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The Last of Us (PS3)

I have to say I really enjoyed this game. Not enough to put in best games of all time category or so much that I'm extremely hyped for TLoU II, but I did really enjoy it. I like how even once you get more guns, and you upgrade your guns, and you upgrade yourself, combat encounters never become comfortable. Every combat encounter stays tense and I found myself constantly using the listen mode to make sure there was nobody around. The final area got a bit silly with how well all the enemies could take bullets, but I'll allow it because it was the final area.

Writing-wise, I also found it to be quite good. I feel like the relationships between all the characters that were introduced was very clear. I like how throughout the game you keep getting reminders that Joel is not really a good person, but you ignore it because he can be nice and funny and has a great relationship with Ellie and he then gets contrasted by scumbags like David who do carry their group/town of people but have awful personal "things". Ellie, I was very impressed by; kids in media are 9/10 atrocious, but Ellie never really annoyed me from a writing perspective (I highlight writing because fuck that dumb scene where Joel wrestles that one hunter who smashes him down a floor on that rebar when Ellie could have just shot him but oh no we couldn't have done the winter scene then!).

If anything, I do feel like the game kinda has a pacing problem. Half of the game takes place during the summer, and the other half cycles through fall, winter, and spring pretty quickly, which is a shame because it's nice to get the difference in outfits and locales. I think someone like Tess could've stuck around a bit longer so that her end is more impactful for both Joel and Ellie, but I understand they wanted to focus on the Joel and Ellie relationship as soon as possible.

I think the most frustrated I got with the game was in the winter segment; Ellie plays so much differently than Joel and it's annoying when you spend a lot of the game leveling up a guy and upgrading all his tools and then you get basically a Lvl 1 character for a chapter. Even though I was very stealthy throughout the playthrough, it was difficult because I felt that there were no second chances; you get spotted, you're dead. Like every enemy became a clicker.

Anyway, I do really like this game and will probably check out the DLC. I wish I had known it takes place during/before the winter chapter, and then I probably would have played it during/before that, but oh well.

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How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious!