LogFAQs > #970345640

For all that the Horizon series gets crapped on for being a generic open world game, its combat system is actually really good. Every single robot in the game has weak spots that can be broken off or damaged. If you break certain pieces off, they lose access to attacks. As the game goes on, the entity building these creatures begins adding armor to those weak spots which you have to break off before you can get to them.

And speaking of Elden Ring, it does have a boss which makes kind of a joke about the trope. One of the late-game bosses explicitly has a bad leg that he's bandaged up. When you whack at it enough, he literally rips it off so you can't hit it anymore.