Why didn’t this game have a sequel, again?

It’s hard to imagine why, in the first instance, Sony ever greenlitDays Gone.

But it’s not exactly what you’d call business diversification, is it?

Days Gone main character Deacon St. John sat on his bike.

And it had won every Game of the Year award going.

Yet in the long downhill stretch since, this game’s momentum has defied expectations.

After a number of hours in its company, I’m starting to think so.

A close up shot of a bike in PS5 game Days Gone.

The nuances of bike management reveal themselves gradually.

Thankfully, there are ways you’re able to counter some of that.

And maybe you don’t need to be firing the engine at all?

Two men are sat on their motorbikes on PS5 game Days Gone.

Riding by gravity only becomes more tempting, however, once you realise that it saves on gas.

The world might have ended, but it still pays to be thrifty.

Particularly when, as camp merchants are fond of reminding you, nobody’s producing any more petrol.

Deacon attacks a horde of zombies in PS5 game Days Gone.

It’s understandable, then, that he resents anybody committed to resurrecting law or civilisation.

By his unconscious logic, such dreams are an insult to Sarah’s memory.

It’s true that Days Gone isn’t always so elegant in its storytelling.

And at times, St John’s naturalistic narration comes off more like misconceived rambling.

Still: Days Goneisbetter than its critical reputation.