Last night, since I usually get home crazy late with the combination of work and taking care of weekly errands, I plopped down to continue Horizon II: Forbidden West. I started it kind of early-ish on Sunday, but just barely got through the introduction areas.
After finishing Zero Dawn Friday night, I considered giving a break between the two games, but after the end of Zero Dawn, I just wanted to see what happens next. However, I’ll probably go back later to give New Game+ a go, as that would be pretty fun to do as well. I suspect hysterically so seeing as I was 30+ levels over the story’s recommended level.
Anyway, after about 7 hours thus so far, my impression of Forbidden West is this is basically a near-perfect glow-up that built on all the great that the previous game had. There are some things I don’t like as much (probably yet) they did add, but I suspect as I continue westward, it’ll make sense or be just part of the flow of exploring.
The only thing that bugs me is I cannot get the ‘Complete Edition’ or the DLC story as it’s PS5 locked and/or on Steam. I mean I suppose I could get it on PC, but… well sometimes there’s just games I’d prefer on console and this is one of them. This might just be the one that convinces me to get a PS5 eventually, but for now, I probably have another 90+ hours of adventuring to do. If it’s anything like Zero Dawn where it just vaguely points me at the next destination miles away from where I picked up said quest, and I’m then left up to my own devices to explore, then this will be an absolutely stellar time once again indeed!