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Days Gone (PS4)

I never thought I would enjoy a biker zombie game, but I guess anything can happen. Yes I know that it's technically not zombies, but they might as well be. I'm not going to go deep into this one, but suffice to say, it was a mostly fun, if repetitive, game. The open world could have benefitted from a greater variety of mission types. Doing bounty hunting and clearing out camps is only so interesting the umpteenth time.

I have mixed feelings about the story. The big plot reveals were no real surprise to me. It seemed pretty obvious from early on that Sarah would not be dead, and that her work was what caused the outbreak. I liked the story overall, even if it does drag out way longer than it should. I thought the game was pretty much over after the Lost Lake act, and then it turned out there was a whole huge third act that was almost entirely disconnected from the rest of the game before it. It seemed weird that after they went through the trouble of establishing all the interesting Lost Lake characters, the story would just ditch them for most of the rest of the game.

One of my other main story complaints is the Sarah and Deacon relationship. It seems completely implausible that they would ever be together, and all the flashbacks to their past just seemed to reinforce my confusion. Genius scientist and criminal biker do not make a logical couple. They just seemed to love each other because the game wanted them to, but then when the new world makes Sarah become more like Deacon, he has a problem with that? And I was thinking that maybe the game was setting things up for them to break up after reuniting. Although that would have been a less "happy" ending to the game, I think it would have been more interesting. They also hinted at some stuff with Rikki that never had a payoff.

Deacon was fine but I thought their attempts to make a deplorable character likable were kind of goofy. I wish they had just let him be a straight up antihero. "Yes he's a member of a skinhead gang but don't worry we will make sure Deacon constantly remarks on how inclusive they are! And don't forget he's an honorable war veteran, too!" Funny stuff.

I liked the tease in the epilogue, but it doesn't matter because I guess a sequel is never going to happen.