In the log it tells of Shelly’s bittersweet farewell to Laura as they go their separate ways, but it also expresses how their friendship will endure through this little band called Concrete Beach Party. As I made my way back to the recently drained Deep Din, I headed down to discover one final text log along with Laulai happily drumming away on the pipes once more. What follows is my personal experience with the end of the quest, because I want to describe in exact detail the exact moment when Waterlogged exactly became the best part of Horizon for me. With Aloy’s work finished at the dam, you are left with a burning question: when do you get to hear Concrete Beach Party perform? Aloy's and Gildun's relationship is another stellar aspect of this side quest. Turning on the power also drains a far-off water basin called Deep Din by the locals, fulfilling the request given by Laulai. Aloy finally reaches her goal which is to push a comically over-sized red button, the honour of which she gives Gildun, which he does with gusto.
The audio logs tease their one-and-only song which is of course the Last Girls on Earth, but only the first few seconds of it is teased. In an act of defiance, albeit a very small one, they form the band Concrete Beach Party, giving themselves at least some sort of escapism from the uncomfortable fact that they're going to lose their livelihoods. As you progress through the dam – finding the logs in sequential order would you believe – you hear the two bonding over essentially being the last two human workers left at the dam, along with their hatred of…The Man. These recordings chronicle a couple of dam workers from many years into the past.
#DLC QUEST PART 1 SERIES#
What follows is some valve turning, some sluice gate opening and a series of audio and text logs to collect as usual. Along the way you run into Gildun, a bumbling if well-meaning man that skilfully rides the line between annoying and charming. The quest begins when Aloy is tasked by a Banuk drummer named Laulai to head upstream to a dam, which is now named Greycatch by people who have little idea of its original purpose. And the fear of losing my job is far more relatable than being faced with humanity’s extinction, as it might be with many others, and so the story of Laura and Shelly ends up being the tucked-away heart of Horizon. Horizon Zero Dawn’s machines are mysterious, animal-like and often dangerous, but in the side quest Waterlogged, it's shown how their ancestors were once tools used by a multi-trillion corporation to replace people’s jobs. For all of the grandiose tales that are told within the game, for me, the most memorable story was the recorded conversation between two long dead women forming a band to kill the boredom of their soon to be non-existent jobs.
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