Horizon Forbidden West: 26 Amazing Little Details

Horizon Forbidden West is a deeply involving experience, full of imposing machines, warring tribes, and a ton of lore to uncover. It is also an astounding technical achievement, with an attention to detail across its gameplay, character, and visuals that had us shaking our heads in awe. We had a lot to choose from, but here are our 26 favorite amazing little details in Horizon Forbidden West.
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Those are our favorite little details - what did you notice? Shout out below! For everything else Horizon Forbidden West, check out our review, the biggest changes from Zero Dawn, and how long it takes to beat. - Lucy

[@3050Victus]

Aloy's butt is now jucier.

[@awgoodrich8]

The butterflies that hover near some pickable plants will fly away if you pick it.

[@elwiwithegreat7771]

when you zoom in you can see insane details on the skin, like pours and folds

[@erinocelotl3578]

It took me until yesterday to notice, but when you walk on grass Aloy actually flattens it!

[@Human_6181]

Whoa cool

[@mfauz96]

Maybe for you….. I’m still playing on a stock ps4😂

[@VanaielPatryn]

Sometimes if you must talk with a character after a sidequest and you keep them waiting because you're looting the machines you just killed, Aloy will apologize for keeping them waiting!!!

[@aeai935]

or them getting annoyed or mad at you for stalling

[@arnoudrattink1572]

Aloy will make remarks on special enemy states, like: "What's a Fanghorn without horns?", if you happen to meet a fanghorn with its horns shot off.

[@recess7]

Lol true

[@kreesonaidoo8691]

Took me a few days to finish HFW , awesome game , I’m just waiting for NG+ now wanna play it again with all my weapons and armor

[@lateshow4783]

It's a Easy Platinum. It'll keep you busy for awhile too.

[@Tekeysix]

a few days? A week was barely enough for me to do half of this before elden ring got released

[@lovitasoraya]

@@Tekeysix yes me too, i’m 46 hours into the game and not even halfway. There are som much stuff to do!!

[@TLJ1025]

Whatd you rush through the main story as fast as possible?

[@Devutrix]

You missed the way that sand interactions work. I've spent hours walking round the desert marvelling at how detailed that is.

[@Nugnugnug]

It just behaves like snow. Love this game,but tbh the sand physics in AC Origins was better.

[@razaahmed9241]

@@Nugnugnug No

[@subashrai2212]

That's just time waste

[@razaahmed9241]

@@subashrai2212 No

[@Vibrant_HEHO]

Probably the most beautiful game I've ever played

[@Billy_the-cat]

Cant wait for the future. Imagine Spider man 2 with this graphics 🤯

[@nastyline9693]

@@Billy_the-cat yes spiderman of insomniac always deliver, kinda curious what they can do next. This HFW has delivered my all expectations and more. Gaming looks bright in the future, cant wait! Oh yeah, ragnarok too

[@Human_6181]

Same ❤

[@cirescythe]

This game is absolutely amazing. Tops part one in every regard. Which was one of my all time favourites to begin with. Cant wait for dlc.

[@chotuarya552]

It's photo mode is on another level.

[@tomodo9577]

After you complete the main story, people you interact with will mention what happened or what they heard

[@maccaplays6921]

I’m a Xbox gamer but ps makes amazing exclusive games with detail wow

[@joem4021]

Ok? 🙄

[@razaahmed9241]

@@joem4021 Ok, NOW GET OUT OF HERE

[@seeeliwww]

& im a ps gamer & xbox gamepass is love and im super excited for Hellblade 2 hope you guys enjoy it alot.

[@rusadinurima7260]

This game is a masterpiece!

[@shadowfallenable]

This game perfected the art of open-world!! Its like a combination of the best of AssassinCreed, TombRaider, RDR2, and many other open-world game). 👏 👏 11/10 for sure.

[@shanustheanus]

I've read this 3 times and I'm still not sure what that first sentence actually means.

[@TyroneBurns]

Loving this game!

[@redflame300]

Yea they put a Lotta love into it

[@cirescythe]

Saaaame

[@seeeliwww]

This game is Love ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ErzenDesignClassic]

It's a real shame this video isn't in 4k and doesn't do the game the justice is deserves.

[@JP_Crimson]

If it was, the upload might take longer

[@agonybabie]

i’m about to start the final mission and i’m so sad about it ahaha

[@lucygurn6253]

If a machine part rolls down a grassy hill it will flatten the grass and make a trail.

[@joepeglegmorgan3015]

Im soo addicted to this game. Enjoying it soo much. Went for Very Hard and Exolorer and im having a blast.

[@EdmundLau68]

this game is a 11/10 for me，best ps5 game so far

[@seeeliwww]

Indeed ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lucygurn6253]

If you swim through a school of fish they will be disrupted and started individually swimming around you.

[@pagandragentodt669]

Aloy and some other NPCs begin to sweat, when they are in the desert or jungle. You can see little sweatdrops shimmering on their skin. There are very little fine hairs on the skin of Aloys, you can see them in some cutscenes with the right camera and lighting angle.

