I don't think it's a bad game, and I'm playing it. I'm just saying that if you publish a game with:
- mediocre/non-existent story
- graphics bordering last gen
- stuttery framerate mess
- no handholding
- no difficulty setting
- animations pretty much lifted from their previous game
- some sort of tutorial hidden somewhere (I found out there's one by reading comments)
- nothing really novel here, even the whole online messaging thing is Demon's Souls all over again.
you can only get a pass and a 10/10 because "It's FromSoft, what did you expect?". I mean, I get it, it's a game for FromSoft fans.
Again, I understand the problem you had with Horizon and I know it's not just you, I'm just speaking about my experience. Horizon is a different kind of game too, it would never have a deep combat system like these games, and I'm not making a direct comparison game to game.
I was pointing out my honest reaction from going from one open world to the other, and puzzled how this thing got a 10/10.