Die Young
Fun until it isn’t
Die Young is an about 8 hour long open world escape simulator where you play as a girl trying to escape this strange and terrifying island.
After playing Die Young Prologue I was nervous that his would be the same type of game, and I’m so pleased to say that it isn’t, Die Young fixes the balance issues I had with the prologue, there’s health regenerationDie Young
Fun until it isn’t
Die Young is an about 8 hour long open world escape simulator where you play as a girl trying to escape this strange and terrifying island.
After playing Die Young Prologue I was nervous that his would be the same type of game, and I’m so pleased to say that it isn’t, Die Young fixes the balance issues I had with the prologue, there’s health regeneration opportunities everywhere.. enemies are spread out… and it feels like a completely different game, however that isn’t to say that its without its issues
The gameplay consists of you surviving and completing task after task to set up an escape
There are difficulty settings here so if you’re not a fan of games that make you constantly find water sources, you can play on one of two easier modes… which is what I did to make the game more enjoyable to me…
I started out actually loving this game... it’s so full of mystery and intrigue, you want to explore every area that catches your eyes for documents and items… I wasn’t even paying attention to the main quest for the first couple of hours…
but when I was over exploring I was like okay let me do what the game actually wants me to do… and this is when the seams of die young start to fall apart…
The quest structure if Die Young’s biggest downfall….
at first I liked it… I’d make tons of progress then I would get to a spot where I needed a key to progress… so I have to go to another area to get it... I get there and nope you need to learn recipe and craft an item to progress… so now I need to go find a recipe, craft an item, run back, get the key, then go all the way back to the door I was trying to unlock…
This was mildly annoying but whatever… after running around cliffs and jumping and falling and dying and searching for over an hr., I finally find the recipe…
only to find that I’m stuck in a game breaking glitch… I can’t craft… the crafting system is not available on my game… after playing around with setting I found that changing my difficulty back to survival would bring it back, so for the rest of the night Anytime I needed to craft something I’d have to go into the menu and go back and forth between difficulties… I went to bed then woke up the next day to play and this bug was somehow fixed, not sure what happened but I could now craft on the difficulty I was playing on…. I could finally upgrade the annoying inventory slots that don’t stack consumables….
so I continue the game more and then what do you know... another spot where I have to back track and go on a wild goose hunt to proceed…
and this is where I become just over the game….
This is Die Young’s greatest downfall… traversal is such a daunting task, that it’s a slap to the players face after all of the traversing and climbing you’ve just done to be like before you go ahead you now have to back track and find an item necessary to continue….
The climbing and platforming just isn’t fun here… its risky, it can cost you your life and progress , I’ve done enough climbing and searching and backtracking let me just move on.
I feel like getting to this place is enough of a challenge, don’t make me now have to do the thing I just did to get where I am now, go get this, but this needs this to get that, go get that then come back to get this to do that.
I’m over it.
Die Young’s world pulled me in with its mysterious world, it filled me with intrigue to explore all on my own... but it pushed me away with its constant forcing me to explore…
Die Young is still a very solid game for those into searching every crack and crevasse, but in terms of delivering an experience that’s going to stick with you rather than annoying you and make you roll your eyes for dare trying to stick with the story, this isn’t it
I give die young
a 6.5/10… Expand