How much of that was spent AFK? even if half thast is still impressive. If none you deserve a verry deep salutation with a removed hat. And also I must revew my bas habits of leting games run while doing something else.
While there is a decent bit of that, thanks to me multitasking, and playing while I wait on renders and what not, most of that was spend grinding stats, and redoing some things for ...fun. XD
No-one who doesn't like a game is going to be playing it for 40 hours. The entire point of "I don't enjoy thing X" is that thing X isn't worth your time.
While that is true, to some extent, it's like basing your review on the tutorial, or the opening cinematics. Don't get me wrong, there are times when basing your opinion on a game on something short like that is justified, like my disabled ass not being able to do the combat in The Witcher, and not being able to even finish the tutorial (or just not liking a game's art style, someone's bad writing, or whatever). That said, I did not go out and write shitty reviews of it, I just said 'this is not for me' and moved on with my life. It is a very popular game, but it is not one I can even physically play.
In the case of HH here, it is basing it on the intro, the standard trope of inheriting property from a dead family member, where you move to a new place to restart your life. You can't really give a good review of a game, when you haven't even seen the plot. It is like reviewing a movie based on the opening credits. Sure, there might be things you really don't like in that first few moments, but it's not really a fair review. It could be they were doing that for effect, and made up for it in some way right after you walked out of the theater, and and you end up missing out on what would otherwise have been a great film.