Horizon Zero Dawn: The City of the Sun.

I would like to talk about a chapter of Horizon Zero Dawn which is called The City of the Sun.

You may watch the video above to see the gameplay yourself and I bet you won't regret watching the gameplay.

The City of the Sun:
Main Quest: Aloy journeys to Meridian in search of Olin, the Oseram scrounger she met the night before the Proving. Somehow the killers targeted her through Olin's focus - a mystery she can only solve by finding him... and making him talk.

This new main quest started from the Carja Border Fort and I had to head to Meridian through that fort.

But first, I had to talk to Captain Balahn so I was walking towards the captain and I was watching the Fort while walking around it looked alive with all the guards and the peoples there.

There I've found Captain Balahn talking with Walid, a Carja Guard. I went near the captain and I interacted there to talk with him.

As Aloy was already informed that Captain Balahn had been to Meridian recently so she was trying to know what she can expect on the trail.

Captain Balahn said its bad out there with all the dangerous machines and then he asked Walid to say what happened with them when they were near an abandoned Nora village.
Captain Valahn asked Aloy to check if she can find their missing guards on the way and then Aloy forbade them.

Now before leaving for Meridian, I was having a look around the fort and there was this place looks like a diner where there were some peoples gossiping among them.

Before leaving Carja Fort, I looked back and checked on the fort from a far to see how it looks like.

Now its time for me to start the adventure. And I used this set up rope as a lift to go down fast.

And I discovered new hunting ground where I've found a side quest maybe about beginning the hunting trials but at the moment, I'm ignoring any side quests and I'm sticking to the main quest only.

After running a bit more, I've found an open ground with some big machines and they looked like big bulls with muscles.

These machines are called Trampler and they have time bomb beneath their stomach and I didn't understand about it first.

And I went close to one Trampler in thinking of looting the goodies after killing it. I targeted one machine and I kept watching its trail as I don't want to be caught.

Then I did a silent strike but the machine didn't die although it lost some health. Looks like bigger machine has bigger resistance. As it didn't die from the silent strike, I started hitting its weakness that's beneath the stomach.

And it blasted suddenly and then I understood that it was like a time bomb beneath the stomach and I shouldn't have been there after I trigger it and yeah I lost a life an I started fresh from the last checkpoint and this time I was ignoring the templars.

But I've found something bigger, stronger and scarier. It is called Stormbird.

Yeah its a flying machine with good resistance and it was fighting with some peoples there and I shot some arrows as well and it felt like nothing was going to happen to it so I left it with my mind saying, "I'll ride you soon".

Then I started running towards the location of Meridian.
It'd be good to have a Strider or a Broadhead to ride all the way forward but all I was seeing bigger machines that couldn't be overridden.

I noticed that herd of Stormbirds there resting on the mountains.

Then I headed back and there was the Stormbird flying which I tried to kill a moment ago.

Now I was about to cross a place called Lone Light and it seems I was still very far from Meridian.

This place looks good with the road itself. I was about to kept running towards the location but I couldn't when...

Yeah when I saw that TallNeck. Can you see that big giraffe-sized machine there? If not, stay still. I'm not going anywhere without taking a selfie with that TallNeck.

Being alerted, I was walking towards the TallNeck and suddenly I've found a big crocodile alike machine in the lake there.

As soon as I saw it, I hided myself in the tall grass and then I tried to check on it.
It's called Snapmaw and it has the similar weakness beneath the Stomach like Trampler.

I didn't forget to use the photo mode to capture a selfie with the Snapmaw there.

And the Snapmaw noticed me a bit and started walking towards me and I was there being silent cause I didn't want to fight with this beast.

But the beast has found me in the tall grass and I had to fight it to save my life.
It had very good resistance with big health and its attack was also much critical than what I've fought before.

But I defeated it after trying for a bit and then I looted it.

Then I moved forward to get a better view of the TallNeck and there was this Stormbird noticed me and I hided in the tall grass.

