight, this cinematic, climactic, nail-biting experience, it wasn’t a part of any quest or mission. It wasn’t scripted. It just happened because I went off exploring in the most beautiful open-world landscape I’ve ever known, stumbled across an incredible new creature and was forced to defend myself.
