Dying Light: The Following review: Zombie vaulting meets vehicular homicide - puckettbrouthe1977

Note: This review contains spoilers for the freehand Demise Light. Read at your have peril.

When last we left Dying Light [Earnestly, SPOILERS], bland-everyman-hero-guy Kyle Crane had leaped across hundreds of rooftops, hacked apart thousands of zombies, and finally thrown mercenary scoundrel Kadir "Rais" Suleiman off the top of a skyscraper. Abandoning his paramilitary outfit, Crane vowed to stay in Harran and help the survivors. And then he belik looted Rais's skull to make a coffee mug or something.

At any rate, what's through with is done. The new Dying Light expansion, The Following, picks up former later (presumably). And this time, you're moving to the country.

Gonna eat a good deal of peaches

T He Following is its own self-contained bit of content, accessed on the Main Menu aside trying to start a radical game. Don't occupy—you won't overwrite your proper Dying Pale salvage. It's at that place if you wish to function back. Simply you can't warp directly betwixt The Following and the master copy game. You can, however, import your very own Kyle Hart Crane, though Techland recommends you hit Level 19 before transitioning ended.

Crane is chasing a rumor: That outside Harran, there are people World Health Organization are immune to the infection. Narration as old as time.

He escapes the confines of Harran, withdrawing to the straggly countryside and farmland around the urban center. And wouldn't you know it, he immediately stumbles into a cantonment of seemingly-immune individuals. They're known as the Children of the Sun, a cult group kept dependable by praying to a figure known as "The Overprotect."

No, they won't let you view The Mother. When you come on, nobody wish even speak to you. You have to earn their trust aside doing queer-jobs for members of the residential district, working your way up the well-trod ladder from stranger to beloved collaborator until The Bring fort's servants, the Faceless Ones, see fit to call connected you.

It's a familiar set-up: Go here, do a thing, come back. Get quests, far as the eye rump see. The Favorable tells a more intriguing (albeit more ridiculous) story than Dying Light, merely it follows the Saami tedious structure as in front and I'm still not thrilled. Much of your time is tired traversing the environment, and very much of the secondary or tertiary missions are indistinguishable from each other.

Simply the sand dune buggy. The beach buggy saves it.

With Crane abandoning the cities for amber waves of grain, Dying Fat-free essentially abandons an entire expression of its identity: The parkour. It's still there, sure. But—storm!—farms don't suffer much for Crane to jump over. You can raise few boulders, or maybe scale a bus, simply your main mode of transportation in The Following is a fancied-up go-kart.

The buggy comes with its own Driving skill tree, which turns your puttering diesel-eater into a zombie killing machine. Persist over zombies. Then run for over more zombies. Then test over every zombie spirit. That seems to be the key to The Following.

Information technology's fun. I at the start held back from using the buggy, nervous because IT eventually breaks down in the same manner as your weapons. Quint different components take wear-and-tear damage every bit you drive, and your fuel gauge gradually depletes. You'll demand to scavenge parts and fire from derelict cars, and that seemed like a chore when I began playing.

So I walked/ran/grappling aquiline. And credit to Techland: In different hands, I've no doubt this "expansion" would've been called Dying Light 2. In fact, I'm thunderstruck it didn't get mature continuation status. It's certainly big enough.

Literally: Big. Massive, even. Running across the map is windy, and for good reason—Techland's become fond of boasting that The Following takes place in "a region the sized of all Demise Light maps combined." I'm not willing to affirm that lay claim, but it feels truthful.

The two aren't really comparable, regardless. Dying Light proper managed to feel larger than it was because it mostly consisted of winding streets and hidden interiors. The Following is the opposite—empty stretches, punctuated by the queer highway flypast or farmhouse.

But erstwhile you get into your silly half-size car, those long stretches of nothing take on a different character. You discover the countryside is actually wiggly roadstead and fences to treat over and stupid "Who built this, anyway?" saltation ramps and tight turns and fields full of zombies ready and waiting to be run down. IT's the unholy lovechild of Dukes of Hazzard and Death Race 2000. All that's nonexistent is Kyle Crane whooping as He runs ended yet another undead Harran farmer, beer in hand.

Kyle Crane doesn't whoop. Kyle Crane is too boring to whoop.

The point is: The loopy makes a difference. It seems like a gimmick, just it makes Dying Light's fetch questiness just a less more tolerable. You may still pull unfold your map and groan when you see that the next mission is located beyond of the map, but torpedo the railway locomotive and indulge yourself a little. Put option a ramming bar along the front line of your buggy, drive through the fields, and fiddle bowling with a horde of zombies. If a living dead jumps on your vehicle, punch it in the face.

It's perversely satisfying. If Dying Light was ALIR Cry 3 with zombies, then The Following is its Blood Tartar-esque spin-off. It's never quite As silly as Blood Firedrake's neon-soaked cartoon world, but in spades fewer self-severe, less punishing, more prone to asinine power fantasies.

Bottom describe

The fetch quests need to go. Or they want to be dressed up better. Either way. I thought Death Light was all over-reliant on them in its first incarnation, and that was in a pre-Witcher 3 planetary. Playing The Following, I oft recovered myself pulling open the map, looking at how far I needed to attend reach any objectives, and just quitting for the Night. Not a smashing feeling.

Simply for every last its flaws, Dying Friable is still a hell of a sandbox—an incredible set of mechanics in need of a better story. The Tailing's is-it-supernatural-or-isn't-it shenanigans convey Techland one step nigher. Hopefully a proper Moribund Light 2 will ditch the gofer contrivances for something a bit more yeasty.

Irrespective, at $20 this expansion is a steal.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/419531/dying-light-the-following-review-zombie-vaulting-meets-vehicular-homicide.html

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