Started Last Of Us 2

Don’t read the thread until you’re done. Form your own opinion of the game

I finished it last week. 4 out of 5 for me

The writing isn’t even the biggest issue (though it’s a big one). The game is way too long, about 10 hours longer than it needed to be. So many repeat encounters that just destroy the pacing. You clear out a neighborhood of human enemies in an epic combat area in Seattle, then have to do it all again in another neighborhood. You’ll spend 30 minutes meticulously clearing out a scary infected area, get out, then get thrown into another one. The impact is severely lessened because of this. By the end I practically wanted to just sprint to the end of the combat zones and find the door I needed to hold Triangle for. It was that exhausting (at least on Survivor. Maybe it was fun/quicker on easier difficulties, but Survivor demands a slow and careful approach because it’s 2 shots and you’re dead)

Lot of narrative and and structural issues, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as people said. The game could’ve been an all-timer like the first if they had done a few things differently, but alas, it just ended up being a very good game. Mechanically sound, top notch production quality, and second-to-none cinematically, but writing and pacing bring it down quite a bit

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I’m waiting to get to the parts I’m gonna start hating this game.

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I also stayed away from spoilers and anything about the game and after I finished it I had to look up what people had issues with. It’s a fine game.