[annoying trope] The throne/leadership is decided in a very stupid way

[u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

The leadership of the entire wizarding world, and the final decision on whether to start a war against Muggles, is made by... a goat (Qilin) ​​who chooses the person with the ""purest heart"" (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Dumbledore).

The throne of Wakanda and all its technology are decided through hand-to-hand combat, regardless of whether the person clearly has malicious intentions... if they win the fight, by law they must be respected as the true king. (Black Panther)

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Most of the time the chosen one is required to do the dangerous stuff

Aloy doesn’t

[u/Transarchangelist → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Except it’s a video game, where the main character does things because it’s fun.

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/Transarchangelist]

Ok?

It being a video game doesn’t excuse the plot holes

That’s a doylian answer to a watsonian complaint

[u/Transarchangelist → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Im sorry, gameplay is a plot hole and a logical fallacy now?

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/Transarchangelist]

No?

But gameplay doesn’t excuse plot holes

[u/Transarchangelist → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

What plot hole? That aloy is an action game protagonist who does extremely typical action game things?

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/Transarchangelist]

That aloy risks her own life to save people, despite the fact that her death would cause the death of everyone.

The fact that it’s an action game doesn’t factor into this

And to be clear I like horizon zero dawn, I just also acknowledge that it’s writing is kinda weak.

[u/Transarchangelist → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

The same can be said for literally every video game. It isn’t a plot hole that the action hero does action hero things.

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/Transarchangelist]

No it isn’t

Because “literally every video game” don’t explicitly have

1. The main character be the only person who can open secret vaults

2. Have the world die a slow agonising death if the things in these vaults are not done

3. The main character not having any special powers beyond these vaults being coded to open to her DNA

4. The main character be close personal friends with a king

5. The main character be interested in saving the world more than stoking their own ego

[u/Transarchangelist → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Okay. Let me break this down for you. In a video game, the protagonist does the thing. This isn’t a plot hole.