re: Horizon Forbidden West review embargo lifted

A little bump action after diving into this bad boy this last month.

For those of you that 100%’d this game how long did it take you? I’m at 40 hours and am only showing 30% completion which makes it way bigger/longer than the first one. I 100%’d the first one right at 70 hours

Really enjoying this game. Playing on hard and I feel like it’s a lot more challenging than hard was on HZD. The stuff I was doing on HZD dosent work in this one. I went through most of HZD just spamming the blast sling. I’ve probably died more times 40 hours in on this one than I did the whole playthrough of HZD. They also put a limit on how many traps and trip wires you can place at once and nerfed the spear. It’s also obvious they heard the complaints on human-human combat as they’ve made it much better. Helmets on the tribesman makes it harder to clear out camps and outposts as you can’t just headshot everybody from 100 yards away anymore. Also loving all the “relic ruins” and how they essentially made them all puzzles on national landmarks instead of just climbing up to the relic. Speaking of climbing, MUCH better this time around. It’s a lot less frustrating since you can scan and see what you can actually climb instead of jumping around trying to grab at ledges like HZD

The new skill trees are almost a bit overwhelming with all the “limit breaks” and special moves you can learn. Feel like I always forget about everything I can do. My only complaint so far is how long it’s taking to get the ability to clear “broken paths”. I’ve been coming across them since the very start of the game and can’t do shite about them so now when I finally get the ability I’m going to have to back track like a motherfricker to clear all of them. Just annoying how games put shite early in the game that you can’t frick with until later in the game. I’ll go way out of my way to clear a “?” Just to find its another broken path I can’t do anything with