Nighttime Gameplay
Honestly, Dying Light’s nighttime gameplay is one of the game’s highlights. Going out after dawn is both extremely dangerous and rewarding. While volatiles are the toughest and fastest zombies out there, everything you do, including surviving the night, gives you double skill points. So yes, Dying Light’s night is pretty great, but being a key part of the game’s pre-release marketing, we were expecting even more.
So what’s the problem? It needed to be scarier and a lot more difficult. Despite all the dangers involved in touring Harran during the nights, they all become diminished by the helpful tools given to players to fight them off. Also, it doesn’t really matter how tough and scary volatiles are when avoiding them is way too easy, even for characters with low agility and power levels.
This is actually a shame, since Dying Light’s nighttime gameplay could have made Dying Light stand out in a crowded genre. Instead of going easy on players, it should have been hellishly hard for low level characters. Eventually, advanced players would have had an additional challenge, in which surviving would have depended on skills and the myriad of traps scattered all over the city streets. It would have been crazy fun, but instead, it’s only adequate.
