The first time I played it, I was only a few hours in, right in the middle of playing when my brother was fired from his WFH job in a massive surprise layoff. We were already in a desperate financial situation due to me not finding work, so this was life-altering kind of bad during an already intensely stressful time. I finished the game with very little actual thought or attention solely for something to keep my brain too busy to panic, thought it was forgettable.
My therapist encouraged me to give it another chance a few months later after things were better and I had a blast with Horizon Forbidden West. Said I needed to rewrite the negative association of it and all that.
Replayed it, and it's one of my favorite games ever, up there with The Last of Us. Very glad I decided to give it another chance.
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Horizon Zero Dawn.
The first time I played it, I was only a few hours in, right in the middle of playing when my brother was fired from his WFH job in a massive surprise layoff. We were already in a desperate financial situation due to me not finding work, so this was life-altering kind of bad during an already intensely stressful time. I finished the game with very little actual thought or attention solely for something to keep my brain too busy to panic, thought it was forgettable.
My therapist encouraged me to give it another chance a few months later after things were better and I had a blast with Horizon Forbidden West. Said I needed to rewrite the negative association of it and all that.
Replayed it, and it's one of my favorite games ever, up there with The Last of Us. Very glad I decided to give it another chance.