10 TINY Issues That Made You Hate Great Recent Video Games
2. Aloy's Terrible Hair Physics - Horizon Forbidden West
Horizon Forbidden West is certainly one of the best games of the year so far - a thrilling, supremely polished AAA action-adventure game that's nevertheless been bugging players for one reason above all others.
Aloy's damn janky hair.
The game as a whole is so richly, eye-wateringly realised - especially in 4K on PS5 - that its less-refined elements stick out like a sore thumb, and nothing more so than Aloy's distractingly iffy hair.
Aloy may be as beautifully rendered as anything else in the game, but her hair is a chaotic nightmare - during gameplay it'll clip frantically through not only Aloy herself but her weapons, armour, and basically anything else in the vicinity.
In other cases Aloy's hair will move around in unrealistic ways, flowing balletically around even when she's inside in an area with no apparent draughts. It's ridiculous.
This was admittedly also a problem in Horizon Zero Dawn so it's not massively surprising to see it again, even if many nevertheless hoped that Guerrilla might've ironed things out for the new-gen sequel.
Hair is undeniably one of the trickiest things to get right in games, but in this case it's so damn noticeable as to outright distract players from the mesmerising experience unfolding around it.