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The Horizon Forbidden West ending is quite the bombshell, as you'd hope from a story like Aloy's latest. Here we'll explore the biggest plot points, how they'll no doubt tie into an inevitable sequel.

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00:00So at the end of Horizon Forbidden West there is a lot of complicated story reveals thrown

00:12at you and a big cliffhanger setting up the next game that I don't really explain.

00:16We're going to break down all of these without all the mumbo jumbo and explain what the ending

00:20means for the next game in the series.

00:23Now obviously I'm going to be dropping huge spoilers all over the place so unless you

00:27want to know exactly how the game ends and see some of the final cinematic, go away now.

00:32I mean, you really shouldn't be here unless you've finished the game already and just

00:36want some clarification.

00:37Okay, so now I'm assuming the only ones watching this are either suckers for spoilers

00:43or you've finished the game.

00:44Everybody ready?

00:45Let's do this.

00:47So with that shot in the back all the zeniths are gone, bar double crossing Tilda herself

00:52that is.

00:53It's always felt like she's hiding some of her real objectives and it all comes out

00:57here.

00:58I see you've been busy and you've been lying.

01:02Turns out Tilda wasn't just friends with Elisabeth Sobeck, Aloy's genetic source material,

01:07but instead the pair were lovers.

01:09I loved Elisabeth more than you could ever know.

01:14But that didn't stop Tilda from leaving Elisabeth Sobeck when the zenith escaped Earth and clearly

01:19she's regretted it ever since.

01:20So once she discovered that Aloy existed and is essentially her perfect version of Elisabeth

01:25Sobeck, she plans to take Gaia for herself and take Aloy against her wishes to start

01:31a new perfect planet somewhere that's safe.

01:33Which is why we must flee to a random planet circling a random star somewhere it can never

01:39find us.

01:40With Gaia, so you can build yourself a new world.

01:45Aloy politely refuses by killing Tilda.

01:48See instead of running away, Aloy wants to stay and protect her friends, the planet and

01:53all life on Earth from what the zeniths were running away from, the big bad nemesis.

01:58This pulsing red foe is a database come to life, a failed experiment left abandoned by

02:02the zeniths as they tried to find a way to upload their minds into any form to achieve

02:07more than just physical immortality.

02:10So Nemesis is made up of failed copies of the zeniths' consciousness filled with hopes,

02:14dreams, fears and knowledge, which it then used against them.

02:18It had everything it needed from our memories, security protocols, system specs, override

02:24codes.

02:25It wasn't a natural disaster that destroyed the zeniths' colony on Sirius, but instead

02:29it was Nemesis, who became sentient and looked to seek revenge for being locked away in its

02:33own prison.

02:34Imagine being trapped alone for decades with only the twisted echoes of megalomaniacs for

02:40company.

02:41It hates us for abandoning it to that prison.

02:44Ah, nothing like a crazy digital version of your society chasing you across the universe.

02:49Talk about abandonment issues.

02:51Anyway, the zeniths never planned to stay on Earth.

02:54It was a pit stop onto another world where they could properly hide from Nemesis, basically

02:58like a gas station.

03:00But anyway, Nemesis was one step ahead of them, attempting to destroy Earth before they

03:05even got there.

03:06It was even Nemesis that sent the extinction signal from the first game that woke Hades.

03:11Unfortunately, despite the fact that you've taken out all of the zeniths, Nemesis is still

03:15on its way, and according to Tilda, it cannot be stopped.

03:19Mm-mm.

03:20Earth is finished, Aloy.

03:24Nemesis will scour it of life to deny its creators a viable home.

03:29Just as you're starting to feel like a proper little tribe of your own in the base, the

03:33ending does somewhat tear the team apart.

03:35As Aloy informs them of Nemesis' impending arrival, four of your companions head out

03:40into the world to spread the word and start to prepare for the attack.

03:43Meanwhile, Beta remains at the base with Aloy and a surprise new ally, Silence.

03:48The on-again-off-again part of the crew initially plans to get in the zeniths' rocket and head

03:52into space completely solo, but eventually decides to stay and help fight Nemesis.

03:57Thus, he's now a fixture in the base with Beta and Aloy.

04:00So those are the major beats of Horizon Forbidden West's ending, and with Nemesis literally

04:05hurtling towards Earth, we know exactly what the next game will be focused on.

04:08I'm assuming it's Aloy learning how to code and debug an insane sentient society.

04:13Or just another great open-world monster game.

04:15Either's good for me.

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