27 - Dying Light 2 (PC 2022) - BEAT - Finally got around to this game. It had a rough launch both in optimization and content, took awhile to get a lot of updates and I think overall it's in a decent place right now. I liked the original game quite a lot, it was fairly stand out I think, though nowadays, so many games have big movement mechanics and a lot of what Dying Light 2 isn't as good as them. General climbing and parkour is totally fine, but it takes awhile before you feel like you are really enjoying it as you need to up your Parkour skills. On the other hand, some stuff has a weird delay to it, it's not snappy, like the drop kick or slide, it's obnoxious because of that at times.
Combat works, but not sure I'd say it's as good as Dead Island 2. It's also quite easy on normal depending on what you fight. I leveled up fairly fast and had good strong weapons and it got to a point that I think the weapon I had beaten the game with, I had on me for like...hours, probably 5+ hours despite getting lots of other weapons I just didn't need which isn't the best for a looter game. I also kinda hated the whole clothing system thing, like you can sorta pick a "class", focusing on clothes that offer certain bonuses towards a playstyle, but honestly don't feel like it was worthwhile, but maybe that was just me. I think I remember to check what clothes I could upgrade every like 5 hours when I remembered lol
Story is solid, Aiden is a good character, Jonah Scott is great as him, particularly Scott and Rosario Dawson as Lawan are the highlight characters, with a few other standouts, but at the same time, there was some kinda weak voice acting direction for others, like sidequest types, it was more noticeable in the early game than later for some reason. You can make story choices that I think affects the general plot, or at least who you involve yourself with to get to the next part of the story, but I'm not sure on that.
Overall, decent time, it has some issues here and there, but I would recommend it if you are someone who likes a solid open world action game to roam around in. I think I'd say I liked Dead Island 2 more, even if it's more scaled down than Dying Light 2, but I remember having more fun with that, but this isn't bad at all.