From what I could see here, and I am going to talk only about the gameplay / design here, they added a few interesting things but they learned not much from Horizon 1.
The new water environment is nice and the verticality dimension will bring more options to the combat (which will still be the best thing about Horizon). But based on this (and what we have seen before) I'd say the general handling of the character (except bow handling which is OK) hasn't evolved at all. It was okay back then, but now it's jank. Currently I am playing Nioh and before that I had doubts but now I am sure of what I am going to say. In many 3st person games the character controls like shit
by design. They have no excuses anymore.
Then the FOV is still too narrow, please just reduce the details and show us more of the world. No excuses again as in many recent games you can improve the FOV with no apparent downsides.
Now the melee hasn't evolved much and is still way too slow and laggy, I don't care to show off a virtual character in slow poses, I want immediate and effective strikes. In higher difficulties we'll have no choice than to stay at distance and use the responsive bow. Also the fact that the game relies so much at slow motion moments is proof that the game handling hasn't evolved at all. Indeed we'll need to slow the action in order to beat the foes because the camera and character are not responsive enough (and FOV too narrow) to be able to fight against ennemies fast as lighting (and who will still perfectly and annoyingly predict where we'll stand in the next few seconds).
Finally I fear that the world (including the water) will still look like a lifeless decorum where exploration will still be useless. A beautiful world with no real reward to explore it, so sad. And while verticality is nice, it's too easy and uninteresting as the path is labelled with no possibility to fail (so again, exploration is discouraged). They could learn so much from games like Kena (
), even the last Tomb raider had interesting exploration and verticality.
for me graphics looks great only problem have with lack of vegetation interaction, looks bad and shouldn't happen on ps5 version
Indeed. But I doubt they'll fix it.
