[manuelmoreale]

Played both. I played Horizon first, Zelda second. Both were enjoyable.

I found horizon to be visually beautiful but the open world aspect not all that interesting personally.

Zelda, I came to it after hearing people praising it as the best game ever made. For me it’s a solid 8/10 game but definitely not all that incredible. Some of the mechanics are frustrating like the breaking weapons as you mentioned. I found the open world lacking in life. You can explore, sure, but there’s not much to do.

Vast parts of it are just empty stretches with enemies here and there and nothing really happens in that world.

I think both are excellent games but neither of them made me want to immerse myself in the worlds they were set in and neither made me want to come back for more.