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I loved Forbidden West to bits, clocked in around 61 hours with lots of content left. I'm leaving it for the DLC and New Game Plus that will be added soon. However, Zelda and Horizon are very different, as many others have already mentioned. They scratch entirely different itches. I've also been playing Elden Ring for about 35 hours now, and that's something different from both aforementioned games again. I think many gamers get "open-world" tangled up as a genre when it's really not, it's simply a style of design. Mario Kart and Gran Turismo are also both racing games but are leagues apart. I kind of see Horizon vs. Zelda vs. Elden Ring the same way, albeit not quite so extreme in their obvious differences. What's perhaps the most important to me is this simple fact; I love all three games a lot, and I don't think I would if they were more similar.