I'll just say I am glad I played this in co-op, because a single-player run of The Following would have broke me. The frenetic platforming of the base game is replaced with a piss-poor car to babysit, obtaining menial upgrades while becoming heavily reliant on it for any reliable transportation. The lack of rooftops to run/grapel through means trashing your car turns into an obnoxious hike, and dying throwing you to awful respawn watchtowers, or the start of a massive trek to an objective on the other side of the map. All of these little things add up to the core of Dying Light being missing from this expansion. While I can appreciate switching things up (in theory), it often leads to abandoning what made your core experience worth playing to begin with.

I only ever played Dying Light for its gameplay, and never its horrible narrative. The Following continues the ham-fisted writing and wallpaper voice acting but with mid-to-awful gameplay instead of the speed and fun of the base game. I'm glad I played this, but I will never touch it again and frankly makes Dying Light as a whole a lesser experience.