Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

melhor jogo da minha vida

Bad missions, bad side quests, if you play alone on max diff, game thinks that you are playing with other players and it's spawn more zombies

Dying Light 2 improves on the first game in a lot of meaningful ways. The parkour is faster, smoother, and far more flexible, the combat gives you more options, and moving around the city is simply much more fun. From a pure gameplay perspective, I think it is easily the better game. The story is where the series is still struggling, though. You can tell the developers genuinely tried this time. There are far more cutscenes, more dialogue, more characters, and a much bigger effort to make the narrative feel important. The problem is that all that effort seems to have fallen apart at the writing stage. The beginning of the story is actually pretty good, and I liked the final stretch as well. The entire middle, however, feels like a soup made out of random storylines that barely connect to each other. The game constantly introduces new factions, conflicts, and characters, but very few of them actually matter. Despite meeting what felt like an endless number of people, Rowe and Veronika were probably the only characters I genuinely cared about. Most of the cast is either forgettable or poorly written, and the dialogue often drags on far longer than it needs to. I cannot say the developers were lazy because the amount of effort is obvious. They clearly wanted the story to be bigger and more cinematic than the first game. They just did not have the writing to support it. The parkour, on the other hand, is excellent. Unlocking new abilities gradually expands your movement options, and combining wall runs, jumps, slides, vaults, and combat moves makes traversing the city feel incredibly fluid. The way parkour connects directly into combat is especially satisfying. Vaulting over enemies, launching yourself into attacks, and using momentum during fights makes everything feel far more dynamic than in the original. The city is also impressive to look at, particularly from a distance. Climbing large buildings and moving across rooftops can create some genuinely beautiful moments. At the same time, I still prefer the early areas of Harran. Harran felt more grounded, literally and figuratively. Most buildings were only two or three stories tall, so you were constantly close to the streets and the infected. Even when you were on a rooftop, danger never felt far away. Dying Light 2 gives you a much larger and more vertical playground, but spending so much time high above the ground makes the city feel safer and less threatening. This is also why the nights do not work nearly as well. In the first game, I almost never went outside at night unless I absolutely had to. Harran made the infected feel close enough to reach you at any moment, and being only a few meters above street level never felt truly safe. Here, the taller buildings and wide rooftop routes create too much distance between you and the danger below. The result is that night loses much of the fear that defined the original. It is still darker and more dangerous than daytime, but it rarely creates that same feeling of panic. Harran made me dread the sunset. Villedor mostly makes me check whether there are any nighttime activities nearby. Co-op is still a lot of fun when it works, just like it was in the first game. Running through the city, messing around with parkour, and dropkicking enemies with friends naturally makes the experience better. Unfortunately, it also comes with technical problems such as lag, desync, disconnects, and quests behaving incorrectly. Performance is another major issue. Without FSR, I would not even be able to maintain the 120 FPS I target for my 180 Hz monitor. On my system, the game sits around 70 to 80 FPS without it, which is difficult to justify considering how it looks. Death Stranding 2 offers visuals that are several levels above this game and still runs smoothly at Ultra settings, while Dying Light 2 needs upscaling just to reach the kind of frame rate I expect. My system is powerful, so I can only imagine how much worse the experience is for players with more modest hardware. Dying Light 2 is a strange sequel because it improves so much while also losing some of what made the original memorable. The parkour is better, the combat is better, and the general gameplay loop is much more enjoyable. Yet the atmosphere is weaker, the nights are less frightening, and the story remains one of the series’ biggest problems despite the obvious effort put into it. As a game, I enjoyed it more than the original in many ways. As a Dying Light experience, I still miss Harran. 7/10 - A good game.