2025-05-02 09:38:06

Yes its great but if you were exposed to heavy metals as a child then you wont have the attention span nor the patience to play this,

2025-05-02 05:43:25

I'd say this is the best game I've played in years. Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are games worth playing. I'm so glad I found this series.

2025-04-28 18:11:34

Its a very pretty game, with a flushed out world and a good combat system. The story feels like DLC level story compared to the first game's story. [spoiler] In the first game you were learning about how the world became how it is, and that also lead to Aloy learning about her mother/herself which is important to parts of her tribe, in this one you are trying to gain control of an AI sub-system and later you learn about other survivors from 1000 years ago[/spoiler]

The progression in the game feels off, after you leave the starting area you're goal is to complete 3 main tasks in the open world, but if you do most of the side quests or just hunt to get crafting items you will quickly out level the quests. Its almost as if you should mostly gun for the main objectives, doing some side quests, and then start new game plus and do the other side quests that you missed. I maxed out leveling before I started the last mission, and I kept flipping between the feeling of I just started the game and I'm about to beat the game.

The skills are an improvement though, more skill trees, with unlock able weapon abilities for each type, and changeable valor abilities. Its one of those things that feels like a refinement from the first game that only comes in the squeal after they had experience to refine the systems.

The arena isn't as bad as it sounds, the score board is broken because of an exploit, honestly just scan the machines before jumping in, have a plan, and use your potions.

[h3]Take away[/h3]
If you liked Horizon Zero Dawn, you'll enjoy this game
if you are deciding between this one and the first game, get the first game.
If you are on the fence wait for a sale.

For the progression and story go at your own pace, but keep an eye on your level compared to the main story.

2025-04-27 00:35:51

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play a game where dodging is super important but the enemies autotrack on you in mid air so dodging rarely works anyway? Do you like getting knocked on your ass constantly and verrrry slowly getting up just to be knocked down again? Do you like fighting enemies that are damage sponges? Do you like missions that are more or less iterations of the exact same formula over and over? Do you like a huge beautiful map full of a what appears to be a lot to do but is really more or less all the same repetitive few things over and over?

I loved Zero Dawn but I just can't give this one a thumbs up. I found myself wishing it was done halfway through.

2025-04-20 20:48:08

After logging 70+ hours in this game I thought it was time for a review.
Some of my pros and cons.

Pros:
- decent story
- fun map and layout
- the combat was great and I personally enjoyed the Fighting pit tutorials
- loved all the new machines and the flying mount! Much quicker and easier to get around

Cons:
- Aloy is constantly talking to herself about tips how to serve a puzzle or the obsticle before her, which lets you have little time to figure something out on your own
- the side quests are very repetitive. "someone went missing", "we got attacked", "I lost my gear", which gets quite boring after a couple of minutes
- A LOT OF DIALOGUE. After around 20-30 hours of playing I got so tired of all the cutscenes and dialogue that I just skipped it which is just sad. And I still ended up with 70+ hours (mostly achievement hunting).

Overall its a great game tho, quite repetitive but still enjoyable.

2025-04-15 18:43:36

Forgettable in most aspects - feels like a distilled, watered down, directionless extension of the first game,

2025-04-12 11:46:56

---{Thoughts}---
This game was fun enough to play and sink about 75 hours into. I've completed the majority of the side quests and challenges. Adding new weapons was great for variety but ultimately watered down the power of the original weapons. I found myself also getting into nearly the end of the game before I found any legendary weapons. In typical Sony fashion, bugs have been ported over (several game breaking) and I noticed that some sentences can be skipped, but other times I would accidentally skip the entire cutscene because there was nothing distinguishable between skipping either. My biggest gripe is that the game *feels* like it's trying to waste your time. Input lag and annoyances such as not being within breathing distance of interacting with something made me EXTREMELY annoyed and makes this game suffer death by a thousand cuts. Overall, I still enjoyed the game and the DLC for about $45 on sale and believe this is a fair trade.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☑ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☑ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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2025-04-10 19:12:08

I loved the first Horizon game, and this is a great game for sure, but it's not as good as the first one and it's quite convoluted with it's weapons and resource gathering. I have over 50 hrs played on my original account, and I switched this game to my old PC and I am continuing the game from here on older hardware (just for fun - and to clear up space on my main rig). This is playing great on my 4790k with a GTX 1080. On VERY HIGH settings I get around 70fps. Using "lossless Scaling" I can put this up to 100 fps and it looks really good...

I'm going to try and finish this, and like I said ADORED the first game, but this is feeling like a slog. Still a good game, but I am just focusing on the quests and not the equipment or skill tree or the mini game etc...

2025-04-05 18:28:32

The more I play this game, the more I hate it.

The story's good and the gameplay is fun. Until you start arena.

Throughout 95% of the game, combat feels really good. Tearing pieces off of the machines feels super good. Sneak up to a group, pick your shots, maybe lay a few traps out. Knock parts off of machines for "strategic dismemberment."

Arena is "optional" but 90% of the end game weapons are locked behind it. You start fighting a few monsters, and you notice that you no longer get to sneak up to them to get good shots. The machines also get 2-3 seconds to start attacking you while you can't do anything. Fine, it's more of a challenge, good times.

Then you get to the locked loadouts. Whoever thought locked loadouts with crap/unfamiliar weapons, a time limit, and ignoring 1/2 the games combat mechanics was good idea should put their thing in a blender. Trying to get through them was a chore, and an unrewarding chore at that.

And as you're restarting the locked loadouts repeatedly, the games shortcomings start becoming more noticeable. Dropped inputs, inconsistent iframes, bombs don't work unless you're running at 30 fps, character crouching for no discernible reason, randomly getting killed in 1 shot when nothing is near you, smoke bombs don't daze an enemy, to name a few.

NG+ isn't worth it. There are 2 quests in the game that give a choice and alternate story. Neither one made me say "I'm glad i did a NG+ run for this." And the NG+ weapons/armor are just like the arena gear. Really only needed for multiple playthroughs.

Overall, I liked this game. I played for the story and exploration. Get it on sale, play it out normal for the story, but I simply can't warn you enough, stay away from arena.

2025-04-04 03:00:36

The graphics is amazing and I generally liked the game overall.

I do feel the story and the game world lost a lot of mystery and found myself less interested in the games story compared to the prequal. There are some story elements I feel is forced and doesnt make sense for the game.

The game is really grindy compared to Zero Dawn, everything from weapons and armour to the side quests. The main story could have been longer so the amount of side quests didn't feel like it was so bloated.

The stagger effect when you get hit is really long, if you fight groups and get hit once you might end of up on the ground for a really long time due to getting hit while you are on the ground.