Discussing the "Backlash" of Aloy and Seyka's Romance in Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:34 am
Please keep all comments civil.
Okay, I normally don't talk about this as I'm here mostly to just have fun and talk about silly things but this has honestly gotten out of hand and is just annoying me and I need to talk about it or it's going to drive me insane.
So, as I've talked about before in the recent DLC Expansion Pack for Horizon Forbidden West Aloy is given a love interest in Seyka and yes, it is canonical that Aloy is in love with Seyka as confirmed by the developers and the fact that Aloy will always admit to having romantic feelings for Seyka at the end of the game at Varl's grave. And the backlash to this relationship has been so unbelievable negative that regular videos on YouTube that are in support of this relationship or are just showing clips of it have now gotten several dislikes and negative comments even though only a couple of days ago they had more likes and positive comments.
The reason I bring this up is because, again, this has gotten out of hand as most of the negative comments are just homophobic and Repetitive. I've seen the same comment made under different names more times than I can count and it's just so annoying. Not from this site, but YT, Google and of course Metacritic.
Like it's literally just the same 5 or so comments repeated hundreds of times.
I get someone who wasn't into this relationship because they felt it was to rushed or that they just preferred Aloy with someone else like Erend, Petra, Kotallo, Avad, Vanasha, Ikrie and Talanah or just wanting her to be asexual. I get that and most of THOSE comments are fine, I don't agree with them but we can agree to disagree and just move on.
It's not like LGBT content is rare or anything these days and most of them don't seem to be getting that much hate. The Owl House, a show LOADED with LGBT content is very well loved and the reviews by fans mostly reflect that where even the most negative are more about feeling the humor is bad or disliking the animation or feeling it's to dark for kids. Hell the upcoming Hades II Melinoë is confirmed to be bi or pan and will have the option to romance people of any gender. Something else to keep in mind Elden Ring also included same sex options for players who might want to play as such and the method in how it's handled was actually a direct response to how From Software had handled SS Romances in the past. Breath of the Wild also gave players to dress up link in women clothing and Tears of the Kingdom might very well have the first Same Sex couple in the series between two side quests characters. So, why is the internet singling out Horizon?
To close this out, in Uncharted: Drake Fortune Nate and Elena meet for the first time in that game and spend about 7 or 10 hours together and are in a relationship at the end of the game. And the only reason these two don't kiss was because kissing is hard to animated in CGI and it was a reference to Jak and Daxter where Dax would always interrupt Jak and Kiara when they would go to kiss another by having Sully interrupt Nate and Elena when they went to kiss.
No one has any issue with this.
Aloy and Seyka spend pretty much the same about of time together (roughly seven hours) and they kiss at the end because CGI has come a LONG way. "Fans" decide that the series is ruined and start going out of their way to down vote and harass anyone who supports this ship... But seriously way?
Again Please keep all comments civil.
Okay, I normally don't talk about this as I'm here mostly to just have fun and talk about silly things but this has honestly gotten out of hand and is just annoying me and I need to talk about it or it's going to drive me insane.
So, as I've talked about before in the recent DLC Expansion Pack for Horizon Forbidden West Aloy is given a love interest in Seyka and yes, it is canonical that Aloy is in love with Seyka as confirmed by the developers and the fact that Aloy will always admit to having romantic feelings for Seyka at the end of the game at Varl's grave. And the backlash to this relationship has been so unbelievable negative that regular videos on YouTube that are in support of this relationship or are just showing clips of it have now gotten several dislikes and negative comments even though only a couple of days ago they had more likes and positive comments.
The reason I bring this up is because, again, this has gotten out of hand as most of the negative comments are just homophobic and Repetitive. I've seen the same comment made under different names more times than I can count and it's just so annoying. Not from this site, but YT, Google and of course Metacritic.
Like it's literally just the same 5 or so comments repeated hundreds of times.
I get someone who wasn't into this relationship because they felt it was to rushed or that they just preferred Aloy with someone else like Erend, Petra, Kotallo, Avad, Vanasha, Ikrie and Talanah or just wanting her to be asexual. I get that and most of THOSE comments are fine, I don't agree with them but we can agree to disagree and just move on.
It's not like LGBT content is rare or anything these days and most of them don't seem to be getting that much hate. The Owl House, a show LOADED with LGBT content is very well loved and the reviews by fans mostly reflect that where even the most negative are more about feeling the humor is bad or disliking the animation or feeling it's to dark for kids. Hell the upcoming Hades II Melinoë is confirmed to be bi or pan and will have the option to romance people of any gender. Something else to keep in mind Elden Ring also included same sex options for players who might want to play as such and the method in how it's handled was actually a direct response to how From Software had handled SS Romances in the past. Breath of the Wild also gave players to dress up link in women clothing and Tears of the Kingdom might very well have the first Same Sex couple in the series between two side quests characters. So, why is the internet singling out Horizon?
To close this out, in Uncharted: Drake Fortune Nate and Elena meet for the first time in that game and spend about 7 or 10 hours together and are in a relationship at the end of the game. And the only reason these two don't kiss was because kissing is hard to animated in CGI and it was a reference to Jak and Daxter where Dax would always interrupt Jak and Kiara when they would go to kiss another by having Sully interrupt Nate and Elena when they went to kiss.
No one has any issue with this.
Aloy and Seyka spend pretty much the same about of time together (roughly seven hours) and they kiss at the end because CGI has come a LONG way. "Fans" decide that the series is ruined and start going out of their way to down vote and harass anyone who supports this ship... But seriously way?
Again Please keep all comments civil.