This game is about hunter-gatherer types hunting giant robot dinosaurs.
"Oh! So they're all vegetarians, and they farm mushrooms or something?"
No, there's just normal animals as well sometimes.
"Oh, well the readily available construction materials must mean all their houses are made of giant robot dinosaur shells?"
No, they just live in normal huts and tents.
"Well, at least the combat must be good! Climbing around on the giants and disassembling them?"
No, they're just like normal dinosaurs except with machine guns.
If the lack of world building wasn't enough, the game spends several hours at the beginning introducing characters before promptly killing every single one of them just before the actual story starts, leaving the audience trapped with only the least developed character of them all for company: Aloy herself.
"Oh! So they're all vegetarians, and they farm mushrooms or something?"
No, there's just normal animals as well sometimes.
"Oh, well the readily available construction materials must mean all their houses are made of giant robot dinosaur shells?"
No, they just live in normal huts and tents.
"Well, at least the combat must be good! Climbing around on the giants and disassembling them?"
No, they're just like normal dinosaurs except with machine guns.
If the lack of world building wasn't enough, the game spends several hours at the beginning introducing characters before promptly killing every single one of them just before the actual story starts, leaving the audience trapped with only the least developed character of them all for company: Aloy herself.