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Days gone rating11/9/2023 ![]() The last few missions feel drawn out with a couple of tasks thrown in that feel like they are there to pad things out. Whilst we rather enjoyed the story it sets out to tell it’s probably slightly longer than it needed to be. ![]() John, our protagonist, acts throughout the story, the further you get, the more you understand the decisions he makes and how he feels about them. Whilst you don’t get to choose how Deacon St. The characters feel more relatable, their decisions more gut-wrenching and your desire to help them survive more palpable. Having a somewhat grounded backdrop helps not just the game but the story it’s trying to tell. The Last of Us is probably the only other recent game that comes to mind so perhaps Sony has a thing for this genre. Slaying zombies, or freakers in Days Gone parlance, is nothing new for gamers but very few can make that world feel believable and lived in. After many hours slaying zombies and helping survivors in Days Gone, we’re grateful that this one made it through, though perhaps not for the reasons you might expect. Not all of them are unwelcome and not all of them feel like a money grabbing exercise (we’re looking at you GTA V). It seems as though every other week either a new remaster is announced or another iterative entry in a franchise is released. Whilst that’s not strictly true, as there are some success stories, it’s an understandable feeling. There’s a feeling, and not just in the gaming world, that franchises, remasters and reboots are ruling the roost with very few original IPs coming through and doing well.
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