Horizon's Aloy Goes Woke... Again

[kencasteel]

If they were going to introduce a love interest in this game, would have been nice to have it based on the players choices with a few different npcs so the player can float there own boat.

[greygorygaming]

Notice how they always do these coming outs in DLCs/expansions.

[therealstephentv]

Why does every charater need a love interest? Why can't we just have a fun game

[mauriandlaw]

It's ok... I will save my money making sure to stay away from their next game.

[Razzy-sroq]

Back in the day, this was called "lesbian baiting." I used to get it a lot growing up, being a tomboy. The gist is that WOMEN don't do cool and badass things unless they are lesbian. Straight women were only allowed to be extremely feminine and fragile, and if you kept being a tomboy, then you were just a lesbian in denial. So there was a big push for badass female characters who were straight. And now.... here we are. Acting like lesbian baiting is the ideal. What bullshit.

[meganzuniga]

My boy Erend deserved better. He was there for her the whole dang time and yet. We get this shit.

[playermiggy]

Not every character has to have a love interest.

[skatonPSN]

I didn't want ANY relationships in this game

[YutabengthaKahan]

The original Lara Croft, while not perfect by any means, was such a huge inspiration to so many people because she represented how powerful an individual can be by harnessing one’s innate beauty, intelligence, and strength to overcome any obstacle or situation that presents itself in life. Plus, she showed that it can be FUN whilst doing so. Although it was somewhat interesting at the time to see a completely different iteration of her character, what exactly has she been representative of over the past decade? Victimhood. There are few words to express the level of apathy and sheer boredom that has resulted from the homogenization of interesting personalities that are now being turned into a genderless blob of nothing to which the audience is force-fed.

[stephenfitzgerald]

Nobody writes hero motivation correctly anymore. Male or female, the compelling motivation for becoming a hero is to protect other people (see Batman, Spiderman, Simon from Gurren Lagaan, and Deku from MHA). The way the West writes characters like this today comes off as the character wanting to be idolized, or that they’re just naturally good (which is not a thing). That’s why it never lands with the audience.

[bestintheworld]

So she's a lesbian now? Wasn't she suposed to rebuild civilization?

[Darkblue]

Why do they ALWAYS have to be gay in this day and age? I never had a problem with it before, but now its everywhere - like being straight is suddenly offensive.

[hybridhr]

Of course she did. Ashly Burch is a super woke SJW so I never thought they'd let Aloy just be Aloy. They made Elisabet gay so it was only a matter of time before they did it with Aloy. Even though you can flirt with Sun King Avad they gave you the choice to.

[Arassar]

I would be more surprised to find a female MC who ISN'T gay at this point.

[sup]

She was never alluded to be gay in the first game (She was also more beautiful in Dawn)! Also, the one character that she has some sort of "chemistry" is with the Sun King Avad; in both games. But then again, we're in 2023 where everyone's gay so...

[wuizelalefaun]

They fucked up the character development.

[AndrewR]

This sucks. I was routing for Errand and they were hinting that Alloy and Errand to get together. It's not enough to make strong a female character, they got to virtue signal her to a modern audience. Drives me nuts! Great video today! You look amazing too! ꉂ(ˊᗜˋ*)♡

[Cold_Zero_The_Wise]

Aloy and Ellie,

Are both young female, both have red hair, both have a deceased adopted father figure, both use bows, both been made more masculine/ugly less feminine by the second game, both have to make it in a post apocalyptic world, both is the only female/character that can save the world, BOTH FIND OUT THEIR LOVE AND SEXUALITY IN A D.L.C with a new character, like what the F.

[Wlightning]

It has happened too many times for it to be a coincidence, but Sony seems to make their characters lesbians in dlc and not full releases. There was the Uncharted spinoff that was kinda dlc but also it’s own thing that had its two female leads that apparently had romantic relationship forming but I can’t say since I haven’t played it myself. Then there was The Last of Us dlc that made Ellie a lesbian when in the main game she that didn’t really come up at all with only mentions of a female friend that could have just been a female friend. Now, there is this dlc. I would guess that Sony doesn’t believe these characters would sell if people knew they were lesbian in the first place and they would rather add that characteristic later in the dlc that many people will probably ignore.

[nickl]

One of the great things about Horizon was the fact that she was above love interests. She had goals, she knew the stakes and how important her role was in it. This is not just a stupid pandering, but it's also a detour from her actual character.

Why didn't they just keep her asexual? That would be way more interesting. It was already kind of her character, that she didn't really have the interest nor time to chase romances, hence she disregarded the advances of the many suitors (even though she showed a lot of interest in Avad.). Make it a point where she feels disconnected from the world, but she still finds the love of friends, as close as family, to be the one grounding element that keeps her driven to go on and fight for the future. Instead, they just go the easy, boring, pandering route of "she gay now lolz".