Dying Light: The Beast

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

It'd be a neutral for me, good combat + weird Techland story. It's really fun, don't get me wrong. But the autosave failed me once and I lost a solid 2 hours of progress. Knowing that such an issue exists I cannot recommend this in good faith. There are no manual saves at all, so you are reliant on an autosave that can fail. Also Techland does this thing where, bc you CANNOT even slightly hurt them, they write the "good" characters that you do quests for as pompous pigs. So an old woman, for example, when you have a timed driving mission will say "hurry up, Kyle." and people that never leave their safehouses will say things like "It's not your call, Kyle.". They written to be short with Kyle even tho Kyle is the only person doing ANYTHING EVER for them. It's like guys....if this were an RPG you'd all be killed for those attitudes HAPPILY by Kyle. And Techland expects you to sit through conversations with these people, like no. Write them better, write them to not just talk down to Kyle when the tiniest things go wrong. If they actually took the time to write a decent compelling story with decent compelling characters this game would be a near perfect experience. As it stands, and on top of the shoddy autosave, just skip through *ever single line of dialogue* as that will IMPROVE your overall experience. And mute the audio whenever they try and force a radio conversation. Techland it is not hard in any way shape or form to write a compelling story. The dinner scene is the singular dumbest scene in any videogame that I've ever played....and I play Bethesda games.... Also I predicted the final boss battle bc I have a working brain and an education level past the 3rd grade. Do better Techland. Once again writing a good compelling story is one of the easiest things to do, and you failed. Also unskippable credits is insane, that means you are all PROUD of the story you gave us. Take those ego's down a peg, your stories are HORRIFIC.