Aloy’s Hair
This may seem like a strange one, but hear us out. As you traverse the world in Horizon Zero Dawn, just watch the way Aloy’s hair responds to her movements. Sprinting will see it bounce and shake over her shoulders sporadically, and darting in one direction will have it flick out in the other as the wind catches it. Aloy even suffers from those wild stray hairs that just won’t sit flat, precariously resting on the top of her head.
There’s something to be said that hair physics are likely not at the top of a developer’s to-do list in the grand scheme of things. Yet, it’s something as simple as the way Aloy’s hair bounds around behind her as she sprints that really helps to up the immersion. This isn’t a toy world in a vacuum. This is a living, dynamic space, where something as natural as the wind has been programmed to interact with and influence Aloy’s individual strands of hair.
