I finished this game a few days ago and I have to say this game has some of the best writting I've ever experienced in a game. Loved the story a lot.
- Aloy is a great character and the game makes sure that you manage to know her better as the story progresses. There are a lot of little moments, like the banter when you're in the open world, how she reacts to other characters and what they say, her natural curiosity and how she becomes more open as the story advances. If somebody hasn't done it, going to Rost's tomb every once in a while is great. She talks to his grave and shares his thoughts, feelings and opinions. I think she had a nice dynamic with Sylens. She is smart and curious, but good hearted and passionate. Sylens is much colder, and he thinks knowledge is the most important thing. I kind of appreciated when he said "you know, I'd have done it even if I knew the consequences".
- The Vantages are a must read. There is much more text than the little audio fragment. Read them in order. It's great. Nice little story.
- The game has the best implementation of audio logs I can remember since... the original Bioshock maybe? I really loved how you can see what happened in Grave Hoard through audio logs and the ruin, how they describe the changing atmosphere of the whole project as it progresses and how they managed to flesh out most of the alphas working at Zero Dawn.
- Gaia, and the idea of creating an AI that will rebuild the world once it's been consumed was a great twist. I loved the audios when you have her, Sobeck, and other people talking to each other. Gaia feeling sad because dinosaurs were extinct was one of my favorite bits. Really cool little detail.
- The twist, as said before was great. I was spoiled that Aloy is a clone, but that was like the least important thing of it all.
- I really liked the quest line in the Hunter Lodge. Really nice chemistry between Aloy and Talanah.
- I managed the Platinum in 50 hours. So I had cleared all the different Secondary Quests in the game when I got to the final battle. Seeing all the people you've helped gathering to defend Meridian because of you was great. I'm a sucker for this kind of moments (Persona 5 did a similar thing near the end and I loved it too).
- Kudos to Guerilla for the Chief Guard of the Carja's Prison.