Horizon Zero Dawn

released on Feb 28, 2017

Welcome to a vibrant world rich with the beauty of nature – but inhabited by awe-inspiring, highly advanced machines. As a young machine hunter named Aloy, you must unravel the mysteries of this world and find your own destiny.


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really conflicted because I feel like the story only gets really good in the second half and the worldbuilding is good when it isnt a textbook file you randomly scan on the floor. the combat gets quite repetitive and boring because of the lacklustre melee and overpowered fire arrows. side quests feel like a chore because they all have the same structure and can be as long as main quests

Dinosaurios robóticos to guapos con historia llamativa

One of the first games that really got me into single player games. Great world building / exploration, even though the story doesn't reinvent the wheel by any means. The machines are awesome and the mystery behind why events are unfolding in a certain way is very intriguing.

Pensa num jogo chato e repetitivo

Gráficos 9/10 (Super bonitos)
Historia 7/10 (Es interesante)
Combate 6/10 (Juegas en torno al sigilo)
Cosas malas:
Es mundo abierto pero te manda de un punto a otro, no te incita a explorar
Las calderas, con que hagan las del caballo las demás sobran

The first game in my life that has ever given me Open World Fatigue, because the gameplay loop is TIRING.
I completed it to give it a fair shot, and the premise of the robots was interesting. WATCH THIS but DONT PLAY IT, the Netflix show could probably be better than the game.

The combat almost never changed. Different enemies generally attacked all the same way and could be disposed without ever requiring me to think. World was massive but constant enemy encounters with boring combat made this a downside. I eventually grinded out for unlimited fast travel and the invincibility armor after I got fed up with fighting during giant fetch quests and traveling.

For an open world action game, bad, repetitive, and annoying combat is a death sentence that makes me detest the largely adventure based gameplay as a "trek" to be avoided rather than a journey to be had.

I played this in 2024 as a free game from SONY Days of Play in 2020, in anticipation of playing forbidden west complete edition immediately after, and this genuinely has made me avoid forbidden west entirely and left a sour, boring taste in my mouth.
The only reason I finished it was because it took me 2/3 of the game to come to this conclusion but I wanted to see if I was just in a mid-game slump, but I was wrong. This felt like homework after the halfway point.