Lore Bites: Little Big Man (The Forgotten Story)

Lore Bites, the series that spotlights some of the hidden gems in the world of Horizon. Join us as we discuss an early discovery, reexamined with end game context and knowledge.

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[SmokeyLaBear]

The best part is when Sylens awkwardly says, "Happy birthday, Isaac. Daddy sure does love his little big man."

[katheryncox]

I found this section to be really disturbing once you discovered what HZD actually was. These places weren’t secret places to explore, they were grave sites.

[Starcat]

**Sniff** After learning the truth about Zero Dawn, that scene just chokes me up.

[Edward-W]

The way she was so fixated by the message. "Show me. Show me again." A child desperate for a connection. For the love of a parent. And the boundless, innocent curiosity of a child. The scene made me cry the very first time I saw it even without knowing the full story. It was impactful enough from Aloy's perspective.

[Phreemunny]

Ugh! To this day I tear up when I hear any bit of the lore that pertains to Zero Day. The fact that so much care was put into the back story via data points is a testament to this game’s greatness and the care that was put into the world-building elements.

This was probably one of my favorite, most touching data points, aside from the Bashir data spikes. Thank you so much for covering this!

[eden]

Judging by the hole in the ceiling in the room where Aloy discovers the Focus, I bet that’s where the faro robots drilled a hole at and unleashed the nanites into the facility and consumed all the staff.. hopefully they would of all taken their euthanasia pill before it happened. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be consumed by a faro robot….

[gateauxq]

It really helped to put you in her shoes. Despite all our knowledge of modern technology we were right there with baby Aloy when she found these strange messages she couldn’t understand.

[MarauderMgi]

I just finished the game last week and found all of your vids soon after. I was super late but it felt good that there was someone making HZD content that I could enjoy even years after the fact.

Now I'm here for a new HZD vid! Thanks for making this content.

[plumspeace]

I always assumed this bunker was a facility involved in constructing Eleuthia-9, since it's right next to the cradle in All-Mother mountain.

Fun fact, when you're in the bunker for the first time and scanning things, if you turn on your Focus in view of the bodies but don't scan them directly, a Zero Dawn project logo appears next to the their name. It goes away after you scan them for the first time, so most people probably miss it. To me it felt like a deliberate easter egg for people replaying the game. :)

[fuzzy]

This bit of story is what sucked me in right from the begging. I did not miss it! And I make sure to pay attention to it every time I replay.

[xSaintOfSinnersx]

This is something I reflected when I gained more information and context about hzd world and made me feel so deeply sad, specially when I find out what Zero Dawn was about. So many people died thinking that a powerful weapon would save humanity and they fought so hard with that hope in mind.

This game took me out of guard in so many aspects and the funny thing is I laughed pretty hard when I saw the trailer, because I thought it was ridiculous combining robots with what I thought were savages. I don't know but I didn't like the concept. 2 years later I bought the game in a second hand store because I was bored and I have been in love with the game since then. Very underrated game in my opinion.

[piratetv]

I had always assumed that they were the imprisoned candidates that refused to join. This explains it.

[parry]

This game continues to amaze me even after such a long time, so sad yet so beautiful at the same time. Great video!

[ibrahimquadir]

Can you talk about the Metal Devil that’s sitting on top of All-Mother Mountain? Seems that it may have discovered the location of ELEUTHIA-9 and began an assault. It also looks like it got dangerously close to the facility before stopping for whatever reason.

[matejba]

This datapoint got me completely unprepared when I played through for the first time, also the ambient music is just phenomenal here, really adds to the emotional depth for me.

[ChiliFrog]

The Happy birthday hologram was so sad

[baronvonricer]

How can one game have so many compelling story arcs? Pretty amazing. Thanks for the videos you’ve been putting out lately.

[jonathanmellette]

Love this series! One correction, though. It wasn't that they could bring two members of their immediate family with them to Elysium. They could bring their entire immediate family, OR two persons of their choosing.

[afterburner]

I know it just a freaking game, but this resonates once again so much within me. All of these chronicles of the scattered data logs found during the game is what made the more so much deeper than people thoughtat first glance. Thanks for covering this, never made the link between this very first data log and the Beta program. Most thought-provoking game in years.

[cypher_doggy]

When I saw a hzd lore video posted I just dropped everything and watched, this game has such a rich lore.