Enjoyment - 5/10
Difficulty - 3/10

Horizon Zero Dawn is a painfully average video game.

The visual splendour of Horizon Zero Dawn's landscapes and vistas really carries the experience. Also, traversing on your robot horse and encountering imposing machines is cool. However, all of the game's positive aspects are undercut by its conflicting mechanics and genuinely awful story.

Combat is borderline atrocious. Not once did I have a good time with battling human or machine enemies. Dodging, slow-motion aiming, melee, stealth, it all seemed to run counter to the core of the game. Repetitive mission structures and forgettable side quests also paint the game badly. If I am being completely honest, if the game had a NO COMBAT PASSIVISM lean in its framework I think it would've been a much better game with a stronger identity it could build off.

The ecological, industrial, and tribal theming of Horizon Zero Dawn was very promising. Discovering titbits of the world's history that better informs you about this video game space gave me goose bumps. Stumbling across ruined buildings that were once bustling places now turned to moss infused steel henges as a result of nature's reclamation is truly immersive. However, the world building and the overarching stories are not happily married to each other which leaves a confusing energy for its players to divorce. By the end of the adventure, it left me massively disappointed as it only told a children's first human vs. earth conflict story.

Characterization is dreadful. Predictable character arcs. Pandering story beats. Annoying and unlikeable main character. Contradictory character actions within the plot. Bad ending. Very, very poorly directed.

"If the game was five hours long, maybe it would be good" -Girlfriend.

Don't really know how to end this. Horizon Zero Dawn is an annoying ginger girl who clumsily fights robot dinosaur in attempt to do something??
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Un juego bastante sólido. El mundo esta bien construido, tiene muy buenos gráficos para ser de 2017 y lo más importante, el combate es muy muy bueno. La mecánica de que según los componentes que dañes de una máquina pasen cosas diferentes esta muy bien pensada. Hace que no te canses y cada combate parezca diferente. La única pega es que no hay mucha variedad de enemigos. Lo mismo pasa con los "bosses", la mayoría de ellos son enemigos que más tarde encuentras de forma salvaje según avanzas, pero el combate tan entretenido lo compensa un poco.

The game is very catchy with its atmosphere. You're afraid of machines, you hide and hunt them, you're curious to find out what other kinds of machines there are and what happens if you take control of them... for the first four hours of the game. Very quickly the gameplay is replaced by running between two mission control points to listen to a dialog of a few lines. The dialogs include an answer wheel, which is really just an option to either listen to additional lines or immediately get a new mission point on the map. On the way to this point are necessarily deliberately placed machines, which you eventually start to just run past, because killing animals in this game affects your character's progression more than killing machines.
The plot... There isn't one. Machines once rebelled against humans, and the main character spends the entire game searching for details about what happened and who her mother is. Only the very last mission of the game tells about the events in real time and somehow resembles a real normal mission. All other quests are a simulation of walking from point to point with an enviable use of witchy flair to map other people's footprints and collect notes.
In short, they invented the mechanics of machines and hunting for this game, invented a bunch of graphical crutches that even the PS4 uses to give it deceptively beautiful graphics, slathered it all with actual SJW and LGBT agendas, but forgot to invent the game itself. It's just a disgrace.
I would say that Horizon looks like a typical Ubisoft open-world shish, but no: Ubisoft games have more diverse activities on the map, and the arsenal of weapons is more diverse, and at least there are memorable charismatic villains that are interesting to watch.
The DLC for the game is excellent, I have no complaints about it. It is interesting both gameplay-wise and story-wise. I went through it in one go and was satisfied with it.

Gameplay - 8/10
I love the hunting mechanic in Horizon Zero dawn and all the fights with the big machines are very fun and release at least 1 serotonin (yes, i did have to look up how to spell 'serotonin')

Graphics - 9/10
This game looks beautiful and rivals games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 in terms of detail.

Performance - 6/10
You will need a fairly decent PC to play this at a constant 60 fps at high/ultra settings.
This game however, runs perfectly on my mid-high range PC (RX 6600 XT, R5 5600X, 16gb 3600MHz RAM) with over 80 fps all the time on Ultra graphics settings.
However, I did have some major stutters in Meridian (The Big City). This could just be as it was loading as it only happened after fast travelling to Meridian and fixed itself after 10-20 seconds.
Edit: Fixed the stuttering almost completely by just enabling the AMD Radeon anti-lag feature in the AMD Radeon Software settings for HZD with only minor stuttering now that fixes itself in about 10 seconds (Nvidia users will have to find the Equivalent to the anti-lag Feature)

Story - 8/10 (No spoilers)
Great so far but i will not spoil. I will give my full opinion without spoilers once i complete the game.
Some of the mission, however, recommend that the player should be level 7 or over when they have a level 18 boss at the end. This does also happen in some of the side content such as the Sigma Cauldron that recommends level 7 but has a level 18 boss at the end but most of the time this doesn't happen as the side content doesn't have as many bosses at the end of each mission.
Edit: I have finished the story and it is great

Sound - 10/10
The noises that the machines make are something out of a Jurassic Park movie if the dinosaurs were robots.

World - 8/10
The world is pretty big and has a lot of things to do. I have completed many side quests which are very immersive and don't feel like the usual, 'Oh no, the world is going to end, but sure i can fetch some flowers for you'.

Campanha:
Diversão: 3
Jogabilidade: 3
Ambientação: 4
Gráficos e Áudio: 3

After years of putting it off, I have finally played through Horizon Zero Dawn. This game I personally feel does not live up to the hype and is very overrated but still a enjoyable game to play.

PROS:

Combat System- I loved this game's combat, I'm normally not a fan of ranged combat in story games, I prefer going in guns blazing but this game does ranged combat really well. The movement, how it flows, etc. It does have a learning curve at first but once you figure it out, it's real easy.

The Enemies (Machines)- I loved fighting the machines because of the variety they have, you go from rangers to ones that fly to ones that swim and so on.

Lance Reddick- He's a GOAT. RIP.

CONS:

Lackluster Story- This is my biggest complaint with the game, a lot of people love this game's story but I felt for how long it took to pick up, it was just really lackluster for me. I just did not find my self interested in it very much.

THE GRIND- I am a type of person when it comes to these types of story games, I want to just do the main missions no desire to do side quests. This game borderline forces you to do side quests to meet the level requirements for some main missions. Some people like that factor which is fine, but I just hate the fact that I have to grind for a couple hours, play a couple missions then repeat.

Aloy is annoying- I do not like Aloy, they try to make her Nathan Drake by talking in the 3rd person and it gets real old.

Overall, Horizon Zero Dawn while overrated is a solid game that I think people should play through. Its worth a run, if you like ranged combat, fun machines to fight, and Lance Reddick. I do have the sequel (Forbidden West) which I will be playing in the near future.