But the Stormbird came close to me and checked if it was right or wrong about noticing me. I became silent for a moment and then the Stormbird returned to its place.

And there came the TallNeck a lot closer to me and I wish I could go closer but I couldn't as there were a lot of dangerous machines around.

I showed this screenshot to @incublus and he asked me if its a Cyber Giraffe. Yeah we can take it as a Cyber Giraffe for sure but in this game, its titled as TallNeck: Copper Deeps and I'm not sure but I think I can jump on it and get a good view around while other machines can't harm me (just thinking, will check out later).

Well, after getting a good view of the TallNeck, I was again on the route to Meridian and I've seen some Broadhead just on the other side of the lake and I thought I'd take one so it gets easier to get to Meridian.

I went there and I overridden a Broadhead and it was easy for me this time.

Now I have a good ride and have nothing to worry about the distance.

I was testing if the Broadhead can pass the lake and it didn't disappointed me.
Then I started riding the Broadhead towards Meridian.

And I've found a sign that shows the way of Meridian at a point but I was not at the location yet so I kept moving forward.

I kept moving.

As I got close to Meridian, there was this bridge that looked fantastic.

And then I was at Meridian Village.

Unfortunately I couldn't take the Broadhead with me inside the village so I left it there thinking I may find it later.

And I was running to the other side of the big bridge to get to the village and I see there were a lot of guards on the bridge.

I was at the gate of the village and the guard there stopped me and said I can't get inside as there's problem.

At that very moment, there was Erend greeted me and ordered the guard to let me in anytime I come here and he was surprised seeing me alive cause he heard the news about the massacre in the proving.

After talking with Erend about Olin, he asked me to follow him to the apartment of Olin.

This is Olin's apartment and now I had the chance to investigate this apartment without breaking anything.

I've found this door to the passage beneath the apartment but it was sealed hard and I needed the key to open it.

After searching the apartment for more times, I've found this and I used it to break the door open.

And it did its work.

After getting inside the secret workshop, I've found a journal of Olin.

And there was this device that I interacted with my focus and I got to know that Olin was threatened that his wife and daughter will die if he don't do as the enemies asks to.

So Olin is not a monster, he was just trying to save his family.

Then I've found a map and that map gave me the location where Olin might be.

I left to find Olin at the Excavation site.
The Broadhead that I left at the outside of the village was not there anymore so I started running on feet.

And then I've found a hunting ground with some Broadhead and I overridden one and I started riding it.

While riding, there were these Deer like machines running beside me and this scene looked really awesome.

There were these Snapmaw and a machine similar to a spider that noticed me but couldn't do anything as I was on run.

Some Cultist peoples and some machine even tried to attack me but I left the place.

There were a lot of machines and I couldn't keep up with them while I was on the Broadhead that was making a lot of sounds. I even tried to fight the big spider look alike machines and there were cultist peoples as well and I had to give up.

Then I tried again leaving the Broadhead behind and I walked towards the Excavation site quietly and at last I could reach there.

There were Olin along with some Cultist peoples. The Cultist peoples are our enemy now as they tried to kill us and they're trying to take control of the fearsome machines to make the world more hell.

With the help of something, the Cultist leader has awaken some dead Demons and Olin was not happy with it.

Then Aloy was hearing an unknown caller talking to her and it looks like the unknown caller has deactivated the device that the Cultist leader was using.

Now I have to killed the Corruptors and all the Cultists alone although Olin was also fighting them from close.

I started fighting them and after some failed try, I understood that I need to use knowledge first and violence later.

It was hard but not impossible for me to take them down but it took me a lot of time.

After killing all the Cultists and the Corruptors, I went to Olin and Aloy had a conversation with him.
Then I forgave him for what he's done before after he game me some information.

And the quest was completed at that point.

The next chapter will be coming soon.
Screenshots are my take from the game and there's a logo that I used on the thumbnail picture.

SEE YOU.