The click of metal echoed across the lush valley, the earth trembling as great, gleaming beasts stomped upon it. Gears shifted and plates clanged as mechanical monsters—echoes of animals long extinct—roamed the earth. Horizon Zero Dawn is a beast of a game in every sense: vast, complex, and breathtaking. A typical playthrough of the main story alone takes around twenty-two hours, while completionists can easily spend more than sixty. A World of Metal and Memory My own journ