Great sequel, pretty much identical gameplay to the first but with brand new places to explore, characters to meet, and a continuation of the story with higher stakes than before. Lots of variety in the biomes, lots of new machines to fight, and quite a few new tribes. Point is, Forbidden West takes what made Zero Dawn great and adds much more variety to it. After finishing the main story, i'm waiting eagerly for the next game.

Only negatives are the occasional cringe dialogue and the fact that the antagonists are not expanded upon as much as I feel they should have. I would have liked to see a little bit more fleshing of the story in that regard. Also... HEY ALOY. SHUT UP HUH? I don't need you to comment on EVERYTHING. I don't need you to tell me that [Machine] is vulnerable to [Element] every time I scan it, I don't need you to speak every single thought out loud, and I certainly don't need you to always IMMEDIATELY tell me how to solve a puzzle. So HEY ALOY? Shut up.

Also, as of the time of this review, five days after release, there are occasional framerate issues during cutscenes and in the open world of the Burning Shores DLC. Usually get about 90fps in the main game, but can drop to 20fps while playing Burning Shores on a 3080. Apart from that, the port is incredibly well polished, especially compared to some previous console to pc ports lately.

TL;DR - Game great, dialogue could have been better. Very polished port with some occasional performance hiccups, but nothing too frustrating.

Great sequel, pretty much identical gameplay to the first but with brand new places to explore, characters to meet, and a continuation of the story with higher stakes than before. Lots of variety in the biomes, lots of new machines to fight, and quite a few new tribes. Point is, Forbidden West takes what made Zero Dawn great and adds much more variety to it. After finishing the main story, i'm waiting eagerly for the next game. Only negatives are the occasional cringe dialogue and the fact that the antagonists are not expanded upon as much as I feel they should have. I would have liked to see a little bit more fleshing of the story in that regard. Also... HEY ALOY. SHUT UP HUH? I don't need you to comment on EVERYTHING. I don't need you to tell me that [Machine] is vulnerable to [Element] every time I scan it, I don't need you to speak every single thought out loud, and I certainly don't need you to always IMMEDIATELY tell me how to solve a puzzle. So HEY ALOY? Shut up. Also, as of the time of this review, five days after release, there are occasional framerate issues during cutscenes and in the open world of the Burning Shores DLC. Usually get about 90fps in the main game, but can drop to 20fps while playing Burning Shores on a 3080. Apart from that, the port is incredibly well polished, especially compared to some previous console to pc ports lately. TL;DR - Game great, dialogue could have been better. Very polished port with some occasional performance hiccups, but nothing too frustrating.