Horizon feels like it should hit all the right beats for me, with its amazing dinosaur machines, an interesting story that carries on from the first game and Aloy, a great heroine protagonist who I adore. However, the games combat and open world make the game tedious and uninteresting. The combat is a fantastic base which attempts to build off of its predecessor with its new weapons. Unfortunately horizons combat felt clunky and tedious to use, and make incredible spectacle against large and awesome machines feel annoying more than anything. Horizon's biggest flaw however is its bland and uninteresting open world filled with meaningless icons and markers. Horizon could have worked so much better in a more linear game, as the missions themselves, (especially the Poseidon mission in the Las Vegas runes) are fun and interesting, but the open world makes running between markers tedious and take up time more than anything.