By and large, I think this game is an improvement over Zero Dawn... except for the part that I'd imagine matters most to a lot of players. It feels like Guerrilla focused on adding new ways to play instead of further refining the existing gameplay, and doesn't really do a great job of introducing the player to all these new ways of fighting. Just tosses you a bunch of weirdly-balanced toys and says "have at it!" Still, the story and characters are what I care about the most, and it delivered.