Dying Light: Platinum Edition

Dying Light is an amazing game. We all know it by this point. It’s been out on other platforms for years now, and had an incredibly long DLC trail as well. Its sequel is well on the way, development hell issues aside. Yet, like so many other games, a Nintendo Switch port comes in to bring a game back for an encore. An old game, sure, but handheld has been a common theme for Switch third-party games since the console’s launch, and it’s unarguably been working for it. However, not every p...

When the issues of a game are rolled and stomped by its greatness, then it’s something to invest on if you have some spare.

Dying Light on Switch is quite a remarkable achievement, and we’re happy to report that Techland has mostly stuck the landing with this one. Its ambitious open world full of zombies is unlike anything else in the Switch’s library and, between the core campaign and six years of constant DLC updates, there’s potentially hundreds of hours of enjoyment to be had here. Granted, all of this comes at the cost of performance that can be middling compared to other platforms, but this is neatly balanced out by the convenience of playing in handheld mode. We’d give Dying Light a strong recommendation, th...

When it was released six years ago, Techland’s Dying Light went out of its way to add some new gameplay elements and mechanics to an already very crowded zombie survival genre. Taking place in the fictional Middle Eastern metropolis of Harran, the first-person game was the story of undercover spy Kyle Crane, attempting to survive the zombie infestation while also investigating the various factions that controlled the city. While not everyone was impressed with the somewhat cliche-laden story beats and leading character, players and critics were taken by the game’s parkour-influenced approach t...

Dying Light: Platinum Edition is another impressive Switch port, but the game itself is just OK. Its design threw everything at the wall, often to its detriment. While it has some pretty high highs, they lie almost exclusively in the movement. If you do want to chase those highs you’re better off on other platforms until another patch or two comes along.