In case anyone is considering buying Horizon Forbidden West now it's on PC, I made the mistake of finishing it on PS5. Forbidden West is absurdly dumb and doubles down on modern politics. It's boring, hideous, and basically a pile of shit. Famously they made Aloy even uglier in the sequel, but this also applies for all characters and tribes in the game. No attempt is made to have the setting feel even remotely plausible.
In Zero Dawn the story was about robots who want to destroy the world. In Forbidden West the story is about a middle aged lesbian white woman who loved the woman Aloy was originally cloned from. In the end she becomes hysterical and Aloy has to put her down. That's literally the final boss, a BPD lesbian who wants to kidnap Aloy into space so she can keep her in a sex dungeon while the world is destroyed by robots. If Aloy was a male character it'd be maybe the funniest AAA game ever. Forbidden West is similar to Spiderman 2 in how the first entry was inoffensive mass entertainment, whereas the sequel goes out of its way to offend and disgust the players. Hilariously like Spiderman 2 the budget for Forbidden West was more than 4x higher than Zero Dawn, yet you'd be hard pressed to see any of that money on screen. It's also selling worse than Zero Dawn, which is well deserved.