Dying Gentle: The Beast is a first-rate instance of constructing lemonade when god offers you lemons. Or leakers, within the case of Techland, which revealed it press throughout previews of the sport behind closed doorways at Gamescom 2024. Inside a small room, attendees have been trucking by means of a 30-40 minute playthrough of the upcoming Dying Gentle 2 spin-off. It got here on account of some exhausting work and artistic pondering following a fairly nasty knowledge leak which gave up the plans for some Dying Gentle 2 DLC.
As a substitute of continuing with the plan, one that everybody now knew about, the Techland crew determined to pivot into creating The Beast, a kinda midway measure between an ordinary DLC and a complete new sport. It is shorter than a full sport for certain, and nonetheless has the skeleton of Dying Gentle 2 at its core, nevertheless it’s a complete new map with a returning character and a few good new gameplay options that ought to sweeten the deal.
Kyle Crane from Dying Gentle 1 is again, and he is all gruff and moody as you’d anticipate. He is spent the previous few years locked away in a lab, however now he is escaped and looking down the man who stored him there. To assist him get solutions and a little bit of vengeance he is acquired a brand new sidekick chatting to him over the radio, and a few bestial powers that’ll go a great distance in retaining him alive. A reasonably cool idea for a spin-off – assume Useless Rising 2: Off the Report, however swap the hilarity for a sterner, extra stoic method and also you arrive on the normal vibe on supply right here.