Horizon: Forbidden West boss fight — Taking down a big mammoth

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 17, 2022
Updated June 19, 2025
2 min

I’ve been playing Horizon: Forbidden West for dozens of hours, and I’ve killed 177 beasts and made it about 16% of my way into the story. It feels like I have a long way to go.

But sometimes the beasts that you kill are big ones, and that’s quite satisfying. Like the Tremortusk. I had to teach some of the locals a lesson, but I needed to dislodge a big cannon from the Tremortusk. And since the Tremortusk wasn’t going to do this without a fight, I had to fight. I also had to take out a half-dozen unfriendly guards while doing it. My companion was no help at all.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.