A New Game is launched Dying Light: The Beast director says no-one expected Dying Light 1 to be “such a kickass game,” but admits “we made some missteps” on Dying Light 2 is launched.
Dying Light: The Beast director says no-one expected Dying Light 1 to be “such a kickass game,” but admits “we made some missteps” on Dying Light 2new features
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Dying Light: The Beast director says no-one expected Dying Light 1 to be “such a kickass game,” but admits “we made some missteps” on Dying Light 2 new features
Dying Light 1 was “a kickass game,” but developer Techland tried to do too much with its sequel, and it’s trying to recapture some of what it lost with Dying Light 2 when it comes to Dying Light: The Beast.
In an interview with GamesRadar+, franchise director Tymon Smektala said that “when we were releasing Dying Light 1, we were this underdog studio that no one expected to do such a kickass game as Dying Light was.” While he acknowledges that “you could say it wasn’t the most high-budget, most-AAA, high-budget game,” it’s hard to suggest that Techland wasn’t punching above its weight with its debut game.
Sadly, Smektala admits that it lost some of that magic when it came to Dying Light 2. While he points out that the studio’s follow-up “was a commercial success,” he admits, “maybe we made some missteps.” Some of those mistakes, he suggests, were that “we just wanted the game to be a little bit too accessible” to a wider audience, and in chasing that, Techland “sacrificed some of the Dying Light DNA.”