After 77 hours, here is my verdict. It has problems, lots of it but it's a damn good game that you have to experience.
Good story, side quests are okay, side activities are fun, exploring and roaming is rewarding both narrative wise and game-play wise. But, Combat could've been much better with the addition of a shorter dodge, parrying and blocking. Hit boxes are too strict and enemies move too awkwardly. Graphically HZD looks phenomenal when it works but only when it works, sadly 50% of the time it doesn't, flickering textures, a lot of aliasing, a lot of shimmering, volumetric light shafts has a lot of dither / break ups, floating and flickering foliage, black spots in the sky, disappearing shadows and some performance issues like random and reproducible stuttering. Cut-scenes are good most of the times but there are still some sub par voice acting and some very bad and awkward facial animations, but the cinematography in HZD is absolutely amazing. thankfully some of these issues have been worked on as you get into the Frozen wilds DLC. Cinematography is improved, cut-scenes are much better with much more natural voice acting, animations, motions and facial animations. graphically frozen wilds is an improvement as well with added particle lighting, dynamic tessellation etc. Overall I enjoy my time with HZD more often than not it has it's issues but there is so much more beneath all that, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

TLDR: Get it on sale. It's a very good game but it also have some major issues.

After 77 hours, here is my verdict. It has problems, lots of it but it's a damn good game that you have to experience. Good story, side quests are okay, side activities are fun, exploring and roaming is rewarding both narrative wise and game-play wise. But, Combat could've been much better with the addition of a shorter dodge, parrying and blocking. Hit boxes are too strict and enemies move too awkwardly. Graphically HZD looks phenomenal when it works but only when it works, sadly 50% of the time it doesn't, flickering textures, a lot of aliasing, a lot of shimmering, volumetric light shafts has a lot of dither / break ups, floating and flickering foliage, black spots in the sky, disappearing shadows and some performance issues like random and reproducible stuttering. Cut-scenes are good most of the times but there are still some sub par voice acting and some very bad and awkward facial animations, but the cinematography in HZD is absolutely amazing. thankfully some of these issues have been worked on as you get into the Frozen wilds DLC. Cinematography is improved, cut-scenes are much better with much more natural voice acting, animations, motions and facial animations. graphically frozen wilds is an improvement as well with added particle lighting, dynamic tessellation etc. Overall I enjoy my time with HZD more often than not it has it's issues but there is so much more beneath all that, and I wouldn't want it any other way. TLDR: Get it on sale. It's a very good game but it also have some major issues.