This early irritation also extends to the world traversal with your souped-up motorcycle being stolen and scrapped early on, because of course. Similarly, you use stamina to sprint and to melee attack, but with Deacon apparently being about as healthy as an emphysemic sloth, expect to be cursing him for the first few hours. Days Gone’s ranged combat is unusual (a word I find myself using often when describing this game): your crosshair rarely ever completely tightens up, so there’s every chance you may miss what seems like a sure shot. Despite surviving for two years at the end of the world, Deacon is unable to run for more than five metres without getting gassed, and neither does he know how to apparently aim a gun. While those signs are certainly still there, almost all of my early qualms with the game are now gone and I am having a great time cruising around desolate America as Starkiller with a nailed-up boat paddle for company.ĭays Gone makes the cardinal sin of your character being almost incompetent in their abilities at the start of the game. I was more than slightly underwhelmed by Days Gone in its early goings, believing it to be an oddity that was chopped and changed a little too much in development for it to be consistently fun. The first ten hours or so of Days Gone are a slog that you couldn’t be blamed for just walking away from, but stick with it: the “click” eventually comes and when Days Gone really starts to grease its wheels, you’ll be glad you stuck around. The hero is just odd, the stamina is miserly to the point of ridiculousness, glitches are plentiful (and hilarious) and the guns feel about as effective as shooting spitballs at the wall.

Days Gone makes one of the most truly terrible first impressions I’ve ever seen in any AAA game.

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