There’s a lot of moving parts in Horizon Zero Dawn’s story, and over the course of its long runtime, the game weaves a captivating tale with many unpredictable twists and turns. And while Aloy is, of course, the one that the entire story revolves around, the character that proves to be the biggest driver for some of the most crucial narrative events in the game is Sylens.
Sylens is a constant presence in the game following his introduction a few hours in, and he always remains an enigmatic, mysterious character who constantly toes the line between enemy and ally.
He will, of course, be returning as a crucial character in Horizon Forbidden West, but before that, here, we’re going to take a look back his story so far, and go over some of the most important beats that you need to be aware of before you dive into the upcoming sequel.
Sylens is the type of person to tell Aloy "I'm the only one that can kill you"
Sylens is the kind of dude to start a war just to find out how a MP3 player works …
Pre-ordering and predownloading this week.
HOTTAKE: Ted's destruction of APOLLO is the reason why the glitch happened and the reason why the space ship was destroyed. Parts of the ship and parts of APOLLO are scattered in the west. Also, Sylens is going to repair one of the ancient farobots and transfer HADES into it.
Wondering if Sylens dna is from Ted Faro. Somewhere out there after Tedd manipulated the computers thus ending the last few humans as we all saw still in his own safe place but dead for a long time.
His punch on the desk im the Eric andre skit is epic
How do you go about pronouncing all their names differently just because? It says them in the game haha
Love this guy's voice acting since Remedy's “Quantum Break” came out back in 2016. And love his acting from "John Wick". Reddick's really talented! Can't think anyone else as Sylens! His friggin name and that unique accent! He totally nailed it!
This guy came a long way from “The Wire”
I havent played the game since 2017 and I forgot most of the story. Everything seems so confusing and complicated 😂
It's spelled "Zavala" 😏😎
The start of this video was amazing, I remember playing the game and reaching that part. I couldn't think of a way for Aloh to survive, but her being saved by Sylens came out of nowhere. Really good moment in the game, can't wait for part 2!
Lance Reddick is an awesome actor. I hope they keep the character in the gray area, not a villain, not a hero.
Sylens, Faro-clone bs, Hades(again?), Odyssey space expedition(reportedly destroyed), or whoever sent that signal. Pick your main villain lol
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Sylens is one of my favorite characters. I wonder if any humans from the old world escaped Earth and their offspring are corrupting Hades.
I wonder if they will make a deep dive in Sylens back story. A dlc of sort.
I'm super excited for HFW
If you want comprehensive Horizon Zero Dawn lore (spoiler warning) watch this: youtube.com/watch?v=wZreAuJwMZ8
It will prepare you for what is to come in Forbidden West.
Sylens is "the heavy", like Darth Vader he's always gonna have the best moments. Not sure if he will end up as the main villain, but I guess HFW will cement his position as friend or foe to Aloy. Good vid, you touched on the important points without wasting time on speculations.
This game is going to turn into an Assassin's Creed type of franchise, which is a bad idea if it heads towards such direction. The second game should be the last, as the notion of allowing access to newer abilities is just the producer's tactics to make the consumers purchase it; when they could've simply added all these abilities of swimming, flying & fast climbing in the previous game. The prototype included all of that for testing. But since it has a good plot a second game is not bad for a continuation of the story but not game-play. Especially when you must upgrade to get all the good stuff & you can only accomplish that through finishing side missions & errands, not only the main story.
Strangely, Sylens is my favorite character, I’m glad that they didn’t just drop him.
A month from today horzion forbidden west comes out I'm so excited 😊
Just got a ps5 would love to play horizon day one but 70 is too much for a single player game.
When Sylens shows Aloy the Earth map, a few marks are noticeably flashing. SF was one of them. East Cost had a flashing signal too.
Sylens looks like Jerry Rice.
I have a feeling he’s going to be one of the antagonists of the next game
An important thing to note is that Ben mcaw said that hades recieved a hate from the unknown signal that wasn't there before and the unknown signal is most likely the red blight in forbidden west
Lance Reddick is the real star of the game. The gravitas and quality of acting he brings blows everyone else away….especially Aloy. It feels like a professional, acting opposite a high school drama student, in his scenes with Aloy. They really did the character of Aloy a disservice by not casting someone with the ability to sound competent next to Reddick…..the difference is stark and made me notice how bad Aloys voice actor was throughout the rest of the game.
I wish the sequel was just about Sylens. Its just a better character…..and he owns every scene he is in.
Hopefully he has even more to do in "Forbidden West".
Am i the only one who thinks Ted Faro was right in what he did
Aloy must be a descendant of Sobeck.
I bet Ted was the one that created that bug to be released in case of whatever
I got this game when it came out for pc. The game is awesome but do not have a ps so I guess I'll have to wait another 5 years to see how it all turns out.
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the AI is a black human lady?
I hope players gets to kill him in forbidden west as aloy
there full story can be told in 8 mins ?
Iv literally just replayed this ….. great game I'm so ready for forbidden west…. just over 4 weeks :).