Dying Light Platinum Edition for Nintendo Switch

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So, what exactly does Dying Light Platinum Edition do well? For starters, the gameplay is satisfying – there’s something about beating zombies to a pulp with pretty much any item that makes me feel like a badass. That’s right, if you’re yet to play Dying Light, it’s a game that tasks you with being resourceful, forcing you to think about your surroundings, weapons, items, and whether or not it’s a safer bet to run or take out some walking undead.

Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you.While weapons come in very useful during your Harran exploits, Crane’s biggest asset is his athleticism. With the city streets full of zombies, it’s safer to get around via rooftops. And so, your ability to run, jump and climb with finesse is a boon to your survival. You can enhance Crane’s abilities throughout the course of the game, too, allowing him to further run rings around his adversaries, or more easily put them down. In a game that relies heavily on traversal and combat, the control system is vital. Dying Light’s controls feel natural, well, except for the jump button – I died more times than I care to admit for failing to remember the correct input. Other than that, the control scheme works well, and makes for some fluid movement while free running. It also enables you to aim for certain parts of an opponent’s body. Looking at any surface and tapping ‘R’ will prompt Kyle to climb, and your mobility is often your most important asset to getting through in one piece. You can always fight the zombies, and there are often situations where you have no choice, but it’s made abundantly clear that this isn’t the most ideal option. Oh right, videogames. Well, won't say no to free extra content to a magical port. I was actually more impressed by this port and some of the Rebellion ports on Switch than by some of the 'impossible' ports where you see it struggling. You can read our full review of the original version of Dying Light right here – our opinion hasn’t changed on it over the years. It’s a great game with only a couple of small issues that let it down. Being the Platinum Edition, however, this Switch release has much more to offer. There’s The Following, for example; a story expansion that takes Crane out of city. Not only does it provide a new countryside environment to explore, it even allows players to make use of a customisable dirt buggy.

Anyway, I think it looks very good, and I'm not used to 4k tv's or anything, haven't even seen a PS5, for all I know its very existence is a lie. Wii U kind of made me want to return to handheld-only gaming with its gamepad, Switch completed that. To me, it's just handheld gaming that slowly evolves (and some games that look better than anything I played before that I love despite not being their best running version; some that look terrible, whether that is because they're lazy ports of beautiful games or just bad looking games, I don't care, I don't compare). Though no matter what difficulty you play, levelling up your stats is vital. There are three different categories, one centres on your parkour skills, another improves combat capability, while the last ups your chances of survival through increasing attributes such as your health and crafting capabilities. It would be fair to say that it’s a system done right, as you level up each section through either free-running, fighting, or crafting, meaning you have to do the very activity you’re trying to improve. Dying Light is yet another game that, years ago, I would have never believed would be playable on a handheld.Last month, developer Techland revealed that its open world survival horror game - Dying Light - would be coming to Nintendo Switch. Bearing in mind its sheer scale and scope, plus the fact that the game targeted 30fps on the much more powerful PS4 and Xbox One, we had to wonder... could this conversion possibly work? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Dying Light has obvious compromises but the game is content-complete, performance is decent, image quality is better than expected and played in handheld form especially, it's a treat.

The good news is, Dying Light: Platinum Edition on Switch isn’t something you should avoid. Well, unless the idea of being let loose in an open world full of zombies doesn’t appeal to you. Of course, concessions have been made to get the game running on a device that has such little power compared to other consoles on the market, but they don’t compromise the core experience. It's really easy to get burned out on zombies. For a while, they were everywhere, and even nowadays, there are more undead brains to smash than you know what to do with. Techland's Dying Light is one of the few zombie games that stand the test of time instead of feeling like another standard shooter. Perhaps one of the most-supported games after release, Dying Light has been going strong since 2015, but Nintendo's consoles were left out up until this point. Dying Light: Platinum Edition finally gives Nintendo die-hards a chance to experience an excellent zombie game. Tell that to someone who didn't play Alone in the Dark the New Nightmare and Perfect Dark on GBC and Kill.Switch, Max Payne, and Rogue Spear on GBA and still to this day remember them as great games. Not even counting the many DS versions of other games.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine Dying Light: The Following – a huge expansion complete with a new story, vast original map, and a customizable buggy to drive.