With the 2nd game releasing on steam early next year, I picked up zero dawn on steam. I will now talk spoilers below.
I am currently on the border of the nora territory with the sun tribe. I enjoyed the first part of the game alot up until the brave trial, but after that aloy has started to feel a bit mary suish. She starts the game as an underdog outcast which I related to, but now she seems too.. Sure of herself, a bit cocky. It's normal for the player char to be super talented, but she just seems to be getting arrogant about it.
World building is great, I just feel the game treats aloy as if she is perfect. She never gets called out by other characters for making a mistake
The story is terrible, the gameplay is decent, the exploration is fun enough.
I think the "dungeons" were the highlight for me.
I would figure out if there was a way to mute all of the dialogue and just read the subtitles, the voice acting is universally bad. And the story is generic feminist story number 847 where immoral man causes problem and super awesome woman has to fix it.