Horizon Zero Dawn Gameplay Part 10

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Published on October 24, 2022 2:02:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKCkws7Lwu0

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Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)

Duration: 34:51

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Aloy was cast out from the Nora tribe at birth and raised by an outcast named Rost. As a child, she obtained a Focus, a small augmented reality device that gives her special perceptive abilities.
At an early age, Aloy becomes curious about her mother. Rost tells her only the Nora matriarchs would know, and as outcasts it is not their place to know such things. As Aloy continues to push Rost for a way to find the truth, he admits the matriarchs might tell her more if she were to win the Proving, a competition to earn the right to become a Nora Brave, and by extension, a member of the Nora tribe. Anyone who finishes the competition becomes a Brave, but the winner is also granted a boon. Rost agrees to train her for the proving, and does so over the course of several years.
Now a young woman trained in archery and survival, Aloy visits the Nora settlement and enters the competition. She is treated with distrust and contempt by most of the villagers. She meets Oseram foreigner Olin, surprised to see he also wears a Focus. Olin acts suspiciously and their conversation is brief.
Aloy wins the proving, but the Nora are attacked by cultists and most of the newly minted Braves are killed. Aloy is almost killed by their leader, Helis, who also wears a Focus, but Rost sacrifices himself to save her. When Aloy awakes, a Matriarch explains that the cultists had gained control of corrupted machines. Aloy learns that as an infant, she was found at the foot of a sealed door. Olin informs Aloy that the cultists are part of a rebel Carja group called the Eclipse, and admits to working for them for the safety of his family. He indicates that Aloy was targeted due to her resemblance to an Old World scientist named Dr. Elisabet Sobeck, and it was by seeing her through his focus that they were made aware of her. Aloy locates the remnants of the company Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the old world was destroyed nearly 1,000 years ago after Faro lost control of its automated "peacekeeper" military robots. The robots, which could self-replicate and consumed biomass as fuel, overran the planet and consumed the biosphere, stripping Earth of all life. Project Zero Dawn, a top secret project spearheaded by Dr. Sobeck, was a plan to create an automated terraforming system to eventually shut the robots down and restore life to Earth.
Aloy is contacted by Sylens, a secretive figure interested in uncovering what happened to the "Old Ones". Aloy eventually learns that Dr. Sobeck was sent to an Orbital Launch Base to complete Zero Dawn and Sylens reveals that the base is located under the Citadel, the centre of Eclipse power. Aloy heads for the base and inside, she finds out that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases, factories, and cloning facilities controlled by a single artificial intelligence, GAIA. Once all life had been extinguished, GAIA developed a countermeasure to deactivate all of the Faro robots and build its own robots to restore the Earth's biosphere. Once the planet was habitable again, GAIA reseeded life on Earth based on stored DNA and taught the first human clones not to repeat their predecessors' past mistakes. However, APOLLO, the system designed to teach the new humans, was sabotaged by Faro's founder and CEO Theodore Faro in a fit of nihilism, and the Cradle-born humans were reduced to a tribal, subsistence society. HADES was one of GAIA's subsystems designed to enact controlled extinction if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favourable for human existence. Reaching Dr. Sobeck's office, Aloy downloads a registry to give her access to the door from which she was born. She is captured by Helis and sentenced to death at the Citadel, but escapes with the help of Sylens. Aloy helps the Nora tribe fight off the Eclipse and ends up at the door beneath the Nora mountain.
She finds a recording left behind by GAIA, revealing that a signal of unknown origin caused HADES to activate and seize control of her functions. As a last resort, GAIA self-destructed in order to stop HADES. Without GAIA to maintain the terraforming process, the entire system began to break down. As a contingency plan, GAIA created a clone of Dr. Sobeck in the form of Aloy, in the hope that she would find GAIA's message, destroy HADES, and restore GAIA's functions. Aloy learns that Dr. Sobeck sacrificed her life to ensure the Faro robot swarm would not find GAIA. Aloy manages to obtain the master override necessary to destroy HADES. Sylens admits that he was the original founder of the Eclipse, originally tempted by HADES' promises of knowledge. With Sylens's help, Aloy surmises that HADES means to send a signal to reactivate the Faro robots to once again extinguish all life on Earth. Aloy kills Helis and helps fight off waves of corrupted machines, before stabbing HADES with Sylens' lance and activating the master override, ending the war.

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