I think this game had lofty goals and did achieve some of them, but I overall find it bloated and somewhat directionless. It is diluted with so many new characters, aloy being "betrayed" over and over again, etc... The biggest issue, though, are the bugs. Falling through floors constantly, getting stuck on nothing in midair, cutscenes with disappearing and reappearing character models. Just a train wreck. Should have pared down the game and made sure it worked. By the end I just wanted it to be over with. And the difficulty was somewhat pathetic. I died almost exclusively from bizarre falls and getting trapped in strange collision zones where I was stuck 2 feet off the ground and then killed because I couldn't move. I've never seen a game with this many issues and not have it torn apart in reviews.