Wouldn't wish this game upon my worst enemy. The mindless head slashing is really fun but somehow the developers thought people would like it better if they introduced a horrible rpg quest design that no one even asked for and make it the main centre of focus for 80% of the game. The characters were so uninspired and boring that even ubisoft pales in comparison. The mission design is so bad, most of the missions you're just solving some bs conflicts between people and climbing up towers and hitting the button prompts, either that or an abysmally designed boss fight like the final fights with Waltz. The waltz fight is so godamn awful and broken, you also lose all your resources like medkit and weapon durability after dying to him, it's easily the worst boss fight ever put in a game, don't know if they fixed it via updates, since I played the pirated version of the game. The parkour also felt frustrating and janky almost all the time. The only few good things I can say about the game is the Veronika mission where you kinda sympathise with her and endlessly protect her during the entire mission but then the whole thing where you turn into a volatile like being they've been hyping about throughout the game comes into picture at a very inappropriate moment and you see her character die in the most horrible way. I think that was done really well, I kinda felt bad for the Veronika character and the game gets a bit bearable during and for a while, after the mission. For a moment I thought the game's latter half is kinda redeeming it but then the whole Waltz fight dropped and I had to just shelve the game. The graphics are good and the music is kinda decent as well but man does the game have horrible mission design and pacing. Game did feel very unpolished and the version I played was 1.14 which is pretty new. I feel like if they had a cheesy but bearable story like the first dying light and focused more on the combat and gameplay mechanics rather than introducing half baked rpg concepts and replicating some of the worse far cry games and still ending up doing injustice to those games, I feel the game wouldve easily won me over. This game in no way is comparable to the first dying light. Hopefully Techland learn from their mistakes and make a comeback with a better sequel.