Days Gone Review
Welcome to Jman at magic gate. We will be reviewing Days Gone. Days Gone is an open world third person zombie game it was made by Sony and Bend Studios. Days Gone can only be played on PlayStation 4 at least for now as far as I am aware. This is my third review after Spider-Man and Red Dead Redemption 2. Time to talk about Days Gone.
Days Gone is an open world third person zombie game. Open world means that it the player is free to do anything in game the player desires. For instance, if a player wants to sit and do nothing for eight hours the game will not stop the player, however if the player chooses this action in this game the player should expect to be attacked. Third person means that the main character is always on screen instead of first person which would be from the eyes of the main character. Zombie game means that this is a post apocalyptic game or the end of our world as we know it is the setting of this game. This games setting is two years after the zombie infection began. I will do my best to not spoil this game.
Days Gone review! I loved the story. What I enjoyed about it is that everything the player does is story related. So if the player wants to sit in one place for eight hours it would still be story related in that case the story would be a lot worse. The story gets a ten out of ten. However, I discovered many glitches that pulled me out of the game experience. One glitch which was fixed was a loss of sound, another glitch that happened was one night I was playing a horde of zombies was attacking me and as they got close they disappeared without me having to attack back it was a very unsatisfied win until I realized that the zombies were not being credited to me as beating the horde any way. The side missions in the game were mostly easy to find because most of the side missions are collections. Some side missions are fighting missions Ambushers, Marauders, and Hordes. The hordes were hard to find until the main story was over. So glitches have a two out of ten for quality of game. The side missions gets seven out of ten because they were entertaining, but easy.
I really did enjoy this game because they did work to fix the glitches it may have also been a little laggy. What was great about Days Gone was it lead to some theological thinking. Considering that I find God in video games one might ask how a zombie game can make me think about God? As I played this game I found three different types of NPC non playable characters. There are zombies those that are in hell, humans who are in purgatory, and NERO who are heavenly. I personally do not believe in purgatory however, I see this as a metaphor for the three.
I claim that NERO is heavenly because they come from the sky being the only characters in the game to use helicopters. They are also dressed in white and yellow colors. They leave gifts for the main character to upgrade. They study the zombies. They also are not villains that the main character can fight they also don’t attack the main character an encounter with NERO leads to a mission failure. Finally NERO can not be killed.
The humans are in purgatory. The point of purgatory is to give a person the chance to earn grace. Grace was freely given at cross when Jesus died for the sins of the world. Therefore the necessity to work off one’s sins is not needed. Work is important to purgatory and in the camps every one works. The camps in the game are work camps if one does not work they do not eat. The folks fighting the zombies are at work just by fighting. The main character also works by collecting bounties both human and zombies or bringing food to camps either animals or plants. Finally the humans do not extend much grace to the other humans and when they do offer grace it is not accepted. Humans can die the point of purgatory is not for a person to stay the idea is that people can move on to either heaven or hell. The main character does kill humans which would be death other characters also die. Death at this point would lead some to heaven and others to hell.
Zombies are in hell. Zombies live in caves and wear dark clothes. Zombies do not communicate with each other and all they really do is grunt and scream. Zombies also have an animal comparison. The main type of zombies are called swarmers which move like locusts. The screamers are similar to wolves they alert others when they find humans and the screamers work in packs. Newt are small zombies like the ravens they live in high places. The breakers are big strong zombies typically wearing black like the bears. The reachers are fast will stalk prey for a long period of time like cougars. I make this point to say that the zombies have animal qualities making them less human a suggestion that leads the player to the zombies being in hell. Finally the zombies are covered in their own poop meaning they have lost the ability to care for themselves.
Days Gone was a very beautiful game. Days Gone was well made and the creators have been adding content that I have not looked into. Days Gone give the player a lot of choices and tells a compelling story that kept me engaged all the way through. Days Gone has day counter system on the map screen it is in the top right corner of the screen. One more final note I am one trophy away reaching platinum trophy I believe that to also be connected to glitches.
Death has been defeated.
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