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Maybe she got frozen in cryostasis? She doesn’t look that much older than she did in the original game. Aloy was around 18/19 in the original game, which make her around 45 years old in this sequel. She looks pretty good for her age so it may be that she got some sort of post-apocalyptic skincare regime. If Horizon Forbidden West was actually set 1000 years after the Old Ones’ extinction, we’d be looking at about a 26-year difference than the previous game.
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The original game was set around the year 3040, some 974 years after the human extinction back in circa 2066. But Aloy does mention that it’s been 1000 years since the Old Ones fell. We’re not sure how long after the original game HFW takes place. Horizon Forbidden West picks up sometime in the future where the previous game leaves off. – S P O I L E R W A R N I N G -– When Does The Story Take Place After Aloy’s tribe is attacked she strikes out on a journey to find out where she came from and the root of the corruption. Larger and deadlier machines have also begun to appear. However, a corruption has leaked into the machines causing them to become more aggressive. Large robotic beings dominate the Earth and together machine and human have lived peacefully. Even though nature has reclaimed the Earth there is still smatterings of advanced technology that hint to a time before this existence. It’s the 31st century and humans have returned to living in tribal-like populations. In the first Horizon Zero Dawn, a young hunter named Aloy is looking for clues to her past in a beautiful but deadly post-apocalyptic world.