And even so, while his voice acting may be great, the dialogue is so bad it brings to mind the budget soaps my grandparents used to love watching. While Jonah Scott, the actor who voices Aiden, does an alright job, the talent starts and ends with his performance. Also, as a side note, the voice acting in Dying Light 2: Stay Human is some of the worst my ears have ever heard since I stopped drama class. I’ll give them a point for this, simply because there are hundreds of dialogue choices to be made within the game however, I’ll also take away 10 points because if I said 1 out of every 50 choices you make makes a difference, I would be exaggerating. Since early 2018, multiple promises have been made about how vital player choice would be inside Dying Light 2: Stay Human. While we’re still talking about the story, let’s talk about two other things, first narrative choices. SURELY in the middle of this zombie-infested world, there are more significant concerns than a bit of a family reunion, but apparently not. From the start, I found myself annoyed by this story. It’s a story weaker than when I made myself a cup of coffee and forgot to add the coffee. Now just keep in mind, the last time Aiden saw Mia, they were wee little children, and Mia is unlikely to remember him if he managed to find her at all. I took on the role of Aiden, a pilgrim and an outsider who had ventured into Villedor in search of his long, long, looong lost sister, Mia. So now, there I was, man alone (literally) in the zombie overridden wasteland known as Villedor. While you definitely can play through it alone, 99.9% of the fun to be had is through playing with friends. Here is the thing, Dying Light is not a single-player game. This meant as the only friend with a PS5, I had the option of either playing on my own and pretending my friends were with me (which I did) or playing with strangers (which I tried to do, but thanks to some fun bugs you either get kicked as soon as you join or your ping is so high you wish you could just be kicked). While I went into the game knowing cross-platform support wouldn’t be available at launch, I had mistakenly presumed that cross-generation play would at least be, how wrong I was. One of the first hurdles I experienced was not being able to play with my friends. HOWEVER, even if Dying Light 2: Stay Human had a different name and no ties to the franchise whatsoever, I would still have felt disappointed with the game in front of me. I’m quite aware that no matter what they had done with the game, it would never be able to live up to the years of memories and love I have for the first game. Now before we go any further into this review, I want to get something off of my chest while I was going into this game with a lot of pent up nostalgia, the problems I have with it have little to nothing to do with any disappointment felt from that end. With all of these memories of times shared and enjoyed together, I went into Dying Light 2, only to be very disappointed. There is something about chopping a zombie’s head off with a machete, watching it fly through the air only to hit your friend, who was none the wiser, in the head that brings joy to even the stoniest of hearts. But through it all, we were returning to Dying Light time and time again because it was and still is one of the most fun multiplayer experiences we’ve shared. The number of times I died because of a flaming arrow to the heart or being driven over by a friend who thought of themselves as Mad Max is just too much to bear or admit to publically. Now don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t all sunshine and happiness, it is because of time spent in Dying Light together that I decided if a Zombie outbreak were ever to happen, I’m shooting all my friends on day one and moving on with my life because man oh man are they everything and anything other than a group of survivors.
When the game first came out, I can still remember the financial struggle we went through to get a copy and the absolute joy we experienced playing together. There are very few games that I can remember playing such an active part in myself and my friend’s online lives as Dying Light.
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