Horizon Forbidden West

• Some items will appear on the resources tab as junk, but they can actually be used for some lategame upgrade recipes. Hold onto Apex Hearts, Metal Blocks, and Pristine Skulls. Ancient junk and ingots can safely be sold for shards.

• If you want to upgrade something, just create a job for it whenever you're at a workbench and it'll automatically show you where to find the nearest components that you need.

• A few areas will be inaccessible to you at first and will only become available after certain plot-related upgrades, so it does help to progress the story.

• Purgewater disables many elemental attacks and also reduces a machine's resistance to elemental attacks.

• That being said, many sidequests offer good weapons and armor this time around, so it does also help to complete them as they appear.

• You're invincible while performing a Valor Surge and so can also use it to escape explosions, machine charges, and environmental damage.

• Unlike Zero Dawn, the game world persists after completing the main story, so there's nothing that can be permanently missed.