Dying Light 2 Epilogue Warning
Christal Rasband
Can you free roam in Dying Light 2 after beating the game? The Dying Light 2 open-world is stacked with plenty of side content to work your way through. However, there does come the point of no return in the story, where you will be stuck in more traditionally linear missions. But can you continue to explore Villedor once you've completed the campaign? With likely a lot of loose ends to tie up, most players may be worried about whether they can max out their characters and find all collectibles later on, so our guide will explain if you can free roam in Dying Light 2 after beating the game.
Dying Light 2 makes it very clear that you are entering the epilogue of the game, warning you that you will not be returning to complete side quests or any other part of the game after this point. But what about once you've actually fought through the campaign?
Once you've seen the story of Dying Light 2 to its conclusion, you will be able to return to the open-world to see out the rest of your side content. However, the game will revert back to the state of the world before you made the choices of the epilogue.
That's all you need to know on whether you can free roam in Dying Light 2 after beating the game. If you want to master the zombie apocalypse, check out our guide on how to repair weapons in Dying Light 2.
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For how slow the beginning of the game feels, especially with the lack of a skip or fast forward button, the endings are rather rushed. The topics aren't well handled at all, the writing is messy... honestly, after Error143 I was expecting a much better experience. Such a shame.
I see the vision. I see the point the story is trying to get across. The metaphors are there and pretty obvious. But when the topics are this sensitive,It's really important to handle them well, and not make them feel like they're just there for shock value.
Not to mention the "You'll get a good ending only if you promote the game" thing. Really? If the story you're trying to tell wasn't even meant to have a happy ending, if the whole point is to showcase how the bad side of an industry can affect a person, dangling this idea of saving the character, a character you made extremely likeable on purpose, in front of the audience's face... it feels cheap and exploitative.
Spoiler warning!! I do not recommend playing this game, however if you wish to I don't want to spoil it for you!
I feel like the endings were rushed and made out to be as "oooOoO spooky so scary" and not actual things that can actually happen. I've lost several people in my life to these game endings, and i feel like the process wasn't realistic and was leaning towards the insensitive side. It was happy and then all of the sudden it wasn't. I saw the warnings. I didn't expect such a sharp turn for the worst. So I'm gonna break it down. To start, people immediately assuming the worse (such as "You hate people with cancer") feels greatly unrealistic. I know its a game, and that people often draw conclusions like this, it just doesn't feel like anyone would draw that conclusion, especially if someone says something that sounds like it was stolen from a six year old reddit post. Second, I would like to remind you all, THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS. ALWAYS. Never has there not been signs in being homicidal or suicidal. Never. So Zilas suddenly taking these turns feels like a mockery or a rushed "horror ending". Its not funny and its not something that couldn't happen. Zilas had the user as a love interest to turn to and depend on. He communicated well. He had a cat he cared for. He wouldn't have just done these things on a whim. These endings genuinely made me shake in anger and disgust. Shame on the writer for this. If you're going to do an ending like this, research it. Research the signs. And be respectful when handling it in game. Something I saw others discuss is the lack of warning. Yes, there was warnings but they were hidden and if you're someone who plays without reading the bio, then you would've been greatly caught off guard. Not just because there is 0 warnings in game, but because the way they happened was unrealistic and unexpected. These things have a "I should've known all along feeling" rather than a "When was this happening????" feeling, because again THERE ARE ALWAYS SIGNS. THERE NEVER WON'T BE SIGNS. I won't just happen in two days. This shit takes MONTHS to happen. And as someone who feels guilt for not noticing this in others, THERE ARE NONE HERE. LIKE ZERO. Also leaving your partner without contact for three days after something happens to them feels like a dick move and the user is framed as the one to blame, because they didn't do anything. Honestly this game just feels like a nightmare. Its unrealistic and disgusting. I do not recommend taking this lightly, and I hope this is edited, or fixed, or just deleted.
Overall, just don't play this game. Don't get attached to something that is unrealistic and depressing. I hope the writer realizes these mistakes and never again treats such heavy topics so unrealistically and utilizes them as easy plot twists to make a quick buck. Thank you for reading my comment
Not only is this game poorly written, it's down right insensitive and doesn't make any sort of reason to reach the ending. Other than the horribly written violence, the other thing I found insufferable was 'rizz' being used (if I were to guess) over 16 times. And even if you tell the Love interest to monitor the sexual comments literally nothing happens in game. what the fuck was the point of putting the choice there if it didn't do anything? Error 143's bad ending was abysmal already because the game is "punishing you" for have literally a perfect valid boundary. Now that's [boundaries] all of what this game really talks about but it's so surface level to the point it doesn't even effect the game. The twitter explanation is also full of excuses, The love interest knew MC before hitting his goal (and I assume because MC goes to his house, long before the idea of him even thinking about being a streamer.) So how in the world is that a representation of 'parasocial relationships' and stalking? How do you forget what happens in your own game??? Did I mention the begging for rating by guilt tripping the viewer? That is some clown behavior.
The only thing really redeemable is the artists and the rest of the team besides the creator.
I rarely comment but that wasn't just a rollercoaster of emotions that was driving head-on towards a cliff I didn't know T-T I mean I saw the triggers but damn I still wasn't prepared. Like the tears automatically fell. I was just speechless. Anyways,I love the VA and the dialogue and the dynamic MC and Zilas have. It would be cute to have a little more backstory on how they started but I fear that would have been more heartbreaking.
i was playing this game with my friend and we where like hating on him but then when the ending came we where like oh my god and like 'damn was that are fault wasnt it?' overall really amazing game! and AMAZING art
I love this game and everything but the endings feels like getting on a sweet slow carousel then blinking and you're suddenly on the smiler, all and all I genuinely hope this game improves in someway because I need zilas to have a good ending
I haven't played the game past the demo, but a few days ago this game and everyone seemed so positive and I comeback and its like a whole different vibe. But I did like the demo! Should I be worried for the full game continuing?
I'll give credit where it's due: the dialogue, streams, and live comments were pretty believable/entertaining, which made things more immersive. However, the game is soured by its messy pacing and cheap plot twist endings. Look, I read the trigger warnings before playing, and the endings still caught me off guard. It's true, there are some light elements foreshadowing that something is off; however, there just isn't enough to prepare the player when the writing started off coasting at 25mph then suddenly crashed full speed into an ending. Plot twists aren't bad, but a good plot twist should have the reader feeling like the twist was in plain sight the whole time. This game felt like someone had cut the middle 75% of a horror movie, roughly sewing the beginning (where things were largely ok and maybe lightly ominous) and end (where the final girl is covered in blood and screaming in front of a burning house) together.
I usually never EVER leave negative reviews on indie developer projects, only criticism + advice for how to improve but this game genuinely upset me with how competent of a writer Jenny is and why she decided this was a good idea. This is mostly for her.
I geniunely do not like how this game is handled, to the writing, to the lack of content warnings and age restrictions, to the way suicide and depression is handled. Everything. It felt as if it were trying to do to much in a very short amount of time and did it poorly.
Lets start with the content warnings. Why were they NOT added in the first build?? Why did people even have to tell you to add them to the game to begin with when it touches on VERY VERY sensitive topics such as depression, suicide and murder? that should've been an honest no brainer to add to a game, much less a horror game that touches on real issues.
It felt more like you wanted to shock and scare your playerbase as if everyone reads the hidden content warnings? do you know how dangerous that is with how triggering the content is? not to mention this game NEEDS a age restriction on it, with the very suggestive nature of some of the stuff said + as well as the gruesome nature of the entire story. It was very mishandled and you, Jenny, as a writer should KNOW this.
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