News culture Horizon Forbidden West: Aloy makes the cover of a world famous magazine!
As expected as well received, Horizon Forbidden West is currently the delight of players with a PlayStation console. Despite the presence of some technical problems on which Guerrilla Games is already working, the title offers an extremely solid adventure, wrapped in a striking visual setting.
With the release ofHorizon : Forbidden WestGuerrilla Games has reached a new level, confirming thatHorizon : Zero Dawn was not just a lucky try. Stronger in every way than its predecessor, the title also installs its heroine, Aloy, among the emblematic characters Of the industry.
Aloy, a real fashion plate? Yes for Vanity Fair, but not only!
But Sony’s character now seems cross the boundaries of the video game world to appear in other spheres, a rather rare phenomenon. In France, the appearance of video game characters in mass-circulation publications is rather rare, even if newspapers like Liberation have already made Grand Theft Auto V and of Red Dead Redemption II 2 their one. But today, we are going to Italy and the world of fashion, since Aloy, the main character of the Horizon license, has simply been chosen to appear on the cover from the February issue of Vanity Fair.
Historical magazine founded in 1913 then relaunched in 1983Vanity Fair magazine is a reference in his domain, printed in more than 1.2 million copies in the world. For the magazine, the status of Aloy now goes beyond the framework of the video game, and her “freckles” as well as her apparent “austerity” make her a fictional character quite relevant to the publication. “Aloy is neither a mother nor a wife, nor a supporting or helping character, but a strong and courageous woman”, can we read in the file dedicated to him. Ofmario Manca, who penned this lengthy portrait, took the opportunity to approach the game’s developers, including executive producer Angie Smets, who said:
I firmly believe that we succeeded in creating a character that players love, whether they are male or female. If we look at the most recent PlayStation stats, we see, in fact, that around 42% of gamers are female.
The character also reached the world of cinema, since John Carpenterthe iconic filmmaker behind The Thing, Halloween, Christine or The Village of the Damnedsaluted la performance d’Ashly Burch, which embodies the character from the model inspired by Hannah Hoekstra. In other words, it seems that Aloy joins the very closed circle of video game characters having a global influence on popular culture.
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By MalloDelicJournalist jeuxvideo.com
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