I tend to be more positive and look at what there is instead of what isn't but I can't with Dying Light 2.

To give a bit of backstory, I originally started the game january of 2023, played up until reaching the city and I dropped it for nearly 2 years, there were lots of things that bothered me but coming back to it after all this time, it seems like Techland has changed and improved a lot of things since then and I had a much better experience with the game.

Regardless of the updates, I still felt a bit disappointed with Dying Light 2, I'm a massive fan of the first game, did two entire playthroughs doing almost everything there is, well over 120 hours and it is a fantastic game, from it's fun parkour and nice combat to the horrifying nightmare that happens when the sun goes down that made me hesitate if I wanted to leave my safehouse.

Dying Light 2 isn't a bad game, I think it's an enjoyable decent game with some stuff to like about, from all the new parkour moves you can pull off to the new additions for the combat, making human combat actually decent.

There's a lot to like about it and I DID enjoy my time with it but it's just not what I expected/wanted, even with my expectations lowered I still felt disappointed at the story and even more disappointed as I remember the game we didn't get, the game they showed off in E3 2018/2019, I so wish we got that instead.

I didn't like the story, I didn't find it too interesting, I didn't find many characters too interesting, some were alright at best, the story is long but it feels like during most of it not much happens in the story and when it finally picks up the pace, the game just ends.

I enjoyed the gameplay, some things felt worse, some things were better but the night chase system felt like a major annoyance, night time wasn't scary, it was annoying and it was stupidly easy to escape with the glider any time.

I tried doing most of the side content as well and there's so much but a lot of it felt underbaked and with how much there was, it felt less that I was playing a game to enjoy it and more busy work, felt extremely ubisoft-y to me and it didn't help with all the RPG elements the game had.

Dying Light 2 feels like an arcadey video game while Dying Light 1 feels a lot more realistic and horror-ish, I hope Techland learns from DL2 and makes Dying Light The Beast more in line with how the first game was while still keeping some of the improvements DL2 brought in.

Dying Light 2 is okay, it's just okay and that's disappointing.

I tend to be more positive and look at what there is instead of what isn't but I can't with Dying Light 2. To give a bit of backstory, I originally started the game january of 2023, played up until reaching the city and I dropped it for nearly 2 years, there were lots of things that bothered me but coming back to it after all this time, it seems like Techland has changed and improved a lot of things since then and I had a much better experience with the game. Regardless of the updates, I still felt a bit disappointed with Dying Light 2, I'm a massive fan of the first game, did two entire playthroughs doing almost everything there is, well over 120 hours and it is a fantastic game, from it's fun parkour and nice combat to the horrifying nightmare that happens when the sun goes down that made me hesitate if I wanted to leave my safehouse. Dying Light 2 isn't a bad game, I think it's an enjoyable decent game with some stuff to like about, from all the new parkour moves you can pull off to the new additions for the combat, making human combat actually decent. There's a lot to like about it and I DID enjoy my time with it but it's just not what I expected/wanted, even with my expectations lowered I still felt disappointed at the story and even more disappointed as I remember the game we didn't get, the game they showed off in E3 2018/2019, I so wish we got that instead. I didn't like the story, I didn't find it too interesting, I didn't find many characters too interesting, some were alright at best, the story is long but it feels like during most of it not much happens in the story and when it finally picks up the pace, the game just ends. I enjoyed the gameplay, some things felt worse, some things were better but the night chase system felt like a major annoyance, night time wasn't scary, it was annoying and it was stupidly easy to escape with the glider any time. I tried doing most of the side content as well and there's so much but a lot of it felt underbaked and with how much there was, it felt less that I was playing a game to enjoy it and more busy work, felt extremely ubisoft-y to me and it didn't help with all the RPG elements the game had. Dying Light 2 feels like an arcadey video game while Dying Light 1 feels a lot more realistic and horror-ish, I hope Techland learns from DL2 and makes Dying Light The Beast more in line with how the first game was while still keeping some of the improvements DL2 brought in. Dying Light 2 is okay, it's just okay and that's disappointing.