I always found the complaints with the first horizon to be ridiculous though - so I can see why he would say that, like yeah all these little things may be reasons to say you don’t like it on a forum but if you’re not into the core gameplay because you just aren’t. It’s probably not for you - cus there was not much wrong with it imo that actually mattered
Nah the game was certainly flawed, it was my gotg (not goty, gotg) and i still can't score more than a 8-8,5 (i enjoyed the game like it was a 11\10 but that is another discussion)
I can defend some aspects of the game but some are legit bad\mediocre like melee combat, combat vs humans both mechanically and animation wise, shit rewards for exploration if you don't care about going deep on the lore (and not everyone care), bad traversal options, bad\simple stealth, cumbersome resource management, shitty digital acting etc.
I loved the game because the highs were much more impactful than the lows, but i'm honest with myself, the game had problems.
I find many of these reasons worthy of stopping a game if the story\charas doesn't hook you from the beginning.
At best we can argue that many games with far higher metacritic have even more flaws than horizon but they still score higher but this is not the topic to discuss that.