I've been relatively out of the loop regarding this game since it's release, and only bought it since it was on sale. I love the original Dying Light to death, it's one of the most fun and interesting games I've played even though it's story was pretty weak, and I hope that this game would be just as fun at least with hopefully a better story. I will sadly not be finding out if the story is better as I will not be sticking with it or finishing it. I have a lot of issues with this game, but one of my biggest gripes is the zombies.

In the first game, killing zombies felt super fun, meaty, and squelchy in all the right ways, so much so that one of my favorite things to do was just run around and kill things for a couple hours. Whether it be virals, which added some challenge to it, specials, or regular zombies, it was a good time. In this game? It's more than a chore, it's just unbelievably aggravating. Be prepared to spend a good minute or two beating the life out of each individual zombie because apparently all the weapons hit like pool noodles. That's not even the biggest issue, it's the virals.

Virals were so fun in the first game, trying to run from zombies who are fast. keep up with you, and climb was refreshing. They would spawn if you made too much noise in various ways, whether it be car alarms, shooting, explosives, etc. It made. Sense. In this game? Be prepared for virals to appear out of nowhere the first swing of your stick, because apparently they can hear you smack into the soft flesh of a zombie from blocks away. Nearly every single thing you do causes them to spawn, which is aggravating already, but I have yet to see one that isn't armored from head to toe. They're not impossible to kill, but each one takes forever and ever and there's always at least 6 of them, all armored. The easiest way to kill them is to just stand on a roof and kick them off as they climb up, and even then it just takes way too long, and even doing that has the chance of spawning more because they might hear the bodies fall, or the virals scream in pain. I HATE dealing with these new armored virals. At this point, I've killed three times as many of them as I have the normal zombies because of just how easy they spawn. Not only that, but no matter who or where the sound that spawned them is, they ALWAYS come to you. Threw a grenade down into a street and stood on a rooftop? They're right behind you for some reason. Threw some C4, ran a block away and detonated? They're crawling up your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right now. It's so unbelievably aggravating that I just can't keep playing, I'm just angry. I want to have fun killing zombies, not be angry that I have to kill zombies.

This game just pisses me off. Maybe the story is good, at this point I really don't care. I wanted to kill zombies, I can't kill zombies without taking 45 minutes to kill 5 hordes of armored virals that spawned because they heard me killing the previous horde. I'm done.

Upon further reading online and in the reviews, it doesn't seem to get better ever and stays just as aggravating as it is now. Not only that, but it didn't used to be this bad on release and was much more similar to the original game. Why they changed it? Beats me. Plus the developer sold out to Tencent, so that's even better.

It's Absolutely fantastic. It gives me hope for Early Access game titles, as it has so much potential and, honestly, it doesn't even feel early access. It feels Beta, which is fantastic. There's so much content, I've only gotten past the first area and I'm having such a blast with it. Me and my brother hopped in and got absolutely amazed by the game. It's engaging, aesthetically pleasing, and well made. Just looking around makes me feel in awe. The art styles reminds me of Runescape but with a modernized twist. Frankly, I can't praise it enough.