The few Zeniths that were left fled the planet aboard one of their shuttles- but it wasn’t them who sent the Extinction Signal. It deemed the Zeniths to be its biggest enemy, and took control of all of their machines on the colony, before using them to destroy the planet. For a long time, the AI festered and grew, and its rotten personality took on an ugly form. Nemesis was deemed a failed project and ended up getting shelved- but no destroyed. They called it Nemesis- so it’s not exactly surprising that things didn’t go exactly as planned. Having already achieved physical immortality, the Zeniths wanted to achieve digital immortality as well, and decided to create an AI that would be a collective carbon copy of all of them combined- all of their personalities, emotions, experiences, intelligence, and memories, all smushed together into a single AI. While everyone had previously been under the assumption that the Zeniths’ colony in the Sirius system had been destroyed by a natural geological disaster, it is revealed that that’s not what happened at all. Throughout the game, the assumption is that it was the Zeniths who sent the Extinction Signal twenty years ago that awoke HADES and caused the destruction of GAIA as well as the Derangement, and that they intended to come to Earth, steal and restore GAIA, and use it to destroy the planet once more and then remake it in their own image, with no regard of the life that already exists there, and has existed for centuries at this point.Īs Forbidden West comes to an end though, it is revealed that that’s not what happened at all. Right towards its end, Horizon Forbidden West reveals some startling things about Far Zenith. That said, there are other, far bigger threats that Earth is going to have to deal with in the not so distant future. Meanwhile, with HADES now gone as well, there’s no threat of the subfunction becoming independent and self-aware and trying to destroy the planet’s biosphere once more. That in and of itself is a huge and radical shift. Any and all hunter-killer and combat machines that had been a threat to human existence for the last two decades are no longer something that the people of the world have to contend with. The terraforming system is now functioning exactly as it should, the planet’s biosphere is stable, the blight has been dealt with, and crucially, with HEPHAESTUS being back under GAIA’s command, the Derangement of the Machines is no longer a threat. The most significant repercussion here is that GAIA is back online, completely healthy, and completely in control of all of her systems. HADES is completely destroyed, which, too, is significant. Throughout Forbidden West’s story, after Aloy recovers the GAIA backup and brings it back online, she travels throughout the titular west and reacquires several of the AI’s subordinate functions and reintegrates them- MINERVA, DEMETER, AETHER, POSEIDON, and HEPHEASTUS, while after defeating the Zeniths, she brings three other subfunctions back into the fold as well, with ELEUTHIA, ARTEMIS, and APOLLO. Meanwhile, the blight is dealt with as well. Tilda herself, meanwhile, tries to force Aloy to flee the planet with her (more on that in a bit), and ends up getting killed in the fight that ensues between the two of them. Erik is killed by Aloy and Zo, who avenge Varl’s death, while Gerrard is killed by his fellow Zenith, Tilda. The Zeniths are all dead, thanks to Sylens and his weapon, which allows Aloy and co to destroy their shields and take them on in one on one combat. The two biggest threats that Aloy and her friends are dealing with in Horizon Forbidden West are the blight – which is essentially the terraforming system of Zero Dawn gone haywire and destroying the planet’s biosphere all over again – and Far Zenith – the group of highly advanced, supremely powerful, and effectively immortal humans who come back to Earth a thousand years after they first left it to colonize a different planet in the Sirius system nearly nine light years away.īoth of those threats are dealt with by the time the game ends. Here, we’re going to talk about the ending in particular- how the game wraps up its eventful story, and what that could mean for the series’ future. There’s a lot that happens in Guerrilla’s open world sequel, and between the game’s opening and closing credits, there’s no shortage of narrative twists, turns, and revelations that collectively shake everything up in a significant way by the time the game ends. If you’re among that group, turn back now, because obviously, this feature is going to be full of major spoilers. Horizon Forbidden West has been out for a few days, and given how long of a game it is (noticeably so than its predecessor), it goes without saying that many players haven’t yet seen it through to completion.
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