![]() It’s also worth noting that Dying Light 2 doesn’t run very well, at least not on the PC I reviewed the game on. There are also reports of players’ saves being broken and issues of that ilk, and while you may get lucky and avoid these problems all together, it’s a frustrating experience to have to deal with any of these things in an AAA game in 2022. In my playthrough, I experienced the now-standard set of open world technical problems that ranged from glitched AI ragdolls to respawning hundreds of meters away from objectives. These annoyances are made even worse, too, by the bugs you may encounter while playing. There’s rarely any room for error during these sequences because of this regardless of difficulty setting, which makes climbing while listening to exposition an exceptionally stupid experience. Throughout Dying Light 2, you’ll often need to climb big structures while evading the undead in timed quests. To be clear, your limited climbing stamina also exists in the open world, but in main missions it’s especially prevalent. Slapping zombies around still feels great in these sequences, especially if you make proper use of the various crafting options that the game offers, but it’s annoying to not be able to stretch your legs in parts of the game.Īnd, even when you do get outside in the game’s story, there’s an annoying mechanic that limits the time that you can spend climbing. While playing around in the open world is usually fantastic, many of the game’s story and side missions confine you to small spaces that aren’t parkour-able. While the mechanic ultimately doesn’t matter if you’re halfway competent with a virtual axe, it is at least more dynamic than the game’s story.īut, going back to the tea metaphor, the game often bungles up its ingredients in that story. This means that if you want to stay safe, it’s best to hit the virtual hay every night, but staying out also offers you the opportunity to get choice loot while running the risk of becoming someone’s dinner. When it’s light out, most zombies stay inside, and at night, they become more powerful and take to the streets. The game also has a unique take on the day-night cycle. There’s also the standard set of open world mechanics to sink your teeth into if that’s your thing, which isn’t quite as satisfying as the actual parkouring but it is there. While the wall-running and jumping mechanics aren’t quite as polished as other titles, climbing a huge tower after smacking dozens of zombies with some great melee combat feels beyond amazing. ![]() As a not- Assassin's Creed protagonist, you’re free to jump, leap and paraglide around the map, and when you can do those things freely, it feels fantastic. However, thankfully, when you aren’t doing dialogue-y stuff, Dying Light 2 does have some enjoyable gameplay. These frequent breaks from the gameplay, like sitting around waiting for a tea to seep, is a huge reason why Dying Light 2 is such a mediocre experience. ![]() Even if you start spamming spacebar to skip dialogue, you’ll still spend a lot of time walking around faction bases and waiting for NPCs to call you back or contemplating dialogue choices that have almost no effect on the game’s story. While interesting characters occasionally appear, the majority of your time in-game will be spent listening to boring dialogue dumps or doing fetch quests to a story that ultimately don’t lead anywhere. This is made especially bad, too, because there’s a literal ton of it that needs to be slogged through before you can properly enjoy the game. If you’ve played literally any other generic open world game in the past decade, you’ve played through the “something something the road to hell is paved with good intentions something something” story of Dying Light 2. To do that, you’ll need to spend about 20 hours doing busywork for the main three factions in the game’s setting of Villedor while also listening to an egregious amount of exposition in a story that’s about as bog-standard as can be. In addition to trying to survive not- France in the post-apocalypse, your main goal in Dying Light 2 is to find your sister while tracking down the dude that gave you your superhuman abilities. It’s easily one of the coolest premises in gaming, but it’s also one that’s totally wasted in 2022’s title. ![]() The catch is your character, Aiden, was given quasi-superpowers by a mad scientist that turned him into a neo- Ezio Auditore who’s able to parkour around and fight zombies with ease. If it wasn’t clear from the game’s title, in Dying Light 2, you play as a guy who’s trying to survive a world that’s set about 15 years after the planet went tits-up in the original Dying Light.
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