Dying Light Platinum Edition (Nintendo Switch)

Product Information

Dying Light places you in the role of Kyle Crane, a member of an organization called the Global Relief Effort which is evidently aimed at curbing the issues that sprung out of the zombie pandemic. We start with Kyle performing a HALO jump into the city of Harran—which has been wholly overrun by zombies—in search of a man who’s believed to have files related to a potential cure for the infection. Of course, things don’t exactly go according to plan, and Kyle is almost immediately bitten, but he’s saved by a local coalition of survivors and soon joins their ranks as a ‘Scout’ who runs supplies around town. Dying Light may not feature a particularly memorable or gripping narrative, but the story still strikes the right tone and doesn’t much get in the way of the enjoyable gameplay. Though no matter what difficulty you play, levelling up your stats is vital. There are three different categories, one centres on your parkour skills, another improves combat capability, while the last ups your chances of survival through increasing attributes such as your health and crafting capabilities. It would be fair to say that it’s a system done right, as you level up each section through either free-running, fighting, or crafting, meaning you have to do the very activity you’re trying to improve. This brings us to performance and the results are interesting. You may note some instability in camera motion and movement, but it's usually not down to performance drops, but rather that the game runs with an uncapped frame-rate, often running at 30-36fps. On paper, this may not seem like a big deal, but what's happening is that we're basically seeing inconsistent frame-times of 16ms, 33ms and 50ms - and this results in inconsistent motion. It's like incorrect frame-pacing but slightly different in how it manifests, creating a slightly jerky look to the action. The good news here, however, is that the frame-rate does stay above 30fps most of the time and after raising this issue with the developers, I was informed they are looking to solve the problem with a patch. There are genuine drops beneath 30fps - in the city at night, for example - but I think that if Techland can implement a decent 30fps cap, this should make the game look and feel smoother overall.

Because it turns out, there's an easier way to play the game other than lower the game's difficulty. All players need is a cool and level head—sometimes a bit of out-of-the-box thinking so that they can outsmart the brainless zombies and human enemy AI who don't fare that much better. These tips ought to make Dying Light less about dying.

Overview

Grab your baseball bats and shotguns and let us know of your favourite zombie game on Switch in the comments below! Rove an infected world where only the strongest will make it. Master your combat skills to fight monsters of all kinds, both human and the undead. Parkour through the roofs, craft weapons, and help other survivors while you’re confronting your own nightmares! A zombie invasion is all about preparation work, so we are going to hammer up the following boards across the doorway before we bunker down. Firstly, what do we mean by a 'zombie game'? There was a lot of debate on this one, but we decided that we were only going to include games where the zombies are the focus. If we started banging every game with zombie-like creatures onto the list then we would be here for days and we couldn't, with good conscience, go saying that something like Minecraft is one of the best zombie titles on Switch now, could we?

Updated February 7th, 2022, by Sid Natividad: With the advent of Dying Light 2: Stay Human, a renewed interest in zombies is taking the world by storm again. One simply cannot get enough of these flesh-eating undead as even Netflix timed the release of All of Us Are Dead perfectly to coincide with Dying Light. As always, the best way to get used to the second game, is by playing the first. Dying Light: Definitive Edition is the ultimate edition of the popular open-world zombie survival game, offering the complete experience of mastering your combat and parkour skills in an infected world. This edition includes the base game along with all four mainline DLCs and twenty-two bundles that offer a plethora of content, skins, weapons, and new quarantine zones to explore. Experience the thrill of driving across Harran in your customizable buggy, surviving Bozak’s trials, and slaughtering zombies with exclusive weapons and outfits. This review of Dying Light: Platinum Edition is based on the Switch version, with a code provided by the game’s publisher. It’s available on PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engineYou can read our full review of the original version of Dying Light right here – our opinion hasn’t changed on it over the years. It’s a great game with only a couple of small issues that let it down. Being the Platinum Edition, however, this Switch release has much more to offer. There’s The Following, for example; a story expansion that takes Crane out of city. Not only does it provide a new countryside environment to explore, it even allows players to make use of a customisable dirt buggy. The weapon system has always been one of my favourite aspects. You can take something as basic as a gas pipe and turn it into a formidable bit of kit that can take down just about any foe in front of you. However, just because you can buff it up doesn’t necessarily mean you should. The game has a relatively deep crafting system, and you need to manage your resources wisely – especially if you hate yourself and choose nightmare difficulty. Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

A Nintendo Account is required to access the cloud service. For unlimited access to the game, this free launcher application and the purchasable Access Pass are required. Dying Light isn’t a game that has to be enjoyed alone, either. It features a slew of co-operative and competitive multiplayer features. The main campaign, for example, can be enjoyed in co-op with friends once you’ve completed the prologue. The expansions can be enjoyed in co-op, too, and it’s perhaps the best way to enjoy them. On the competitive side, players can choose to ‘Be the Zombie’, jumping into other players’ campaigns to cause them trouble.

In a game that relies heavily on traversal and combat, the control system is vital. Dying Light’s controls feel natural, well, except for the jump button – I died more times than I care to admit for failing to remember the correct input. Other than that, the control scheme works well, and makes for some fluid movement while free running. It also enables you to aim for certain parts of an opponent’s body. The comparisons in the video should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect but to my mind, the cuts feel somehow different than certain other Switch conversions we've tested - overall, it looks and feels good, certainly in handheld play. The thing is, all of the features and gameplay complexities are preserved and elements like loading times are actually comparable. In fact, in my tests, the Switch version had faster loading than the PS4 game. So, it's obvious that the Switch port doesn't fully match the prior console release and that should be expected, but I like many of the decisions Techland has made here. It's clear this must have been a very technically challenging conversion to pull off: it's a game doing things the Switch really isn't designed to do, but it does actually work well. Dying Light performance is uncapped on Switch, often running at circa 30-36fps. A 30fps cap would reduce instability. Please use the free launcher application to test the availability and quality of the service for your region. Well there you have it, our rundown of the very best zombie games on Switch. While the console might not be the first port of call for spending some time with the undead, there remain plenty of titles that you can enjoy nonetheless.