First is the paraglider, which despite a frustrating control scheme overcame the odds and left me impressed. There's one other factor when talking about parkour: the tools the game gives you for traversal. Factoring in the sometimes brutal checkpoint system, and you can find yourself losing 15-20 minutes of progress because the game decided you didn't make the jump when it's clear you did. This isn't a big deal when I'm standing directly below the platform I want to jump to, it's far more frustrating at the end of a high climb and the missed platform causes me to die and start over again. Unfortunately, parkour is not as consistently good as combat, and one false move can be disastrous…even when that move wasn't false.Įvery once in a while, I would jump to a platform only for the game to not register, causing me to fall. At times I would get major Assassin's Creed vibes, traversing massive buildings with relative ease and a flow that was awe-inspiring. When it's working, and Aiden is hopping across rooftops or using cars to avoid zombies, it absolutely sings. The second tenant of the core gameplay is parkour, and here is where we start to see a few chinks in the armor. Combat is so good, in fact, that I'll admit I'd gone out of my way a few times to take out a few undead with my favorite weapon partly because I want to test out a sick mod, partly because I just want to smash a zombie around some more. Modding a weapon to enhance its power, like giving it a flame mod to set enemies on fire, makes sense and takes very little time to learn. Watching myself slowly wear down an enemy, highlighted by little changes such as masks breaking or limbs coming off, is awesome. Smacking an enemy in the head with a table leg or a water pipe doubling as a mace feels great with every swing. For starters, the combat here is perfect. It's also cool that the two main elements of Dying Light 2 's core gameplay are a ton of fun to play - for the most part. That's cool, and the freedom feels even better when you make your way into the other half of the map. The abandoned storefronts I imagined are here. I can explore, engage in random encounters, fight zombies, head into a dark building to look for supplies, whatever I want. Granted it's not total freedom-story missions will always play out in order and half the city is inaccessible for a third of the game-but within that smaller section I am free to my own devices. Once the prologue ends and you enter The City in earnest, you are immediately set free to do whatever you want. Let's start with the best part of what the game offers: freedom. At night, however, the dynamic flips, and zombies emerge from every corner thirsty for blood while the shops are empty. During the day the streets are "safe" and survivors can travel around them virtually at will, with the real dangers stuffed inside the aforementioned shops. Those businesses have all been long since abandoned, peppered with the occasional undead inside that protect whatever secrets or treasures they hold. The City was once an urban paradise, with boutique shops and restaurants lining the maze-like streets. Oh, and he's also infected with the virus, and prolonged time in the dark will cause him to turn. He comes to the sprawling metropolis of the game-simply called "The City" for those unaware-in order to find his sister Mia, who was separated from him when they were kids. He's known as a Pilgrim, taking jobs and earning cash while in the city he visits. Dying Light 2 Stay Human puts you in the shoes of Aiden, a nomadic man who travels from settlement to settlement in this post-zombie apocalyptic world.
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