[@adamcolley1422]

If you fly casually sometimes birds join you and form a shape

[@face76]

Actually in HZD Aloy would make comments and gestures about the cold. She would rub her arms and whatnot.

[@Snakekilla54]

If only they added a bit more detail that if you wear something for the cold it won’t bother her

[@Sparkball]

@@Snakekilla54 they do

[@killrblue]

And there's way more to discover! What an awesome game

[@Ghostslasherrr_]

Can’t wait and hoping for another sequel!

[@godsson7779]

Absolutely stunning

[@DJHyperRhythm]

When Aloy gets gets with electricity, she actually sounds like she’s getting electrocuted!

[@lunaticgaming7967]

Sounds like they came close to a RDR2 level of detail... Which is extremely impressive!

[@Billy_the-cat]

The textures are better than in red dead redemption 2

[@ibrahimsaba1592]

But they have to take care of the effects and interaction features with nature and people more existed and real

[@favlilnap]

Yeah..if it has random event it would be fantastic

[@monsieur9520]

Exept Guerilla didn't crunched their employees

[@RAIDER-sf3wk]

Stoooop

[@riicktann]

not saying you should have given this game a 10, but if this is a 9 elden ring is a 7

[@tiberiupintescu8748]

Legendary game !

[@ariesmu1987]

the smoke, marvellous jaja

[@williestewart6520]

Man I’m having so much fun with this game.

[@Primordial_Radiance]

Quite a few of these were details frome the first game.

[@FireBomberBassist]

They took their time with this game and it shows.

[@JustinKing94]

Cool detail: Your Sunwing will struggle to fly if you're too high up

[@Gaminfystar]

It's so beautiful

[@XiLock_Alotx]

100hrs in and I’m still engaged. Plenty to do still. Unreal

[@GhostRose]

Amazing beautiful game just wish they fix the glitches

[@guilhermeseles4654]

Did you notice that there's a bug where the thunderjaw, bellowback among others doesn't have the antenna component? it was supposed to be another weak point of the machine, it even appears in the diary but the machine doesn't have

[@PATBATEMAN187]

my GOTY

[@idissasuke3631]

This cool

[@Tommydiistar]

Top notch achievement by gorilla games

[@TheeThunderGod]

Guerrilla

[@BAHIYAH_HIMAWARI]

than Xbox Fans 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Tommydiistar]

@@BAHIYAH_HIMAWARI yup 😂 they’re So mad they find all kind a 💩 to give the game low score 😂 not saying it’s perfect but it deserve at least a 9’5

[@seeeliwww]

@@Tommydiistar no game is perfect even Elden ring is more broken then this & still struggling with serious Bugs & performance issues but still got perfect 10 scores .

[@Tommydiistar]

@@seeeliwww yup because it’s multiplT if horizon was multi play it would a get a 20 out of 10 and free cookies 😂

[@oesoy]

Snow angel!!!!

[@jmtstan]

for me its the reflection of her eyes.

[@ibrahimsaba1592]

Guerrilla has to release a neat and dedicated graphics patch that fixes all lacks and errors in the effects and other many things, and later a patch that treats the interaction issues with environment and people.

[@recess7]

Just finished this game, I'm 105 hours in 😂

[@tarnishedofnorenown387]

My only question is, why give us the option of rapelling down when we can shield glide?

[@mrgizmo182]

You don’t unlock the shield glide straight away.

[@razaahmed9241]

Cause Rapelling Is More Faster

[@TheLateral18]

17 could be better. But the game is Amazing!!!!!

[@gusdavid7798]

Most of these were already seen in zero dawn.

[@THATBOIYUNG]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@v.e.s2884]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Schizm1]

Most of those are not "little details" but simple gameplay mechanics :/

[@InternetMouse]

Trying to be like o Knightz o i see?

[@Power_Crystals]

Aloy moans about the weather what ever it maybe

[@dlam8276]

Performance mode is blurry though

[@mookyyzed2216]

Blurry, no. Lower res? Yes. I've tried both many times. Prefer performance every time. Even tweeked every setting in the tv and PS to try to mimic the high frame rates and keep the 4k, but it fell short.

@@mookyyzed2216 you just repeated what he said, blurry=lower res

[@gilbertginegobis7596]

Seeing Aloy again is already amazing, hope Guirilla would work on the melee more coz the melee on this game is Witcher 3 level.😆 not to mention clunky at some point.

[@razaahmed9241]

Melee In This Game Is Better Than Any Other Games, You're Not Just Using It Correctly NOOB 😝😆

[@gilbertginegobis7596]

@@razaahmed9241 perhaps im just too focused on Aloy. 😆 not getting hurt.

[@user-gl1tx2gc4w]

An amazing little detail about Horizon is that Elden Ring released a week after this game

[@seeeliwww]

& the buggy ring is a mess right now .

