Ah yes, Horizon Zero, a series well known for being very unique and definitely not another open-world crafting/survival/action game. Are people angry that they’ll be playing a copy of a copy?
Genuinely, pick up Horizon: Zero Dawn. Your preconceived notions are not accurate to it, it’s a very good game
It’s kinda yet another corporate apocalypse, but it does write the characters better. The additional lore in the second game really makes you feel like these are real life billionaire assholes. Halfway through the first game and the entirety of the second game I was done with the combat and couldn’t be bothered to try out all the weapons and armour, just went all in on stealth snipe and souls rolled anything that couldn’t be stealthed. I think I used the special moves like 3 times only. I’ll still play the third one though. I’ll probably just unga bunga the whole thing when the time comes.
I dare to say the setting is quite unique
A world with mechanical animals is not unique to Horizon and was not even new when Horizon came out. The Xenoblade Series for example has mechanimals and this is not even the first either, just the first I can think of right now.
And the rest of the world, and the battle system, looks like Monster Hunter so it is not really new or Horizon exclusive either.
It’s not just that it’s a “world with mechanical animals”, it’s the entire design aesthetic is completely lifted from Horizon. It’s obviously a different kind of game, but the character and animal designs look straight out of the Horizon games.
