DO NOT BUY Dying Light 2 - Stay Human - VERY disappointing

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing the

brand new Dying Light 2, which is a new

zombie game, and as an avid fan of zombie

games and zombie movies and basically

anything that's about zombies, I just had

to play this game. Unfortunately, it's

been pretty disappointing and extremely

lackluster. Now I don't know if you

remember when the original Dying Light

came out, but I remember it was very

highly praised for being an innovative and

imaginative original addition to the

zombie hack-and-slash survival kind of

game genre that was thriving and very

popular at the time. Unfortunately, Dying

Light 2 hasn't really been able to bring

much to the table in terms of new content

and new ideas. It's basically like a

rehash of the original game but with a few

slight improvements and a few extra new

things added to the game to justify the

adding the 2 onto the end of the title.

If you don't know what Dying Light is as a

game, basically it's kind of like a

mishmash of Mirror's Edge and any kind of

first-person hack-and-slash action game.

The main gimmick of Dying Light 2 and

Dying Light is the fact that you can do

parkour, and this is supposed to set it

apart from all of the other zombie games

like The Walking Dead and Dead Island and

Back 4 Blood and Left 4 Dead. There's so

many of these first-person kind of

hack-and-slash action zombie games that

Dying Light had to do something to stand

out from the crowd, and it decided to

incorporate parkour. So basically you can

jump and climb and do tricks, and you get

some kind of points from doing these

things. Now, the parkour mechanics in the

game, they are not exactly the worst

parkour mechanics in a first-person

parkour kind of game, but they're not

exactly that fun to play. The problem is

the parkour gameplay is so interwoven and

integral to the core mechanics of the

game, you can't really play the game and

avoid the parkour segments. Now, as for

the graphics of the game, I'm not really

impressed, and the graphics of the game

are definitely not up to my standards.

This is supposed to be a 2022

next-generation game, but the game does

not look next-gen in any way. The way the

game looks is just kind of weird. It's

almost as if they couldn't decide if they

wanted to make a realistic-looking game or

more of an arcadey cartoonish kind of

game. It's kind of like they couldn't

decide and they wanted to go in both

directions, but as a result they failed to

make neither a realistic looking game or a

very good arcadey looking game. The

character models and the textures in the

game just look kind of— well, they look

abysmal. They kind of look like a

PlayStation 3 game that's been ported over

to mobile devices. As for the gameplay, I

just really wasn't impressed with the

gameplay either. You would think that

having all these weird random cool weapons

to hack and slash all these zombies and

you're jumping and parkouring all over the

place, you would think that sounds fun.

But somehow in Dying Light 2, they've

made— they've managed to make that boring.

And I don't know how they managed to make

something so fun to be so incredibly

boring. 1 hour into the game, I just felt

so bored hammering the attack button and

hammering the jump button. The whole

gameplay and fighting combat system

basically revolves around you can kick the

zombies or you can hit them with your

melee weapon. There's not really anything

in-depth or challenging. There's nothing

challenging about the combat system that

really hooks you in. As someone who's

played a lot of first-person FPS action

zombie games such as Left 4 Dead, Dead

Island, Back 4 Blood, The Walking Dead

video game series, this combat system in

Dying Light 2 just doesn't really feel as

good as those other games. There's just

something very sluggish and unresponsive

and very unsatisfying when you are

fighting the zombies in Dying Light 2.

I'm not quite sure how to put my finger on

it, I think it's just the delay and the

kind of lag and the animations. One of the

worst animations in the game has to be

when you're running. So when you're

running, you can see your character's arms

in front of you like this, and it just

looks so dumb. It looks like a cartoon

character is running. It doesn't look

realistic. The running and the jumping

just feel so floaty, as if your character

doesn't actually have any weight. It's

like they have no weight and they're just

a floating helium balloon that's being

dragged around. Now, one of the main

problems in Dying Light 2 is the fact that

it just has so many bugs and glitches. It

had so many bugs to the point where they

had to release a day 1 patch of 1,000

bug fixes. It had 1,000 bug fixes in

this patch. It would just make you think

that if they had so many bugs in the game,

maybe they should have spent more time

developing it instead of rushing it out to

release it to the public. And you just

don't know how many more thousands of bugs

are still in the game that's going to need

a day 2 patch and a week 2 patch, a month

4 patch. It just feels like the game is so

unfinished and rushed and it doesn't have

that quality shine on it. It just feels

like they needed to spend a little bit

time, a little bit more time working on

the game. It needed a little bit more time

in the oven cooking to perfection.

Unfortunately, what we got was a

half-baked and undercooked version of

Mirror's Edge/Left 4 Dead. And as a

game developer myself, I understand that

you can't really get away from— you can't

really get rid of every single bug.

There's always going to be one or two bugs

here and there, and getting rid of the

bugs is one of the biggest challenges as a

developer and a programmer and a coder,

something I would know about since I'm

developing my own game now. Definitely not

to the scale of Dying Light, but I

understand the struggle. But after the

massive disappointment of Cyberpunk and

how buggy that game was, it just really

frustrates me when you've got this entire

video games company with loads of staff,

dozens or maybe even hundreds of

professional coders and programmers, a

professional dedicated team to making sure

this game comes out smoothly, and still

they, they can't even get these bugs under

control. As for the story of the game,

there is a story in the game, but it's

just really boring and it's really silly.

So you spend the beginning of the game

just following this French guy around

jumping onto rooftops, and as you follow

him around, the story unfolds and there's

different characters that get introduced.

But the scripting and the dialogue and the

pacing of this story is just utter

garbage. It just kind of feels like they

ran out of money to hire a decent

scriptwriter, and the story just feels

like it was— it just feels like it was

this last-minute tacked-on thing that they

felt like they had to add to the game

because We need to have a story for our

game. I don't know who wrote this story,

but it's definitely not George R.R.

Martin level stuff, and it's definitely

not something you would expect from The

Walking Dead TV series before it became

crap. Now, I'm not going to spoil the

story, but basically what you can expect

from the story is your typical

stereotypical zombie kind of survival

apocalypse world where you've got

survivors and they're hiding and they're

trying to create a resistance. They're

trying to create strongholds and get

supplies and provisions and weapons and

keep a safe barricade and area around

themselves. And then basically you just

have to help them because you're now part

of the resistance or you're part of their

group. I just didn't really feel anything

original in the plot or the story. The

characters were very uninteresting and

very— they just didn't have any charisma

or energy or much screen presence. I found

myself smashing the skip cutscene button

as much as I could because the cutscenes

and the dialogue is, is just so cheesy and

lame and boring. So if you're thinking

about buying this game, I would say give

it a try yourself because that's the best

way to tell if you're going to like the

game or not. But for me personally, I

wouldn't be able to recommend it because

it just felt like a very bland,

bare-to-bones, generic zombie kind of

hack-and-slash game that doesn't really

bring anything new to the table. The

graphics are really bad, the gameplay is

just not really that great, and I found

myself just feeling bored the whole time.

I'd much rather play Left 4 Dead or Back 4

Blood or anything else really. So

unfortunately, I'm going to have to give

this game a score of 4.2 out of 10.

Maybe when the price comes down a little

bit, it would be worth buying, but at this

price point, I don't really feel like it's

worth the money and I can't really justify

purchasing this title.