A much more focused, solid and satisfying experience than the base game.

I've never been much of a Zero Dawn fan even after loving some of the key elements of the game and most of all praising the intent to define an original concept with fun and deep twists to both visual design and gameplay; having said that, the game extended too much, the balance between the two plots that are ocurring at the same time are unbalanced in quality and even worse the animation and care put on cutscenes and general dialogue is subpar and detracts so much from the whole that I ended up, except for a couple of moments, not feeling what at the beginning was an intriguing and potentially entertaining story.

Frozen Wilds solves this by being just an expansion, which means less content with more polish, less characters but better defined, and the necessary additions to an already fantastic core gameplay that rejuvenates the later arc of the game into a potential look into the future, one with a dna of its own that doesn't fight with it's own nature as a AAA title with massive scope.

I hope Forbidden West learns its lessons and this is just the beginning of Horizon defining itself as a saga as refreshing and fun as its own best concepts.