The strongest point of the game is combat. It's polished and well thoughtout. You feel well rewarded after landing a headshot, or making a timely dodge. The environment in the game is beautiful too. And this makes wandering from one quest to the other not so boring. The main issue I have with the game is the storyline. After like an hour into the game, you can easily predict the things Aloy is going to unravel. I'd say 60 to 70% of the story is predictable and I didn't find much excitement in learning the things I already knew. There are also other smaller issues with the game. I'll try my best to not spoil anything. Weapon/outfit upgrades: I found the upgrade system to be very weak. You will never find any new weapons or outfits killing enemies. They have to be purchased from merchants. Even then most of the new weapons do not offer a noticable improvement over your existing weapon. Also most outfits are purely cosmetic and doesn't give you any benefits on their own. Very strange. 'Horse riding' : Riding system is annoying. If you are not pressing sprint, your mount moves at the pace of a snail and when pressing sprint, it takes off. Also there is a strange delay between sprinting and normal walk for the mount. This makes it extremely annoying when trying to pick up resources while sitting on the mount. Also your mount is not permanent and it will not be allowed to enter human camps. If you exit through the opposite end of the camp, your mount won't follow you and there is no way to summon it over a huge distance. Clunky inventory UI: This is a console game ported to PC. As a result the UI mainly consisits of huge square pieces that represent items. Something that would have taken a simple drag and drop instead will take clicks
