Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Reviews
Burning Shores feels more like a side story than an epilogue, but it’s still a fun adventure with a wonderful new ally and some memorable moments.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is a great expansion, adding even more content to one of the best games of 2022. The graphics are amazing and there's a relatively large area to explore with tons of optional content. The main story, however, is short.
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Burning Shores may not feel essential in the grand scheme of things, but a solid self-contained story and dedication to character depth make this the perfect excuse to return to this brilliant action-adventure RPG
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is a competent DLC that adds subtle improvements to one of the most fantastic adventures of recent times in video games. Despite not adding much in terms of history, the new region still yields good hours of gameplay for those who like to venture into the post-apocalyptic world of Guerilla Games.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
It would have been easy to dismiss Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores as just another DLC that doesn’t do much, but on the contrary, this is one new chapter that fans will sink their teeth into and come out the other end satisfied and excited for Aloy’s next adventure. From further refining a gorgeous world, expanding the character development, to adding even more spice to the established combat formula, the experience comes to possess additional depth and flavour that should not be missed, even if certain impactful moments don’t exactly hit the mark.
Building further upon the foundations of Horizon: Forbidden West, Burning Shores is a rather fun expansion. With a new beautiful area to explore, new machines to beat and some epic setpieces, Guerilla delivers a true ending to the second installment in the Horizon series. One that makes the wait for the unevitable third game even harder than it already was. A must play for every Horizon fan out there.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Outside of the main missions, there are plenty of other activities to keep you busy in the Burning Shores. Exploring ruins is one of them, known from Forbidden West. However, these are now a bit more extensive and there are sometimes even extra side missions attached to them. For example, during a main mission we accidentally came across a ruin and wanted to do it “quickly”. After completing the ruins we suddenly ran into an old acquaintance. What followed was a fantastic side mission with lots of action, emotion and nice loot. The expansion seems to contain much more of these kinds of secrets than the main game and therefore gives you a lot of content for a low price. Burning Shores can be purchased for only € 20 and that is a bargain.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Horizon Burning Shores is exactly what Forbidden West fans expect, but doesn't offer much that's new.
Review in German | Read full review
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is a very worthwhile expansion that provides a host of tasty endgame content in the company of Aloy. It doesn't revolutionise the base game as intended, but Guerrilla Games' stunning Los Angeles is worth the price of admission alone.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A couple of poor boss battles aside, Burning Shores is a great new chapter with enough creative new bells and whistles to keep Horizon fans more than happy.
An exceptionally pretty slice of DLC that does nothing to address the faults of the main game but does manage to emphasise its many successes, especially the graphics.
Burning Shores is an entertaining epilogue for Aloy’s sophomore outing. It’s more Forbidden West with a few cool wrinkles, meaning it’s a good reminder of the things that the game did right while retaining a few old headaches (like the hand-holding during puzzles). More than anything, Aloy’s trip to Hollywood justifies its existence by meaningfully building upon the base game’s story, paving a solid runway for the next title to take off.
Burning Shores is exactly what you would expect, with even more of that solid Horizon gameplay wrapped around a story that initially seems quite frivolous but soon becomes very dark and uncomfortable. If you loved Horizon Forbidden West, you will love this too.
Burning Shores is a great expansion that you will love if you liked Horizon Forbidden West and that serves as a preview of what they are capable of doing in Guerrila Games when they work exclusively for PS5. After this, we are even more eager to know what the future holds for Aloy.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores offers more of the same with some new ideas, yet it's still well worth playing, and looks gorgeous.
Like Frozen Wilds did with Horizon Zero Dawn, Burning Shores takes what was already great about Forbidden West and gives you a sizeable new playground and a bunch of extra toys to play with. The archipelago is great fun to explore by land, sea, or air, with plenty of interesting things to see and do. Certain areas feel a little underutilised, but overall this is a great expansion that continues Aloy's story and sets up for things to come in Horizon 3.
More extensive than dense, Burning Shores is the Horizon Forbidden West DLC you might expect. Using Los Angeles as a stage, Guerrilla follows the rules of Hollywood spectacle and pushes on the pedal of visual exaltation.
Review in Italian | Read full review
All in all, Burning Shores is a solid expansion to Horizon Forbidden West that fans of the series will want to play before the inevitable sequel. It’s teeming with more sci-fi story goodness, and Los Angeles is a stunning new environment to explore, complete with all of the Horizon side activity trimmings we’ve come to know and love ticking off our map. While the offering of new monsters, and some of the combat scenarios felt a little underwhelming, as a package, it’s well worth the ticket to entry.
Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores is a very solid DLC that continues the journey of Aloy and this new partner Seyka. Besides some underused things, it stills an exhilarating experience with a jaw-dropping sequence and stunning visuals. A perfect technical and artistic showcase for PS5.
Review in French | Read full review
Burning Shores is a worthy expansion and follow-up to the incredible Horizon Forbidden West. It's packing a fantastic new location to explore, compelling new characters and fearsome new machines to fight while offering an exciting glimpse into the future of the franchise. It's a bit more rough around the edges than I'd like but it's essential playing for Horizon fans.