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This was just fantastic. It had a really fantastic story with so many good twists and a lot of strong emotional moments. The gameplay continued to be dynamic and interesting even after my second run-through, as I kept considering new ways to tackle fighting the difference machines and discovering more effective methods of killing the human enemies. The graphics, outside of some glaring character animation issues, are pretty damn spot on - the game looks fantastic in almost every way. It managed to find a good balance between being difficult and being fair to force you to play smart but not perfect, and even when the difficulty spikes once you start venturing out of the east side of the map, it doesn't feel too hard at any point.

I think I have maybe 3 or 4 complaints with the game and they're all small things that I can overlook given how great the rest of it is:
- Lip-syncing on the characters is bad, and their faces hardly move at all to convey emotion
- The mounts don't control very well
- I like that sometimes you can determine how Aloy responds to a situation but it is entirely inconsequential and doesn't change anything except you can kill one character instead of letting him live. And that character's presence doesn't change much either.

The Last of Us is my favorite game ever and Horizon doesn't threaten to take that off its throne, but it was amazing, and it's easily the best effort that Guerilla Games has put forth. Highly recommend to anyone who was thinking about getting this game to get it.

(As I typed this, I realized Uncharted 4 came out since The Last of Us and that is probably actually my favorite game since TLoU, but we'll ignore that on the premise that it's not a new IP or a dramatic improvement on an IP - I think it's the best Uncharted game but the 2nd and 3rd were also on the same level of quality.)
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