However, they’re also helpful and practical. The cultists are creepy and suspicious, they’re named the Faceless, and all the acolytes wear a sun mask. In the same way that Dying Light mashed together zombie tropes with ’80s man-on-a-mission action movie tropes, The Following mashes together two horror tropes, creepy cults and zombies, pitting them against each other. The cult is a fascinating addition to the game’s mythos. Your job now is to make friends with the locals, learn more about the cult, and return to Harran with the cure should it really exist. He reaches the countryside, which is still overrun with zombies, but there are rumors of a religious cult with a cure. When we begin, our protagonist Kyle Crane is crawling through the sewers in order to escape the borders of Harran, the infected city from the original game. It feels the same, and considering that Dying Light was already a great game, that’s a pretty impressive accomplishment. It’s not better than its base game, but it’s certainly not worse. The Following takes one step forward and one step back, improving upon Dying Light while also ignoring some of the best aspects of Dying Light.
Indeed, The Following is not a standalone game, and this is certainly something to keep in mind if you’re thinking of buying it, and you should be thinking of buying it because it’s pretty great. Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry did it, Infamous: First Light did it, and this is an extremely consumer friendly thing to do. This is weird because the larger DLC packs of today are being released as standalone content. You need to own Dying Light in order to play The Following.
The same goes for this expansion, as well. In other words, you couldn’t just buy an expansion and play it. Those packs were not sequels because they required you to own the original game. It also might be a little too much like those expansion packs of the ’90s. The Following is Dying Light 1.5, continuing the story in a meaningful way while adding new systems and skills for your character. In this way it has more in common with the expansion packs of the ’90s, which were essentially sequels, then it does to any piece of modern DLC. The semantics matter in this case, as The Following is a huge piece of content that adds more environments, mechanics, and story to Dying Light. It’s a piece of add-on content for Dying Light, a piece of DLC (downloadable content), but in all its promotional materials it has been described as an “expansion”. Before talking about how good The Following is, it’s worth taking about just what The Following is, exactly.
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