The starting region, Old Villedor, is filled with 1-2 story buildings packed tight among narrow streets. When you're not progressing through the story you can be exploring the different regions of Villedor.

Picking the Peacekeepers there was a time in the story I had to investigate a tunnel and a party of Peacekeepers showed up to assist me, in discussing this moment with a fellow writer who took the Survivor path I expected Survivors to show up instead but I was informed the same party of Peacekeepers show up, they just have a few lines about not liking Aiden. These decisions also hold little to no weight on the overall story, there might be a few shifted lines but both routes will lead you to the very same place almost immediately. These choices were a core part of how Dying Light 2 was going to expand on what the original build but ended up feeling superficial, mostly resulting in the difference between area bases being painted blue or red. Both factions are filled with genuinely good people who all have the same ideals, it doesn't even make sense for a decision to be made one way or the other as there's no negative reaction either way. The ripples of this questionable narrative can be felt most when it comes to key decisions in quests. A lot of Villedor's conflict is meant to be between the Survivors and the Peacekeepers and who is in control of resources like power and water, but the game never truly demonstrates any of this conflict instead opting to 'tell not show' leaving the player with little impact.īetween getting pulled away from your objective frequently, and the lack of conflict in this supposedly conflicted city, a lot of the key points of the story you just need to nod and move forward with because reading into them further would just lead to further questions. It's in this way that Aiden's agency seems to be robbed of him, the flip side though is that there's plenty of time to develop relationships with key players in the power struggle for Villedor. Due to the number of unrelated tasks being asked of Aiden, it always feels like for every five quests you've completed you're only half a step closer to your goal. Is there a group of five well-trained and well-armed humans not reporting back via radios? Better send one man we've known for a few hours, he can handle the job. Do we need to find a murderer? Aiden can track them. The two local friendly factions, the Survivors and the Peacekeepers do well to help Aiden slowly move towards his goal but ask their fair share of favors in return. Someone is selling poisoned water? Aiden can figure it out. Throughout the story, you'll mostly be embroiled in local politics but the occasional flashback to these experiments adds a bit of spice teasing the player that there's a bigger conspiracy afoot. On his journey to rescue his sister, Aiden must help the locals in return for information he's after, not only on the whereabouts of Mia but also about the strange GRE experiments they were a part of as children. Aiden is a Pilgrim, a wanderer of the zombie wasteland, in search of his sister who he has intel might be in Villedor, a walled city filled with infected and humans alike. Since the events of the first game, a new strain has emerged that quickly toppled the world.

But has Techland managed to pull it off again? Dying Light 2 restarted the apocalypseĪfter the Harran strain of the virus was handled everything was peaceful in the world and no zombie outbreak ever happened again, the end… just kidding. It took until Dying Light, and now Dying Light 2 Stay Human, to combine the idea of parkour and zombies to create a way to test players' use of their environments under high-pressure circumstances. As the growing masses became desensitized to the shambling masses zombies started getting faster and faster. With roots in voodoo and the slow, decaying zombies of early cinema what made them so horrific was their resilience and sheer number. Zombies are an interesting piece of horror history.

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