Formidable Frank

2020 GOTY for good reason. Epic story, fluid gameplay. This one will definitely tug on the heartstrings.

My rating straight off the bat probably isn't fair, considering I finally checked Days Gone out post Last of Us 2 when it went on sale. The bike controls felt worse than roach and the lead characters are very... Try-hardy. Like the developers got together and created (in their mind) the most incredible 1:1 badass biker dudes, when in reality they created a pair of two ironic, stereotypical lead characters that seem comically bad. This satirical relationship and the constantly dropped frames made it impossible for me to buy 1% into the story. Surely there's an audience out there for a game like this, but the game's overall lack of originality made it impossible to want to spend any meaningful amount of time invested in that world. Maybe it lacked a solid "finished game" feel. I don't know. I don't like writing negative reviews about anything, but I was really excited about this game so I guess I'm a little butt hurt that the overall game/story felt cheap and lazy.