Lauren plays Horizon Zero Dawn #24: Bandit camps, Rost's grave
15Sorry, I exported this and then I never put the timestamps so it's been sitting unlisted and otherwise ready to go for a week and a half. I'm so sorry! But basically I went out of town and then I got sick (possibly COVID) and I'm only just now awake enough to work on this. Anyway, the first 30+ minutes are analysis and speculation, but I tried to add some timestamps if you want to watch that. I think some of it's pretty interesting stuff!
So, the most emotionally powerful stuff in a while here is Rost's grave, as Aloy talks through what's happened to her and what she thinks about it. I feel like I should have done this a long time ago? But it doesn't feel too late. I suspect I'll be back from now on, every time a major plot point happens, just to see how Aloy explains it to Rost. It's a really great insight into her as a person, and it also gets me really emotional. I'm curious about that plane, and wondering what else will come together about the Embrace. Also, I will try not to go all-stealth with bandit camps if there are any left, since I feel like 30 minutes on a bandit camp is maybe too much? I don't know!
With the Behemoth (yes, I saw it; no, I didn't fight it), apparently people tend to think it's a rhino, but I liked thinking of it as a piggy. Either way, it's an animal on the "don't mess with me" list.
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0:00 Starting off...
0:36 Why I like to "minigolf"
4:25 Lauren's thoughts on Maker's End
10:00 ✨SYMBOLISM✨ (please forgive me)
13:25 The coffee battle & response to reception's concerns
17:13 Let's look at those datapoints again
18:29 I'm soooooo confident about my "Cradle of Life" pet theory
20:55 Timing re: Aloy's birth, the Derangement, etc.
24:28 SPECULATION: Putting it all together (with HADES)
30:56 Something something symbolism corruption
32:24 Symbolism? Not my fault! Character names...
33:40 Leveling up
34:14 So what do we do now?
35:56 I believe they would blow up Meridian
38:24 Recontextualizing all those tanks
43:51 First glance at BEHEMOTH (new machine)
54:36 I've been thinking of making a "best of" condensed HZD video?
55:33 Nil, finally!
56:33 Bandit Camp: Shattered Kiln (scoping it out)
59:40 Shooting the bad guys
1:04:24 Their AI is smarter this time around
1:07:50 I have the high ground
1:11:10 Trying to be more aggressive
1:14:33 Another takedown
1:16:42 What WAS this place, anyway?
1:17:50 Pushed some lady off the edge...
1:19:44 Up-close fighting
1:21:50 Taking out a few more enemies
1:25:05 The final few bandits!
1:27:10 BANDIT CAMP OVER!
1:31:01 Why is it called Shattered Kiln?
1:38:54 Talking to Nil
1:43:16 Conversation over; leveling up
1:47:04 New things on the map in Nora land
1:51:39 Back home
1:52:37 CUTSCENE: Talking to Rost's grave
1:56:49 Lauren's feelings about all this
2:01:10 Finding a new path out of home
2:03:20 Metal Flower - Mark I (B)
2:08:05 Fighting some Watchers
2:14:14 Overriding a Scrapper & having a battle
2:19:39 Trying to make sense of this airplane
2:25:55 Machine vs plane
2:28:44 Those leggies that are the Metal Devil
2:29:50 Let's go investigate Mother's Watch
2:31:46 INVISIBLE WALL, THEY'RE WISE TO ME
2:34:50 Bandit camp: Two-Teeth (no stealth!)
2:38:46 Victory!
2:40:48 DATAPOINT: "Robar is coming!"
2:42:15 The "robot uprising" was a red herring, maybe?
2:47:07 More talk about the robot uprising
2:49:44 Robot battle (Watchers, then Sawtooth)
2:52:04 Setting the glitched Sawtooth on fire
2:53:33 Metal Flower - Mark I (F)
2:56:49 Back east to find another Metal Flower
2:59:55 Let's fight another (corrupted) Sawtooth
3:01:40 Victory! Oof. That was hard.
3:02:30 Metal Flower - Mark I (G)
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