04-02-2024, 06:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2024, 07:15 PM by SuperBob2002.)
Regarding my Last of Us 2 second run-through - I assume I don't need to warn about potential spoilers from a game that was released 4 years ago, but here is the warning!
I'm just at the Abi section, after finishing Ellie's main plot. It's such a bizarre game to sum up. I'm enjoying playing through it again, but I just can't get my head around the story and how ridiculous it is that someone travels across an apocalyptic 'Merica full of vicious bandits and infected, just to avenge the death of someone they've known for single digit years and whom they had a patchy-at-best relationship with. It's actually fucking stupid.
Gameplay wise, it's amazing. It really is.
Despite the utter nonsense of a story, what I do like about what Naughty Dog tries, and arguably succeeds in doing, is switching the usual narrative in story telling, and really makes you think about who is 'good' and who is 'bad'. On my second play through, already knowing the full story, Ellie really doesn't come across well, and I actually dislike her, whereas I actually quite like Abi. Which is the complete opposite of my first play through. That's some achievement, in fairness, and is a strong story to tell in itself. It's a shame that the actual plot that gets you there is just awful.
Graphically, and character modelling/motion capture/acting-wise, it's a masterpiece. Such a beautifully built world that creates a chilling and immersive atmosphere.
What a ridiculously brilliant, frustrating, bizarre, stupid but ultimately wonderful game.
I'm just at the Abi section, after finishing Ellie's main plot. It's such a bizarre game to sum up. I'm enjoying playing through it again, but I just can't get my head around the story and how ridiculous it is that someone travels across an apocalyptic 'Merica full of vicious bandits and infected, just to avenge the death of someone they've known for single digit years and whom they had a patchy-at-best relationship with. It's actually fucking stupid.
Gameplay wise, it's amazing. It really is.
Despite the utter nonsense of a story, what I do like about what Naughty Dog tries, and arguably succeeds in doing, is switching the usual narrative in story telling, and really makes you think about who is 'good' and who is 'bad'. On my second play through, already knowing the full story, Ellie really doesn't come across well, and I actually dislike her, whereas I actually quite like Abi. Which is the complete opposite of my first play through. That's some achievement, in fairness, and is a strong story to tell in itself. It's a shame that the actual plot that gets you there is just awful.
Graphically, and character modelling/motion capture/acting-wise, it's a masterpiece. Such a beautifully built world that creates a chilling and immersive atmosphere.
What a ridiculously brilliant, frustrating, bizarre, stupid but ultimately wonderful game.