Can a game be too gory? No, and this can be filed under “Questions Billy and I Have Never Asked Ourselves.” This is especially true when it comes to using a machete equipped with fire and electricity to lop off the heads, arms, and legs of the undead vying for your brain, with a side of shoulder meat. A few months ago, CD Projekt Red answered the call of gory and gave the world Dying Light, a zombie slayer’s dream come true.
In Dying Light, you take the role of Kyle Crane, a contractor for the Global Relief Effort (GRE) sent into the City of Harran, a quarantine zone teeming with various zombies large, small, slow, and fast; all seeking you out as you parkour your way through the city. The GRE provides airdrops in Harran containing various supplies and zombie antiviral meds to aid in survival. After realizing the GRE has only sent him in to do their dirty work, and not to help the survivors, Crane begins the task of helping the survivors find a cure, while saving the city from zombies, thugs and complete destruction.
“Look at this meat grinder I’ve got set up!” -Billy (with a pile of zombie bodies and parts stacked up on a car hood.)
Soon after arriving in Harran, Crane is bitten and must keep up a regiment of the antiviral drug Antizin. Frequent doses of Anitizin are necessary to prevent the infection from turning Crane into one of the undead meandering the streets waiting for you to bisect them down the middle with your shiny new katana. Unfortunately, the GRE stopped dropping Antizin, the supply is low, and the remaining stockpile belongs to a local thug, Rais. This scenario got me thinking: what hard to find frosty brew could possibly pair with one of my favorite games of the year?
The only beer to pair with this game had to be scarce, delicious, and worthy of what might be the last beer you ever drink in a zombie apocalypse. I’m talking about a beer harder to find than your next hit of Antizin, but even more rewarding. Luckily, just in time for the latest Dying Light update, and the release of the Bozak Horde expansion, our friends at The Alchemist were kind enough to airdrop some Heady topper on the front porch.