[@filippoaccorinti3399]

Honestly a lot of this were already present on the first game

[@fancismilenoah3709]

3rd

[@THATBOIYUNG]

It’s actually a open world unlike elden ring you can actually go to the places in the distance

[@santoscolmenero7828]

Ratio

[@Inwardspiral96]

Huh.. you can go any place in the distance in Elden Ring too. And you get rewarded with soemthing new and interesting just about everytime. I'm playing both and they are both phenomenal. They keep getting compared but they are extremely different. Elden Ring is more like Breath of the Wild and Horizon is more like Witcher 3/Assasins Creed.

[@joeydirt420]

@@Inwardspiral96 how is elden ring more like breath of the wild then horizon? Id disagree completely

[@THATBOIYUNG]

Have played every souls game even the indie types this game is overrated compared to forbidden west imo no shade

[@seeeliwww]

@@THATBOIYUNG true

[@mandddplays]

Second

[@texasred1000]

FOURTH

[@davidquintero4575]

Elden ring has completely stopped my progress in HFW I’m 30 hours in level 77

[@razaahmed9241]

🤣

[@3boodi213]

I'm sad, elder ring is taking over everything even this masterpiece...

[@cirescythe]

Indeed. Great game as well. Just not as great as the hype makes people believe.

[@EleosGames]

no it has not :))

[@razaahmed9241]

@@cirescythe Lol Great Game ???, Elden Ring has no better story and combat no better graphics nothing but just open world like monster hunter

[@razaahmed9241]

@@InMaTeofDeath no

[@RhynaX]

Basic!

[@killrblue]

GOTY

[@corysmith7597]

1st

[@dblundz]

No

[@freshtrailers8533]

Stop doing that. It's ridiculous.

[@JoseHernandez-ve8ym]

First

[@dblundz]

No

[@TheeThunderGod]

Deez

[@gabriel897100]

bro most of the details involving quests or misc are all in Witcher 3

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

Most of these are honestly bad "little details" and some of them are just simple things you can see on your screen 99% of the time.

[@elmeguii]

Is this game still relevant?

[@Arcanecide]

Yes

[@cadenced3351]

It's literally only been out for 11 days

[@talentroller4413]

at least it performs better than a certain other game

[@fatboyRAY24]

@@talentroller4413 you mean the game with the PS3 graphics and masochistic combat that can't even lock at 60 fps on next-gen hardware?

[@falsetheory5818]

No

[@jvincent14]

Who is playing this when there is elden ring lol

[@Th3WindFish_]

I’m your huckleberry.

[@TyroneBurns]

Me

[@MrUchihaminato]

Not xbots

[@luisangelurrutiagonzalez7806]

@@MrUchihaminato not ponys

[@TyroneBurns]

Elden Ring is on my list to buy but isn’t on my main game priority list.

[@overtbaton5659]

Horizon forbi... what? Is it an Elden Ring DLC? Is it eaten? Is it to wipe your butt or what?

[@basedplants]

No, Horizon looks fantastic, has great voice acting and performance capture, includes a story that doesn't require reading wikis and watching KZbin videos to piece together, doesn't make you write down your own quest log, features a UI that isn't two generations outdated, and the frame rate is stable in both modes; that's how you know it isn't a janky From Software game.

[@overtbaton5659]

@@basedplants ah that Horizon with bugs a lot of fog and pop in

[@getsuckedd5685]

@@basedplants Game. Set. Match.

[@PlayboyHZ]

@@overtbaton5659 Salty Xbox fanboy detected :( Having both on PS5, after playing Horizon, Elden ring looks like a ps3 game.

[@joeydirt420]

@@overtbaton5659 so much pop in in elden ring.

[@XxNickSlaterxX]

a shame the main character never shuts up, she is always monologing to no one, and cant have 5 minutes of peace without a really needed silence, Link in BOTW is practically a mute guy, and its a lot more enjoyable, is like, man give us an option to make her shut up for once, but aside from that it is not a bad game xD

[@Nvm3r0s]

You never played Days Gone too?

[@waverazor]

Heres a big detail you guys missed: Elden ring is now out and is better than boreizon zero

[@PlayboyHZ]

Playing both on PS5, Elden ring looks so outdated. So enjoy it buddy.

[@putte8594]

Loving how elden fans are crying their eyes out. Sorry just had to say it. The two games are very different but if you want to compare graphics you cant say elden really stand a chance to horizon. Yeah even the first one from 2017.

[@felipez3115]

Better at being outdated with a awful recycled gameplay, with robotic animations and dumb AI, this video It's not even for you, dodge/attack fanboy.

[@kew-d6401]

No elden ring is cheap like a dark souls 3 with an open world , very empty open world , boring gameplay old as hell , no story , no emotions, let me play horizon , a real masterpiece and go back to your cave play to dark souls 3-/- oh no : elden ring

[@cirescythe]

Whats wrong with both games being great?

[@omarbaig4899]

This game got irrelevant REAL quick

[@danc1513]

Speak for yourself

[@Billy_the-cat]

Yeah, if you hate masterpieces like this

[@Hero_Of_Old]

Thats because most people have the attention span of a fish. Others are still playing the game and loving it.

[@keselekbakiak]

Forget this game! just play elden ring!

[@trillioncrowns]

if it was a guy instead of a girl this would be the best game ever