Great experience, but fails to bring HL to the next level. At their core these have always been great tech demo games, it's why I'm glad they decided to do this in VR, but the problem is that it fails to innovate. Every great thing that Alyx does for VR I feel that I've seen other places, that's not a mark against it, quite the contrary. It produces a wonderful showing of some amazing tech by aping QoL aspects from other games. This on its own would be fine, but it also apes stuff from the other half life games, notably the ending of 2. It's a project which has absolutely reinvigorated the series while failing to add anything which makes it unique outside of its platform. Utilizing all of these aspects and smashing them together into a spectacle is a great experience, but it's not a great game.

EDIT: I am wrong, so completely wrong. Not only a hugely interesting game, but almost definitely a masterpiece. Imma make a video on this one.