

While not all new skills are created equal, these indeed add new ways to deal with the machines, further improving Aloy’s already impressive repertoire of acrobatic moves. Players will also gain access to a powerful new weapon which will quickly become a staple in their arsenal of bows and slings, so I won’t spoil it as well but definitely look forward to it! One is called the Machine Grapple Strike, allowing Aloy to catapult herself into the air and energize the target with a resonator blast, along with another one that slows down time when aiming during a glide. You’ll find a total of 18 new skills (12 skills and 6 valor surges), each boosting Aloy’s abilities to deal with the new threats. Needless to say, she is an important character in this DLC that you’ll be working with to conquer the challenges ahead.īurning Shores increases Aloy’s level cap to 60, 10 more than the base game, and with new levels come new skill points and new skills to spend them on. Seyka, voiced and performed by Kylie Liya Page, feels like an integral part of the game moving forward, but I’ll leave you to see exactly why that’s the case to avoid spoilers. Seyka is quite the personality, brave and outspoken, and is really another supporting character that does a good job of complementing Aloy in more ways than one.

Upon regaining her bearings, she meets a formidable ally in the form of Seyka, a Quen tribe member that’s on her own mission to find her missing tribesmen. What did win me over was everything else, and Burning Shores is a great example of how to do expansions that not just add a new location to explore but really enrich the overall experience like the Iki Island DLC for Ghost of Tsushima.Īloy takes to the skies en route to the Burning Shores but is immediately shot down by the threat she was sent over to investigate. I’m not too much of a fan of Horizon Forbidden West’s Far Zeniths story arc, so this DLC didn’t quite exactly win me over in that department.
