Horizon Zero Dawn 2: Forbidden West

30 hours in. It is an Ubi-style open world. Too much filler collectible nonsense, not enough focus on immersion. As such, it can never be as good as my favourite open world RPGs like Witcher 3, Kingdom Come or New Vegas.
But, that said, it does have a clear improvement in quality of sidequests and dialogue, in both presentation and actual writing, compared to the first game. I am enjoying the combat. And the world is ridiculously gorgeous. So I think I will manage to spend some 100 hours here, maybe more.