- This blog series is called MY Thoughts On, as in, this is just my own personal look at a particular topic; I don't expect everyone to agree with my opinion, and I in no way intended to change your own thoughts on the topic in question.

- I don't use fanbases as a reason for why I love/hate a topic

- There will be SPOILERS

- All comments, agreeing or not, are appreciated :)

Graphics/Setting



When it comes to things such as the graphics and settings of games, generally I don't care. In the case of State of Decay, however, I personally feel like Undead Labs really knew what they were doing when it came down these things. The graphics themselves are amazing, but they're really nothing too special, and the setting isn't the exactly the most creative, but they work surprisingly well together to make a unique feel of loneliness and fear with the overall game.


Gameplay

In terms of gameplay, to me this is definitely by far the best feature of the game to me. It's honestly kind of hard to describe the gameplay, as there's so much to it. You can progress your character's personal skills, collect weapons, drive around the infested towns (and run over some zombies while you're at it), go on missions with other survivors, etc. and it all works well with one another. Hopefully the sequel does add a bit more of variety of missions though, because I will admit, some are pretty boring and annoying, but for the most part are pretty fun to do.


Story

Truth be told, the story of State of Decay is mostly average. Now, I understand that State of Decay is more 'gameplay-driven' than 'story-driven,' but that doesn't just automatically excuse the whole thing. Don't get me wrong, there are the really interesting things that occur in the story, especially since most of the story-related missions are either decision-based or are just simply there so you can kill some zombies, but sometimes they end up being either dull or kind of unnecessary.


Characters



I'm just gonna narrow this down to the characters who are actually canon towards the story, because most of the other characters are just NPCs that you can play as if you want to. When it comes down to the characters of State of Decay, I can pretty say the same thing about them as I did the story; mostly average. There are characters, such as the Ritter family, who do have interesting backstories, but then we get to people such as Pastor William, who are a bit cliche.


Soundtrack

Yes. Just... yes. The soundtrack is absolutely lovely to listen to. Now, I'm not good at describing music, but to me, the music makes the game feel perfect in terms of how tense or calm it wants to be. It's mostly just guitar strums, violins, some drums every now and then; the kind of stuff you'd expect to hear on a camping trip (which is funny considering the game starts out as a 'camping trip gone wrong'.)

And here are just some personal favorites of mine:








Conclusion

State of Decay is a neat little game that provides the visual atmosphere, music, and gameplay that makes me want to come back for more, but in terms of the actual story and characters, that's where the game is kind of lacking, but personally I prefer gameplay over story 'n stuff like that, so this doesn't bother me too much. If I was going by a rating system I would probably give State of Decay...


8.75 / 10
It's amazing!

(Coming tomorrow)

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